"Eight Easy Steps" is a rock song written by Alanis Morissette for her sixth studio album So-Called Chaos. The album's opening track, it was released in 2004 as the So-Called Chaos's third single. The song may be seen as discussing self-help, with the message that it is the "course of a lifetime", but the help that is actually "offered" in the song is ironical throughout, with lines like "How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else" or "How to control someone to be a carbon copy of you".
The song reached number nine on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play and number 27 on the Adult Top 40.
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