Alanis Morissette

Songwriter: Alanis Morissette

Producer: Alanis Morissette

[Verse 1]
Who
Who am I to be blue?
Look at my family and fortune
Look at my friends and my house
Who
Who am I to feel dead end?
Who am I to feel spent?
Look at my health and my money
And where
Where do I go to feel good?
Why do I still look outside me?
When clearly I've seen it won't work

[Chorus]
Is it my calling to keep on when I'm unable?
And is it my job to be selfless extraordinaire?
And my generosity has me disabled
By this my sense of duty to offer

[Verse 2]
And why
Why do I feel so ungrateful?
Me who is far beyond survival
Me who see life as an oyster

[Chorus]
Is it my calling to keep on when I'm unable?
And is it my job to be selfless extraordinaire?
And my generosity has me disabled
By this my sense of duty to offer

[Verse 3]
And how
How dare I rest on my laurels
How dare I ignore an outstretched hand
How dare I ignore a third world country

[Chorus]
Is it my calling to keep on when I'm unable?
And is it my job to be selfless extraordinaire?
And my generosity has me disabled
By this my sense of duty to offer

[Outro]
Who
Who am I to be, woo

Alanis Nadine Morissette was born on June 1, 1974, in Ottawa, Canada. At age 6, she began taking piano lessons, and by the time she was 9, she was writing her own songs.

When she was 11, Morissette joined the cast of a Nickelodeon children’s show called You Can’t Do That on Television, and saved up her earnings. In 1987, she used them to self-release her first track, “Fate Stay With Me.” The song caught the attention of record label MCA Canada; at age 14, Morissette signed a contract with the company. She released a self-titled album, Alanis, in 1991, which went platinum. Quickly following up the success of her first album, Morissette released Now Is The Time a year later, though it did not reach the same level of popularity.

In 1994 Morissette moved to Los Angeles teamed up with industry veteran Glen Ballard, and she began to approach songwriting more organically.

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