Alanis Morissette

Songwriter: Alanis Morissette

[Verse 1]
If it weren't for your maturity, none of this would have happened
If you weren't so wise beyond your years, I would've been able to control myself, and
If it weren't for my attention, you wouldn't have been successful, and if
If it weren't for me, you would never have amounted to very much

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, this could get messy
But you don't seem to mind, and
Ooh, don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime

[Chorus]
And we'll fast forward to a few years later and
No one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

[Verse 2]
You're essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me, and
You're a kind of protégé and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me, and
I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian
I know you sexualize me like a young thing would, and I think I like it

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, this could get messy
But you don't seem to mind, and
Oh, don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime

[Chorus]
And we'll fast forward to a few years later and
No one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

[Bridge]
And what part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
And what part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
What with this distance it seems so obvious

[Verse 3]
Just make sure you don't tell on me, especially to members of your family
We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse, and
I wish I could tell the world 'cause you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly, and
I might want to marry you one day, if you watch that weight and you keep your firm body, and

[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, this could get messy
But you don't seem to mind
And oh, don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime

[Chorus]
And we'll fast forward to a few years later and
No one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

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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