Alanis Morissette

Songwriter: Glen Ballard Alanis Morissette

Producer: Alanis Morissette Glen Ballard

[Verse 1]
Burn the books
They've got too many names and psychosis
All this incriminating evidence would surely haunt me
If someone broke into my house
Suits in the living room
Do you realize guys I was born in 1974?
We've got someone here to explain your publishing
We know how much you love to be in front of audiences

[Refrain]
Hopeful you are
Schoolbound you are
Naive you are
Driven you are

[Verse 2]
Take a trip to New York with your guardian
And your fake identification
When they said, "Is there something anything
You'd like to know young lady?"
You said, "Yes, I'd like to know what kind of people
I'll be dealing with"

[Refrain]
Precocious you are
Headstrong you are
Terrified you are
Ahead of your time you are

[Verse 3]
Don't mind our staring
But we're surprised you're not in a far-gone asylum
We're surprised you didn't crack up
Lord knows that we would've
We would've liked to have been there
But you keep pushing us away

[Refrain]
Resilient you are
Big time you are
Ruthless you are
Precious you are

[Outro]
La-da-da-da
La-la-la-la
La-la

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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