Alanis Morissette

Songwriter: Alanis Morissette Leslie Howe Serge Côté

Producer: Leslie Howe

[Verse 1]
I'm having dreams in the night of you baby
And Sigmund Freud would have thought I was crazy
I wonder why you've become an obsession
All I know is that I need to have your big bad love

[Chorus]
Big bad love
Big bad love
Big bad love

[Verse 2]
You keep on loving and lying
You've turning me into a fool babe
But I'm not screaming or crying
There's better things we have to do baby
It takes a lot for me to truly believe
That you could love me unconditionally
And I'm terrified of taking a chance
If you're not ready to believe in romance
Who...I wonder why I am so unrelentless
There's nothing that I can do to prevent this
And the dream I am not apprehensive
All I know is that I need to have your...

[Chorus]
Big bad love
I need a love with an attitude
Big bad love
The only kind that I want from you
Big bad love
I need it from you so urgently
Big bad love...need it baby yeah yeah yeah

[Verse 2]
I'm not avoiding your loving
Because I can afford to be blue babe
I keep on pushing and shoving
I can't get enough out of you baby
I don't believe your blood is bad to the bone
Because then you're different when we're here all alone
And if you knew the game I wanted to play
Now would you say the words I want you to say, who
I'm am so relentless, I can't prevent this I am not apprehensive
All I know is that I need to have your big bad love

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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Now Is the Time

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Now Is the Time (1992)

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