Alanis Morissette

Released: November 9, 1999

Songwriter: Glen Ballard Alanis Morissette

Producer: Alanis Morissette

Please be philosophical
Please be tapped into your femininity
Please be able to take the wheel from me
Please be crazy and curious

Papa, love your princess
So that she will find loving princes familiar
Papa, cry for your princess
So that she will find gentle princes familiar

Please be a sexaholic
Please be unpredictably miserable
Please be self absorbed much (not the good kind)
Please be addicted to some substance

Papa, listen to your princess
So that she will find attentive princes familiar
Papa, hear your princess so that she will find curious princes familiar

Please be the jerk of my knee
I've fit you always
You finish my sentences
I think I love you
What is your name again
No matter
I'm guessing your thoughts again correctly
And I love
The way you press my buttons so much sometimes I could strangle you

Papa, laugh with your princess
So that she will find funny princes familiar
Papa, respect your princess
So that she will find respectful princes familiar
Papa, love your princess
So that she will find loving princes familiar
Papa, cry for your princess
So that she will find gentle princes familiar

Please be strangely enigmatic
Please be just like my

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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From the albums

MTV Unplugged (1999)
The Collection (2005)

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