Heart of the House

Song infobox
Name = Heart of the House

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Artist = Alanis Morissette
Album = Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Released = November 3 1998
track_no = 16
Recorded = April-August, 1998
Genre = Folk, Acoustic
Length = 3:46
Writer = Alanis Morissette
Label = Maverick Records
Producer = Glen Ballard, Alanis Morissette
prev = Joining You
prev_no = 15
next = "Your Congratulations
next_no = 17

"Heart of the House" is a song written and composed by Alanis Morissette.The song can be found on Morissette's 1998 worldwide second record Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.An offical live version can be found on Morissette's 2002 DVD .

By Morissette, it was the first song written for the record. Although Can't Not has been written couple years before, it wasn't planned to be in Morissette's second record.

She was in Toronto with a friend of her, telling him she doesn't want to do another record. He answered with "OK. do you want to eat dinner?". His answer suprised her and put her writing pressure down, an hour after she went to the piano and written the lyrics for "Heart of the House" [http://www.mtv.com/bands/archive/m/alanisfeature2.jhtml]

Song Theme

"Heart of the House" was inspired by her mother, Georgia Morissette.After Jagged Little Pill's third track- "Perfect" where Morissette's lyrics describes a complex relationship with her parents, she praised her parents with a tribute with two songs from "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie"- alongside with "The Couch" where she praised her father.

Morissette about "Heart of the House"

"my tribute to my mother and to femininity in general. i thought in order to function in what i saw as a patriarchal society i had to adopt masculine qualities in order to be treated with the respect i deserved. in doing so i was unwittingly being chauvinistic myself and further confirming the lack of integrating both the feminine and masculine qualities in all of us. upon finding the gray area i naturally wanted to honor my relationship with my mother and with femininity itself..."