Alice In Wonderland

## **Alice In Wonderland***Unreleased*

**Alice In Wonderland** was the intended eighth track on Carly Rae Jepsen's unreleased sophomore studio album, Curiosity (2012). As the album was scrapped, the song was never released.

## **Lyrics**

#### **Final version**

**Verse 1**

I like you

I kinda much more than like you

And I'm really, really, really gonna try to

Keep it tucked beneath my tongue

You taste like chocolate

Put me in your pocket

Yeah I wanna get your picture in my locket

Keep you tucked beneath my shirt, mmm

**Pre-Chorus**

Something here, you got to see

Come fill my curiosity

**Chorus**

I'm Alice in Wonderland

Love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Baby, come take my hand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

**Verse 2**

So I waited

Said love was overrated

But you never ever ever really dated

You got me working for your love

What a turn on

Try to get my flirt on

Just wait until you see me with a skirt on

Would you like to catch a movie sometime?

**Pre-Chorus**

Everything I thought I knew

Keeps changing when I look at you

**Chorus**

I'm Alice in Wonderland

Love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Tell me you understand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

**Bridge**

You're leaving me with left over smiles

And I'm starting to believe again

God, it's been a wild time growing young

Back into a child

Back into a child

♪

**Chorus**

Alice in Wonderland

Love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Tell me you understand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

**Chorus**

Alice in Wonderland

And love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Baby, come take my hand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

♪

**Outro**

Yeah, I know why they call it falling

I know why they call it falling

Yeah, I know why they call it falling

#### **Demo version**

**Verse 1**

Oh, I like you

Kinda much more than like you

And I'm really, really, really gonna try to

Keep it tucked beneath my tongue

You taste like chocolate

Put me in your pocket

Yeah I wanna get your picture in my locket

Keep you tucked beneath my shirt, mmm

**Pre-Chorus**

Something here, you got to see

Come fill my curiosity

**Chorus**

I'm Alice in Wonderland

Love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Tell me you understand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

**Verse 2**

Oh I waited

Said love was overrated

But you never ever ever really dated

You got me working for your love

Oh what a turn on

Try to get my flirt on

Just wait until you see me with a skirt on

Would you like to catch a movie sometime?

**Pre-Chorus**

Everything I thought I knew

Keeps changing when I look at you

**Chorus**

I'm Alice in Wonderland

Love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Tell me you understand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

**Bridge**

Oh, cause you're leaving me with left over smiles

It's been a while

It's like growing young

Back into a child

**Chorus**

I'm just Alice in Wonderland

And love is calling

I know why they call it falling

Tell me you understand

Don't be stalling

I know why they call it falling

## **Song credits**

#### **Writing and production**

* **Written by:** Carly Rae Jepsen
* **Produced by:** Ryan Stewart

## **Background**

#### **Curiosity album**

Alice In Wonderland was originally intended to release as part of Jepsen's planned second studio album, Curiosity, exclusively in Canada on February 14th 2012. However, before its release, Jepsen's label 604 Records would make the decision to cut the album down into six track extended-play instead. Alice In Wonderland was one of five tracks to be cut from the record.

## **Writing and development**

Alice In Wonderland was written during the development of Jepsen's second studio album, Curiosity in February 2010; the idea for the song was inspired by the novel of the same name by Lewis Carroll, which Carly was reading at the time.

Alice In Wonderland was premiered live by Jepsen on Global BC on March 22nd 2010 alongside Tavish Crowe, performing an acoustic version of the song. Throughout 2010, Carly would perform an early version of the song live multiple times, including a notable gig at Canada Day 2010 in Vancouver.

Carly would continue to work on the song in the studio with Ryan Stewart in April 2011, finalising the song around this time.  The final version of the song features different production and a different bridge. By late 2011, development on Curiosity was completed and Jepsen would perform the final version of song multiple times in the lead up to the album's intended release date.

## **Madison Beer version**

In July 2012, it was revealed that Carly had been mentoring American musician Madison Beer. Jepsen had showed her a few of the songs she had written, including Alice In Wonderland, and it appears that Beer was intended to release her own version of the song. Carly stated, "I've actually written some songs for her. And I'm really hoping there's one in particular called 'Alice In Wonderland' that she just nails that I'm really excited to see her put together."

## **Alternate versions**

#### **Demo versions**

* **Alice In Wonderland** — Acoustic version (2010) - 2:18
	+ First version of the song performed acoustically in March 2010

* **Alice In Wonderland** — Demo version (2010) - 2:27
	+ Second demo version performed multiple times across 2010

#### **Final version**

* **Alice In Wonderland** — Final version (2011) - 3:19
	+ Live performance of the final version of the song intended for Curiosity

#### **Madison Beer version**

* **Alice In Wonderland** — Madison Beer version (2012)
	+ Version of the song intended to be released by Madison Beer

## **References**

1. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Reading Alice in Wonderland :)" February 4th 2010
2. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Okay Avril Lavine stole my bloody "Alice in Wonderland" song idea." February 27th 2010
3. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "@ryanstewart\_ is playing drums on"Alice in Wonderland". Sounds pretty wicked so far. #iliveinthestudio" April 13th 2011
4. ↑ @carlyraejepsen "Alice in Wonderland is very close." April 19th 2011
5. ↑ "Carly Rae Jepsen - Alice in Wonderland (Headliners, Nanaimo, BC)" November 12th 2011
6. ↑ Vena, Jocelyn "Carly Rae Jepsen Says 'Watch Out' For Madison Beer" MTV, July 23rd 2012