Annie (song)

"Annie" is a 1999 single by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace from the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch.

The song revolves around a character, Annie, who seems to be unpopular, weird, and perhaps insane.

Raine Maida has stated that this song is about a girl contemplating murdering students at her school, similar to the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre, which occurred three weeks after this song was written.

"I don't talk about my lyrics much (to the band)," Maida says, "But the day I heard the news, I said: 'Guys, the song Annie is written exactly about this.'

I felt the need to tell them because I didn't want them to think that morning I had been reading the paper, writing lyrics."