"Baker Baker" was included in the recorded songs Tori submitted to the Library of Congress for copyright in October 1993. In writing the song, Amos admitted she had to consider how she had treated men in the past and "deal with a man that truly loved me, but that I wasn’t emotionally available for." She also noted that this admission of emotional unavailiability was "where gaining my power is coming from, being able to say I am the one who has not been able to be intimate, I’m the one who pushed him away."