Aimee Mann quotes

I'll tell you a secret I don't even know. Baby, there's something wrong with me Baby, there's something wrong with me Baby, there's something wrong with me That I can't see. (Aimee Mann)
There's always something that's smoldering somewhere I know it don't make a difference to you But oh! It sure made a difference to me You'll see me off in the distance, I hope At the other end At the other end of the telescope.
Aimee Mann
Living on silence, Living by the book. You get it to a science Of living on one good look. So put out all the fires And blow away the smoke. I'm getting pretty tired Of living on hope.
Aimee Mann
I can't do it, and as for you Can you in good conscience even ask me to? 'Cause what do you care about the great divide As long as you come down on the winner's side?
Aimee Mann
Coming up close Everything sounds like welcome home. Come home and oh, by the way, Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true? I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
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The sex you're trading up for What you hope is love Is just another thing that He'll be careless of. But though there are caveats galore, You've only got to love him more - And you do; You really do. Even when it's all too clear.
Aimee Mann
In the dark, I like to read his mind But I'm frightened of the things I might find.
Aimee Mann
I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold me is love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.
Aimee Mann
You lie so well I could never even tell what were facts in your artful rearranging But I came back for more and you laughed in my face and you rubbed it in cause I'm a Labrador and I run when the gun drops the dove again.
Aimee Mann
I can't do it, I can't conceive You're everything you're trying to make me believe 'Cause this show is too well designed Too well to be held with only me in mind And how, how am I different? How, how am I different?
Aimee Mann
Though you pay for the hands they're shaking The speeches and the mistakes they're making As they struggle with the undertaking Of simple thought What you want, you don't know You're with stupid now What you know, you don't want to know You're with stupid now. (Aimee Mann)
When I tell him that Im falling in love Why does he say "Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry"?
Aimee Mann
Little tornado You and the hurricane Close your eyes and go campaign Make it go faster Baby go faster Make it go twice the speed of you and me.
Aimee Mann
The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
Aimee Mann
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music.
Aimee Mann
You look like a perfect fit For a girl in need of a tourniquet.
Aimee Mann
Everybody's got their differences too bad here's a circumstance in which the stakes are high everybody's got their secrets out so sad go around the room and see who doesn't cry Soon enough you'll be free to write it off you don't know enough to call a bluff and the one who does will never ever tell.
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He wants me, but only part of the time. He wants me if he can keep me in line.
Aimee Mann
I could almost shed a tear but let's shine in the time we have remaining you're a tough old gal but a dog is just a pal and believe me, my dear, I'm not complaining.
Aimee Mann
You can tell By the laugh in the dark at the sound of the bell You can tell It's the nucleus burning inside of the cell... (Aimee Mann)
I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn.
Aimee Mann
Tell me why I feel so bad, honey Fighting left me plenty of money But didn't keep the promise of memory lapses Like a building that's been slated for blasting I'm the proof that nothing is lasting Counting to eleven as it collapses.
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Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
Aimee Mann
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
Aimee Mann