Aimee Mann Album

(Five six seven fifty) 

You fucked it up
You should've quit
Till circumstances
Had changed a bit

You fucked it up
You jumped the gun
I swore you off but
You climbed back on

And when you said
Of course you know
Could I be blamed
If I'd wished it so
I don't think so

-guitar solo-

You fucked it up
Or was it you
'Cause when you said it
I said it too
What of it

And all that stuff
I knew before
Just turned into
Please love me more
Please love me more
Please love me more
Please love me more
Please love me more
Please love me more
Please love me...

(And if this is one of your ten thousand dollar hours
Don't forget to write it down
Help is on the way)

Skip the cloak and dagger bit
Don't you know we're sick of it
As much as I would like to stay
The message light just blinks away
And while I'm here you won't push play

So you leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no

Option to indulge in this
Exercise in cowardice
Ignorance without the bliss

'Cause you leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no

-guitar solo-

'Cause I know where this boat will go
Pulled down by the undertow
It's lucky I know
How to row

So row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
I hope you drown and never come up

'Cause you leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no choice in the matter
You leave me no

You looked the part of
The poor brave martyr
And guess who broke your heart
Whoever has it

Sugarcoated
When they wrote it
I would've believed it too
I would've believed it too
I would believe it

I'm so relentless
And you're defenseless
Until the pencil stops
You'll be the one who's

Sugarcoated
Overloaded
Do you believe it's true
Do you believe it's true
Do you believe it

And out of your mouth
Comes a stream of cliches
Now I have given you so much rope
You should have been hanging for days
But you keep spinning it out
Spinning it out
Spinning it out
Spinning it out
Spinning it out
Spinning it out

It wasn't nice though
I came back twice so
Now I'm the antichrist
If I had been as

Sugarcoated
Self-promoted
They would've believed me too
They would've believed me too
Would you believe me too
Would you believe it too

-Guitar solo-

(one two three once again go)

There is nothing that competes with habit
And I know it's neither deep nor tragic
It's simply that you have to have it

So you can make a killing
Oh you can make a killing
Oh you can make a killing

I wish I was both young and stupid
Then I too could have the fun that you did
Till it was time to pony up what you bid

So you could make a killing
Oh you could make a killing
Oh you could make a killing

I could follow you and search the rubble
Or stay right here and save myself some trouble
Or try to keep myself from seeing double

Or I could make a killing
Or I could make a killing
Oh I could make a killing
Yeah I could make a killing
I could make a killing

I'm a superball
You can bounce me once and I ricochet
Around the room
I'm a superball
If I pick up speed get out of my way
I'm a sonic boom

And I warn you now
The velocity I'm gathering
Will knock you down
Send the chairs and lamps all scattering

'Cause I'm a superball
If you think there'll be no aftershocks
Well I'm a superball
Read the fine print on the back of the box
Stick to slinkies, hot wheels, alphabet blocks

-guitar solo-

And I warn you now
The velocity I'm gathering
Will knock you down
Send the chairs and lamps all scattering

It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing...

I'm told the case is now closed 
So I can come to my senses 
But when the question is posed 
I'll have this meager defense 

I was hoping that you'd know better than that 
I was hoping but you're an amateur 
I was hoping that you'd know better 
But I've been wrong before 
Despite conclusions I drew 
There was a chance you'd surprise me 
And you'd be better than you 
'Cause I'd have left otherwise 

I was hoping that you'd know better than that 
I was hoping but you're an amateur 
I was hoping that you'd know better 
But I've been wrong before
So I wasn't thinking clearly 
So you didn't think at all I thought that was protocol 

-piano/guitar solo- 

I was hoping that you'd know better than that 
I was hoping but you're an amateur 
I was hoping that you'd know better 
But I've been wrong before
I was hoping that I was hoping but you're an amateur 
I was hoping that you'd know better 
But I've been wrong before

Though I let you steer
You a cavalier
Inch became a lightyear
It was pathetic
Oh you can write the play
And every word I say
But I don't have to stay
To see the credits

'Cause it's all over now
Yes it's all over now
And I'm free

I was one of few
Who'd stick up for you
And so you never knew
You were a punch line
I could not convince or trust you
To pick up on my hints, must you
Leave your fingerprints
On everything I called mine

Well that's all over now
Yes it's all over now
And I'm free
Yes I'm free

From your interference
Which had the appearance
Of making it clear that
It's got nothing to do with me

-guitar solos-

It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me
It's got nothing to do with me

-fuzztortion solo-

And I warn you now
The velocity I'm gathering

It's par for the course
You bet the wrong horse
You put down the phone and cried
For yourself
And for what
You couldn't have

A plea
That won't do
Now that she
Serves it to you

And I don't even know you
I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you
I don't even know you

It's all you deserve
The loss of the nerve
The grade of the curve
Has brought you to this
By the boat that you missed
You clung to the raft
So she swerved out of your path

And I don't even know you
I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you anymore

-guitar solo-

You loved her a lot
But she lost the plot
And timing is everything
In this game
So let's have
A moment of blame

Think how
It could have been
Well you should
Have said it all then

And I don't even know you
I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you anymore

-string solo-

I don't even know you anymore
I don't even know you anymore

I don't know how to break the news, but
It's pretty clear you'll be asked to choose between
What you lack and what you excuse in this
Tug of war

You can't say that they didn't warn you
Though you'd rather that they just ignore you
'Cause your devices are not working for you
Anymore

What you want
You don't know
You're with stupid now

You don't know how to manufacture
Sturdy bones with a hairline fracture
The crazy will of a Margaret Thatcher that
They've all got

And 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

-guitar solo-

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
So on with the show

(one two)

In our endeavor we are never seeing eye to eye
No guts to sever so forever may we wave goodbye
And you're always telling me that it's my turn to move
When I wonder what could make the needle jump the groove
I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book
So don't sit there and think you're off of the hook
By saying there is no use changing 'cause

That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Acting steady always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth, did I offend your ears
By suggesting that a change might be a thing to try
Like it would kill you just to try and be a nicer guy
It's not like you would lose some critical piece
If somehow you moved point A to point B
Maintaining there is no point changing 'cause

That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Now I could talk to you till I'm blue in the face
But we still would arrive at the very same place
With you running around and me out of the race

So maybe you're right, nobody can take
Something older than time and hope you could make
It better, that would be a mistake
So take it just so far

'Cause that's just what you are
That's just what you are
That's just what you are

Acting steady always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth, did I offend your ears
You're like a sleepwalking man, it's a danger to wake you
Even when it is apparent where your actions will take you

That's just what you are
And that's just what you are
That's just what you are
That's just what you are

(I still have the shake in my voice
And I'm going to sing you this song)

I don't know you from Adam, it could make my day
If you leave me a message I'll give it away
'Cause the most perfect strangers that you can talk to
Are the ones who pretend that you're not really you

Are with any attempts here to play Frankenstein
Come with plenty of chances for changing your mind
When you're building your own creation
Nothing's better than real than a real
Imitation

I won't find it fantastic or think it absurd
When the gun in the first act goes off in the third
'Cause it's rare that you ever know what to expect
From a guy made of corpses with bolts in his neck

If the creature is limping the parts are in place
With a mind of its own and a fist for a face
Say hello to your new creation
Now it's better than real
It's a real imitation

You may wonder what the catch is
As we batten down the hatches

And when later we find that the thing we devised
Has the villagers clamouring for it's demise
We will have to admit the futility of
Trying to make something more of this jerry-built love

And you'll notice it bears a resemblance to
Everything I imagined I wanted from you
But at least it's my own creation
And it's better than real
It's a real imitation

Ray, as of today I can't say things will ever be the same 
And that could be a shame 
'Cause though I think I know 
Another lonely exile when I see one 
And you appear to be one 
Still 

I'm playing it down 'cause I could really be found 
If you've got it to spare 
I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel 
'Cause I ought to be there 
And Ray, what can I say 
You don't know me and it's just wishful thinking 
To keep myself from sinking 
Hence, no evidence 
To support any theory I have handy 
That you could understand me 
And so 

I'm playing it down 'cause I could really be found 
If you've got it to spare 
I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel 
'Cause I ought to be there 
'Cause you're as bad off as me 
And Ray, can we repay 
Ourselves for days that we've lost through indecision 
With one of recognition 
If so, then here I go 
'Cause some things you know 
And some you just believe in 
And hope it comes out even 

I'm playing it down 'cause I could really be found 
If you've got it to spare 
I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel 
'Cause I ought to be there 
I ought to be there 
I ought to be there 

All you want to do is something good
So get ready to be ridiculed and misunderstood
'Cause don't you know that you're a fucking freak in this world
In which everybody's willing to choose swine over pearls

And maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else

You can take your own advice and try again
But a thousand compromises don't add up to a win
And they'd be happy if you'd only cover your tracks
But the trail of crumbs you've left won't help you find your way back

So maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else
God knows it's not safe with anybody else

You can play along, but you'll just end up wrong somehow, won't you

-guitar solo-

But you're the idiot who keeps believing in luck
And you just can't get it through your head that no one else gives a fuck

So maybe everything is all for nothing
Still you'd better keep it to yourself
'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else
God knows it's not safe with anybody else

-guitar solo-

God knows it's not safe with anybody else
It's not safe with anybody else
God knows it's not safe with anybody else

-52 secs of silence-

(Play that guitar
But you're the idiot who keeps believing in luck
The speaker is out of the picture
I'm talking to the microphone
The microphone thinks that I'm talking
But I'm not talking at all
I'm singing to you)