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“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

"Little Tornado"
Song lyrics, @#%&*! Smilers (2008)

“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”

Aimee Mann

"Video" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACPG9_01srI
Song lyrics, The Forgotten Arm (2005)

“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

"Labrador"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

“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

The Other End (of the Telescope), written by Elvis Costello and Aimee Mann
Song lyrics, Everything's Different Now (1988)

“He wants me,
but only part of the time.
He wants me
if he can keep me in line.”

Aimee Mann

"Voices Carry"
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)

“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

"What About Love"
Song lyrics, Welcome Home (1986)

Aimee Mann Quotes about love

“Come on and save me…
Why don't you save me?
If you could save me,
From the ranks of the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who could never love anyone.”

Aimee Mann

"Save Me"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)
Context: You struck me dumb, Like radium
Like Peter Pan, or Superman,
You have come... to save me.
Come on and save me...
Why don't you save me?
If you could save me,
From the ranks of the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone,
Except the freaks,
Who could never love anyone.

“Everyone loves you —
Why should they not?
And I'm the only one who knows
That Disneyland's about to close.”

Aimee Mann

"Red Vines"
Song lyrics, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000)
Context: They're all still on their honeymoon,
Just read the dialogue balloon.
Everyone loves you —
Why should they not?
And I'm the only one who knows
That Disneyland's about to close.
I don't suppose you'd give it a shot
Knowing all that you've gotAre cigarettes and Red Vines.
Just close your eyes, 'cause, baby —
You never do know.
And I'll be on the sidelines,
With my hands tied,
Watching the show.

“I look in your eyes
I realize what you've sold me
is love in a vacuum.
Love in a vacuum.”

Aimee Mann

"Love In A Vacuum" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6eeURFNmxI
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)

“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

"You Do"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)

Aimee Mann Quotes

“And I'll be on the sidelines,
With my hands tied,
Watching the show.”

Aimee Mann

“What you know, you don't want to know
You're with stupid now.”

Aimee Mann

"You're With Stupid Now"
Song lyrics, I'm with Stupid (1995)
Context: 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.

Stupidity

“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

"31 Today" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqOcADEZSxI
Song lyrics, @#%&*! Smilers (2008)

Life

“But it's not going to stop.
It's not going to stop.
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up.”

Aimee Mann

"Wise Up" Clip from Magnolia of performances by Mann and cast members https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNmKghTvj0E · Live at St. Ann's Warehouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3D7xplBYNY
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)
Context: You're sure
There's a cure.
And you have finally found it.
You think
One drink
Will shrink you 'til you're underground
And living down.
But it's not going to stop.
It's not going to stop.
It's not going to stop
'Til you wise up.

“I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book”

Aimee Mann

"That's Just What You Are" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXL7uEQsEg
Song lyrics, I'm with Stupid (1995)
Context: 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 'causeThat's just what you are.
That's just what you are.

Books

“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”

Aimee Mann

"You're With Stupid Now" · 2008 performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjwfNAYdBVQ
Song lyrics, I'm with Stupid (1995)
Context: 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 got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway”

Aimee Mann

"Freeway" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF5CXV9cos
Song lyrics, @#%&*! Smilers (2008)
Context: You know it
I know it
Why don't you
Just show it
You got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway

Money

“Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide
And something to fear
And I try so hard to keep it inside
So no one can hear.”

Aimee Mann

"Voices Carry"
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)
Context: I try so hard not to get upset
Because I know all the trouble Ill get
Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide
And something to fear
And I try so hard to keep it inside
So no one can hear.

Fear , Tear

“He's a serious mister
Shake his hand and he'll twist your arm.
With Monopoly money
We'll be buying the funny farm. So I'll do flips, and get paid in chips
From a diamond as big as the Ritz —
Then I'm calling it quits.”

Aimee Mann

"Calling It Quits" Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffZRdPUnLw
Song lyrics, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000)

“Now that I've met you,
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again?”

Aimee Mann

"Deathly"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)
Context: Now that I've met you,
Would you object to
Never seeing each other again?
'Cause I can't afford to
Climb aboard you.
No one's got that much ego to spend.So don't work your stuff,
Because I've got troubles enough.
No, don't pick on me
When one act of kindness could be
Deathly,
Deathly,
Definitely.

“When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.”

Aimee Mann

"Charmer"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)
Context: When you’re a charmer
the world applauds
they don’t know that secretly charmers
feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.

Hate

“Oh, for the sake of momentum
I've allowed my fears to get larger than life.”

Aimee Mann

"Momentum"
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)
Context: Oh, for the sake of momentum
I've allowed my fears to get larger than life.
And it's brought me to my current agendum
Whereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive.And I know life is getting shorter,
I can't bring myself to set the scene.
Even when it's approaching torture,
I've got my routine.

Life , Fear

“You lie so well
I could never even tell
what were facts in your artful rearranging”

Aimee Mann

"Labrador" · Video (a shot for shot recreation of scenarios from her first hit video with 'Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)
Context: 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

Lie , Art

“When you’re a charmer
people respond
they can’t see the hidden agenda
you got going on”

Aimee Mann

"Charmer" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcpXTUT0-7o
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

People

“When I tell him that Im falling in love
Why does he say
"Hush, hush, keep it down now.
Voices carry"?”

Aimee Mann

"Voices Carry"
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)

“I can't do it, I can't conceive
You're everything you're trying to make me believe”

Aimee Mann

"How Am I Different" (co-written with Jon Brion) · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7gUnN7yxo
Song lyrics, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000)
Context: 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?

“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

"King of the Jailhouse"
Song lyrics, The Forgotten Arm (2005)

Secret , Baby

“You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet.”

Aimee Mann

"Save Me" · Performance at the White House (11 May 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMq9XYzqC4
Song lyrics, Magnolia: Music from the Motion Picture (1999)

Girl , Perfection

“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

"How Am I Different"
Song lyrics, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000)

“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”

Aimee Mann

"Soon Enough" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkjIoIhNDVY
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

Secret , Sadness , Cry

“When we first met
I was glad to be your pet
like a Lab I once had that we called Maisie
but fetching sticks
was the best I had for tricks
you got bored
you got mad then you got crazy”

Aimee Mann

"Labrador"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

Madness

“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

"Milwaukee" · YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqSYzOXkthg
Song lyrics, The Both (2014)

“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.”

Aimee Mann

"Coming up Close"
Song lyrics, Welcome Home (1986)

Dreams , Way , Home

“I should've known
It was coming down to this.
I should've known
You would betray me but without the kiss.
I should've known
The kind of set-up it is.”

Aimee Mann

"I Should've Known"
Song lyrics, Whatever (1993)

Kiss

“In the dark, I like to read his mind
But I'm frightened of the things I might find.”

Aimee Mann

"Voices Carry" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To · Live 1985 performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCO-dzitHIE
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)

Reading

“Soon enough
you can say we made it up
just for fun I guess
to make a mess
cause what’s more fun
than other people’s hell”

Aimee Mann

"Soon Enough"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

People , Hell

“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

"Labrador" · Video (a shot for shot recreation of scenarios from her first hit video with 'Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

Art , Lie

“When you’re a charmer
the world applauds
they don’t know that secretly charmers
feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer
you hate yourself
a victim of sideshow hypnosis
like everyone else.”

Aimee Mann

"Charmer"
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

Hate , Fraud , World , Feeling

“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

"How Am I Different" (co-written with Jon Brion) · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW7gUnN7yxo
Song lyrics, Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo (2000)