“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)

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