8 posts tagged “aimee mann”

What are your top five break-up songs?
Submitted by gt.

I'm with Bookmole on this one.  There are so many different kinds of breakups that I'm not sure that 5 songs covers it. And I'm joining this with my lyric of the day, because it seems silly not to.

However, if I need to pick 5, the ones below come to mind.  And I know they're female heavy.  When I think of breakup songs,, I do think of women, mostly because I think they sing about heartbreak better than men.

Sarah McLachlan - Do What You Have To Do (Mirroball Live)

Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace

These 2 I call the "5/9 loop".  I know I'm in a bad place with someone when I can't listen to any songs other than these 2.  I should have known my marriage was over when Mick and I were both in the "5/9 loop" at the same time.  It actually took me a little over a year from that point to leave him.

Stronger Than Me - Melissa Etheridge

"Well, it's too late then
You could have told me when
Living died;
When passion lied."

Invisible Ink (Inara & Mal - Firefly vid)

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"I suppose I should be happy to be misread
Better be that
Than some of the other things I have become.
But nobody wants to hear this tale.
The plot is cliched,
The jokes are stale."

She wants revenge - she loves me, she loves me not

"For all the things I said to her
And all the ways I tried.
And all the things I did for her
Are lost with one goodbye."

Haven't listened to Aimee Mann for awhile.  I really do adore her music.  And this one always reminds me of the one who didn't want to save himself.

So maybe I wasn't
That good a friend.
But you were one of us.
And I will wonder
Just like anyone
If there was something
Else I could've done.

So maybe it's true that
Your cry for help
Was oh, so very faint.
But still I heard
And knew something was wrong
Just nothing you could
Put your finger on.
And I will wonder
Just like anyone.
- Aimee Mann, "Just Like Anyone"

Dunno why.  Mostly because I'm late and it's in my head.

Baby you're great
You've been more than patient.
Saying it's not a catastrophe.
But I'm not the girl you once put your faith in,
Just someone who looks like me.

So better take the keys and drive forever.
Staying won't put these futures
Back together.
All the perfect drugs and superheroes
Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero.

So get out while you can -

Get out while you can
Baby, I'm pouring quicksand
And sinking is all I had planned
So better just go.

Oh,
Better take the keys and drive forever.
Staying won't put these futures
Back together.
All the perfect drugs and superheroes
Wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero.
- Aimee Mann, "Humpty Dumpty"

Because I think I converted my friend Jim this morning when I was playing this song.

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

And how am I different?
How am I different?
How am I different?

Just one question before I buy
when you fuck it up later,
do I get my money back?
- Aimee Mann, "How Am I Different"

Apologies for it being so late.  S'what "quality" family time does to me...

Critics at their worst could never criticize
The way that you do
No, theres no one else, I find,
To undermine or dash a hope
Quite like you
And you do it so casually, too

Cause nothing is good enough
For people like you
Who have to have someone take the fall
And something to sabotage--
Determined to lose it all
- Aimee Mann, "Nothing is Good Enough"

And you're powered by
The hopeful lie
That it's just around the bend
And when this
By default
Comes screeching to a halt
Let's hope that you know what to do
To start it all again
- Aimee Mann, "Driving Sideways"

No reason, really.  One of my favorite Aimee Mann songs, though it's not as good as Invisible Ink.

What's your favorite heartbreak song?
Submitted by esta86.

Hmmm.  I don't really know.  And like with any song and all songs with me, they're in and out of my world.  What are my favourites right now might not be my favourites this afternoon.  That said, what's been going through my head throughout the last 6 months or so (in really no order)?

• The Weakness In Me - Joan Armatrading
  
• Invisible Ink - Aimee Mann
• Path of Thorns - Sarah McLachlan
• Broken Promises For Broken Hearts - She Wants Revenge
• Devil's Valentine - Ike Reilly Assassination
• God And Money - Ike Reilly Assassination
  

What song or lyrics are stuck in your head at the moment?  What album is it from?
Submitted by Lox Ly. 

There comes a time when you swim or sink
So I jumped in the drink
Cause I couldn't make myself clear
Maybe I wrote in invisible ink
Oh, I've tried to think
How I could have made it appear

But another illustration is wasted cause the results are the same
I feel like a ghost who's trying to move your hands over some ouija board in the hopes
I can spelll out my name

What some take for magic at first glance
Is just slight of hand
Depending on what you believe

Something gets lost when you translate
It's hard to keep straight
Perspective is everything

And I know now
Which is which and what angle I ought to look at it from
I suppose I should be happy to be misread
Better be that than some of the other things I have become

But nobody wants to hear this tale
The plot is cliche, the jokes are stale
And baby, we've all heard it all before
Oh I could get specific but
Nobody needs a catalog
With details of love, I can't sell anymore

And aside from that
This chain of reaction
Baby is losing her link
Though I hope you'd know what I tried to tell you and if you don't
I could draw you a picture
In invisible ink

But nobody wants to hear this tale
The plot is cliche, the jokes are stale
And baby, we've all heard it all before
Oh I could get specific but
Nobody needs a catalog
With details of love, I can't sell anymore

- Invisible Ink, Aimee Mann