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I keep going round and round on the same old circuit
a wire travels underground to a vacant lot
where something I can't see interrupts the current
and shrinks the picture down to a tiny dot
and from behind the screen it can look so perfect
but it's not
so here I'm sitting in my car at the same old stop light
I keep waiting for a change but I don't know what
so red turns into green turning into yellow
but I'm just frozen here in the same old spot
and all I have to do is to press the pedal
but I'm not
People are tricky you can't afford to show
anything risky anything they don't know
the moment you try - ... kiss it goodbye
so baby kiss me like a drug, like a respirator
and let me fall into the dream of the astronaut
for I'll get lost in space that goes on forever
and you may call the rest just an afterthought
and I'll believe it's you could make it better
though it's not
no it's not
no it's not...
a wire travels underground to a vacant lot
where something I can't see interrupts the current
and shrinks the picture down to a tiny dot
and from behind the screen it can look so perfect
but it's not
so here I'm sitting in my car at the same old stop light
I keep waiting for a change but I don't know what
so red turns into green turning into yellow
but I'm just frozen here in the same old spot
and all I have to do is to press the pedal
but I'm not
People are tricky you can't afford to show
anything risky anything they don't know
the moment you try - ... kiss it goodbye
so baby kiss me like a drug, like a respirator
and let me fall into the dream of the astronaut
for I'll get lost in space that goes on forever
and you may call the rest just an afterthought
and I'll believe it's you could make it better
though it's not
no it's not
no it's not...
Lyrics submitted by peopleterrifyme
Track duration: 03:28
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"People are tricky you can't afford to show
anything risky anything they don't know
the moment you try - ... kiss it goodbye"
Coming out. No bueno. Especially when you have no idea how the ones you love the most will react. But I definitely see how this could apply to all sorts of secrets...I just think this song has a lot of conflict...so much deeper than just depression. The whole part about wanting change and refusing to push the pedal just because that's what we're told to do. I mean we are pretty much trained to follow the leader in every aspect our whole lives and then when we finally decide to get out of line...what are the real consequences? "Kiss it goodbye" I mean it's like the main character in this song found love and finally found out what those consequences were...
Does any of that make sense? haha.
circuit, wire, screen... tv? cinema screen?
vacant lot?
I'm guessing it's saying "Life was going as usual but then something underneath interrupted it and the living fizzled out, like a tv screen when the power's cut." But why does it look perfect behind the screen when the circuit's broken?
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It's about heroin. "Shrinks to a tiny dot" is both the pupils of the addict, and the scope of the world you can see from the other side when you're in that state. "From behind the screen it can look so perfect, but it's not."
The stop light analogy is about how when heroin takes over your life you're stuck in suspended animation. It would only take a small conscious act to get help and get your life restarted, but you just can't move.
The actual lyric in the last verse is "and you make all the rest just an afterthought". When a heroin addict is out of it the rest of world just disappears, it's irrelevant. The song is sung to the drug, not to a person. "And I believe it's you who can make it better. But it's not".
I've lost a close relative to heroin, this song can bring me to tears. It's still one of my favourites though.
The lyrics do need fixing.
So, baby, kiss me like a drug, like a respirator
And let me fall into the dream of the astronaut
Where I get lost in space that goes on forever
And you make all the rest just an afterthought
And I believe it's you who could make it better
Though it's not
No, it's not
No, it's not
fav lines,
so baby kiss me like a drug, like a respirator
and let me fall into the dream of the astronaut
for I'll get lost in space that goes on forever
she takes the most obvious-sounding phrase, that no one has taken thus far besides her... she makes it her own, and she makes it meaningful. no one else could think of this, even though it is so obvious.
i actually feel like she's telling me about my life, saying ' you need to get on with your life, you need to be strong '
i love the sequence of a circuit to a movie screen to a car ride to a stop light.. to a kiss.. to getting lost in space that goes on forever.
i don't think i've heard anything more profound in my life. i hope Aimee Mann keeps searching for the profound, because i love her.