Aimee Mann - Everything's different now

Rip In Heaven

Album: Everything's Different Now

Remember this, given us
by someone's set of parents
I don't recall, I admit
I don't know just who's to blame
for relics of our history...

To tell the truth, it wasn't bad
we had to have a reason
and lack of love wasn't it
We both know we had a past
but present must contain
a future where both of us can fit

So long and sorry, darling
I was counting to forever
and never even got to ten
So long and sorry, darling
when we found a rip in heaven
we should have just ascended then

It's funny how you just assume
you're going to work it out
or give it at least a try
but optimistic feelings can't be
passed from hand to hand
you handle them they tend to die

So long and sorry, darling
I was counting to forever
and never even got to ten
So long and sorry, darling
when we found a rip in heaven
we should have just ascended then

Well, better than if I just go away
preserving the fiction of
indifference now
replacing love

So long and sorry, darling
I was counting to forever
and never even got to ten
So long and sorry, darling
when we found a rip in heaven
we should have just ascended then

we should have just ascended then
we should have just ascended then

Why Must I

Album: Everything's Different Now

Why must I take it so hard
there's no light in the tunnel
or dog in the yard
It's my fault for wanting too much
going deeper than most
getting harder to touch

I've known days when I'd
wake up and say,
The world can get along just fine.'
So why must I take it so hard this time.

Why must I take it so hard
other people get by
with either bourbon or God.
But my world became this one boy
it's the way that I'm made
do you think I enjoy it?

I've known days when I'd
wake up and say,
`Just live and let it all go by...
So why must I take it so hard this time.

I've known days when I'd
wake up and say,

Be careful of the love you find

Be careful of the love you find.
Oh, be careful.

'J' For Jules

Album: Everything's Different Now

I was winding my clock
which was waking us up
in the morning, we were laughing
away like fools

I was saying my prayers
he was combing his hair
in a country that began with a
'J' for Jules

You know I'll miss you
and thus it begins
but I'll release you
and thus it continues -
Someday we'll be happy again

Oh, the rain never comes
count my blessings on my thumbs
and the dogs just want to sleep in the
sun all day

You know I'll miss you
and thus it begins
but I'll release you
and thus it continues
Someday we'll be happy again

There's no way a country like that could die
Told me that they drift away
But that's a lie

Well, I just bought a car
but it stays in the yard
and the country that began with a 'J'
now ends in my heart

You know I'll miss you
and thus it begins
but I'll release you
and thus it continues
Someday we'll be happy again

Someday we'll be happy again
Someday we'll be happy again.
(oooo)
(oooo)
(oooo)
(oh)

(Believed You Were) Lucky

Album: Everything's Different Now

So I guess I'll give it up
yeah I guess I will
what's the use in pushing
when it's all uphill

I can't be appointed
keeper of the flame
without two to carry
it won't burn the same - oh
It seems obvious to me
but then again
could be
you just never felt that way

I wish you believed in life
believed in fate
believed you were lucky
and worth the wait
'cause life could be lovely
Life could be so great

It gets so embarassing
so I acquiesce
and I'll change my mind again
you change your address - oh
It seems logical to me
but then again
could be I was simply not that smart

I thought you believed in life
believed in fate
believed you were lucky
and worth the wait
'cause life could be lovely
Life could be so great

There must be some other door that they are saving
behind which my happiness lies
I won't be wasting my words
to tell you hopes that I had -
we can just leave it alone for now

I wish you: Belief in Life
Belief in Fate
Belief you are Lucky
and worth the wait
'cause life could be lovely
Life could be fucking great.

Limits To Love

Album: Everything's Different Now

We've known her ever since she was a kid
she was the kind of girl who repeats her mistakes
Her parents never minded what she did
She was a fallen angel with dirt on her face
But past a certain point she stayed behind
the two of us could never read her mind
the million ways she had of killing time

So we just gave up
yeah we just gave up
'cause sometimes, you know
there's limits to love

We'd get impatient with her now and then
oh, she'd smile and say, `now you're not being nice.
I guess her definition of a friend
was someone long on love, and short on advice
We gave her money but the money's bad
She took the dollars and just tore them in half
We got so angry, we just had to laugh

but we still gave up
yeah we still gave up
'cause sometimes, you know
there's limits to love

She'll get in trouble but she will scrape through
oh, she's the kind of girl who can always find help
I'd say she's stupid, but it'd be untrue
oh, you've got to be smart if you're fooling yourself
We tried to love her, but our love unwound
(so our love was weak)
We talked about her when she wasn't around
(so our talk was cheap)
and still we felt that we were letting her down

'cause we just gave up
yeah we just gave up
'cause sometimes, you know
there's limits to love

Sometimes you know
there's limits to love

Long Gone (Buddy)

Album: Everything's Different Now

So what if it's breaking my heart at the root
Something that could happen to anyone, I suppose
Never any comfort to get from the truth
from knowing the part of this person that no one knows
So we just cry
with hopelessness
We're making such a mess

It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it
It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it

It's not that I'm frightened of being alone
It's just that I know what a burden this grief can be
Everything happens for something, I know
Can't understand for the moment what this could mean
That love is gone
That love is blind
That love is so unkind

It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it
It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it

Nobody wants to be happier more than me
Nobody wants to be happier more than I do
but happiness
I must confess
I don't have

It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it
It's long gone, buddy, now - run and go after it

The Other End (Of The Telescope)

Album: Everything's Different Now

Shall we agree that just this once
I'm gonna change my life
until it's just as tiny or
important as you like
and in time, we won't even recall that we spoke
Words that turned out to be as big as smoke
like smoke, disappears in the air
there's always something smouldering 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

There was a time not long ago
I dreamt that the world was flat
and all the colours bled away
and that was that
And in time, I could only believe in one thing
the sky was just phosphourus stars hung on strings
and you swore that they'd always be mine
when you can pull them down anytime

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

There, there baby now, don't say a word
lie down baby, your vision is blurred
Your head is so sore from all of that thinking
I don't want to hurt you now
but I think you're shrinking (I think you're skrinking)

You're half-naked ambition and
you're half out of your wits
and though your wristwatch always works
your necktie never fits
Now its so hard to pick the receiver up
and when I call, I never noticed you could be so small
the answer was under your nose
but the question never arose

I know it don't make a difference to you
but oh, it sure made a difference to me
When you find me here at the end of my rope
when the head and heart of it finally elope
You can see us off in the distance, I hope
at the other end
at the other end of the telescope

Crash And Burn

Album: Everything's Different Now

He was saying, 'You look like an angel.'
but you never really know what the hell to make of that
Take your pick 'cause it don't really matter
I get lonely when I hear it and sad when he takes it back
But all in all, another fall won't even make a dent

the world will turn, at least that's what they say
We'll crash and burn, it's hard to look away
That kind of thing is easier to say than do.

How about we break with tradition?
We'll pretend we're everything that you believe we're not
So he said, 'I guess I'll try, but on one condition.
Someone ought to let me know when it gets close to ten o'clock.
But all in all, another fall won't even make a dent

the world will turn, at least that's what they say
We'll crash and burn, it's hard to look away
That kind of thing is easier to say than do.

But all in all, another fall won't even make a dent

the world will turn, at least that's what they say
We'll crash and burn, it's hard to look away
That kind of thing is easier to say than do.

You keep saying that you're only human
What you mean is that you think you're the only human here
Still I think that it's just a rumour
and you might as well be taking it home as a souvenir.

How about we break with tradition?

How Can You Give Up?

Album: Everything's Different Now

How Can You Give Up?
No, you don't know
it makes no sense
and there goes
your confidence
you were so understanding
so sure of yourself
but when love became damaged
you ran for help
How can you give up on love - Oh
How can you give up on love so soon
How can you give up on love this time
you ought to know love is hard to find

Steady
hold your breath
It isn't
over yet
So with one small admission
your paying the price
did you tell yourself lying was
good advice

How can you give up on love
How can you give up on love so soon
How can you give up on love this time
you ought to know love is hard to find

It's not easy to tell where
security lies
Is it stupid to trust in
the look in her eyes

How can you give up on love
How can you give up on love so soon
How can you give up on love this time
you ought to know love is hard to find