Aimee Mann - Lost In Space Lyrics

This is the perfect record for long car drives at night. The kind where you don't mind if you accidentally drive onto the wrong highway, cause it means you get to be in the warm car with that record some more.

Anyone else here because of Opal? XD
Can I just say her voice is just??? Perfect though?? Like holy guacamole I think it's confirming my bisexuality XD It's so perfect and sweet and just aaaaaahh //swoons

"Humpty Dumpty"

Say you were split, you were split in
fragments

And none of the pieces would talk to you

Wouldn't you want to be who you had been

Well, baby I want that too



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



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



All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put baby together again

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put baby together again

 

"High On Sunday 51"

The monkey knows how you'll react

Creating want by holding back

Like some reverse pyromaniac

Let me try, baby, try



I propped my window up and then

I turned my back to lure you in

To rifle through what I might have been

Let me try, baby, try



Baby please, let me begin

Let me be your heroin

Hate the sinner but love the sin

Let me be your heroin



We have crossed the Rubicon

Our ship awash, our rudder gone

The rats have fled but I'm hanging on

Let me try, baby, try



Baby please, let me begin

Let me be your heroin

Hate the sinner but love the sin

Let me be your heroin

 

"Lost In Space"

Lost in space

A bubble drifting

Into a place

Where planets shift and

The moon's erased

Its features lift in the glare



But I'm the stuff

Of happy endings

Though mostly bluff

Belief suspending

But close enough

For just pretending to care



And I'm pretending to care

When I'm not even there

Gone, but I don't know where



Well, she's the face

And I'm the double

Who keeps the pace

And clears the rubble

And, lost in space

Fills up the bubble with air



By just pretending to care

Like I'm not even there

Gone, but I don't know where



You split like a cell

And then cannot tell

The line from its parallel



So baby, beware

I'm just pretending to care

Like I'm not even there

Gone, but I don't know where

Gone, but I don't know where

Gone, but I don't know where

 

"This Is How It Goes"

This is how it goes

You'll get angry at yourself

And think you can think of something else

And I'll hear the clanging of the bells

'Cause I can't stop you baby...



'Cause I don't have the bribery in place

No bright shiny surface to my face

So I won't go near the market place

With what I'm selling lately

'Cause this is how it goes



'Cause it's all about drugs

It's all about shame

And whatever they want

Don't tell 'em your name



This is how it goes:

One more failure to connect

With so many how could I object?

And you, what on earth did you expect?

Well, I can't tell you, baby

When this is how it goes



'Cause it's all about drugs

It's all about shame

And whatever they want

Don't tell 'em your name



So I'll try to hold on

While you try to let go

You won't tell me it's gone

But, baby, I'll know

Baby, I'll know

Baby, I'll know

 

"Guys Like Me"

Guys like me

We don't know how it feels

Absentee

Even closing the deal

With every player there's a payoff in the final reel

But never with guys like me



Cause guys like me

We look good at the gate

But you'll agree

With the odds on the slate

And put your money on a bona-fide heavyweight

And take it off guys like me

Take off guys like me



They'll pull you close but never really

Looking warm but feeling chilly

You'll describe us as "impassioned"

When it's just a front we've fashion



Cause guys like me

We all vow to become

Clear and free of the fife and the drum

And block the circulation till we're all completely numb

Let's hear it for guys like me

Let's hear it for guys like me

Let's hear it for guys

Guys like me

 

"Pavlov's Bell"

Oh Mario, sit here by the window

Stay here 'til we reach Idaho

And when we go

Hold my hand on take-off

Tell me what I already know

That we can't talk about it

No, we can't talk about it



Because nobody knows

That's how I nearly fell

Trading clothes

And ringing Pavlov's Bell

History shows

There's not a chance in hell, but



Oh Mario. we're only to Ohio

It's kinda getting harder to breathe

I won't let it show

I'm all about denial

But can't denial let me believe?

That we could talk about it

But we can't talk about it



Because nobody knows

That's how I nearly fell

Trading clothes

And ringing Pavlov's Bell

History shows but rarely shows it well

Well, well, well



Oh Mario, why if this is nothing

I'm finding it so hard to dismiss

If you're what I need,

Then only you can save me

So come on baby. give me the fix

And let's just talk about it

I've got to talk about it



Because nobody knows

That's how I nearly fell

Trading clothes

And ringing Pavlov's Bell

History shows

Like it was show and tell

So tell me

That's how I nearly fell

By ringing Pavlov's Bell

So, baby, show and tell

Oh Mario, Mario

"Real Bad News"

You don't know, so don't say you do

You don't

You might think that things will change,

But take my word

They won't

You paint a lovely picture,

But reality intrudes

With a message for you

And it's real bad news



I was undecided like you

At first

But I could not stem the tide of overwhelm

And thirst

You try to keep it going, but a lot of avenues

Just aren't open to you

When you're real bad news



I've got love and anger

They come as a pair

You can take your chances

But buyer beware

And I won't

Make you feel bad

When I show you

This big ball of sad isn't

Worth even filling with air



And baby, let me tell you

You can get some things confused

Like whose secrets are whose

And that's real bad news

Real bad news

Real bad news

 

"Invisible Ink"

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 spell out my name



What some take for magic at first glance

Is just sleight-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 oughta 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 clichéd, 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 a link

Though I'd 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 clichéd, 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

 

"Today's The Day"

Better pack your bags and run

Or stay until the job is done

Or maybe you can sit and hope

That providence will fray the rope

And sink like a stone

Or go it alone



And isn't it enough - for you?

Isn't it enough?



So better pack your bags and run

And send it to oblivion

Where you don't look like anyone

That anyone would care about

And do what you do

'Til it buries you



And isn't it enough - for you?

Isn't it enough?



And baby - isn't it enough?

Like Major Reno at the bluff

Wondering aloud if help is on the way

And baby, isn't this your chance

To make a break with circumstance

Isn't it enough to prove today's the day?

Isn't it enough to prove today's the day?

 

"The Moth"

The moth don't care when he sees the flame

He might get burned, but he's in the game

And once he's in, he can't go back

He'll beat his wings till he burns them black



No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame

No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame



The moth don't care if the flame is real

'Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal

And nothing fuels a good flirtation

Like need and anger and desperation



No, the moth don't care if the flame is real

No, the moth don't care if the flame is real



So come on, let's go, ready or not

'Cause there's a flame I know, hotter than hot

And with a fuse that's so thoroughly shot, away



The moth don't care if the flame burns low

'Cause moth believes in an afterglow

And flames are never doused completely

All you really need is the love of heat



No, the moth don't care if the flame burns low

No, the moth don't care if the flame burns low



So come on, let's go, ready or not

'Cause there's a flame I know, hotter than hot

And with a fuse that's so thoroughly shot, away

 

"It's Not"

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 on the same old spot

And all I have to do is to press the pedal

But I'm not

No, I'm not



People are tricky, you can't afford to show

Anything risky, anything they don't know

The moment you try, well, kiss it goodbye



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

I love Aimee and her music, but I HATE it when the friggin'  commercials pop up in the middle of a good song!!!

Trixie Mattel just mentioned Aimee being one of his favorite singers
It was some obscure video too but wow, I’m in love 😍

very good Aimee Mann album..I have it on CD..old days..new days for the old days

A start to finish Wow. I think my boyfriend is going to kill me if I ply it through one more time.

You have the sweetest heart.
thank you


ARMY 
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ONE

I always end up coming back to this album

How is Greta Van Fleet a thing, when people could save their IQ points and listen to 'real artist' like Aimee Mann. I read somewhere that she is a lyrical genius, I am not disappointed.

2 listens in a row

Sooo many unusual chord combinations... She never rests on templates, unlike all the others.

I wore this album out in 2002 while pregnant with my first child. She just turned 16 and I am listening to these songs with tears in my eyes.

I am 29 weeks and singing along, baby is kicking like mad stuff

This album is so perfect!

I'm here because a friend of mine shared me the link. I had never heard of Aimee Mann before. What a beautiful album.

Aaron Swartz led me here

19 people have no idea about music.

I am in awe of Aimee Mann. This has to be my fav album. I can't explain how it makes me feel. So many emotions. It's perfect.

gotta be one of the most under appreciated artists ever.

Yes. She needs more appreciation.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS

I forgot how much I loved this album.

THAT IS SO FUCKING DISGUSTING! A GooD FRIEND OF MINE DIES, AND ANOTHER USES HIS ACCOUNT AND MAKES A COMMENT ON THE INTERNET! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU ALL!

8814 DUCHESS OF BEDFORD

no one cares

She's a great singer and songwriter - highly under rated...

This is Heaven! Like George Harrison and 'Til Tuesday!

a real talent this aimee mann

wow 😯

We don't deserve Aimee Mann. Such important music, such a perfect album, I listen to it in order, start to finish!

For over 15 years it seems. Meep

In the netherlands we never hear people like chuck prophet,lucinda williams,ray lamontagne,drive by truckers,martha wainwright,bob mould,howe gelb, ron sexsmith,ryan adams, mary gauthier,paul westerberg,los lobos,dayna kurz,sparklehorse,rosanne cash or even great metal bands on the radio.Its really all formuleaic drab brought without love and taste.

You forgot to mention Aimee Mann ;)

Love Aimeee...always<3.

fantastico!

One of the absolute greatest albums about rejection in relationships ever conceived. Perfect from the first note to the last.

Yes, very possible )

Cool idea. I took it as an album about drug use (or maybe the relationship a person had with drugs?). But I could be projecting ;)

THAT WAS IN 2002. CONCERT AT THOUSAND OAKS CIVIC AUDITORIUM

I TOOK TAMMY, not HUDSON

I THINK IT IS/WAS TOO LATE FOR THOSE SLO PEEPHOLES TO ESCAPE FROM THOUSAND OAKS. They all just loved living in SIMI VALLEY.

is someone shouting? "A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE" by GERTRUDE STEIN RIGHT ON! KEEP ON KEEPING ON MAN! LOVE CALIFORNIA LATER ;)

CANNED SHOW...CONCERTA

A ROSE IS JUST A ROSE...

HARU URARA 90069

IF YOU MISSED SHABU CHIC, MAYBE IT WAS SHABU ZEN

As good as it gets, she is blessed to be one of the best!

Love this lady of rock :)

Aimee Mann .Rock Goddess of the understatement.

beautiful awesome voice, thank you.

finalmente o álbum completo!

Mind blowing. What a voice and what a sound. Hoping to see her in London for the first time later in the year.

I have found out that Aimee Mann is a prolific creator of great music. I share here music from Youtube, and resolve to buy her CD's. This lady deserves it.

Go see her live, too. I have barely seen any concerts in my whole life but I saw her open for Tom Petty in 1985 when she was in 'Til Tuesday and I've seen her twice in the last several years on tour solo.

all is favorites <3

Here are the actual timestamps:01. "Humpty Dumpty" – 0:00
02. "High on Sunday 51" (Paul Dalen, Mann) – 4:02
03. "Lost in Space" – 7:17
04. "This Is How It Goes" – 10:45
05. "Guys Like Me" – 14:33
06. "Pavlov's Bell" – 17:46
07. "Real Bad News" – 22:13
08. "Invisible Ink" (Mann, Clayton Scoble) – 26:06
09. "Today's the Day" – 31:06
10. "The Moth" – 35:49
11. "It's Not" – 39:37

cheers for this mate

Bless you :)

Ah thank youuu :)

Thank you.

All songs written by Aimee Mann, unless otherwise noted.

01. "Humpty Dumpty" – 4:01
02. "High on Sunday 51" (Paul Dalen, Mann) – 3:15
03. "Lost in Space" – 3:28
04. "This Is How It Goes" – 3:47
05. "Guys Like Me" – 3:12
06. "Pavlov's Bell" – 4:27
07. "Real Bad News" – 3:53
08. "Invisible Ink" (Mann, Clayton Scoble) – 4:59
09. "Today's the Day" – 4:42
10. "The Moth" – 3:46
11. "It's Not" – 3:27