Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and bassist.
Mann attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing with her first punk rock band, the Young Snakes; the band released the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and a compilation album was issued in 2004. In 1983, seeking a return to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded with Berklee classmate and boyfriend Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday
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AG#mC#F#mED All you want to do is something good So get ready to be ridiculed and misunderstood AEmDGG/F#mG/ED 'Cause don't you know that you're a fucking freak in this world AG#mC#F#mED In which everybody's willing to choose swine over pearls AEm And maybe everything is all for nothing BmD Still you'd better keep it to yourself
AEmDA 'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else 2x
AG#mC#F#mED You can take your own advice and try again But a thousand compromises don't add up to a win AEmDGG/F#mG/ED And they'd be happy if you'd only cover your tracks AG#mC#F#mED But the trail of crumbs you've left won't help you find your way back AEm So maybe everything is all for nothing BmD Still you'd better keep it to yourself AEmDA 'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else 3x AEmD 'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody
F#mEDAGDF#mE You can play along, but you'll just end up wrong somehow won't you
[solo] AG#mC#F#mED 2x
AEmDGG/F#mG/ED But you're the idiot who keeps believing in luck AG#mC#F#mED And you just can't get it through your head that no one else gives a fuck AEm So maybe everything is all for nothing BmD Still you'd better keep it to yourself AEmDA 'Cause God knows it's not safe with anybody else 3x
[solo 2] A Em D 5 x
(quietly) AEmDAEmD Ah ah ah ah 2x
(picks back up) AEmDA Ooo oo oo oo oo AEmDA God knows it's not safe with anybody else AEmDA Ooo oo oo oo oo AEmDA It's not safe with anybody else AEmDA Ooo oo oo oo oo AEmDA God knows it's not safe with anybody else AEmDA Ooo oo oo oo oo
-52 secs of silence-
(Play that guitar) (sparkly) AG#mC#F#mED 2x A (music stops) But you're the idiot who keeps believing in luck
(jazz clarinet solo in Em)
The speaker is out of the picture I'm talking to the microphone The microphone thinks that I'm talking But I'm not talking at all I'm singing to you)