It's Not

Album: Lost In Space (2002)
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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 on the same old spot.
    And all I have to do is press the pedal.
    But I'm not. No I'm not.

    Well 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 after thought.
    And I believe it's you who could make it better.
    But it's not. No it's not Writer/s: Aimee Mann
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
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