Aimee Mann - 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 stoplight

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, you 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

But it's not

No, it's not

No, it's not