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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.

Aimee Mann

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
AIMEE MANN

Again Air Crime Nightly Retrace Return Scene Step
But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
AIMEE MANN

Admit Bad Confront Doubt Maybe Momentum Past Sake
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANN

Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible
I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
AIMEE MANN

Boxing Famous Friend Gym Realy Train Trainer
I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANN

Great Music OK Some Young
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
AIMEE MANN

Jailhouse King Lighten Load Queen Road Share Think Thinking
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
AIMEE MANN

Busy Dough Drummer Limit Manger Need Play
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
AIMEE MANN

Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
AIMEE MANN

Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
AIMEE MANN

Brain Know Need Someone Tell Want
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
AIMEE MANN

Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero
I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANN

Greed Living Make Making Motivation Thinking Trying Understand
I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANN

Everything Girl Interest Interesting Learn Scuba Surf Thought Want
You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
AIMEE MANN

Cadence Interest Keep Left Make Mind Need Probably Real Turn
And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
AIMEE MANN

Anger Desperation Flame Flirt Fuel Good Like Need Nothing Real
If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
AIMEE MANN

Artist Deal Distribution Entity Label Own Record Sign Trying

At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.

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