"Going Through the Motions" is a song by American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, which was released in 2005 as the lead single from her fifth studio album The Forgotten Arm.

The song was inspired by Mann's own experience with a friend who was addicted to crack cocaine and suffered a number of post-treatment relapses.

"[4] In a review of The Forgotten Arm, Patrick Berkery of The Philadelphia Inquirer described "Going Through the Motions" as "typical of Mann's better songs: catchy yet fatalistic".

[7] Zeth Lundy of PopMatters felt the song, along with "Clean Up for Christmas", deals with "addictions [that] are confronted but never resolved".

[8] In a review of Mann's 2005 concert at the Royce Hall, Steven Mirkin of Variety said of the song, "'Going Through the Motions' — a kissoff to a junkie lover — is wonderfully balanced between short and long phrases, the lyrics finely honed couplets dipped in poison.