Well, in my opinion this song is about being a young & maybe a little naive &/or introverted girl and finding yourself loving a man who is at first very charming, carefree & outgoing, and seems at first to be without limits, as in
"There was a time
you opened up every doorway
you didn't mind if everything
wasn't your way"
then that man starts to gradually become more introverted & shows their more possessive/obsessive side to you as the relationship progresses, even while they keep up the appearance of being carefree & outgoing to everyone else,
"Don't pull away
that goes against what you told me
I look in your eyes
I realize what you've sold me
is love in a vacuum"
so you confront them about the way they're acting and of course they deny it,
"I think you've changed
but you insist that
that's not true"
quite possibly they are an addict of some sort, my guess would be cocaine, &/or showing very obsessive behavior towards you (early on in the video for this song we see the man hanging a picture up, it is a very large portrait of Aimee & it is prominently displayed in his/their apartment for the duration of the song), thus their "love in a vacuum",
"You look so strange, so distant
that you're hardly you
Now I can see
how you have been acting different
You say it's me
but I know
that it isn't
it's love in a vacuum"
but still you are in love with them and don't want to leave them and you know that they are truly in love with you and they don't want you to leave them either, maybe they are convinced you can save them from themself, maybe they are so broken that the possibility of an overdose &/or suicide attempt is very real and you want to get through to them that their behavior not only dangerous but it is also just pissing you off and if they don't wise up they run the risk of loosing you, as in the lines
"You will be lonely
if you leave me alone", so you want to save them but can't get through to them due to the addiction &/or emotional problems they have,
"Love in a vacuum
and that's not enough
love in a vacuum
You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
You will be lonely
if you leave me alone
You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
it's just not enough"
you want them to understand that the love they are giving you is not enough when it is filtered through the vacuum of their drug addiction &/or emotional impairment,
"You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
it's just not enough
and just wait
you will be lonely
Love in a vacuum
Love in a vacuum
and that's not enough
Love in a vacuum".
'Love In A Vacuum' for me is a hauntingly truthful acute argument on the loneliness of obsession and almost inevitable loss of love that follows people who are broken in some way or another; the obsessives, the coke heads, the drunks, addicts or the just-plain-old emotionally broken; a razor sharp, lyrically driven, deceptively poppy, yet ultimately-depressing-in-the-best-way song.
Quintessential Aimee Mann.
Hatred.
I been hangin' on the corner, starin' at the night sky,
and
' the cars drive by.
The faces stare but they don't see me
as I think about the past and I wonder why?
Some of you were born into happiness and wealth
while some of us were born to a life of hell.
And some of us were lost and some of us were found
but most of us were beaten by life to the ground.
Hatred.
And I don't believe in your society.
While you partied and lived it up,
I've seen so many bleed.
I've seen so many bleed.
'Cause I was born into nothing to this world full of shit
and nothing's changing anytime soon...
so I would rather die than listen to you try to compare me and you.
To compare me to you.
The sign in the road says we're going nowhere
but it's been twenty years since I cared.
I don't need nobody to save me.
So just walk away, oh yeah.
I know nobody can hear me.
There's nothing more i can say.
Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by?
Lost your hope and said "this is where I'll die"?
And maybe I'm you enemy.
So don't turn your back on me.
Soulless hatred.
I can feel it killing me.
And I don't know what I've planned or what I mean
to do about this world I see.
So many suffer silently but the beat just goes on endlessly.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
I see another joker on the news telling me to play the fool.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
When all I ever wanted was a heart of gold to tell me the truth.
You can rip my heart tonight...
Just gimme some truth.
'Cause all I want is the truth.
All I want is, all I need is...
I need somebody to save me.
But you walk away, oh yeah.
I need somebody to hear me.
There's nothing more I can say...
I been hangin' on the corner, starin' at the night sky,
and
' the cars drive by.
The faces stare but they don't see me
as I think about the past and I wonder why?
Some of you were born into happiness and wealth
while some of us were born to a life of hell.
And some of us were lost and some of us were found
but most of us were beaten by life to the ground.
Hatred.
And I don't believe in your society.
While you partied and lived it up,
I've seen so many bleed.
I've seen so many bleed.
'Cause I was born into nothing to this world full of shit
and nothing's changing anytime soon...
so I would rather die than listen to you try to compare me and you.
To compare me to you.
The sign in the road says we're going nowhere
but it's been twenty years since I cared.
I don't need nobody to save me.
So just walk away, oh yeah.
I know nobody can hear me.
There's nothing more i can say.
Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by?
Lost your hope and said "this is where I'll die"?
And maybe I'm you enemy.
So don't turn your back on me.
Soulless hatred.
I can feel it killing me.
And I don't know what I've planned or what I mean
to do about this world I see.
So many suffer silently but the beat just goes on endlessly.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
I see another joker on the news telling me to play the fool.
Someone's bleeding tonight...
When all I ever wanted was a heart of gold to tell me the truth.
You can rip my heart tonight...
Just gimme some truth.
'Cause all I want is the truth.
All I want is, all I need is...
I need somebody to save me.
But you walk away, oh yeah.
I need somebody to hear me.
There's nothing more I can say...
Lyrics submitted by maggot#8
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