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She's a little lost girl in her own little world
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to the trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
You know she drives me outta my mind
You know she drives me outta my head
She talks to birds
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to the trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
You know she drives me outta my mind
You know she drives me outta my head
She talks to birds
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
She looks so happy but she seems so sad
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She's a little lost girl in her own little world
I'd like to help her I'd like to try
Ah ah oh yea oh oh oh yea
She talks to birds she talks to angels
She talks to trees she talks to bees
She don't talk to me
Talks to the rainbows and to the seas
She talks to trees
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
She don't talk to me
Don't talk to me
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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.
this is a great song. i feel like the girl in the song.
its about a girl that have built up a wall around here and don't let anyone help her. she's just in here one world, talking to everything but the one who wanna help her.
Know that this a very old post, but you have this absolutely correct. Have a friend that was exactly as you described and this was her one of her favorite songs. And I say "was" because she committed suicide in 2008 :(
I love this song. It's about a girl who seems to live in her own reality, shunning others. She may appear to be happy but really she's deeply troubled, which is why she prefers to live in her own world. Beautiful song.
cant believe more people havent commented this song! its just so pretty! i think its pretty self explanatory, a a boy loves a troubled girl who does not open up to him. instead she lives in her own dream world, talking to the birds, trees, rainbows etc. its just so beautiful
The Ramones are divine-RIP Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee. You're all too tough to die
As for the song, shit its good. It's got such a poignant and humane meaning. I often do feel lost and I have an overactive imagination and talk to things. I also wanna help out both guys and girls who are feeling the way of the girl in this song. I'm sure Joey often felt that way
i totally agree with river wolf... i'm sure joey felt that way very often. he was so optimistic, but very to himself and probably found himself in a beautiful place, alone, talking to the rainbows and angels and trees.
No he encontrado nada mejor que describa como me siento con mi pequeña Princesa, ademas de ser una de sus canciones favoritas; ella vive en su mundo de colores y no se deja ayudar a conocer el mundo real. De todas maneras la amo.
I never found a song that describes as well as this one the way I feel about my little princess, and this is one of her favourite songs; se lives at her rainbow world and will never let me help her to see the real world. Anyway I love her.
debe haber un millon de personas que se sienten como ella.
One of the most touching songs I ever heard. A true latter-day gem.
spelling mistake: her not here
great lyrics. but not the greatest ramones song.