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.
the morning after our first trip to greenbay
we headed off to the station of greyhound
not thinkin much of what was ahead. ahead of us
the stinky people and the smell. the smell on this bus
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
a 32 oz. of high life and six sleeping pills
were not enough to make me crash. so im still awake
jeremiahs gonna get some ass from the girl next to him
all of this to play one show with goldfinger
what the fuck is wrong with us?
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound
theres this girl next to nick
and she has more hair underneath her armpits
than the four of us combined
the driver warned his feathered friend
with colored hair and tattoos
he'd kick us off if we acted up
well i wish he would've
cause we been sleepin on the floor
for the past 2 nights and were all out of beer
and all of this bullshit for a $99 fair so
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus!
we headed off to the station of greyhound
not thinkin much of what was ahead. ahead of us
the stinky people and the smell. the smell on this bus
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
a 32 oz. of high life and six sleeping pills
were not enough to make me crash. so im still awake
jeremiahs gonna get some ass from the girl next to him
all of this to play one show with goldfinger
what the fuck is wrong with us?
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound
theres this girl next to nick
and she has more hair underneath her armpits
than the four of us combined
the driver warned his feathered friend
with colored hair and tattoos
he'd kick us off if we acted up
well i wish he would've
cause we been sleepin on the floor
for the past 2 nights and were all out of beer
and all of this bullshit for a $99 fair so
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus. fuck you!
fuck the greyhound bus!
Lyrics submitted by sumblinkfan4182
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whoa...fucking a whole bus would kinda hurt now wouldnt it??
cause we been sleepin on the floor for the past 2 nights and were all out of beer and all of this bullshit for a $99 fair so
FUCK YOU!
i actually think now that this is the best song made by mest...i love it ...its great to blast while going down the residential streets in front of all the little children. im just an angry girl.
haha angry people are cool! i play mest allt he time really loud. when i first had their cd... i played it so loud, my neighbors called the cops because i wouldn't turn it down!
heh i love this song it's just the way tony sings it i think that makes it funny.... plus i rode a greyhound bus..... and this song kept playing over and over in my head....
i just burst out laughing at one point and the guy next to me just looked at me like i was nuts...
this song is the best.
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theres this girl next to nick and she has more hair underneath her armpits than the four of us combined
bwuhahahahaha, amazing funny lyrycs..
the song sucks though..
Does anyone know what the hell they're saying in the end of tha song. I've heard "F it all" but it doesnt really sound like that. One of my friends think that they say "En fitta" which is swedish 8it means; a pussy)?
Does anyone know for sure?
This is my favorite song by Mest. Their new album may be all mature and sad and all that, but they will never improve on the first album because they will never equal this song. AWESOME!