Light that smoke, that one for giving up on me
And one just 'cause they'll kill you sooner than my expectations
To my favorite liar, to my favorite scar (to my favorite scar)
I could have died with you
I hope you choke on those words, that kiss, that bottle
Confess (bury me in memory)
Now ask yourself, yeah, out on the insides
Said I loved you but I lied
Let's play this game called "when you catch fire
I wouldn't piss to put you out"
Stop burning bridges, and drive off of them
So I can forget about you
So bury me in memory
His smile's your rope
So wrap it tight around your throat
On the drive home
Joke about the kid you used to see
And his jealousy
Breaking hearts has never looked so cool
As when you wrap your car around a tree
Your makeup looks so great next to his teeth (his teeth)
Let's play this game called "when you catch fire
I wouldn't piss to put you out"
Stop burning bridges, and drive off of them
So I can forget about you
So bury me in memory
His smile's your rope
So wrap it tight around your throat
So bury me in memory
His smile's your rope
So wrap it tight around your throat
So bury me in memory
Around your throat
And one just 'cause they'll kill you sooner than my expectations
To my favorite liar, to my favorite scar (to my favorite scar)
I could have died with you
I hope you choke on those words, that kiss, that bottle
Confess (bury me in memory)
Now ask yourself, yeah, out on the insides
Said I loved you but I lied
Let's play this game called "when you catch fire
I wouldn't piss to put you out"
Stop burning bridges, and drive off of them
So I can forget about you
So bury me in memory
His smile's your rope
So wrap it tight around your throat
On the drive home
Joke about the kid you used to see
And his jealousy
Breaking hearts has never looked so cool
As when you wrap your car around a tree
Your makeup looks so great next to his teeth (his teeth)
Let's play this game called "when you catch fire
I wouldn't piss to put you out"
Stop burning bridges, and drive off of them
So I can forget about you
So bury me in memory
His smile's your rope
So wrap it tight around your throat
So bury me in memory
His smile's your rope
So wrap it tight around your throat
So bury me in memory
Around your throat
Lyrics submitted by ruben, edited by Mellow_Harsher, LukeDev
Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today Lyrics as written by Joseph Mark Trohman Andrew Hurley
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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.
awesome song probably the best on TTTYG..... next to chicago is so two years ago... i agree with a clever napkin.......