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Her voice is beyond her years
She's trying to move you
She did not know where to go
And soon it was dark
If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes
I couldn't let you go
I couldn't let you go
Her voice is beyond her years
Please try not to move her
At least it was her mistake
Hers alone to make
If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes
She's trying to move you
She did not know where to go
And soon it was dark
If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes
I couldn't let you go
I couldn't let you go
Her voice is beyond her years
Please try not to move her
At least it was her mistake
Hers alone to make
If I could look you in the eyes
If I could look you in the eyes
Lyrics submitted by Belle-and-Eric-Hajdu
Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years Lyrics as written by Johan Haslund Wohlert Bo Rune Madsen
Lyrics © Fintage House Publishing
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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.
brilliant.
So wonderful.
great song, i love it! "if i could look you in the eyes i couldn't let you go" :) that line has a cute meaning to me, just great!
this song is really cute
The title of the song instantly makes me think of deception, and "She's trying to move you", the use of the word 'trying' makes me think that perhaps 'she' has some ulterior motive. "If I could look you in the eyes, I couldn't let you go" She's obviously compelling, so maybe the singer is trying to avoid looking her in the eyes so that he's not drawn into her web?
For me it simply means a girl that has been through and seen too much for her age, and therefore grew mentally older than what is normal for her age.
This is a personal interpretation so please... don't bash it. Line for line here it goes. Her Voice is Beyond Her Years (Self explanatory) she's trying to move you (she's trying to move the guy with her love with hers with no results) she did not know where to go (she's hopeless in the situation and doesn't know how to fix it) and soon it was dark (dark maybe death? or even just over dosing. Possibly she couldn't take the pain and conflict of this love.)
If I could look you in the eyes I couldn't let you go (If he were there and she could look into his eyes maybe she would feel that little bit of happiness to keep her out of the suicidal depression?)
Her Voice is Beyond Her Years please try not to move her (he found her body and called the ambulance and they are telling him to try not to move the body) at least it was her mistake (he's comforting himself by telling himself it wasn't his fault it was her mistake) hers alone to make (only she could make the decision to take her own life)
If I could look you in the eyes If I could look you in the eyes (he's thinking to himself if he could just look into her eyes one last time he would tell her how much she really meant to him)
Like I said before ... totally personal interpretation.
In fact, I completely agree with beautifulnobody, and according to that intepretation, I think the story goes like this:
They knew each other but they never really talked to each other; she was in love with him and started the flirting, and he knew about her feelings but he wasn't interested. Unsuccessful, she started to getting depressed and she could only think of "If I could look you in the eyes...I couldn't let you go".
One day, he found her body and called an ambulance. And he was blaming himself by being the cause of her death. Later then, he apologized to her parents, they responded that he didn't have to apologize, it wasn't his fault.
And that's it. It's about unrequited love.