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Some people change their mind
And get a change of heart
So if I'm just changing channels
She don't take it to heart
Her entertainment center's
Just so state of the art
I just want to watch TV
When she goes to work
My friends all come to the house
She's got a flat screen TV
And a comfortable couch
Don't get me wrong
It's not what love is about
I just want to watch TV
Chorus:
Who's got a lighter for my smoke
Who'll lend me money when I'm broke
Who'll let me kick it on the couch
All day, yeah
She's got cable
See I'm that type of guy
Who can't save a cent
I have to rob my landlord
So I can pay my rent
I'm so broke all my money
It just came and went
I just want to watch TV
I don't keep up
On any current events
Cause when I try to watch the news
I feel hurt and depressed
I don't vote cause
It's way to much work to get dressed
I just want to watch TV
Chorus
She's got surround sound speakers
And a satelite dish
So man the only time I get up
Is the bathroom to piss
I had a couple good girls
But never had it like this
I just want to watch TV
She's got four hundred channels
On remote control
So when she's coming home from work
She knows I'm always home
Chillin on the couch
Cause man I'm always stoned
I just want my MTV
Chorus
And get a change of heart
So if I'm just changing channels
She don't take it to heart
Her entertainment center's
Just so state of the art
I just want to watch TV
When she goes to work
My friends all come to the house
She's got a flat screen TV
And a comfortable couch
Don't get me wrong
It's not what love is about
I just want to watch TV
Chorus:
Who's got a lighter for my smoke
Who'll lend me money when I'm broke
Who'll let me kick it on the couch
All day, yeah
She's got cable
See I'm that type of guy
Who can't save a cent
I have to rob my landlord
So I can pay my rent
I'm so broke all my money
It just came and went
I just want to watch TV
I don't keep up
On any current events
Cause when I try to watch the news
I feel hurt and depressed
I don't vote cause
It's way to much work to get dressed
I just want to watch TV
Chorus
She's got surround sound speakers
And a satelite dish
So man the only time I get up
Is the bathroom to piss
I had a couple good girls
But never had it like this
I just want to watch TV
She's got four hundred channels
On remote control
So when she's coming home from work
She knows I'm always home
Chillin on the couch
Cause man I'm always stoned
I just want my MTV
Chorus
Lyrics submitted by BellaNeroCane
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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.
haha, this song is kind of pointless to me, though its a great song, its just.. blah. it has no "deep" meaning to it. well not to me atleast..