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.
A new day for a mission
Another sunrise in your heart
Gimme tears of the wrong
The hate of convicts
The glamous of the damned
Rule of Benedict
I've never seen the dawn like this before
Tears on the night turn to diamonds on your eyes
In the face of the world's ugliness
Sister of charity
Remains a mystery
Love shines over aggression
Another wound heals in your heart
Gimme fears of the strong
The warfare politics
The decay of the west
Rule of Benedict
I've never seen the dawn like this before
Tears on the night turn to diamonds on your eyes
In the face of the world's ugliness
Sister of charity
Remains a mystery
Another sunrise in your heart
Gimme tears of the wrong
The hate of convicts
The glamous of the damned
Rule of Benedict
I've never seen the dawn like this before
Tears on the night turn to diamonds on your eyes
In the face of the world's ugliness
Sister of charity
Remains a mystery
Love shines over aggression
Another wound heals in your heart
Gimme fears of the strong
The warfare politics
The decay of the west
Rule of Benedict
I've never seen the dawn like this before
Tears on the night turn to diamonds on your eyes
In the face of the world's ugliness
Sister of charity
Remains a mystery
Lyrics submitted by RazorbladeKiss6677
Sister of Charity Lyrics as written by - Bazie Michaels Johnny Lee
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I really like this song because I learned that I had a great aunt that was a sister of charity (she died when I was 14). She still has this sort of impact on me. Any that don't know what a sister of charity is--its a nun thats in a sorta of convent but it more of a social group its hard to explain. I wonder if Jyrik knew a sister of charity...
this song means alott to me cus it lets me realise that by finding god (all thoe i dont believe in any) could let a person feel so good and totally turn his/her life around, and yet they dont even know the entire meaning of this faith. the lines that led me to believe this as what this song was about are
" A new day for a mission Another sunrise in your heart" - which lets me believe that he feels that when he wakes up he is ready to devote his life to this beinng that he believes in and feels as thoe he is waking up to the love (sunrise in your heart) of this allmighty.
"I've never seen the dawn like this before Tears on the night turn to diamonds on your eyes In the face of the world's ugliness Sister of charity Remains a mystery " - which i think means that since he started to believe in this allmighty being his out look in even the simplest things became so beautifull that it overwhelmed him and made him realise that everything is beautifull (as i might say death) in its own way.
Could this song be a tribute to Sisters of mercy?as like christina death is tribute to band christian death....
I think it's "Diamonds in your eyes" not "on your eyes". Other than that, this song is awesome to listen to.
Well, it obviously has references to Christianity...although I always felt it was more about losing God than finding God. The melody is dark... and the lyrics--the ones that express more joy--seem sarcastic, in a way. The "tears of the night turn to diamonds" represent to me how sadness overwhelms one when you feel God has left you, but then the cold apathy that comes when you begin to think that there might not even be a God. And how the "Sister of Charity remain[ed] a mystery"...the Sister of Charity never found her way into the life of the person who had lost God. Hell, it could even be about a Sister losing her faith, and wondering why she even became a nun in the fist place. Either way...I think that this song is about losing your faith in God.
the way i see it is a Sister of Charity ("social nun") just wakes up for a new day. she cries every night because she sees the pain and misery every day. she wishes she can take the pain and sin away from the world. wakes up to another dawn that is painfully different. i dont know about how she keeps her faith at all... "Sister of Charity remains a mystery". just to throw it out there, some cultures of "nuns" follow the Rule of Benedict. im guessing it's always going to be part of her life to follow the rules that St. Benedict wrote and she cannot do a thing about it (which is why she cries).
this is how i see it. correct me if im wrong.
the way i see it is a Sister of Charity ("social nun") just wakes up for a new day. she cries every night because she sees the pain and misery every day. she wishes she can take the pain and sin away from the world. wakes up to another dawn that is painfully different. i dont know about how she keeps her faith at all... "Sister of Charity remains a mystery". just to throw it out there, some cultures of "nuns" follow the Rule of Benedict. im guessing it's always going to be part of her life to follow the rules that St. Benedict wrote and she cannot do a thing about it (which is why she cries).
this is how i see it. correct me if im wrong.
the way i see it is a Sister of Charity ("social nun") just wakes up for a new day. she cries every night because she sees the pain and misery every day. she wishes she can take the pain and sin away from the world. wakes up to another dawn that is painfully different. i dont know about how she keeps her faith at all... "Sister of Charity remains a mystery". just to throw it out there, some cultures of "nuns" follow the Rule of Benedict. im guessing it's always going to be part of her life to follow the rules that St. Benedict wrote and she cannot do a thing about it (which is why she cries).
this is how i see it. correct me if im wrong.
the way i see it is a Sister of Charity ("social nun") just wakes up for a new day. she cries every night because she sees the pain and misery every day. she wishes she can take the pain and sin away from the world. wakes up to another dawn that is painfully different. i dont know about how she keeps her faith at all... "Sister of Charity remains a mystery". just to throw it out there, some cultures of "nuns" follow the Rule of Benedict. im guessing it's always going to be part of her life to follow the rules that St. Benedict wrote and she cannot do a thing about it (which is why she cries).
this is how i see it. correct me if im wrong.