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.
This should never be
I'll burn all the lives of this angel illuminati
When St. Michael sized means find an end to justify
A belief to fortify this stained glass disgrace
Too beautiful to change, or perhaps too scared
The truth behind our lives will be erased (will be erased)
A crusade in (in which to die)
Begging for a crusade in which to die
Where lead locusts pierce the heart of men
And tie the tongues of those who lie (those who lie)
Cut the sinner, bleed redemption through the city streets
That resonate the prayers of "This should never be"
This should never be
Someone plunged a dagger deep into God's chest
And when he groaned it laid our entire civilization to rest
When he pulled out that dagger
And marvelled in the pain he could create
We stuck another in his back and sealed Creation's fate
So now we'll turn from wealth in the height of all our poverty
A call that renders me ageless, turning the pages of a belief
That's greater than us all, greater than us all
Amen to the fools and the Cossacks
And the pulpits (Amen!)
Amen
To the people who think there's still a way to help us
Amen to the people (Amen!)
Amen to the people (Amen!)
Amen to the people (Amen!)
Amen to the people
Amen to the people
Amen to the people who
Think there's still a way to help us
I'll burn all the lives of this angel illuminati
When St. Michael sized means find an end to justify
A belief to fortify this stained glass disgrace
Too beautiful to change, or perhaps too scared
The truth behind our lives will be erased (will be erased)
A crusade in (in which to die)
Begging for a crusade in which to die
Where lead locusts pierce the heart of men
And tie the tongues of those who lie (those who lie)
Cut the sinner, bleed redemption through the city streets
That resonate the prayers of "This should never be"
This should never be
Someone plunged a dagger deep into God's chest
And when he groaned it laid our entire civilization to rest
When he pulled out that dagger
And marvelled in the pain he could create
We stuck another in his back and sealed Creation's fate
So now we'll turn from wealth in the height of all our poverty
A call that renders me ageless, turning the pages of a belief
That's greater than us all, greater than us all
Amen to the fools and the Cossacks
And the pulpits (Amen!)
Amen
To the people who think there's still a way to help us
Amen to the people (Amen!)
Amen to the people (Amen!)
Amen to the people (Amen!)
Amen to the people
Amen to the people
Amen to the people who
Think there's still a way to help us
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