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.
As I walked into the bar
A man came up to me and said:
You know the older you will get
The more perverted you will get
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Optzay, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Be bad transvestattn? (Da yuta nigh!)
Or be a good zoldatten?! (Ozay Optzay!)
Yeah, give it a try, (By by by by)
But me I'm jasto Bordello kind of guy!..
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily, Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
When the Trickster starts a-walking
He sends the whole world asque
Just when you think that it's all through
Its just a birth of something new
And when the Trickster starts a-pokin
Who does he need to ask permission
Before he goes in third position
I guess he's justo Bordello kind of guy!...
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
So I walked out out of a bar
And drove like crazy for half mile
I was thirteen beers drunk
On Houston I jumped in some trunk...
We ventured on New York Throughway
Where myself I heard I say:
Shall I be classic self crasher?
Or be a good flasher?!
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Heeeeeeey, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Da yuta nigh!
Ozay Optzay!
By by by by!
I guess I'm justo Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
A man came up to me and said:
You know the older you will get
The more perverted you will get
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Optzay, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Be bad transvestattn? (Da yuta nigh!)
Or be a good zoldatten?! (Ozay Optzay!)
Yeah, give it a try, (By by by by)
But me I'm jasto Bordello kind of guy!..
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily, Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
When the Trickster starts a-walking
He sends the whole world asque
Just when you think that it's all through
Its just a birth of something new
And when the Trickster starts a-pokin
Who does he need to ask permission
Before he goes in third position
I guess he's justo Bordello kind of guy!...
Mama, of course all hopes are so fragile...
Papa, I can't believe what it costs?..
Sily oni menja pokidajut
So I did what I did and its worth what its worth what it's worth
Ah ha hey!
So I walked out out of a bar
And drove like crazy for half mile
I was thirteen beers drunk
On Houston I jumped in some trunk...
We ventured on New York Throughway
Where myself I heard I say:
Shall I be classic self crasher?
Or be a good flasher?!
Hey, I'd like to see you try it
Oh what you gonna do about it?
Heeeeeeey, be a bad priest?
Ili primernij ononist?!
Da yuta nigh!
Ozay Optzay!
By by by by!
I guess I'm justo Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
Bordello kind of guy!
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
This song is great to dance to.
trickster = Loki?
Well, a bordello is a whore house, and hes talking about a drunk guy telling him about how you will go to bordellos and such as you get older. hes talking about being realy drunk and getting perverted himself. a "bordello kind of guy" would be a very perverted man, IMO
"What's that?! Me, a bad priest?!" Should read "Opzay! Be a bad priest?!"
"Mama, of course the hopes are so FRAGILE!"
"I was THIRTEEN beers drunk,"
"[Ukrainian] so drunk." should read: "ON HOUSTON I JUMPED IN SOME TRUNK"
"We ventured on New York FREEWAY"
"Shall I be CLASSIC self-crasher?"
"HEY be a bad priest"
The hopes are not frail they're fragile.
"Shall I be CLASSIC self-crasher?"
what's the line after that?
"or be a goat flasher?"
that can't be it...
could it be "sends the world askew" instead of "sense the worlds askew" maybe? oh and this is such a fucking awesome song
After the "bad priest" bit, and the two ukrainian lines which follow it, the lyrics are:
"[Ukrainian], do you deny? Or a-be a good Siddhartha (oh try oh try!)"
He's offering different types of lifestyles (to be like Siddhartha would be to abstain from material wealth and physical pleasures).
In the end, this is not for him - He's just a bordello kinda guy!
'He does not need to ask permission, Before he goes in to position'
sounds like the bordello guy is a rapist
it's fun to dance to for sure. see em live..
It seems like: Opzay! Be a bad priest или примерный онанист! (or exemplary fistfucker!) maybe it' a decision situation, a choise between two evils?