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Take a look around don't you see it?
See that you are the only real face in the room
No one here has a clue what you're feeling
Don't feel bad keep your sadness alive
Look at all these happy people
Living their lives
Look at all these plastic people
There's nothing inside
Look at all these shallow people
Telling their lies
Look at all these empty people, people
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, that misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that don't look good on me
Yeah I hope, that misery comes looking for me
Woah, misery's my company
Woah, misery is looking for me
Looking for me
The hands are up now
Everybody's singing, everybody's moving
They're putting their feelings
They're synchronizing, and criticizing
Don't feel bad keep your sadness alive
Look a all these happy people
Living their lives
Look at all these plastic people
They're dying inside
Look at all these shallow people
Telling their lies
Look at all these empty people, people
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, that misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that doesn't look good on me
Yeah I hope, that misery comes looking for me
Woah, misery's my company
Woah, misery is looking for me
Don't you know this misery loves me
Don't you know this misery loves me
Don't you know this misery loves me
Don't you know this misery loves me
So you're tired of running
You're tired of hurting
You're tired of living in their light
You're tired of listening
You're tired of hurting
Keep your sadness alive, alive, alive
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, that misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that don't look good on me
Yeah I that, misery comes looking for me
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that don't look good on me
Yeah I hope, that misery comes looking for me
Woah, misery my company
Woah, misery is looking for me
See that you are the only real face in the room
No one here has a clue what you're feeling
Don't feel bad keep your sadness alive
Look at all these happy people
Living their lives
Look at all these plastic people
There's nothing inside
Look at all these shallow people
Telling their lies
Look at all these empty people, people
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, that misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that don't look good on me
Yeah I hope, that misery comes looking for me
Woah, misery's my company
Woah, misery is looking for me
Looking for me
The hands are up now
Everybody's singing, everybody's moving
They're putting their feelings
They're synchronizing, and criticizing
Don't feel bad keep your sadness alive
Look a all these happy people
Living their lives
Look at all these plastic people
They're dying inside
Look at all these shallow people
Telling their lies
Look at all these empty people, people
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, that misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that doesn't look good on me
Yeah I hope, that misery comes looking for me
Woah, misery's my company
Woah, misery is looking for me
Don't you know this misery loves me
Don't you know this misery loves me
Don't you know this misery loves me
Don't you know this misery loves me
So you're tired of running
You're tired of hurting
You're tired of living in their light
You're tired of listening
You're tired of hurting
Keep your sadness alive, alive, alive
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, that misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that don't look good on me
Yeah I that, misery comes looking for me
Don't you know, that misery loves company
Yeah I heard, misery was looking for me
Happiness, is a face that don't look good on me
Yeah I hope, that misery comes looking for me
Woah, misery my company
Woah, misery is looking for me
Lyrics submitted by XxMidnightHighwayxX
Misery Lyrics as written by Benji Madden Don Gilmore
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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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.
i love how everyone who was into gc, has jumped off the gc ship, good it leaves room for new fans, this cd beats all their old shit doublefold, all their old shit was whiny fake shit, it didnt seem to fit them at all. all their hit singles, were songs that had were fucking trite, yah im sure no one ever talked about highschool and getting picked on b4, or lifestyles of the rich and famous, but reconsider the lyrics to those songs, and realize that it seems like everyone has said that shit before, yah rich and famous people do complain alot, and some say are needy, but seriously who writes a song of that shit?