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she's pulling out her eyelashes, from pain she bares
far from home i'm alone this hole is way too deep
and i've left behind my happy life, and i'm still asking how i died
lay down, pray now
i'm walking through the cold of night so i can see your face
at your window i will stand, your smell i will embrace
my eyes in your's and your's in mine and now i know just how i died
as fire fall's i've never made life before, i've never had this before
far from home i'm alone this hole is way too deep
and i've left behind my happy life, and i'm still asking how i died
lay down, pray now
i'm walking through the cold of night so i can see your face
at your window i will stand, your smell i will embrace
my eyes in your's and your's in mine and now i know just how i died
as fire fall's i've never made life before, i've never had this before
Lyrics submitted by willgeez
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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.
this song is amazing, as is the band. Im not too sure what it is about, it almost sounds like the vocalist is singing about death from the victims eyes. He died, and how he watches his loved one suffer over his death.
i think its about making a mistake. & hurting the ones you love. embracing the last moments with them cause the mistakes made cannot be corrected or taken back.
this song is great i liike the original one better though
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I Usually don't say this but I think the literal meaning is correct, it's about a dead husband watching his wife as she's crushed and heartbroken, and he feel that by leaving her, her life is worse than his, and he's just asking how he died. An example would be that this could be happening at the end of the sixth sense, where malcolm is talking 2 his wife as a ghost. So in this interpretation A boy brushed red is right.
OR
It could be the figurative interpretation. He's hurt someone he loves and he walked away. When he sees her later, he realizes that she's emotionally wrecked by what he said/did and he only argued "What did I do?" which is said in the line "and I'm only asking how I died" and "Now I know just how I died". In this interpretation soarchyourback is right. So pick which one you think is the real one.