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Mayday Mayday
The captain lost control again
The fucking ship is breaking up
We're going down in flames
Mayday Mayday
Man overboard again
The sharks already circling
They only eat the brave
The SS death lost everything
No-one here can fucking swim
So baby baby hold me tight
While I drown myself in you tonight
Mayday Mayday
The ship has hit the rocks again
This isn't going to fucking work
We're heading to our graves
Mayday Mayday
The captain's lost his way
We're sinking in the river sticks
No-one can escape
Ladies and Gentlemen
May I have your attention please
This is the captain of your ship
I'm sorry we deport this way
You left me broken hearted
But I never loved you anyway
The captain lost control again
The fucking ship is breaking up
We're going down in flames
Mayday Mayday
Man overboard again
The sharks already circling
They only eat the brave
The SS death lost everything
No-one here can fucking swim
So baby baby hold me tight
While I drown myself in you tonight
Mayday Mayday
The ship has hit the rocks again
This isn't going to fucking work
We're heading to our graves
Mayday Mayday
The captain's lost his way
We're sinking in the river sticks
No-one can escape
Ladies and Gentlemen
May I have your attention please
This is the captain of your ship
I'm sorry we deport this way
You left me broken hearted
But I never loved you anyway
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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.
amazing song :) i reckon it's about a relationship going wrong or something like the ship is the relationship
'+ he's the captain '
hahahahaha, sorry but that sounds a little bit dirty.
i reckon it's about u.s.s indianapolis, the song is from a sailor's perspective directing "never loved you anyway" at his country / govt (america)
or it's from the perpective of captain mcvay
most likely the latter
yer deffo bout a relationship and hes lost him self because he is so into her?
I don't find that song anywhere I wanna hear it outside MTV2 where can I download it I dont find it on my emule? or just hear it?
@ jkenny, gallows are from watford in england, so its not likely that hes going to be singing about america as his country ;)
Also, its the River Styx, not the River Sticks. In ancient Greek mythology the River Styx was the river on which the dead were carried to enter Hades (the underworld).
I reckon its sort of a diary about a relationship..and that each paragraph represents a new entry where it just keeps going wrong. Then he realises its soon to be over and is helpless to any attempts to keep it going before it eventually dies and leaves him broken hearted.
The ship is the UK,the captain is blair? just about what a state he has left us in perhaps. he's pretty much sunk the ship.
if its about a 'relationship' i'd be disappointed as they as supposed to be a punk band. mind you they are signed to fucking giant corporation warner bros.