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Can you lie next to her
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I'm clean, I'm clean
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think when you sent me to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
And give her your heart, your heart
As well as your body
And can you lie next to her
And confess your love, your love
As well as your folly
And can you kneel before the king
And say I'm clean, I'm clean
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage
You did not think when you sent me to the brink, to the brink
You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections
Tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Oh tell me now, where was my fault
In loving you with my whole heart
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
Lyrics submitted by rozelemarijn, edited by Mellow_Harsher, tadejm, natasha173
White Blank Page Lyrics as written by Edward James Milton Dwane Benjamin Walter David Lovett
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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.
The way I understood it, the singer is in a sexual relationship with his girlfriend, going against what he believes to be right.
The first verse,
Can you lie next to her And give her your heart, your heart As well as your body And can you lie next to her And confess your love, your love As well as your folly And can you kneel before the king And say I'm clean, I'm clean
is the singer singing to himself. He's wondering if he can lie next to this girl and give her his heart and his body, really loving her for more than just the sex, and still say before his king that he's clean.
And then he's asking the girl (and the king) where his fault was, in having sex with her and loving her with all his heart:
But tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart Oh tell me now, where was my fault In loving you with my whole heart
But the girl never really loved him the way he loved her - she fooled him into a relationship for the attention, but not for the love - he threw his whole heart and his body into it, but she didn't:
A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage You did not think when you sent me to the brink, the brink You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections
Then here he is disillusioned and seeking real love, true love, possibly from the king instead of a person: Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
My mind goes here....The guy is a loyal type person and has been with every aspect of the relationship. She was cheating... and he learned of this <br /> She denied his affection b/c she was emotionally and physically involved with another.<br /> Although she withdrew with her affection or sex, he still remained loyal to her.<br /> Now that he knows about the other man....he is pissed and hurt and struggles with the outcome when he has no guilt or fault in the matter. (what did i do wrong)<br /> He is asking the other man... can you love her like I did/do. Can you be loyal to her? <br /> The other man is getting the part of her that he had earned with his complete love to her.<br /> He is then speaking in general about lead me to the truth ....His search for a companion that shares his loyality <br />