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 is the calm before the storm,
Pretty words through your bedroom door.
And everybody knows that,
It is a place to store.
Why say something safe,
When I can blow you away.
It's a game only lights play,
Some swing the perfume away.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
This is a stab in the back,
That I have been waiting for,
You've had me running in circles,
Loosing my head at all cost
And it isn't a secret,
If you can't keep it.
So i disguise the night,
Cut you down, down to size.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
Cowards are golden,
And I know the words hurt.
Bones we can fix,
And lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden,
And I know the words hurt.
Bones we can fix,
And lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden.. (X4)
Cowards are golden,
And I know the words hurt.
Bones we can fix,
and lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden,
And I know the water.
Bones we can fix,
The lessons we'll learn.
You mean more... (X4)
Pretty words through your bedroom door.
And everybody knows that,
It is a place to store.
Why say something safe,
When I can blow you away.
It's a game only lights play,
Some swing the perfume away.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
This is a stab in the back,
That I have been waiting for,
You've had me running in circles,
Loosing my head at all cost
And it isn't a secret,
If you can't keep it.
So i disguise the night,
Cut you down, down to size.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
So take off
All of your clothes.
Through the shame of taking names,
My heart is in the home.
Cowards are golden,
And I know the words hurt.
Bones we can fix,
And lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden,
And I know the words hurt.
Bones we can fix,
And lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden.. (X4)
Cowards are golden,
And I know the words hurt.
Bones we can fix,
and lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden,
And I know the water.
Bones we can fix,
The lessons we'll learn.
You mean more... (X4)
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not sure about these help?
I think this is the correct lyrics.
This is the calm before the storm, Pretty words through your bedroom door. And everybody knows that, It is a place to store.
Why say something safe, When i can blow you away. It's a game only lights play, Some swing the perfume away.
So take off All of your clothes. Through the shame of taking names, My heart is in the home.
So take off All of your clothes. Through the shame of taking names, My heart is in the home.
This is a stab in the back, That I have been waiting for, You've had me running in circles, Listen to more of the cause.
And it isn't a secret, If you can't keep it. So i disguise the night, Cut you down, down to size.
So take off All of your clothes. Through the shame of taking names, My heart is in the home.
So take off All of your clothes. Through the shame of taking names, My heart is in the home.
Cowards are golden, And i know the water. Bones we can fix, The lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden, And i know the water. Bones we can fix, The lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden, Cowards are golden, Cowards are golden, Cowards are golden,
Cowards are golden, And i know the water. Bones we can fix, The lessons we'll learn.
Cowards are golden, And i know the water. Bones we can fix, The lessons we'll learn.
You mean more. You mean more. You mean more. You mean more
i don't really get it.. good song thought, really love it. x
i need to fix these lyrics later. they're not quite right...lol
This is a stab in the back, That I have been waiting for, You've had me running in circles, Listen to more of the cause.
And it isn't a secret, If you can't keep it. So i disguise the night, Cut you down, down to size. -To me this means he lies to her, tells her what he thinks she wants to hear. Lift her up to cut her back down to size, get with her, then leave.
So take off All of your clothes. Through the shame of taking names, My heart is in the home. -dead give away here. He may feel like he likes her... but he is just going to use her.
I think what they are trying to get across in this song is the mis-use of the word love. people say it all the time and really have absolutely no idea what it means... at all.
apply it to the lyrics and it makes 200x more sense than it did before. look at it this way.: "i love you." the three words through your bedroom door
why say something safe, when i can blow your mind away? its a game only liars play. (as in people dont know what it really means but they say it anyways.)
I think this song is about having an affair. "my heart is in the home" he loves his wife/girlfriend not the other girl.
"This is a stab in the back, That I have been waiting for, You've had me running in circles, Listen to more of the cause." She has been threatening to tell for a long time. She has been making him do things so she wouldn't tell but he knew it would happen.
"And it isn't a secret, If you can't keep it. So i disguise the night, Cut you down, down to size." He is trying to convince the other girl not to tell anyone about what they are doing. He is going to go by her and 'cut her down to size' probably by telling her it's her fault too.
I'm pretty sure it's
"Cowards are golden, And I know the words hurt. Bones we can fix, The lessons we'll learn."
I mean I listened to it like 137573782 times and I'm seriously almost positive that's what it is :P It makes more sense, too.
I agree, I also think it's words hurt, not water, not words... Words hurt. :)