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Wake up
You can't remember where it was
Help this dream stop
Once I had a little game to play
I'd crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called..."Goh-woh-woh-woh Insane"
Now you should try this little game
Close your eyes, forget your name, forget the world, forget the people
We'll erect a different steeple
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Sneak with him, gold, glazed, golden, and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were hot and dead and prisons
And she was beside me, old she's now
Young, her dark red hair, the white socks around her
Now run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look, she's coming in here
I can't live through each slow century of her moving
WAKE UP!
I let my cheeks slide down the cool, smooth tile
Feel the good, cold stinging blood
The whistle and hissing of snakes at my name
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Once I had a little game
I'd like to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called..."Go Insane"
You should try this little game, close your eyes, forget your name, forget the world, forget the people
We'll erect a different steeple
It's a game that kinda fun to do
Just close your eyes, no way to lose
I'm not here, (?)
Release control and break on through
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
(Release!)
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
I can tell you the names...(?)
You can't remember where it was
Help this dream stop
Once I had a little game to play
I'd crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called..."Goh-woh-woh-woh Insane"
Now you should try this little game
Close your eyes, forget your name, forget the world, forget the people
We'll erect a different steeple
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Sneak with him, gold, glazed, golden, and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were hot and dead and prisons
And she was beside me, old she's now
Young, her dark red hair, the white socks around her
Now run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look, she's coming in here
I can't live through each slow century of her moving
WAKE UP!
I let my cheeks slide down the cool, smooth tile
Feel the good, cold stinging blood
The whistle and hissing of snakes at my name
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
Once I had a little game
I'd like to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called..."Go Insane"
You should try this little game, close your eyes, forget your name, forget the world, forget the people
We'll erect a different steeple
It's a game that kinda fun to do
Just close your eyes, no way to lose
I'm not here, (?)
Release control and break on through
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
(Release!)
Children of night, who among you will run with the hunt?
I can tell you the names...(?)
Lyrics submitted by TaylorMorrison
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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.
Probably a lengthened version of wake up. Jim must have taken certain portions and used them in the celebration of the lizard.