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.
We are delusional
To go against mortality
Still we fight, love and create
As the only creatures
In on life's grand secret
We sense the pointlessness beyond
There is a void between our hands
That drown the sounds of night
An arrow laced with liquid darkness
For every sungods heart
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
We are delusional
From fictional reality
To prayers for prosperity
Loneliness
Can we resist your pale attraction
Give in to the dream with open eyes
How will this world within a world live on
Another page torn from the book of strangers
Who says "I" when all voices fear their own sound
And who remembers the hours
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
Here in the barren and still
Far from the shores of real
Dreams borne beyond borders
On weave of thought and want
Here were invincible
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
To go against mortality
Still we fight, love and create
As the only creatures
In on life's grand secret
We sense the pointlessness beyond
There is a void between our hands
That drown the sounds of night
An arrow laced with liquid darkness
For every sungods heart
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
We are delusional
From fictional reality
To prayers for prosperity
Loneliness
Can we resist your pale attraction
Give in to the dream with open eyes
How will this world within a world live on
Another page torn from the book of strangers
Who says "I" when all voices fear their own sound
And who remembers the hours
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
Here in the barren and still
Far from the shores of real
Dreams borne beyond borders
On weave of thought and want
Here were invincible
It has always been right here
Like a shadow in our blood
It waits for you and me
The shadow in our blood
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Shadow In Our Blood Lyrics as written by Martin Brandstrom Daniel Antonsson
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I think the 2nd line of the verse isn't "Down goes mortality", but "To go against mortality"
Thanks for posting that, ChesterB (assuming that it's true). Before reading that, though, like others I had assumed it was about mortality in general, but same general theme.
The video was different - I like that. I appreciated its altered approach. The angles were slightly unsettling, almost claustrophobic - and I think intentionally so. Vasa's comment was similar to my thinking. To add to it (or offer a slightly different) interpretation on the video, I interpreted it as being purposely confining as to symbolize the narrow-mindedness of much of society's dreams of immortality (or any particular thing that people tend to believe blindly), as well as symbolizing the reality that our world gets smaller as we near the end. Quite sobering, but true.
I think the lyrics should be
we are delusional, To go against mortality still we fight off and create as the only creatures in on life's grand secret We sense the pointlessness beyond
There is a void between our hands, that drowns the sounds of the night an arrow laced with liquid darkness for every sun gods heart
it has always been right here like a shadow in our blood it waits for you and me The shadow in our blood
we are delusional, from fictional reality, to prayers for prosperity, our loneliness, can we resist your pale attraction, give into the dream with open eyes
How will this world within a world live on another page torn from the book of strangers
Who says "I" when all voices fear their own sound and who remembers the hours
it has always been right here, like a shadow in our blood it waits for you and me, The shadow in our blood
here in the barren and still, Far from the shores of real, Beings borne beyond borders, On weave of thought and want Here we're invincible
No, its always been right here like a shadow in our blood No, it waits for you and me The shadow in our blood