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Need to ask a question
Calling out my name
Nothing seems to bother
Wish I had a clue
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Well, I don't think you like me
Well, I hate you as well
No one seems to like you
Wish I couldn't tell
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard, overboard
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard, overboard
Calling out my name
Nothing seems to bother
Wish I had a clue
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Well, I don't think you like me
Well, I hate you as well
No one seems to like you
Wish I couldn't tell
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard, overboard
Come on, abuse me more I like it
Come on, keep talking 'cause it's true
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard
Throw the sailors overboard, overboard
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Abuse Me Lyrics as written by Daniel Johns
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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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.
when i am bullied i always think of this song. cause people call me lesbian, freak, greebo etc etc (sure most of u have heard it b4). all of these are true. i like to play up to it, almost to the point that i bring it on myself. if people shout at me, i wink at them ;) In relation to this song, it reminds me of how when ur abused u know they r saying the truth bout u and u like it.
That's an interesting look at it, that Freakshow is about fame. To me, it's always been about high school. A lot of these songs are about dealing with people's perceptions of you and the actions that unfold because of those perceptions (No Association, Pop Song For Us Rejects, Learn to Hate, Freak). So it's always seemed like it was about high school, since Daniel was around that age (16, 17) when this came out. And Silverchair still went to a regular high school regardless of their rising popularity. It must have been quite a struggle. So perhaps it's both, dealing with fame and all the bullshit that high school entails. As far as this song goes, I feel it's very, very sardonic. "C'mon, abuse me more, I like it". Of course he doesn't like it; he loathes it. But he doesn't know how to confront it except with sarcasm.
good point but I think freak show is an album about anger coz songs like freak and slave have an angry tone 2 then<br /> just my view though
I love this song. I can relate to it completely right now.
This song is a sarcastic remark to how people can be so emotionally and physically abusive. Come on, who wants to be abused, but Daniel says, come on, just do it a little more, you know. He doesn't really want to be abused, if you catch my drift...
such a good song.
I haven't heard this song, but Silverchair are excellent and as far as Im concerned haven t had a bad song yet... so it s bound to be good..
thats what i always thought it was about but i read somewhere that that what daniel wrote it about..but he was in high skool at the same time so who knows...? i know high skool was hard for him at that time cuz ppl would call him gay and shit like that cuz he was in a band..it makes no sense to me but thats how it was for him...
This song is interesting. I think about be the words of a person who has been abused many times. emotinaly or physicaly. Soon that person begins to resent his attacker "Well I hate you as well". THis person has risen above his attacker and learnt that the kind of abuse should not be tolarated by anyone "No one seems to like you". The person has become sarcastic about his abuse "C'mon abuse me more I like it" maybe he likes it because it makes him a better person (sometimes people have suffured abuse become really good people)
What does the 'Throw the sailors overboard' part mean?
this song is about being famous.. i am silverchair's number one fan.. and i love them.. all of their songs are the best..and so moving.. i write poems/lyrics and i can relate to all of the songs that Daniel has written.. he's such an insperation to me and to my writing.. ben and chris are the men too dude