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.
Miss America sits in the shower
She's plucking hours from the sky
Picks up the telephone, into another home
Don't ask me why
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
She's a well wisher and she wishes you well
Wish away, wish away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
Here is here and I am here, where are you?
Far away, far away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
She's plucking hours from the sky
Picks up the telephone, into another home
Don't ask me why
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
She's a well wisher and she wishes you well
Wish away, wish away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
Here is here and I am here, where are you?
Far away, far away
She no jellybean, she a Jemima ho ho
Wish away, wish away
I don't mind
I don't mind at all
I love only you
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by tpfang56
Miss America Lyrics as written by David Rowntree Steven Alexander James
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Actually I didn't understand the meaning of this song at all....can someone explain it to me, please??
It always annoys me when people "it's so obvious I'm not going to bother explaining." Why bother posting, then?
If it's "obviously" about America, per the title, I don't get it. America, as a country, sits in the shower and uses other people's phones? Or is it a pun on Miss (unmarried woman) America and "[I] miss [being in] America"? Either way, it still doesn't make sense.
I have aboslutely no idea of the actual meaning of this song although I suspect it somehow might be anti-american, but that is mainly due to the trend of the rest of MLIR (I think they were gonna call it Blur vs America of something)
Could Albarn just be saying he likes English girls better? It sounds like a man who is living in close vicinity with an American girl, and her tendencies (dress, manner, language) don't seem as pure or feminine as those of the girls he knows. The song sounds like he's reassuring a girl back home that she need not worry because he has no interest in the girl he has to be near. That's just what it sounds like to me, though.
i can honestly say Blur is my favorite band, hands. down. anything Damon Albarn does.. just golden
Me neither. o_o
The Michael at the start of the song was Coxon shouting, he was pissed recording his parts while everyone else left him to go see a pulp gig and as they returned they walked in with their producer Mike Smith (I think thats his name) and he shouted Michael at him =)
To add to Mattio, I don't believe it was Coxon - I believe it was actually Dave who was drunk when they made this song. They came back and found him pissed up, sitting underneath a table, banging a chairleg against it, and yes, he screamed out Michael!.
This is why there are no drums on the song and in the record sleeve where the song's contributions are mentioned, Dave is credited with being in a local pub.
The song is about how LAbam prefers English girls- feminine women of substance, intellect and worth hanging around after a shag As opposed to the title Miss American- which mouths off about American girls as trite, trivial, vain, superficial and non-feminine. Yes, it is about men males open preference to European girls versus Americans. Why? Yanks are obnoxious, opinionated (with no intellect to support their opinion), spoilt, entitlement-issued, immature, superficial, vulgar quasi-females. No you didn't beat Britain- it was British red coats fighting mainly ex-British settlers. Nothing American about it- and now under your own idiot 2-party dictatorship "Democracy"- you have less "liberties" and higher taxes than under "tyrant" King George. Enjoy the wiretaps.
@SepticTanker someone’s got their knickers in a twist
this has got to be my 3rd favorite song from the album.....its obvious what hes talking about so im not gonna go there