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.
Down the road came a Junco Partner
For he was loaded as can be
He was knocked out, knocked out loaded
He was a-wobblin' all over the street
Singing six months ain't no sentence
And one year ain't no time
I was born in Angola
Serving fourteen to ninety nine
Well, I wish I had me one million dollars
Oh, one million to call my own (all my own)
I would raise meat and say, "grow for me baby"
I would raise me a tobacco farm
Take a walk, take a walk
Junco Partner
Hey, don't bother me
That
Like that
Well, when I had me a great deal of money
Yeah, I had mighty good things all over town
Now I ain't got no more money
All of my good friends keep putting me down
So now I gotta pawn my ratchet and pistol
Yeah I'm gonna pawn my watch and chain, chain, chain
I would have pawned my sweet Gabriella
But the smart girl she wouldn't sign her name
Down the road, down the road
Came a Junco Partner
Boy, he was loaded as I've ever seen
He was knocked out, knocked out lordy-lordy-lordy-lord
He was a-wobblin' all over the street, so
Take a walk
I can't walk
Down the road came a Junco Partner
"Hey, mister"
He called out to me
And it was three things he shouted
Singing, singing, picking
Gotta catch you with gold
Oh!
Junco Partner
Jeez
Well, I'm down, yes I'm getting thirsty
Pour me a mighty good beer when I'm dry
Just, just give me whisky, when I'm thirsty
Give me headstone when I die
Down the road
For he was loaded as can be
He was knocked out, knocked out loaded
He was a-wobblin' all over the street
Singing six months ain't no sentence
And one year ain't no time
I was born in Angola
Serving fourteen to ninety nine
Well, I wish I had me one million dollars
Oh, one million to call my own (all my own)
I would raise meat and say, "grow for me baby"
I would raise me a tobacco farm
Take a walk, take a walk
Junco Partner
Hey, don't bother me
That
Like that
Well, when I had me a great deal of money
Yeah, I had mighty good things all over town
Now I ain't got no more money
All of my good friends keep putting me down
So now I gotta pawn my ratchet and pistol
Yeah I'm gonna pawn my watch and chain, chain, chain
I would have pawned my sweet Gabriella
But the smart girl she wouldn't sign her name
Down the road, down the road
Came a Junco Partner
Boy, he was loaded as I've ever seen
He was knocked out, knocked out lordy-lordy-lordy-lord
He was a-wobblin' all over the street, so
Take a walk
I can't walk
Down the road came a Junco Partner
"Hey, mister"
He called out to me
And it was three things he shouted
Singing, singing, picking
Gotta catch you with gold
Oh!
Junco Partner
Jeez
Well, I'm down, yes I'm getting thirsty
Pour me a mighty good beer when I'm dry
Just, just give me whisky, when I'm thirsty
Give me headstone when I die
Down the road
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@xxblowup Then why would you comment with something as useless as not commenting anything at all? I don't understand why people complain about the lack of comments on certain songs and then proceed to add nothing to it themselves?
@meggsnbacon Exactly!