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I dropped a penny and you picked it up
You want to be something when you grow up
You make me laugh and you don't even try
You say that sometimes you just like to cry
I'm in love with that
I'm in love with you
And I'm in love with everything that you do
You couldn't make a mistake in my eyes
Just the way that you are has got me hypnotized
That I'm dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming about you
I asked you if you could ever love me
You said the oranges in your garden are free
I asked you if there was more to this thing
You said that you liked the way that I sing
I'm in love with that
I'm in love with you
And I'm in love with everything that you do
You couldn't make a mistake in my eyes
Just the way that you are has got me hypnotized
That I'm dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming about you
Somebody took all the things that
I wish for the most and put them in you, in you
I know that I shouldn't like you this much I can't help it
Oh well, I just do
I just do
I said that being your friend was okay
You called when I wasn't home yesterday
I offered romance to you by mistake
Still you laugh at most every joke that I make
I'm in love with that
I'm in love with you
And I'm in love with everything that you do
You couldn't make a mistake in my eyes
Just the way that you are has got me hypnotized
That I'm dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming about you
You want to be something when you grow up
You make me laugh and you don't even try
You say that sometimes you just like to cry
I'm in love with that
I'm in love with you
And I'm in love with everything that you do
You couldn't make a mistake in my eyes
Just the way that you are has got me hypnotized
That I'm dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming about you
I asked you if you could ever love me
You said the oranges in your garden are free
I asked you if there was more to this thing
You said that you liked the way that I sing
I'm in love with that
I'm in love with you
And I'm in love with everything that you do
You couldn't make a mistake in my eyes
Just the way that you are has got me hypnotized
That I'm dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming about you
Somebody took all the things that
I wish for the most and put them in you, in you
I know that I shouldn't like you this much I can't help it
Oh well, I just do
I just do
I said that being your friend was okay
You called when I wasn't home yesterday
I offered romance to you by mistake
Still you laugh at most every joke that I make
I'm in love with that
I'm in love with you
And I'm in love with everything that you do
You couldn't make a mistake in my eyes
Just the way that you are has got me hypnotized
That I'm dreaming, dreaming
Dreaming about you
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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.
nomad monad little star, how i wonder what you are
♪♫ Oh I'm just a soul whose intentions are goooood . . .<br /> <br /> Oh Lord - - please don't let me be MISUNDERSTOOD ♪♪♫♫