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.
She drives a black Iroc with hot pink leather
Got a good butt, but can't remember
Whether she's a good girl or she's bad
Or count the sex she's had
Comes home late with grocery sacks
Brother's in his hat doing Michael Jackson
Doesn't know her dad
Since he dropped her on her head
And if there's one thing I can say
Is she takes all my breath away
She doesn't know my name
She doesn't know her name
Every time that I call
She can't remember at all
That's the last time I fall
For Alicia, Amnesia
She got a summer job at the mall in town
Sellin' shiny clothes to the band in town
Who are trying to be so cool
And they always make her drool
Takes all I have to say hey
When she's cleanin' out the manic panic hair dye tray
And I can always bet
She'll ask me if we've met
If there's one thing I can say
Every time she walks away
She doesn't know my name
She doesn't know her name
Every time that I call
She can't remember at all
That's the last time I fall
For Alicia (Alicia) Amnesia (Amnesia)
Got a good butt, but can't remember
Whether she's a good girl or she's bad
Or count the sex she's had
Comes home late with grocery sacks
Brother's in his hat doing Michael Jackson
Doesn't know her dad
Since he dropped her on her head
And if there's one thing I can say
Is she takes all my breath away
She doesn't know my name
She doesn't know her name
Every time that I call
She can't remember at all
That's the last time I fall
For Alicia, Amnesia
She got a summer job at the mall in town
Sellin' shiny clothes to the band in town
Who are trying to be so cool
And they always make her drool
Takes all I have to say hey
When she's cleanin' out the manic panic hair dye tray
And I can always bet
She'll ask me if we've met
If there's one thing I can say
Every time she walks away
She doesn't know my name
She doesn't know her name
Every time that I call
She can't remember at all
That's the last time I fall
For Alicia (Alicia) Amnesia (Amnesia)
Lyrics submitted by BlueAndStarry
Alicia Amnesia Lyrics as written by Butch Walker
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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this has always been my favorite butch walker song.. maybe it's not so fair to say that because my name is alicia but it's still true, lol. i love it though, it's like he's trying to convince himself that there's something wrong with her that isn't. although there HAS to be something wrong with her if she doesn't want butch walker. ;)
Butch says on Metal-Sludge.com: "a ditty about the girl that we all fall for that acts like she doesnt remember you the next time you run into her. i watched too many john hughes movies growing up."
Butch Walker is so fucking good live I think everyone should go see him. This is one of my favorite songs that he performed.
Well, either she's acting like you doesn't remember him, or she actually. not because she has amensia, but because she's the kind of girl that doesn't remember guys like Butch, or at least the type of guy he's protraying himself as in this song. Also, I know some lyrica similarities to Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus, where the opposite thing happens.
EARGASM
lol at alicia wtf...."there HAS to be something wrong with her if she doesn't want butch walker." lmao.
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