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.
Loud talk
Dumb love
Lacerator
Come and touch
Bleed to feel, feel to fuck
Keep you coming, coming back for more
Alcohol, it's a lie, stimulate a needle in your eye
Let it bleed, blow your mind
Touched myself, nearly went blind
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't get out of bed
Ten ton bricks laying on my head
Persecute the crucified
Kill a man for losing his mind
Couldn't find a way to live though the shame
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Dumb love
Lacerator
Come and touch
Bleed to feel, feel to fuck
Keep you coming, coming back for more
Alcohol, it's a lie, stimulate a needle in your eye
Let it bleed, blow your mind
Touched myself, nearly went blind
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't get out of bed
Ten ton bricks laying on my head
Persecute the crucified
Kill a man for losing his mind
Couldn't find a way to live though the shame
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Dumb Love Lyrics as written by Robert Emile Deleo Dean Deleo
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Everyone in the comments are god damn "drugs" experts huh, jesus fucking christ... go to hell
Wieland not Stapp
unacceptable man =/
I'm pretty sure this is about his drug addiction. That would be his true "Dumb Love" in life and the media hell he had to go through because of it. "Persecute the crucified" means the media is persecuting a guy who already killed himself i.e. Scott. Plus, the specific mentions of alcohol and needles and such give it away.
A great song. When I fist heard it I thought it was about masterbation. "Touched myself and nearly went blind" referring to preppy parents who tell their kids if they masterbate they will go blind.
Seems to be about drugs. "Couldn't find a way to live through the pain/shame..." Maybe the dumb love means he has an affection for drugs and the feeling he gets via use but he knows in the end it is a dumb decision and its killing him.
I think most of the songs of this album talk about his adiction!
thats true... and its crazy because if someone who didnt know anything about stp heard shangri la dee da they would probaly think all the songs are just about breakups and feeling sad hahah
I think this song is about things like drugs and masturbation and how meaningless they are... As in "dumb love", they don't really love you, they're just tools to make you feel better.
"Keep you coming back for more", as in addiction.
"Alcohol, it's a lie", meaning that alcohol won't really make you feel better, it'll just get you drunk but then you'll feel worse afterwards.
"Stimulate the needle in your eye"--the needle, or the heroin, is blinding him from what truly matters.
"Touched myself, nearly went blind"--you know what they say about touching yourself...
"Couldn't find a way to live through the pain"...so he did drugs and drank too much to make all the pain go away.
"Couldn't get out of bed, ten ton bricks lying on my head"--maybe a reference to a hangover and how the things he "loved" only made his life worse.
"Persecute the crucified, kill a man for losing his mind"--because he kept getting in trouble with the law for an addiction that he couldn't get rid of.
Brilliant, I completely agree.
def about heroin
i think scotts talking about addiction and how its a "dumb love" to be addicted .. lyrically it makes sense to think that
'stimulate a needle in your eye' - wonder if scotts ever tried that.....