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.
We are
I've come apart and you made me
Float like
A pretty box of your evil
So tired
So easy I
Bleed out
What the fuck were you thinking
We are
Gonna fall if you lead us
Nowhere
No wasted time
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
We are
Let me stop for a second
Held heart
Only beats in the evening
Low tide
Watching for flight
I tell you
To cut it out if you make me
You know why
The slowest spark is a breather
How high
How will you decide
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
So low
You keep stalling
Can you not see why?
Say, say, say
Love was
Say, say, say
That you see cry
A simple call seems right
And I know why
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I've come apart and you made me
Float like
A pretty box of your evil
So tired
So easy I
Bleed out
What the fuck were you thinking
We are
Gonna fall if you lead us
Nowhere
No wasted time
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
We are
Let me stop for a second
Held heart
Only beats in the evening
Low tide
Watching for flight
I tell you
To cut it out if you make me
You know why
The slowest spark is a breather
How high
How will you decide
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
So low
You keep stalling
Can you not see why?
Say, say, say
Love was
Say, say, say
That you see cry
A simple call seems right
And I know why
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
I'll be a thorn in your side
Till you die
I'll be a thorn in your side
For always
If we sink
We lift our love
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
We Sink Lyrics as written by Lauren Eve Mayberry Iain Andrew Cook
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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This songs seem to be about a relationship that is very meaningful. But the guy seems to be treating her not too well, for some reason. And maybe he is thinking about leaving. She is mad at him for many reasons, for his weakness. The chores (I'll be a thorn in your side...) just seems to be saying that if he leaves she will never forgive him and that she will just be something painful to him or make sure that she is something painful to him... She seems to be talking out of anger. And my favorite part is ''We sink, we lift our love''. It is a nice contrast with the rest of the chorus that sounds spiteful. Just saying that even if everything goes wrong and they are lost and sinking they will lift their love, so that it doesn't sink with them. As if they can actually go throuhg anything, they just have to hold on.
This song is kind of killing me right now, and if it is going to eat my brain and become 3/5ths of my consciousness, I want to at least know what it means. I think you have it right, especially about "We sink, we lift our love." It is despairing and hopeful all in a breath: we may not make it, but this somehow will survive us. <br /> <br /> This part though, has its hooks deep in me, and I can't quite sort it: <br /> <br /> We are<br /> Let me stop for a second<br /> Held heart<br /> Only beats in the evening<br /> Low tide<br /> Watching for flight<br /> <br /> I think it can be read this way:<br /> <br /> We are (Let me stop for a second) held. Heart only beats in the evening. Low tide.<br /> Watching for flight.<br /> <br /> So: The love affair is stopped. (Because, I think, of his indecision.) The heart, the love, is stilled when it should be moving. Low tide is when you can't set sail; they are caught there. They are waiting for flight, but it is ambiguous as to whether the flight will be running away, or lifting right up off the ground. <br /> <br /> Hey. I probably have a lot of this wrong, but even only approximately right, this kills. It should be eating my brain. That's what my brain is for. All right then.
listened to this song about a million times, never really thought deeply about the lyrics, perhaps I'm slow on the uptake with this one.
But it hit me recently- 'if we sink// we lift our love"- to me means means that there love exists only when they fall away from each other. I like the visual affect of 'sink' vs 'lift' and I've interpret litrally in my head, the people are broken/sunken but the love is only ever more exhaulted. Sometimes the best thing you can do for each other is to leave each other behind, allow each other to self-distruct and fall into our bad habits, do your worst. I relate it to that age old concept of love as being this mystical outside force that exists outside of the people it brings together. Obviously not all love works out in reality, it has the power to lift you with it or leave you behind. either way, the love doesn't stop existing.
On a deeper level, it makes me think of the ancients who made the distinguishment between 'earthly love' and the highest most exhaulted form of love. They believed that there was a higher experience of love that humans, by virtue of existing in the sinful/flawed earthily world, were not predisposed to. They believed in varying degrees of love and that through the highest forms of love humans could transcend their flawed earthly state, tap into something other wordly. However, the highest, purest form of love was truly believed to be something of the Gods and only accessed after death.
Either way, I interpret the song in a positive way, no love is wasted, yes sometimes it doesn't work out in reality but it's an experience and depth of emotion you reach and it continues somewhere itself. It's like the cliche every failure is a lesson.
sounds like a long fling/love with someone. To be a thorn in the side to someone, is someone that you struggle with time and time again. Life is so wonderful and crazy when in love, but there are no rules when it come to matters of the heart/love. If we sink, it will still be ok. It doesn't sound like they want to give up just yet though.
I believe that its about commitment. "I'll be a thorn in your side Till you die" The narrator is saying that they'll stick with their lover forever. Really beautiful song, made even better with Lauren and Martins boy-girl vocals
listened to this song about a million times, never really thought deeply about the lyrics, perhaps I'm slow on the uptake with this one.
But it hit me recently- 'if we sink// we lift our love"- to me means means that there love exists only when they fall away from each other. I like the visual affect of 'sink' vs 'lift' and I've interpret litrally in my head, the people are broken/sunken but the love is only ever more exhaulted. Sometimes the best thing you can do for each other is to leave each other behind, allow each other to self-distruct and fall into our bad habits, do your worst. I relate it to that age old concept of love as being this mystical outside force that exists outside of the people it brings together. Obviously not all love works out in reality, it has the power to lift you with it or leave you behind. either way, the love doesn't stop existing.
On a deeper level, it makes me think of the ancients who made the distinguishment between 'earthly love' and the highest most exhaulted form of love. They believed that there was a higher experience of love that humans, by virtue of existing in the sinful/flawed earthily world, were not predisposed to. They believed in varying degrees of love and that through the highest forms of love humans could transcend their flawed earthly state, tap into something other wordly. However, the highest, purest form of love was truly believed to be something of the Gods and only accessed after death.
Either way, I interpret the song in a positive way, no love is wasted, yes sometimes it doesn't work out in reality but it's an experience and depth of emotion you reach and it continues somewhere itself. It's like the cliche every failure is a lesson.
It's interesting to see that many of you view the line "I'll be a thorn in your side till you die" as a positive statement. To me it has obvious negative connotations, something like "If we carry on like this, you'll regret your decision to stay with me for the rest of your life". To me this is clearly a breakup song and a brilliant one at that.
listened to this song about a million times, never really thought deeply about the lyrics, perhaps I'm slow on the uptake with this one.
But it hit me recently- 'if we sink// we lift our love"- to me means means that there love exists only when they fall away from each other. I like the visual affect of 'sink' vs 'lift' and I've interpret litrally in my head, the people are broken/sunken but the love is only ever more exhaulted. Sometimes the best thing you can do for each other is to leave each other behind, allow each other to self-distruct and fall into our bad habits, do your worst. I relate it to that age old concept of love as being this mystical outside force that exists outside of the people it brings together. Obviously not all love works out in reality, it has the power to lift you with it or leave you behind. either way, the love doesn't stop existing.
On a deeper level, it makes me think of the ancients who made the distinguishment between 'earthly love' and the highest most exhaulted form of love. They believed that there was a higher experience of love that humans, by virtue of existing in the sinful/flawed earthily world, were not predisposed to. They believed in varying degrees of love and that through the highest forms of love humans could transcend their flawed earthly state, tap into something other wordly. However, the highest, purest form of love was truly believed to be something of the Gods and only accessed after death.
Either way, I interpret the song in a positive way, no love is wasted, yes sometimes it doesn't work out in reality but it's an experience and depth of emotion you reach and it continues somewhere itself. It's like the cliche every failure is a lesson.