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.
[Intro: Slim Gudz]
Hold up, hold up, hold up
I don't think y'all know what's going on right now
They got MGK in the booth
He about to go in
MGK light this bitch up, lets go
Brrrrrrrrrrrr
[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]
Whoever!
Would've thought that a little muthafucker from The Land wouldda came up and made them stacks?
Never was warm in the city, so I had to get on the record and come blaze these tracks
And I'm all around haters everyday, but I guess that's just what fame attracts
But fuck that, where the bucks at?
Man I need that green in my box like Apple Jacks
Matter fact, see me in a ride so foreign you can't understand
6 speed hitting 60, 0 to 3, so come catch me if you can
Speak in ebonics, give a fuck what Mr. Webster said
Let a smart girl read my dick-tionary, I call that "Ms. Webster head"
Man I gotta get it, when I'm gonna get it, how I gotta get it, and whenever Imma do, I get that
Every moment I want it, cause every day I be grinding
So when you wanna make a move, I'm with that, yeah
Chip off the block
Monster in the booth taking the lock off
And put the shit back on when I'm on the top
So I got the game cuffed up like the cops
And I don't fuck with them
But the Eastside? Yeah, I got love for them
Anybody wanna hate on me, then get on my level, but you will never ever, so I got scrubs for them
Yeah, and I'm from the city where all of the good die young and the old don't make it
So we just hang in in the middle ground
Ready for whatever boy, don't mistake it
Bitch I'm from Cleveland, bet they know what we claim
Cause we ryling muthafuckers, EST in the game
Bitch
[Interlude: Slim Gudz & (Machine Gun Kelly)]
MGK you killing 'em right now, you killing 'em
EST is the movement
Get with it or get lost
MGK you ready to go in? (Ch'yeah)
Lets load up another one of them clips boy
Lets go! lets go! lets go!
[Verse 2: Machine Gun Kelly]
Whoever!
Woulda guessed that another white boy out the Midwest would've done fucking numbers?
Everybody used to talk down
Now the whole world wanna be-fucking-come us
We the new team, EST
Line full of hoes outside the VIP
Everybody know I'm number 23 when I'm on the court ballin MVP, biatch
Let me take a little sip of the vitamin water and a little bit of the kushie and I'm good
Chillin up in the clouds, wanna fuck my day up?
Man I wish you would
Bitch I'm the man, no longer the kid
Must be the reason why all these grown folks on my dick
Shit, get off my ballsack
Y'all making my drawers sag
Call Saks, walk up in that bitch like 'gimme all dat'
I never had nothing
So what else you think a little kid with a dream gon' do?
Ball without a budget like "fuck it" the middle-finger-crew
Real people love me, the jealous try and degrade my name
Y'all must have lost your fuckin melons, boy
I am the game
[Interlude: Slim Gudz]
Are you serious?!
Shit, you think MGK don't run this shit?
MGK twist it up for 'em!
Leggo!
[Verse 3: Machine Gun Kelly]
They shoulda never let me get in the building with a stereo, a pen an' a pad and do damage
Can't nobody ever do it like I do it, since a young'un I been going hard, I'm the baddest
Everybody from around the way that I knew in the past call me my city's savior
But the people in the class wanna put me in the hall cause of my bad behavior
Hold up, hold up, hold up
I don't think y'all know what's going on right now
They got MGK in the booth
He about to go in
MGK light this bitch up, lets go
Brrrrrrrrrrrr
[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]
Whoever!
Would've thought that a little muthafucker from The Land wouldda came up and made them stacks?
Never was warm in the city, so I had to get on the record and come blaze these tracks
And I'm all around haters everyday, but I guess that's just what fame attracts
But fuck that, where the bucks at?
Man I need that green in my box like Apple Jacks
Matter fact, see me in a ride so foreign you can't understand
6 speed hitting 60, 0 to 3, so come catch me if you can
Speak in ebonics, give a fuck what Mr. Webster said
Let a smart girl read my dick-tionary, I call that "Ms. Webster head"
Man I gotta get it, when I'm gonna get it, how I gotta get it, and whenever Imma do, I get that
Every moment I want it, cause every day I be grinding
So when you wanna make a move, I'm with that, yeah
Chip off the block
Monster in the booth taking the lock off
And put the shit back on when I'm on the top
So I got the game cuffed up like the cops
And I don't fuck with them
But the Eastside? Yeah, I got love for them
Anybody wanna hate on me, then get on my level, but you will never ever, so I got scrubs for them
Yeah, and I'm from the city where all of the good die young and the old don't make it
So we just hang in in the middle ground
Ready for whatever boy, don't mistake it
Bitch I'm from Cleveland, bet they know what we claim
Cause we ryling muthafuckers, EST in the game
Bitch
[Interlude: Slim Gudz & (Machine Gun Kelly)]
MGK you killing 'em right now, you killing 'em
EST is the movement
Get with it or get lost
MGK you ready to go in? (Ch'yeah)
Lets load up another one of them clips boy
Lets go! lets go! lets go!
[Verse 2: Machine Gun Kelly]
Whoever!
Woulda guessed that another white boy out the Midwest would've done fucking numbers?
Everybody used to talk down
Now the whole world wanna be-fucking-come us
We the new team, EST
Line full of hoes outside the VIP
Everybody know I'm number 23 when I'm on the court ballin MVP, biatch
Let me take a little sip of the vitamin water and a little bit of the kushie and I'm good
Chillin up in the clouds, wanna fuck my day up?
Man I wish you would
Bitch I'm the man, no longer the kid
Must be the reason why all these grown folks on my dick
Shit, get off my ballsack
Y'all making my drawers sag
Call Saks, walk up in that bitch like 'gimme all dat'
I never had nothing
So what else you think a little kid with a dream gon' do?
Ball without a budget like "fuck it" the middle-finger-crew
Real people love me, the jealous try and degrade my name
Y'all must have lost your fuckin melons, boy
I am the game
[Interlude: Slim Gudz]
Are you serious?!
Shit, you think MGK don't run this shit?
MGK twist it up for 'em!
Leggo!
[Verse 3: Machine Gun Kelly]
They shoulda never let me get in the building with a stereo, a pen an' a pad and do damage
Can't nobody ever do it like I do it, since a young'un I been going hard, I'm the baddest
Everybody from around the way that I knew in the past call me my city's savior
But the people in the class wanna put me in the hall cause of my bad behavior
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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