username July 8th, 2005 09:38PM  
This is an excellent song. It's about losing a friend to alcholism or drug use. The singer is telling his friend how he wants to help him with his addictions but it hurts to see someone you love dying and pushing them away.

anonymous July 20th, 2005 08:15PM  
This is honestly one of the greatest songs I've ever heard! It's obviously about losing a friend to drug/alcohol addiction. But to me, it has a different meaning.

When I was 17, I was in an abusive relationship with someone who struggled with addiction. Unfortunately, I made excuses and failed to realize how bad his problems were. I left only after he sexually assaulted me. I think of this song as sort of a dialog between us, "I didn't mean to treat you bad, but I did it anyway." I look at it like I left him far behind, and he chose for me to do that by treating me the way he did. "As you trip the final line and that cold day when you lost control. Shame you left my life so soon you should have told me, but you left me far behind."

I cared about him very deeply, and still wish to this day that he will get the help he needs. I don't know if anyone else has ever look at this song that way, but it has helped me through a lot.

anonymous October 9th, 2005 11:46PM  
This song is about the lead singer from Mother Love Bone, one of the first grunge bands out of Seattle who died from a heroin overdose I believe.

anonymous January 1st, 2007 02:45AM  
The song is about REAL DOPE , crystal meth ! old school prope dope(p2p) days. We lost a lot of good friends up in the northwest back in those days to that drug. Listen to the song closer.

anonymous April 9th, 2007 10:26AM  
I think this song is about someone who was living the high life and fell into the darkness. This song has personal meaning to me. Last summer a close friend of mine and his band opened up for Candlebox. He recently left the band and is struggling with an alcohol and drug addiction. This song is about exactly what he is going through and everyone else. No matter how careful you are, you're demons can still swallow you whole.

anonymous June 6th, 2007 07:34PM  
This song is actually about Kevin's brother.. I'm not sure if he actually had a drug addiction but I know for a fact it'd about him and his brother going seperate ways.

anonymous July 9th, 2007 12:57PM  
On July 17, 1997, my son took his own life. He was not into (heavy) drugs. Some of his friends smoked pot and he may have as well. But all his friends and family knew him as a friendly, loving young man. He was born January 17, 1979. No one could understand, "why?" I suppose those left behind rarely understand "why." One day when the leaves are brushed aside for the last time, I will know and understand. About 2 months after his death, I found the lyrics to this song handwritten on notepaper in my other son's room (he's 2 years younger). They were very close and had most of the same friends. I had never heard the song. I hear it often now and I think of both my sons and their relationship.

anonymous August 6th, 2007 01:23AM  
This is a great song... Some of the best came out in the 90s. It's so great to have such amazing talent with such emotional lyrics. These songs truly bring you to tears. Not sure exactly what the song is specifically about. But I always see it as somebody dying, and the person writing the song never knowing it was as bad as it was and not taking care of them, even though they loved them so much. Maybe a girlfriend who took their life with drugs. He repeats "left me far behind" I think to stress the death, or feeling of never having her/him back again in his life.

angelams316 February 1st, 2008 12:19PM  
I think everyone uses songs like this in a different way. It reminds me of my sister. She is 8 years younger than me, and we love each other but have never been super close. And I mostly blame myself for that.

When she was younger, I had to babysit her all the time, so I found her to be more of a nuisance than anything. When I was little, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents so I didn't have to be around Mom and Dad, who have a very dysfunctional relationship. But we moved and when my sister was in those early years, she had no one to go to... except for me. And I turned her away.

She grew up very troubled, and ended up not finishing high school and going to juvy twice. She was drinking regularly and doing drugs (pills, meth, coke, you name it) at 16. I look back now and feel SOOOOOOOOOOO guilty for what she has become. I realize that it wasn't my job to be her parent, but at the same time, I knew that my parents weren't doing a good job and I should have stepped up.

My sister is very guarded when it comes to her relationship with me and the rest of my family now. She has since gotten a job and is in the process of getting her license, and also intends to get her GED. I feel like she is finally straightening up and leaving her past behind her, but I feel like she's leaving me behind too, and it's because of how I treated her. It's very painful when I think about how much I could have helped her and steered her in the right direction, but I was too busy hanging out with my friends. I just hope that one day we will be able to be the sisters we should be.

anonymous December 4th, 2008 07:37PM  
driving home from the store, had an epiphany as i cranked this song for the billionth time. in high school i was one of the "stoners", there was a girl, guess you could say a "prep". anyway i was a rebel of sorts and she was the church on sunday type. we talked just as people would who were maybe trying to figure out what it was that was different about each other. we were rude to one another, we were nice to one another, we were kids finding our way. we were never together being 2 people from two different walks of life. but when we looked at each other, i felt something from inside her. as the few years we knew each other went on, i dismissed everything i saw and felt as something i wasnt worthy of, or maybe as something i wanted but was sure she didnt. i got a phone call from our friend letting me know she had died in a car accident on the way to see her brother i believe. as i type these words, almost 15 years later, i begin to wonder, does the song remind me of what i felt, what i wanted to feel? or maybe when i hear it do i feel as tho im in the place of her brother....who was left far behind. who knows, maybe someday.

anonymous January 26th, 2009 12:17AM  
When a friend experiences a traumatic pain early in life, friends can't heal that pain nor can they relate to that pain. This songs tells of a young person who experienced a deep pain who raged in his own way while his friends sat back and could only watch. As they grew older, they waited and watched praying that he would come through this and come back home - hence "hear you calling". Although, they grow older, that pain hasn't gotten easier for that friend until one day he crosses his last line. And although the friends seen it happening, they couldn't do anything to stop it and now they are left with what they have.

tedx October 6th, 2009 02:31PM  
This song has nothing to do with and everything to do with drugs, for me. It is a soundtrack of sorts.. For me, it speaks of two people growing apart over time, then breaking apart completely, but each then taking the road they had always desired but had kept each other from traveling, with failure and dark consequences for one, and success with wistful retrospective misgivings for the other. It will always remind me of a part of my life that is now gone, and a person that I once loved, then hated, lost, but learned to love again as my best friend but then lost forever over her inner demons. I hate this song. I love this song. I love you, Robin.

buffcodebeaver November 12th, 2009 03:42AM  
I feel like I can relate to this song. My ex girlfriend left me far behind, she never told me how she felt or her openion about anything, she let all of her feelings build up and one day she got up and left without warning, she "couldn't share the pain". She has had a sad life, she has never met her father, her mother does not care about her and none of her friends do. After we broke up her "friends" pushed her into drinking and being a whore (Your friends they stand around they watch you crumble As you falter to the ground). She is really enjoying herself now with all the drinking and sleeping with people, but later on in her life it will have a negative effect on her (Your friends they stand beside as you were flying Oh you were flying oh so high). I treated her bad and now I regret it because I feel like there was more I could have done to prevent this from happening to her, but she left me far behind.

buffcodebeaver November 12th, 2009 03:43AM  
I feel like I can relate to this song. My ex girlfriend left me far behind, she never told me how she felt or her openion about anything, she let all of her feelings build up and one day she got up and left without warning, she "couldn't share the pain". She has had a sad life, she has never met her father, her mother does not care about her and none of her friends do. After we broke up her "friends" pushed her into drinking and being a whore (Your friends they stand around they watch you crumble As you falter to the ground). She is really enjoying herself now with all the drinking and sleeping with people, but later on in her life it will have a negative effect on her (Your friends they stand beside as you were flying Oh you were flying oh so high). I treated her bad and now I regret it because I feel like there was more I could have done to prevent this from happening to her, but she left me far behind.

carrie78 December 12th, 2009 09:26PM  
I always thought of this song as being about suicide. I listened to it nonstop through all my suicidal teenage years. I had to stop listening to it once I came out of it, but then alcoholism entered the picture along with all the depression and suicidal tendencies that go with it, and this song has again become a big part of my life. I think it's much too meaningful to just be talking about a failed relationship. Those are a dime a dozen. But maybe part of the beauty of this song is that everyone takes what they need from it.

anonymous December 14th, 2009 08:53PM  
The song is about the writer's brother. A Florida rock station jockey once claimed it was about Jimi Hendrix. I had so much fun proving him wrong!

anonymous January 9th, 2010 09:57PM  
I have lost my best friend due to drugs and she is wut i think about at any time i hear this song. We had known eachother sinc i was 14yrs old now 36 she is i belive 43 and we have been throuh it ALL togather..she is now the worse that i have ever seen her i couldnt belive my eyes after running into her after 10yrs and the friends she had with her r definetly watcing her crumble when i always tried to get her out of it.. so with all that being said I LOVE U STILL AND ALWAYS WILL L.N.S