anonymous 2007-05-21 22:33:44    

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I think this song is about him stopping his drinking problem and he's saying sorry for the things he did during this drinking problem and asking for forgiveness.

anonymous 2007-05-31 17:16:52    

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This I about Justin and his mother, if you just listen to the lyrics it could be any one he is talking about. But if you watch the video you realize it is him and his mother clearly, some people miss the "hey Justin, this is your mother" in the beginning of the song.

It is a very sad song it is talking about how Justin is thinking about the relationship with his mother how he thought he was a burden and he wanted suicide and was I am guessing an alcoholic by this one line "I’m sober now for 3 whole months it’s one accomplishment that you helped me with the one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing I won’t touch again" or another part "You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take"

anonymous 2007-06-15 13:25:52    

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This is out of the mouth of justin...


That Blue October hasn't followed the ordinary path to success is clear from the first single from Foiled, "Hate Me," a song that recalls such aching rock anthems as Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" or Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says" for songwriter Justin Furstenfeld's unflinching look at himself. It's a song portraying a man's selfishness in a relationship, then coming to terms with it, and admitting the mistakes.


"I have to block out thoughts of you/So I don't lose my head/They crawl in like a cockroach/Leaving babies in my bed," he sings, the images underlined by the matter-of-fact sing-song way in which they're delivered. "It's like, let me just kind of clue you in on what it feels like in my own brain," he offers.

anonymous 2007-06-24 17:01:04    

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The song is dedicated to his mother, who died four months after helping him get clean from his drug and alcohol addiction. x

canuckjeff 2007-07-06 02:59:39    

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He was waging wars on him self! DRUGS was the weapon and the enemiy was his thoughts! He was thinking of doing the nasty with mommy! you punch of nuts,mental defectives!
He is singing about thoughts of fucking his mother!
PORNO FEELS LIKE HOME!
They climb in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed!
The druggies would climb into his room or house and leave there own kids there in bed "OR ANYWHERE" while they got high (thats what drug addicts do)
Dropping little reals of tape!
He is dropping in tapes to a video camera, he is playing movies in his head (he thinks it's a movie because he has a video camera in his hand! Makes a porno feel like home, because he and his mom are both in it in his head (PORNO, MOM = home to him @ that time, then the drugs start and she helps him with it, but its because of her he has stated them, that why in a sick way he would like to thank her!

I can't go on here as you people should get it by now if not, then drop dead, cause your no good to anyone if ya don't see this for what it is! A great song that can mean whatever the fuck you want it to mean, that's why it is great! But believe me, if you knew who I was related to you would trust me! PS He is with her at the end of the video dummies! so how did SHE or HE die? Thats right, go hide your face!

canuckjeff 2007-07-06 03:11:08    

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O ya, one more thing, This song is about child molestation! Thats why he ran to drugs, and he was trying to hold her face but dropped to the ground and said make it go away! And she can't stand it as she still wants him! Why are you doing this to me?

anonymous 2007-07-06 15:46:50    

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This song is a heartfelt apology to his mother and the other people that he has hurt in his past. The lady in the video is ACTUALLY his mother. This is a true account of what he's been though and how his mother has made an impact on him helping him kick his drug use.

anonymous 2007-07-10 14:58:24    

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My interpretation of this song is that the son in the music video has some kind of illness and his mother has been taking care of him for along time and he wishes she'd move on and allow her to have her own life without him. So he attempts to move out and live on his own, thus all the voice messages addressed to him which he mentions in the songs and I believe the mother is the one that dies in the end because I made out Roben Furstenfeld in the last scene of the music video on some flowers and also the recordings are from the "grave" so I believe that the ghost of his mother still follows and tries to take care of him but he really wants peace for his mother.

RBGUW 2007-07-20 13:14:11    

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Ok so does anyone know if this is real...and if the mother died? That's all I want to know... I understand everything else about it... So someone msg back or something cause I really wanna know! so someone msg back!

anonymous 2007-07-21 20:25:34    

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I think this a pretty personal song of something that's been going on in justins life at one point of time. The first part of the song sounds like a breakup he's having trouble getting over.

And relevant to the first part or not, the second part sounds like a tribute to his mother who helped him during an addiction and a time a self-pity and self-destruction.

Powerful song.

anonymous 2007-07-24 23:44:34    

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The lead singer is bi-polar in real life. It's about what he put her through in regards to that. The phone message in the beginning is her calling to ask if he's okay (like if he's taken his meds after he went through a mood swing or something).

anonymous 2007-07-29 04:24:26    

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Okay, this song is SO personal for me, because one of my friends in high school was an alcoholic/drug addict raised by a single mom, and this kid would not let ANYONE near him. Most of the time, I don't think that his mother even knew where he was, and if she did, she didn't know what to do about it. He got the crap beat out of him, and he was hospitalized with stress-related issues, probably from his school life, combined with a job and partying all of the time. Anytime I hear this song, I just think of him.

anonymous 2007-08-06 13:19:59    

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If you listen at the end of the song he says "for you" very deeply under his breath.

What the story is here is a son, (Justin), Who is an alcoholic and has pussed his mother away to get her to detach from him and hate him so that she isn't hurt by his problum and at the end realizes he has to leave becuse it has becume a very hostil invirment. He leaves and relizes this pain in the back of his throught when he thinks of her and how he hurt her, also how she still loves him after all he's done even though he's been terrible but becuse he's gotten to the point he's at he cannot go back. He had convinced him self she hated him and he had hated her but it wasn't true.

hes saying-

"I cannot belive you accually hate me"

as a child.

end of interpritation




mom.im sorry.
-anonomous

anonymous 2007-08-16 19:12:45    

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I think this song is about this guy and he thinks his girlfriend is too good for him. So he wants her to dump him and never think about him again.

anonymous 2007-08-24 01:31:21    

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It's not that complicated if you know anything about the band's history...more specifically Justin's. Justin generally writes from personal experience so the sentiment in the song seems pretty literal. The recorded voice at the beginning IS his mother, from what I understand. He has an incredibly close relationship with her. the song is definitely his way of telling her to write him off entirely to make her own life less complicated, probably at an especially difficult period for him. The videos a loose interpretation of the song but I'm pretty sure that is his (and Jeremy's) actual mother making an appearance. also, the fans singing along to "calling you" seems to be a reference to how becoming successful as a musician can be a burden and a strain on one's personal life but is not to be taken for granted. I suggest that anyone who's only heard "foiled" to buy "the answer", "consent to treatment" and "history for sale" to get a better idea of what kind of lyricist Justin is. "argue with a tree" cd/dvd is worth a listen/viewing because a Blue October performance is incredibly intense and energetic.

anonymous 2007-09-06 00:29:09    

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This song has something no one has said! It's about some drug/alcohol addict who has just recovered and he is regretting about all he has done to his mother, because actually in the beginning he has a message from his mother, and further he says "I’m sober now for 3 whole months it’s one accomplishment that you helped me with
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing I won’t touch again" and then" it clearly says he is sorry and he won't use any drugs again.

anonymous 2007-09-11 16:21:54    

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I believe this song is about a guy whose mother has always taken care of him. He had a serious addiction, maybe one that he still struggles with, and she helped him. He knows how terrible he's been to her and how much he's hurt her, so he wants her to forget about him. He believes that her life would be much happier if she would forget that he existed. He says "Hate me today/Hate me tomorrow/Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you/Hate in in ways/Yeah ways hard to swallow/hate me so you can finally see what's good for you." He doesn't believe that he was a good enough son for her.

anonymous 2007-10-05 15:53:50    

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The song alone makes me believe the story is about a man doing the only good thing he had done in a relationship with his girlfriend, which is leave her. The first verse which mentions "movies in my head that make a porno feel like home" leads me to believe the female is a girlfriend and not a mother figure, as the video seems to suggest. The last verse says "I never was a man, Until I saw your blue eyes cry" which sounds as if before this he was something of a deadbeat.

Or something like that...

anonymous 2007-10-10 02:07:07    

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In my opinion this song is really about someone who was with someone and they had really great memories together , but he had to move on and he goes back to how it was and how much she helped him out . Its bittersweet and its as if every time he thinks about what they had he misses it and wants it back , but he knows that in the end he had to leave things alone and move on with his own life as she had to too . Its a sad song when you really listen to it , I like the intro " are you sleeping , if your sleeping are you dreaming , if your dreaming are you dreaming of me ? I can't believe you actually picked me " I can really relate to this song a lot .

anonymous 2007-10-25 08:57:12    

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This song could be about either his mom or a gf. maybe both. Both relationships are important and the song fits with either one. I just wanted to say that when he sings "and she whispered how could you do this to me?" that part gives me goosebubbles. dunno why. never fails. I think it's a very powerful song. maybe he's not committing suicide. maybe he's just plain leaving