Confusion

about loving people who hurt us. and hurting people we love.

RIP layne

this is about the head games men and women play with eachother. how no one ever gets ahead in doing so because one person is always hurting or confused in some way but will always crawl back to them.

This song changes with each verse.

In the first verse, he's saying that he can't give because he is causing grief, that he is consumed by hatred, and that he is taking this out on his loved one. She is still reaching out to him because she loves him, but he runs away. She falls and gets hurt because of his actions. He runs away because he is hurt. His very idea of love is confused, and he's really afraid. He knows he's hurting her, and maybe he hates himself for it. It's his "disease." That's what the chorus is about.

Come to the second verse. There she is, and she thinks of love while he is just waiting and hating all the more. He can't help it. There is so much hate inside perhaps because of his upbringing. But he falls this time, not her, and he is on skinned knees because he is hurt.

Now they share the pain of loving each other at this point. He realizes that he loves her, and she loves him. He can give of himself now. "Now there's time to give it all..." He put his fears behind him again (fears of being rejected, fears of not being loved, that CORE in which he must've hurt). They both will crawl with skinned knees but together.

So it's definitely a love song about hurting those we love and those we love hurting us.

It's not about addiction so much. Maybe people focus too much on Layne's songs as being those of an addict. I can say from personal experience that there are reasons why people use to begin with, and this is the deeper question. Layne must have felt so much pain in his life, but Demri was his bright spot in so many ways I'm sure. "Love, Hate, Love" had to do with his love for Demri similarly. He says this live by alluding that to a special little girl (Demri was short.).

Layne was SO honest in his songs. Is there anyone like that these days?

I undertand this song as a relationship between a couple in which he is an adict and how it hurt her.

It is a summary about their relationship: "I want to set you free, recognize my disease - (he's a junkie) Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering You're there crying, I feel not a thing"

When she tries to help him, she won't get it, because he is lying her and getting high again: "Drilling my way deeper in your head Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead"

She loves him too much and they are incompatable but relentless in effort.

This is the only thing that makes sense without being drug related.

It is a case of not knowing what you have until it is gone. The person is reaching out for you, but you can't even make time for them. When they contemplate the true meaning of love and see that what they give is not given in return and move on, you become the one reaching out to them for time that is no longer there. Not all of their songs are about drugs. "Sinkng, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead" is representative of suicide in the form of slitting your wrists in a bath tub.

I understand that a majority of Laynes writing involved/included his addiction . I haven't listened to facelift in years. That being said, when I listened to confused tonight the wailing emotions of this song almost gives the point of view of a serial killer like Ted Bundy moments before the kill, not feeling anything while carrying out the act of murder.
love, sex pain confusion suffering. She's crying, he doesn't feel, not a thing... I know that it's about drugs and putting another person through that hell, however I just wanted to give my initial take on this song after so many years of not hearing it.

I know this song is about an addict in his relationship but from my pov i chose to look at it differently. I think of it as a person with two personalities or a person with a soft, loving and a dead inside emotionally unavailable side. And the dead inside side speaks to his soft part like he's compressing his feelings and emotions away as he fears to feel pain again. As a result, his hatred grows and magnify even more. But yet his soft part tries to survive, for moments it feels love and compassion towards people that care about him or the person he likes but can't admit because he's afraid to feel pain. But in the end life keeps hitting you with fake romance or betrayals from people you love. And that's why we all on skinned knees we crawl, to survive and try to live through it.

Must not forget the reason why she(?) is hurting!

"I want to set you free, recognize my disease"

and

"Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead"

The one talking is Layne (or someone adicted to drugs), he's ill... There's no turning back! The second line I mention symbolize stairs down into an endless hole of drug abuse... He's trying to say there's no point in loving him... He won't be able to give much back in return...

Listen carefully to the song. You can hear ocean waves crashing in some parts of it.