i'm gonna save you fucker, not gonna lose you
i'm feeling cocky and strong, can't let you go
too important to me, and too important to us
we'd be lost without you
i'm there, let yourself fall, i'm right below you now
and fuck me if i say something you don't want to hear, from me
and fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear, from me, if i care
but i'm not leaving here
you helped me when i was down, i'll help when you're down
why are you hitting yourself? c'mon and hit me instead
let's pick up your will, it's grown fat and lazy
it's sympathetic as well, don't go on me now
and i'm not living this life without you, i'm selfish and clear
and you're not leaving here without me, i don't wanna be without...
my best friend
wake up to see you could have it all
whoa!
cuz there is but you, and something within you
has taken control, let's beat it
get up, let's go
oh, you're in your own world, let's see the whole world!
let's pick up your soul
and fuck me if i say something you don't wanna hear from me (fuck me)
and fuck me if you only hear the tremble in your head
please help me to help you help yourself!
help me help yourself
help me, please want me to
please let me to, help you...
i'm feeling cocky and strong, can't let you go
too important to me, and too important to us
we'd be lost without you
i'm there, let yourself fall, i'm right below you now
and fuck me if i say something you don't want to hear, from me
and fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear, from me, if i care
but i'm not leaving here
you helped me when i was down, i'll help when you're down
why are you hitting yourself? c'mon and hit me instead
let's pick up your will, it's grown fat and lazy
it's sympathetic as well, don't go on me now
and i'm not living this life without you, i'm selfish and clear
and you're not leaving here without me, i don't wanna be without...
my best friend
wake up to see you could have it all
whoa!
cuz there is but you, and something within you
has taken control, let's beat it
get up, let's go
oh, you're in your own world, let's see the whole world!
let's pick up your soul
and fuck me if i say something you don't wanna hear from me (fuck me)
and fuck me if you only hear the tremble in your head
please help me to help you help yourself!
help me help yourself
help me, please want me to
please let me to, help you...
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Nicely said and bang on the money.... Eddie has seen many a friend come and go needlessly.
Nicely said and bang on the money.... Eddie has seen many a friend come and go needlessly.
@Grungegirl7 and now scott weiland... :/
@Grungegirl7 and now scott weiland... :/
yeah, walkthisway is right....mike wrote this song anyway, not eddie.
I think this song is about having a friend who you care about, but has taken the wrong path and is destroying his or her life in someway. You want to help the person, but the person seems to want you to go away and not care, they want to be alone, but you want to help them because they are important to you.
This is an incredible song about friendship, its like your friend has gone of the rail and they cant help themself, and u tell them u are always there for them when they need u, but u cant do it all yourself, they have to help you help them. everyone needs a friend to be there for them.
What a great song! If you're down, you need someone to pick you up. I think Eddie got help from a lot of people throughout his life. And he probably was reluctant to let them help. Now he's writing this song, and what a great song it is.
I was in a situation with a girl who was depressed to an extreme. She would tell me constantly that I was the one with the problems because I cared about her, and she told me she didn't want me to care. Now, I can't say things went well, what ended up happening was I found out that she was purposely trying to get me to hate her because she didn't believe she should be cared about. She was self destructive, but blamed me for her destruction, because I cared and wanted to help, even when she told me that she could make it on her own...because...as U2 has said, "Sometimes you can make it on your own." Anyways, when I was in this situation, this song really helped me, because I felt that Eddie was talking specifically about me and what was happening. In my opinion it's about how he's struggling to help a person who doesn't want him there,"Fuck me if I care, but I'm not leaving here." I'd also like to say that he's not saying from me...he's saying "fuck me". I think he's showing his anger with the situation, and his anger that he can't help this person that matters so much to him. I can relate completely, and this song will always be one of my all time favorites.
I think it's about Layne Staley, too.......
I think this is about Mike McCready's former drug addiction, and Eddie wanting to help him.
This song does an excellent job of conveying a frantic urgency that both the speaker and the subject face.... The comfortable use of "fuck" shows just how far it has gone because Eddie rarely says fuck more than 2 or even three times in one song but in this song he says it about nine times truly showing the distress or necessity that the subjetc is in..... I personally think it is about eddie trying to save his marriage to Beth but i don't know.....