This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Is it because you know my name?
Or is it because you saw my face on the cover?
Either way, it's all the same
It's like talking to a friend who's tryna be your lover
Underneath it all
I know it's not your fault
That you don't understand
I blame myself
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
You think you know me so well
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
You think you know me so well
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself
Blame, blame, blame myself
I blame, I blame, blame myself
For my reputation
I'm just a face without a choice
I trust you'd never like to guess what I think above these shoulders
10 years old without a voice
I feel like nothing's really changed, now I'm just a little older
Underneath it all
I know it's not your fault
That you don't understand
I blame myself
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
You think you know me so well
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
You think you know me so well
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself
Blame, blame, blame myself
I blame, I blame, blame myself
For my reputation
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
You think you know me so well
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
You think you know me so well
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself
Blame, blame, blame myself
I blame, I blame, blame myself
For my reputation
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
Or is it because you saw my face on the cover?
Either way, it's all the same
It's like talking to a friend who's tryna be your lover
Underneath it all
I know it's not your fault
That you don't understand
I blame myself
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
You think you know me so well
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
You think you know me so well
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself
Blame, blame, blame myself
I blame, I blame, blame myself
For my reputation
I'm just a face without a choice
I trust you'd never like to guess what I think above these shoulders
10 years old without a voice
I feel like nothing's really changed, now I'm just a little older
Underneath it all
I know it's not your fault
That you don't understand
I blame myself
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
You think you know me so well
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
You think you know me so well
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself
Blame, blame, blame myself
I blame, I blame, blame myself
For my reputation
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
You think you know me so well
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
You think you know me so well
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself
Blame, blame, blame myself
I blame, I blame, blame myself
For my reputation
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
(I blame myself)
Lyrics submitted by OKRadiohead97
I Blame Myself Lyrics as written by Daniel Leonardo Nigro Sky Ferreira
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
i think its about fame
how in fame you're kind of looked at as an image or character rather than the person you really are, and people assume they know you.
regretting a failed relationship,
blaming herself cause the other won't accept any blame on their part.
I think it has something to do with the fact that she was sexually assaulted when she was younger and she "stopped talking" to people. The sexual assault really affected her and now even as an adult she has a hard time developing relationships with people and she's basically telling them "It's not you, it's me" and she blames herself for it.
I also think it's about that he is not understanding that she was depressed and has been abused when she was younger and this is ruining her life still.
Is it because you know my name? Or is it because you saw my face on the cover? Either way it's all the same It's like talking to a friend who's trying to be your lover
Underneath it all I know it's not your fault That you don't understand I blame myself
How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
How could you know what it feels like to be outside yourself?
I just want you to realize I blame, I blame myself I blame myself for my reputation
I'm just a face without a choice