Far Behind

This song is from the very bottom of Kevin Martin's heart. It is 'specially dedicated to one of his friends who died of overdose. Something good I'd like to add is that because of this song and "You" some people gave up using drugs. Which by the way that made Kevin feel very happy. The melancholy in Martin's songs is because he wrote most of them in Seattle, and as you know It rains a lot in Seattle, the weather is cloudy and cold. So once he said he couldn't write happy songs at Seattle because it didn't inspire him sunny feelings. So that's why they moved to California As far as I know that's the story behind the song And on my opinion ....Far Behind rocks!!!!
Thumbs up!!!!!!!!

yeah, i always thought this was a song was about someone who committed suicide or died of an overdose or something along those lines. "that cold day when you lost control, shame you left my life so soon you should have told me..."

i think he is trying to deal with the pain of this person being gone, realizing that maybe he didn't treat them the best he possibly could... but at the same time he's angry. he tried, he would have been there for them, but they just turned away... left him far behind... and now he's trying to deal with the pain and the anger at the same time.

great song. i love the emotion in his voice. it rarely fails to bring me to tears.

From a purely personal level, I can feel a lot of interesting shifts of perspective from lyric to lyric. From feeling that I was the one left behind to also relating to being the one whose friends watched suffer as I let myself emotionally self-destruct. This probably has to do with the fact that in my case my wife left me for a "friend" of mine. Lyrics mean different things to different people, obviously.

This is one of my favorite songs ever. Great melodies, great lyrics that can mean many things to many people. There are also some great live recordings that are even more emotionally charged and driven with "rock rage". To this day, I still get the chills after hearing the first 2 seconds of the song.

Although I do love this song...it's good..but not great musically. This song takes you right to the edge of really rocking. Rightuptothebrink...but pulls back. I always thought this song should've been a little harder. Likely some decision from the record company...turning it into a power ballad. But don't get me wrong...I still love this song. I just thought that it could've been greater. For a band to write such a great song...only to not hit it out of the park...

There are a few times that Candlebox really excelled at rocking out on their first album...and didn't hold back. To me...most notablely is Rain. You...Don't You and Arrow also come to mind. What a great album this was...I couldn't believe that Candlebox didn't become superstars...

Oh i just read up on the person who said it was about Andrew Wood is 100% correct but my first thoughts still apply only it was there good friend

i say its about suicide cuz she lost control u left my life so soon but thats what i tinkz o well bye

This is the greatest song ever written. Definitely about losing friends to drugs. I'm pretty sure it's about losing a close friend, and a girlfriend as well (the "Maybe brother, maybe love" line supports that). It's a fucking beautiful brilliant song; sad, angry and powerful. It's a shame these guys didn't get any of the credit they deserve, cause they're very underrated.

And now, some info about Candlebox (since there were some questions above): They put out 3 full CD's; "Candlebox" (1993), "Lucy" (1995), and "Happy Pills" (1998). The band officially broke up in 2000, and singer Kevin Martin has continued on with his new band The Hiwatts. They're pretty damn good too...

And for the guy who said most of Candlebox's work was "Pearl Jam derived bullshit". Dude, you can't be fucking serious. These guys sound NOTHING like Pearl Jam. At all. Ever. I've got every CD by both these bands; and they don't have similar riffs or similar playing styles at all. The only thing they've got in common with PJ is that both bands are from Seattle. Same with Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Nirvana. All 5 of these "grunge" bands got huge between 1991 and 1994, but they all had very different sounds. Unfortunately, Candlebox is the forgotten band out of the above mentioned, and it's a damn shame because they were excellent. (In my opinion, the best). Anyways, this ends my rant. Listen to Candlebox...

This song reminds me of one of my high school boyfriends. He and I were friends until we went out. The break up was not on good terms and I hurt him, but we were able to become friends eventually and ended up running around with the same crowd growing up. We were all involved in drugs and partied hard back then. There were moments between us, but the oppertunity for us to reconnect back together was never taken. Then I went to college, and didn't really talk to anyone after I left.

My sophomore year of college I got a phone call from a friend, he had shot himself in the head after a long night of parting. No one knows why. Even though I know there is nothing I could do to change what happened, I still question the choices I made with our friendship and that if those oppertunities had been taken would the out come be the same. I struggled with that for a long time (it has been almost six years now), and from time to time still do think about it.

What is even stranger is when this song came out, we were together, and it ALWAYS reminded me of him and that summer. What I didn't know is how much it would come true.

don't know what its about. don't honestly care. all i know is that recently it's haunted me. playing everywhere. random myspace and gaia profiles. radio in my car. alarm clock. and even a pop-up ad. and every time i hear it, it reminds me of the girl i want to be with more than anything. the girl who i care about more'n anyone. and, whats worse, the girl i let slip through my fingers. thats a lie. she didn't slip away, i pushed her. i was in a bad situation. i felt i had to keep her from getting involved. i actually broke up with her. she took it hard. i caused her more pain than i prevented. she wasn't there when the badness peaked, but even had she been, it wouldn't have affected her. now here i am, venting to a computer what no one else would give a fuzzy-purple-rats-nethers about. lost in the memories, and the what ifs, and the impossible fantasies of another shot. and this song playing constantly, peeling open a wound from 3 months ago. never allowed to forget. to me, this song is that. its hard to hear past "maybe," the rest just becomes white noise. "i did not mean to treat you oh so bad." i wouldn't even answer the phone to let her yell at me. never gave an explination. still haven't, fully. she even tried to get me to reconsider. was convinced she'd done something wrong. didn't want me to leave.

"but i did it anyway"

I grew up in a very dysfunctional home very suicidal as far back as I remember, things are not that way today... But I do believe that there speaking about a girl who was in a lot of pain and like myself couldn't and didn't share this pain with anyone but most of all I think they we're very close as close as she could get and he feels cheated that she didn't share her pain because, I think he feels like he could of helped her before she got to the point of suicide (shame you left my life so soon, you should have told me) he feels abandoned , (brush the leaves aside so you can reach us ) I think that's leaves being cleaned off her headstone or name plate at the cemetery..... But that's just one opinion MINE