Jane Says

I believe this song can be taken a lot more literally than some do interpret it. "I'm gonna' kick tomorrow..." is just Jane (and Jane is a real person) trying to convince herself that she'll kick her heroin addiction. It's always supposed to start tomorrow, but it never does. Because as much as Jane wants to rid herself of her addiction, things are never that simple. Oh, and by the way, Jane is still alive. Drug-free. :) According to Casey Niccoli, Jane's good friend.

As for "Jane Says," it's a character study based on a real person, Farrell explains. There was an actual Jane -- with an actual heroin habit and an abusive boyfriend named Sergio -- who lived with Farrell and nearly a dozen others in a group house in Hollywood as the band was forming in the early '80s. Yes, she talked endlessly about scrimping for a jaunt to Europe ("Jane says, 'I'm going away to Spain / When I get my money saved' "), and yes, this tempestuous muse took an occasional swipe at a housemate, but she never seemed to connect. ("She gets mad and starts to cry / Takes a swing but she can't hit.")

Farrell has lost touch with Jane, but it turns out that finding her isn't all that hard. It took only a few phone calls to determine that she's still living in California, and though she's quoted in the song predicting she was "going to kick tomorrow," it took a little longer. Today, however, she's proud to say she's clean.

"The story of Jane has a happy ending," says Jane Bainter on the phone from Los Angeles.

credit to:

David Segal Washington Post Staff Writer

"She gets mad And she starts to cry Takes a swing but she can't hit She don't mean no harm She just don't know What else to do about it"

This part of the song just floors me every time. As a former addict, I know how it is to feel that hopeless. Of the millions of songs about addiction, I don't know of another one that more accurately describes a junkie in between fixes. Incredible songwriting.

I think this song is so direct in its lyrics, if you just listen to the words i think you can find the meaning. I think it's about a girl who's lost, she wants to find the right path and get off all the drugs and impure things. Things will all be better tomorrow, but not really because in a sense tomorrow will never come. She's lost and will never be found. Something has happened in her life that she can't be saved from, we need to catch all this before it happens to more people like her, there are way to many to help in this huge world and it's way too easy to get lost.

this song kicks! there's this guy in love w/ a girl & she's lost & scared & confused even though she gives the appearance of a grl w/ troubles but still self-assured. so this guy admires her from afar & sings a song about her problems b/c he wants to help her & isn't shure how. do ya'll get what i mean ?

This is the best Jane's Addiction song ever. I love it. It's sad but uplifting at the same time. It shows that even at our lowest, we are still capable of being loved!

yeah it is about a crack addict named jane. the leader singer, perry ferrel, pretended to be a gay interior decorator to live in an apartment for free out west. and in this complex he meets a girl named jane, a girl who leads a normal straight-laced life by day, but at night she does drugs and has sex with everything she sees. he boyfriend, sergio (mentioned in the song) was actually a dealer. its about how jane wants to break it, kick it tomorrow.... but what jane says aint always what jane can do.

this was the first JA song i heard & i loved it the first time i heard it. "she gets her dinner there, she pulls her dinner from her pocket" that's a good description of someone's life when they have lots of problems & do drugs a lot. isn't this where their name came from?

"she gets her dinner there" "she pulls her dinner from her pocket" jane's buying drugs. she doesn't need to eat because she gets all her sustenance from the heavy drugs she's doing. she buys her dinner on the corner, heroin comes in little balloons. when she gets home she pulls the balloons, her dinner, from her pocket and prepares it.

this song is so wistful and right on because it captures the dreamy melancholy of a day/life spent on drugs. there is the vague wish for a better life, a tomorrow, but for now the lure and pull of the dope is just too all encompassing.

wow im sorry but some of you are COMPLETE IDIOTS! you look way too much into this (i just read a few comments) pull dinner out of pocket..is heroin...ITS ABOUT HEROIN!!! not that hard to figure out...ahhh!!! sorry had to vent its frusterating reading this shit! but this song is awesome and i agree wit you taylorcakes...the song makes the hair on my arms stand up too.if you can relate to the song its really emotionally deep