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"
And I feel that time's a ways to go
So where you going 'til tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
So would you even care?
And I feel it
And I feel it
Where you going for tomorrow?
Where you goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
And I feel so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom?
And I see that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care?
And I feel it
And she feels it
Where you going for tomorrow?
Where you goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
Where you going for tomorrow?
Where you goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
To find it
To find it
To find it
So where you going 'til tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
So would you even care?
And I feel it
And I feel it
Where you going for tomorrow?
Where you goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
And I feel so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom?
And I see that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care?
And I feel it
And she feels it
Where you going for tomorrow?
Where you goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
Where you going for tomorrow?
Where you goin' with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
To find it
To find it
To find it
Lyrics submitted by adrenalinegrl
Plush Lyrics as written by Robert De Leo Dean De Leo
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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.
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Great version of a great song,
(First verse) Asking himself if his girlfriend is going to cheat on him, and will she lie to him about it
(second verse)he caught her cheating/lying (her mask he found) (the dogs are actual dogs) and will she smell alone or will there be a mans scent on her.
(third)the rain in her "bedroom" i think this one is obvious
It's about a couple and she is lying and cheating so he kills her and buried her in a whole and he's contemplating killing himself hence (will she smell alone).
Great song, I like this version better:)
yeh i really like the acoustic version :)
extremely great version, it was recorded on Headbanger's Ball on Mtv back in the day
I think this song is not about killing. Its about deep emotions and learning things about the person you have a relationship with, in this case uncomfortable things. Like how moody they are in and out of the bedroom. "so is it raining in your bedroom" Maybe she's sleeping with someone else. Do the dogs smell somone else on her clothes?She's hiding something-"the mask I found" Maybe she's leaving 'cause she's been found out. but he seems to be in denial about the signs.
If this song is about a little 10 yr. old girl dying and left in a in a shallow grave! It ruined it for me. I thought the song was about sex in some way, not the rape of a child. I think it would be in very bad taste to contribute any more to the notion. <br /> <br /> I'm hoping it's about a obsessive relationship, or dogs knowing threw smell that a woman is having her period. ANYTHING but that!
I read somewhere that it's about a breakup. I believe Scott said so.
I love the acoustic version of this song. It sounds so much more meaningful, and it's just so great to listen to.
this song was written by scott and robert before the band was even on a record label and scott was inspired to write the song because of a girl that was kidnapped and tragically murdered that had a abusive relationship.
i think itss hilarious that they performed this melowed out acoustic version on a show like headbangers ball.I bet all those metal heads,expecting to here a raunched out rocker, were pissed!
@Ciyaak Boy toadally
This song is NOT about what all you people said up there. It's about a girl running away, killing herself in the woods, and having the police dogs find her! "...when the dogs begin to smell her..." Scott and Rob were influenced to write this song when they heard about the incident way back in the '90s when rock was still good.