This is an amazing song about crippling depression and being far away from your loved ones or friends as people that can help you. It's a fantastic display of how someone tries to put on a happy appearance while their tormented inside. I don't know what it is about songs where the point is depression, but they're always my favorite ones.
It's the idea of likeing something morbid, you know it's moraly questionable, yet we find them the most intriguing. It's easy to write a happy song, but sad songs take care, love and precision, usuly a feeling the artist has felt before.
"And I don't understand why I sleep all day, and I start to complain that there's no rain. And all I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape..." Sadly, this is my life...
Thank you Lord for them 90's grunge kids,they we're and probably still am in touch with what's going on.Im a 60's born man that wouldn't trade anything anytime for my grunge bands.THEY BROUGHT BACK the 60's style of mixing current events, feeling's and of course the trouble down in a rig brings.
I agree! But, no bans can beat the original classic rock, Southern Rock, as others....however, Grunge was so unique and powerful emotions! My favorite Audio Slave! Chris, Linkin Park, Eddie Vetter...etc
I always found this song very melancholy and depressing. It's truly a "cry for help song" from an eternally angst-ridden era. And rightfully so. It appealed to us. He knew who to speak to when he sang those lyrics...us. perfect placement of time for this song
29 years later and this song still never ages....to this day I continue getting goose bumps reminiscing me my early teens back in the 90'$. Damn time flies!🤔💯✌❤
graduated in 93. Blind Melon was among my top 10 favorite bands at the time along with Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden and Pink Floyd. This song in particular still fills my head space today.
I practically grew up with this song. And then, I don't know what happened but we stopped listening to it, I heard it yesterday at a little date with my guy and I asked my mom about it and she told me the name. I will never stop listening to this awesome song. Because I'm not sane. Lol :P
It was one of my favorite song when it released… I did not speak English at the time and it did not know I had anxiety at the time. It was my favorite because I like the guitar and the Doors vibe of the song … Now this song hits a little bit different, the lyrics are so real to me. Arts never die. RIP Shannon
Big shout to all those whove suffered the pain and numbness of depression where excisting is the feeling rather then living but i am a survivor of this and there can be a better day.i found it with the right support around me.keep going people.props for writing this tune.lets talk about it.😊
It's absolutely impossible for me To listen to this song just once. The lyrics and melody are just to addicting. It's Still as great as the first day it came out. This 90's music era (as far Rock, Hip Hop/Rap, & R&B) was so dope, there will never be another one like it. This song is a beautiful master piece IMO. Genius work.
I'm a songwriter myself and I really love his lyrics..lyrics are so situational and left to interpretation but I can always understand where he's coming from with his words..and that voice so imperfect but right on with his delivery,he just nails it and makes it all make sense.
I sing this song at work all the time. I managed to get it stick in most of my coworkers’ heads and now it’s just a meme between us that keeps us going. Helps that they play it in the store sometimes too.
I remember hearing this song on a blank cd I had found in my uncles truck one time. I must've been about 7 years old. I always skipped it for some reason. I ended up losing the cd somehow at one point some time after that but Id always catch myself humming the guitar melody on the intro every once in a while. To the point that I had to find out what it was called. I didn't know the lyrics though due to me always skipping the song before it got to the 10 sec mark. Anyways, about a couple years ago I was working nightshift at a gas station and it came on the radio. I pulled out shazam and felt very satisfied at finally figuring out the name of this song.
Living in the ghetto and realizing my environment and family wasn’t the best in the 90’s I love hearing this on the box channel back to back them tears held me together no rain no pain stay focus on your higher self made me realize the world fucked up because at that time I learned about race... how y’all not happy I was like life is not fair Idk where I was going but I wanted to run far as I could forever... not living in the ghetto today but it was a long journey one of the first songs outside of rap that made me feel something.. I felt alive and understood
July 2020. One of my all time favorites since HS in the 90’s. Emotionally wrecked because of life, driving or walking in nature and singing this at the top of my lungs with a huge grin on my face. Paul Simon’s Cecelia is also on this playlist. :)
Been there and done that and thank God now it is time for me to let it go and move on. 🥲 It's a tough road to have to follow and I'm praying for anyone who is still on that path. ❤🙏🙏🙏
I first heard this song when i was a teenager and im 46 yrs old now but there has been just something about this song that grabbed ahold of me and i have always loved it and always will.... i cant even explain how it makes me feel when i hear it but its something that i have never felt before and to this day still nothing has made me feel this way!!!!
loving blind melon since like the 90s. so sad for losing a great talent. I would watch this video on tv at nephrology doing kidney dialysis, it kept me in harmony with a difficult job that I truly loved.
Heard this for the first time yesterday (Sunday 4th September 2023). A flight from Toronto to Calgary, for a family holiday to Banff. I'd had the Air Canada music channels on, after an episode of Young Sheldon, and Rocky. Up all day flying from Manchester (England) to Toronto. The channel said 60s and 70s music, Stingray Music, but this played. I liked it.
hotboxing a car listening to this misheard lyrics: "and all I can do is pull some teeth or two." he has a beautiful voice, great choice of lyrics too. GJ
I remember hearing this song years ago. It's like someone in the comments said earlier this song never ages I'll never ages. But it just happened to click back into my memory banks when I heard it being used for a truck commercial . So naturally I had to learn how to play it play it. It's easier than I thought and I can't stop playing it
I've been listening to this song for well over a decade, and only now have I realized that the lyric was "I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today". I always thought it was "I'd like to keep my cheating stride today". I guess you hear what you want to hear. That's part of the beauty with 90's grunge and alternative rock :)
I'm usually of an expansive perspective, accepting the possibilities of the universe and it's vast, complicated mechanisms, but this song is simply soothing to the soul for someone who's seen too much.
I always think of the movie Sideways, one of my favorite movies, when I heard this song because it was featured in the trailer. I love the beat to it and how it slows down in some parts.
I sleep all day because I'm sad and just don't feel right here. I think that's kinda what that first part is. As for the second part, I think it's about seeing everyone around you being a bit more cheery in the spring (the music video highlights that) and being bitter or jealous of the happiness you see around you. I've felt that way before. I kinda came to the conclusion that it's okay to feel that way, but it's not okay to take it out on others just because they have what you struggle so hard daily to obtain. It's so hard not to be bitter sometimes, but I am what I am and it's up to me to change that. At times I've had to ask for help, and there's no shame in that in my book. Just always look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you're doing your best. If you can do that every day, get better every day in some small way, start looking at yourself in a new way with love and respect for the effort you're putting forth, you'll be just blown away by how amazing your life will quickly become. It's always a struggle though. It's hard to maintain. I've had to go through the cycle a few times but I'm glad I did it because I might have missed out on some amazing experiences if I had just given up like I wanted to so many times.
I have nothing to say in reference to your comment. I was just thinking about how your comment is 10 years old. And now I’m reading it. It’s virtual graffiti.
All the South is sounding through this song. He was a Baby having his baby. The 27 club got him too at his 28. R.I.P.! You did so good. Too bad nobody told us about God.
oh chills firefish...all kids say that....that are on this kind of trip annnnnyyyyyway, I loved the little girl above in the Blind Melon video she was so cute in her bumble bee outfit...
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Doesn't matter what year ur listening cause this song never ages
spot on
Precisely
And if you dont like this song we cant be friends
Well this song maybe 28 y'o but still
Evergreen
For real!
The juxtaposition between the upbeat happy melody and the melancholy lyrics about depress really makes this song a true work of art.
It´s a masterpiece
Or mentally insane/ Bi Polar ;)
either way I love it. Maybe b/c it is a bipolar master piece and I can relate.
John Butch or high on coke
Michael Kaczmarczyk do believe heroin was his drug of choice considering that's what he over dosed on
This is an amazing song about crippling depression and being far away from your loved ones or friends as people that can help you. It's a fantastic display of how someone tries to put on a happy appearance while their tormented inside. I don't know what it is about songs where the point is depression, but they're always my favorite ones.
I totally understand what your saying and I feels like this song quite a bit
I thought crippling depression was a meme
The first thing I do when my depression gets really bad is put this song on.
It's the idea of likeing something morbid, you know it's moraly questionable, yet we find them the most intriguing. It's easy to write a happy song, but sad songs take care, love and precision, usuly a feeling the artist has felt before.
Do note, this is a theory
"And I don't understand why I sleep all day, and I start to complain that there's no rain. And all I can do is read a book to stay awake, and it rips my life away, but it's a great escape..." Sadly, this is my life...
David P. Fuck, I also feel identified with that part
That makes us two!
You consume too much carbohydrates.
It's my life every day and I love it!!
David P.
😭😭😭😭😭
Get over it!
Thank you Lord for them 90's grunge kids,they we're and probably still am in touch with what's going on.Im a 60's born man that wouldn't trade anything anytime for my grunge bands.THEY BROUGHT BACK the 60's style of mixing current events, feeling's and of course the trouble down in a rig brings.
I agree! But, no bans can beat the original classic rock, Southern Rock, as others....however, Grunge was so unique and powerful emotions! My favorite Audio Slave! Chris, Linkin Park, Eddie Vetter...etc
This makes me smile while a tear forms under my eyes.
Well put
Odd.....this song has depressing lyrics but still can lighten up any sad person's mood
I always found this song very melancholy and depressing. It's truly a "cry for help song" from an eternally angst-ridden era. And rightfully so. It appealed to us. He knew who to speak to when he sang those lyrics...us. perfect placement of time for this song
I don't think anyone can hate this tune
+Ryan Vanderhoof for some inexplicable reason 48 people seem to
+Cody Sellers agreed this tune is always a favorite and makes me feel better no matter how I feel or what kind of day I'm having
I hate it
+Aj Ward sooo you're unhappy- news flash NO ONE CARES.
yea
So many people think this is a happy song because the beat is upbeat. They couldn't be more wrong.
29 years later and this song still never ages....to this day I continue getting goose bumps reminiscing me my early teens back in the 90'$. Damn time flies!🤔💯✌❤
You were lucky to be a teens in the 90s. I envy those who got to experience the 80s and 90s as teens or young adults.
graduated in 93. Blind Melon was among my top 10 favorite bands at the time along with Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden and Pink Floyd. This song in particular still fills my head space today.
@@erikl827 Yes Sir! I definitely agree with you 💯%👌
@@jasonblackwell5456 yes bro' I truly feel you on your comment. We were definitely the #Lucky_Ones during that *Era*
@@djibsondasilva454 I wonder how many other similarities we have. Wanna be friends?
Almost 64, and I bought the 45 when it came out,its orange, still plays great on my stereo, feeling old but not depressed.
A song about not having someone to love, or to love you back, a song about being lonely as hell...
Sound like me
that guitar at the beginning is what i imagine the inside of my dogs mind sounds like
I love this comment beyond comprehension
Tommy Ashworth it is the best
Year of the Doooooooooog
ruu
Alaina Little, more like Alaina little bit of a bitch! Ayyyyyyyyy fam. I'll show myself out.
Alaina Little or the whole song
Blind Melon, a true classic. I can't wait to dance to this at my wedding!
That's a good choice of music dude
Charles Dominguez Wow I'm totally stealing this idea lol
Why would u use it at a wedding its lowkey depressin
same
Charles Dominguez I'd rather use If Loving You is Wrong I Don't Wanna be Right
I practically grew up with this song. And then, I don't know what happened but we stopped listening to it, I heard it yesterday at a little date with my guy and I asked my mom about it and she told me the name. I will never stop listening to this awesome song. Because I'm not sane. Lol :P
Song was way ahead of its time
I need some friends.
Me too dude. Me too
Hope you got some buddy ❤
We all do but don't give up hope you will find them.
You bro✝️
Hope your doing good pal!
It was one of my favorite song when it released… I did not speak English at the time and it did not know I had anxiety at the time. It was my favorite because I like the guitar and the Doors vibe of the song …
Now this song hits a little bit different, the lyrics are so real to me. Arts never die. RIP Shannon
Big shout to all those whove suffered the pain and numbness of depression where excisting is the feeling rather then living but i am a survivor of this and there can be a better day.i found it with the right support around me.keep going people.props for writing this tune.lets talk about it.😊
❤
I can't freaking get over this song.
Could listen to this on repeat for hours and it always provides the "novelty high" like the first time... hallmark of a great song!
They play this song non stop at my gym so I had to find it
It's absolutely impossible for me
To listen to this song just once.
The lyrics and melody are just to addicting. It's Still as great as the first day it came out. This 90's music era (as far Rock, Hip Hop/Rap, & R&B) was so dope, there will never be another one like it. This song is a beautiful master piece IMO. Genius work.
agreed !
Me too, once is never enough. Change is also a great one
My friend graduates this Friday and I'm playing this on the ride home I'm giving him...its gonna be magical but so upsetting
I'm a songwriter myself and I really love his lyrics..lyrics are so situational and left to interpretation but I can always understand where he's coming from with his words..and that voice so imperfect but right on with his delivery,he just nails it and makes it all make sense.
What songs have you written?
+Scott Mattecheck dude you should chill out. he probably was just asking a simple question, not hating
Hey I'm a song writer as well. If only we could meet we could co write a song.
+Scott Mattecheck You call that hating? Bro, I want whatever you got.
I am here listening to Blind Melon. This song popped into my head. Very good song. No one is like him. His songs were so original
...after 30 yrs I am hearing .... thank you..
I sing this song at work all the time. I managed to get it stick in most of my coworkers’ heads and now it’s just a meme between us that keeps us going. Helps that they play it in the store sometimes too.
Words cannot describe how much that I love this song 💘
Everyone can connect to this song in someway shape or form. Great tune
Awwww the 90s. I'm torn between the 80s and 90s music. Great times, great music. Thank God for the ability to still remember.
Perfect song for a rainy morning :)
AKArainkit it's raining where I'm at had to play this song
Or a sunny day 😎 does Brighten up My day
This song has a new meaning for me every time I listen to it, it’s so good.
This song just puts me in a summary mood, no beaches or anything just driving down a road with fields to each side with completely clear blue skys.
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Melodious! Itust have been a blast putting this song together....Insane.🍷
Love the video the dancing bumblebee...so adorable... she grew up to be pretty actually.... R.I.P Shannon Hoon... love the song change also
hands down my favorite song ever
Ria Tovic used to be mine
Why used to??
My second but i debated it for ages
Is it still
I love Blind Melon and I also love this song ❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕
Such a simplistic masterpiece of juxtaposition. I adore this song.
I remember hearing this song on a blank cd I had found in my uncles truck one time. I must've been about 7 years old. I always skipped it for some reason. I ended up losing the cd somehow at one point some time after that but Id always catch myself humming the guitar melody on the intro every once in a while. To the point that I had to find out what it was called. I didn't know the lyrics though due to me always skipping the song before it got to the 10 sec mark. Anyways, about a couple years ago I was working nightshift at a gas station and it came on the radio. I pulled out shazam and felt very satisfied at finally figuring out the name of this song.
Listening in 2017. This song has staying power.
Sage same!
yup still power
Yeah your right I personally LOVE this song!
Same here in 2019
@@alexw.1361 2020
Lol, duh. Just realized what "blind melon" means. Melon is old slang like "noggin" for the word head. So, there basically saying "blind mind".
nice catch, I would never have gotten that :)
Actually, "blind melon" is what the lead singer's father used to call hippies. None of the band members knew why, they just liked it.
yehndor and I think I would have to be "third eye blind" to believe that...
Janes addiction
Deborah Schmidt oh I heard Jane was a really sweet girl they knew... lol.
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My second favourite song in the world. A song about severe depression and took this amazing mans life. Peace be with him✌
Living in the ghetto and realizing my environment and family wasn’t the best in the 90’s I love hearing this on the box channel back to back them tears held me together no rain no pain stay focus on your higher self made me realize the world fucked up because at that time I learned about race... how y’all not happy I was like life is not fair
Idk where I was going but I wanted to run far as I could forever... not living in the ghetto today but it was a long journey one of the first songs outside of rap that made me feel something.. I felt alive and understood
July 2020. One of my all time favorites since HS in the 90’s. Emotionally wrecked because of life, driving or walking in nature and singing this at the top of my lungs with a huge grin on my face. Paul Simon’s Cecelia is also on this playlist. :)
Yup, youre a fellow 90s kid, for sure.
But, with emotion aside, we are a cultured generation anyway.
You sound just like me! Hope all is well :)
You got this
This song makes me nostalgic about being depressed in the 90's.
This song is so retro late 1960s. Great song!
Is anyone still here listening to this masterpiece
and a lovely piece it is thank you mr Hoon
A great song which evokes pleasant memories of childhood
I'm not a huge fan of lyrics but Hoon always wrote the most relatable ones.
Been there and done that and thank God now it is time for me to let it go and move on. 🥲 It's a tough road to have to follow and I'm praying for anyone who is still on that path. ❤🙏🙏🙏
I first heard this song when i was a teenager and im 46 yrs old now but there has been just something about this song that grabbed ahold of me and i have always loved it and always will.... i cant even explain how it makes me feel when i hear it but its something that i have never felt before and to this day still nothing has made me feel this way!!!!
he has a beautiful voice, great choice of lyrics too. GJ
Wolf Gaming enjoy it because only guys can hit this note lol its called falsetto
cheers to the 90's for a great childhood!
when i remember the 90's this song brings me right back.
Out of all the music in my life I still keep coming back to this song
22 years old and grew up like it was 1986 everyday.
AMAZING !!!! The singing and style of this band is just like Jane's Addiction !!!!
+foureyedchick I think they were inspired by Jane's Addiction
one of those songs I can listen to a few times in a row
2019 yep Still Jamming to this.......
If you are here in quarantine to bless your ears, then babe you sure have a perfect taste in music I'm proud of you.
loving blind melon since like the 90s. so sad for losing a great talent. I would watch this video on tv at nephrology doing kidney dialysis, it kept me in harmony with a difficult job that I truly loved.
One of the best songs ever. Rest in Peace Shannon ❤
The most beautiful thing I'll ever read in a song in my life right now. God help me for how this song makes me feel just when I need it. Thank you.
Ive got requests to cover this song for years. Im here learning the words finally. Ive heard this song my entire life & love it🎶🎧
Heard this for the first time yesterday (Sunday 4th September 2023). A flight from Toronto to Calgary, for a family holiday to Banff. I'd had the Air Canada music channels on, after an episode of Young Sheldon, and Rocky. Up all day flying from Manchester (England) to Toronto.
The channel said 60s and 70s music, Stingray Music, but this played. I liked it.
One of the most beautiful songs of all time. Shannon's voice is incredible. What a shame
hands down my favorite song ever
2019 yep Still Jamming to this.......
hotboxing a car listening to this
misheard lyrics: "and all I can do is pull some teeth or two."
he has a beautiful voice, great choice of lyrics too. GJ
i forgot all about this song! my mom made me a cd when i was little and this song was on it. i used 2 listen 2 it over and over again
Excellent audio quality on this. Super music; it's such a great groove.
I remember hearing this song years ago. It's like someone in the comments said earlier this song never ages I'll never ages. But it just happened to click back into my memory banks when I heard it being used for a truck commercial . So naturally I had to learn how to play it play it. It's easier than I thought and I can't stop playing it
Excellent song! It reminds me of the good ol' 70's. Eagles, Woodstock 1969, Neil Young, The Band. There are Staaaaars in The Southern Skies
Escaaaaapeeeee!!! Love this song it never gets old...I just relax when it's on...
legit everytime I listen to this song I cry alittle bit.
Perfect song for a rainy morning :)
I can't freaking get over this song.
According to my mom, I was literally born to this song.
+Gabrielle Luc, I am your father?
In 92?
93!
"escaaapeee..."
Your one ugly ass
It's on my radio now. Following the lyrics with it...Bless you
❤❤❤❤❤played this at a memorial for my boyfriend yesterday
ha ive been sing "keep my cheating strategy" for 15 years. "Keep my cheeks dry today"
Muh Baykun thought it was “ keep my teenage tragedy”
I found a fossil
I always thought it was "keep my tea extracti-ing"
Thought it was "keep my cheating stripes hidddeennnn ya" lol thank you for the real words!
"Keep my chi exaggerated."
I've been listening to this song for well over a decade, and only now have I realized that the lyric was "I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today". I always thought it was "I'd like to keep my cheating stride today". I guess you hear what you want to hear. That's part of the beauty with 90's grunge and alternative rock :)
I'm usually of an expansive perspective, accepting the possibilities of the universe and it's vast, complicated mechanisms, but this song is simply soothing to the soul for someone who's seen too much.
Awesome song! :)
I always think of the movie Sideways, one of my favorite movies, when I heard this song because it was featured in the trailer. I love the beat to it and how it slows down in some parts.
My dad told me he went to his concert i wish i was able to
I love this song. Thanks Blind Melon.
Love this song , it was one of my favorites back in the day . We would listen to this song out on the boat , brings back good memories.
"i don't understand why i sleep all day, and start to complain there's no rain"
Been there lol
I sleep all day because I'm sad and just don't feel right here. I think that's kinda what that first part is. As for the second part, I think it's about seeing everyone around you being a bit more cheery in the spring (the music video highlights that) and being bitter or jealous of the happiness you see around you. I've felt that way before. I kinda came to the conclusion that it's okay to feel that way, but it's not okay to take it out on others just because they have what you struggle so hard daily to obtain. It's so hard not to be bitter sometimes, but I am what I am and it's up to me to change that. At times I've had to ask for help, and there's no shame in that in my book. Just always look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you're doing your best. If you can do that every day, get better every day in some small way, start looking at yourself in a new way with love and respect for the effort you're putting forth, you'll be just blown away by how amazing your life will quickly become. It's always a struggle though. It's hard to maintain. I've had to go through the cycle a few times but I'm glad I did it because I might have missed out on some amazing experiences if I had just given up like I wanted to so many times.
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain. I like watchin the puddles gather rain.
JAN 2020 - Who’s listening?
Helllllll yeahhhh brother
We're here.
Yep...
Yes! from Brazil .
Stop
For 15 years, I've been trying to find the name of this song and artist. But now that I have, I'm happy. :)
I have nothing to say in reference to your comment. I was just thinking about how your comment is 10 years old. And now I’m reading it. It’s virtual graffiti.
All the South is sounding through this song.
He was a Baby having his baby.
The 27 club got him too at his 28.
R.I.P.!
You did so good.
Too bad nobody told us about God.
One of my favourite songs at the moment👌I just love the chill vibe of it aye
oh chills firefish...all kids say that....that are on this kind of trip
annnnnyyyyyway, I loved the little girl above in the Blind Melon video she was so cute in her bumble bee outfit...
This song keeps me going. Thanks, Blind Melon.
I have always loved this song. Depression is no joke and this song i can relate to the most now at this time in life.
I was born in 1999 but love this song thanks to my mother old songs are better then some of the songs today.
Rock will never die...
You are blessed. Keep the old school alive
Old songs are all better than the new ones
Change that to *m o s t*
October 24th 2019, still listening to this
That was my 10th birthday
So I've listened to this song at least 26 times :P
I love the 90's. The songs in the 90's actually had essence.
Awww this was my first favorite song ever and it still is! I remember singing this ever since I was 3!
This used to be my mom's ringtone, I finally found this song and I'm happy :)
This is my favorite song of all time. I want it played at my funeral. Is that weird? Lol
No
Been listening to this song for many years! Will always be one of my absolute favorites!
Awesome song ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️