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Candlebox - You (Official Music Video)


Candlebox frontman Kevin Martin details here the way he was controlled by drugs when he was very young and how he eventually got off them. He explains:


"I had stolen money from my parents to buy drugs and I had a real problem when I was in high school. On my 18th birthday I went to see [the Australian band] Midnight Oil and Peter Garrett just floored me as a frontman. I woke up the next morning and said, 'That's it,' and I quit. I paid my parents back and I haven't done drugs since. Well, I don't consider mushrooms and anything that's organic or natural to be a drug. So I still smoke pot every now and then. So that song's really about just saying goodbye to that dependency."


Samuel Bayer, famous for his work on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "No Rain," directed the video.

Lyrics

You It's for you Only you It's for you I'll never know I'll never care I'll never believe my people I'll tell you what I say I'll never lie I'll never try I'll never cry for you people I'll push you Push away As you lonely people Keep on running 'round my door Yes, you lonely people Keep on begging Beg for more And I'll cry for you Yes I'll die for you Pain in my heart it is real And I'll tell you now how I feel inside Feel in my heart it's for you It's for you Only you It's for you I'll never try I'll never die I'll never push for you people I'll tell you how I feel I'll never lie I'll never cry I'll never try for you people I'll tell you, yes it's real As you lonely people Keep on passing time away Yes you lonely people keep on passing, Pass away And I'll cry for you Yes, I'll die for you Pain in my heart it is real And I'll tell you now how I feel inside Feel in my heart it's for you And I'll take everything As it comes my way Pushin' your pain 'round my door And I'll I cry for you as I die for you Is this blood on my hands all for you? You shiver And shudder Recovers your mother You feel it take control All alone Feel alive In your soul Come around town Steal another dime Take another line Won't you feel it Blanket your soul Out of mind Come around town Steal another dime Do another crime Won't you get it higher and higher All through time Come around town Steal another dime Don't you push your drugs in my face Yes, I feel it Feeling fine Don't you push your drugs in my face Or I'm gonna put you in your place Fuck you I don't want it no more And it's mine Said this pain in my heart is all mine Yes, it's mine all alone I don't want it no more I don't want it no more I don't want it no more I don't want it no more And it's mine on my own Yes, it's mine all alone As I cry for you Yes, I'll die for you Pain in my heart, it is real And I'll take Everything as it comes my way Feel in my heart it's for you And I'll lie for you as I die for you Pain in my heart it is real And I'll tell you now How I feel inside Fuck you It's for you



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