09. The nurse who loved me - A Perfect Circle
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2007
- Artist: A Perfect Circle
Album: THIRTEEN STEP
Track 09: The nurse who loved me
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Say hello to the rug's topography
It holds quite a lot of interest with your face down on it
Say hello to the shrinking in your head
You can't see it but you know its there so don't neglect it
I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white
She's got everything I need pharmacy keys
She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys
Say hello to all the apples on the ground
They were once in your eyes but you sneezed them out while sleeping
Say hello to everything you've left behind
It's even more a part of your life now that you can't touch it
I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white
She's got everything I need some pills and a little cup
She's falling hard for me I can see it in her eyes
She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys
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All a perfect circle songs in this user
This song literally sounds like a dream
This song literally is a dream.
Go back to sleep.
I wish it was, I stole a phone off one of the orderlies to listen to this song and leave a comment. Now for some porn...
When Maynard James Keenan covers a band, you know he's paying one hell of a compliment. Failure, you and The Cure are definitely in an elite list.
And John Lennon too
@@itsalolmor Of course!
Maynard would tell you Joni Mitchell. Facts.
I took a big dump.
This song takes me back. Back in 04, I would drive around for hours listening to this album.
I still do on road trips.
I was today years old when I found out this was a cover. How did I not hear about Failure in the 90’s is beyond me. The last couple hours I’ve had them on shuffle. Awesome band
As the saying goes "Failure is your favorite bands favorite band".
Failure did a great cover of Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode in 1999 it's a gem
@@Justen1980 it is bad ass, love it
No way! Thanks!
I’m 43 and recently had the same experience. I got heavily into rock between 1996-2008, the very years Failure were on… a little break.
An amazing cover from a criminally underrated band
This version is painfully beautiful to me
Shes got everything I need....pharmacy keys! ♡
*Xiola Blu Staley* never knew it said that. I made up my own lyric!😂
I just looked it up and my mind is blown. I always thought the line "far away from me".
The only thing we need, right?
Scott Bechtel bro it sounds nothing like that how did you come up with far away from me 😂😂
This is awesome. Really gives me that demented hospital stay state of mind. Maynard truly understands human minds and can toy with them. Scary, creepy, but Genius.
Considering the line "I'm taking her home with me all dressed in white" maybe enters in this category.
Not written by Maynard. Listen to the Failure version, the original artists. My opinion it is better no matter how much I like Perfect Circle and Tool (and some Pucifier)
@@drk321100% this is the best cover anyone could have done. But the OG version by failure is untouchable.
Both APC's and Failure's version of this song are amazing. This is what a cover should be. The song is still there, just in a vastly different context.
fuck yes!
YES
This song is a melodic masterpiece .........
Absolutely beautiful indeed 😍🎶
This song is originally from a band called-FAILURE. Go check it out... ;)
FAILURE did it
This is one I skip every time.
@@reeko9781 I used to do the same until listening to the original and listening to the lyrics. It's not just some jokey song about a guy thinking a nurse likes him, it's actually incredible songwriting
They could make a movie out of this song.
i wish they would
just to educate. this was originally a Failure song.
A much better version too!
***** will not try to persuade you; music is all opinion based. I would suggest looking Failure's version and decide for yourself.
+Time4theShades both amazing. this fortunately is on vinyl, and that only adds to the experience.
+marcuspaul2000 yeah bud, I collect records too. I'm not an audiophile but I can understand your reasoning. By the way, Failure is on vinyl too. Keep finding good jams
How so? APC's depiction of this song brings about a certain nostalgic feeling mixed with a beautiful blend of mystery and awe. Failure's version is like happily banging your head on a metal trash can.
This version really speaks to those who have been there. Beautiful cover.
Agreed. Was listening to this back in the day while I was there. lol Really brings about a nostalgic feeling when listening to it now.
I love this album. This song acts as a sedative, putting the listener into a trance just before kicking them in the face with “Pet”. And Pet continues what this song started by urging the listener to “go back to sleep”. Clearly a record meant to be listened to all the way through.
Agreed. Purposeful is an understatement.
I need the instruments to stream on for hours after the lyrics end for when I need to literally drift off into meditation while glaring out into the clouds. Maybe even loop the lyrics back after a while. They're so beautiful.
This song gives me the chills. It's so eerie and haunting...
Agreed. Reminds me of when I was on drugs heavy back in the day and in a really bad place in my life. Thankfully I've been clean for about a decade, but hearing this song reminds me of where I use to be and how far I've come; definitely eerie, haunting and nostalgic at the same time.
Yeah, beautiful, whimsical delusion-the music captures that as do the lyrics.
@@netkosent1620 The album this song is originally from (Fantastic Planet) is pretty much entirely about Heroin addiction. Very trippy and discordant
My wife was the nurse, as a veteran who fulling supports APC my wife was my nurse, she was my caregiver, and throughout or relationship she always dealt with my ptsd, my tbi, my spinal issues. Until one day I tried to commit suicide. We were never really stable in our marriage because we were so like minded but everything really ended there, I hid myself as to not hurt her again. To this day, we are still best friends and always will be but I tried to say hello to the rugs topography. This song has more meaning to me than any other song I’ve ever heard and I pray that one day she will find this song on her own because I can’t bare to show it to her without breaking down with sadness and guilt. I love you Sophia Solano
I just cried with ur post
@@giovannigiorgio4622 this is one of the saddest things I have ever read. I want to find you, hug you so tightly that you almost can't breathe, and take your hand and lead you away to a place where you will be forced to feel. The good, the bad, the ugly...I want to make you feel something, anything because I understand the cold caress of the empty black hole of nothing you speak of very well.
I would take you away, deep into the forrest on a moonlit night and we would play music, dance and sing under the stars. Preferably nude (this is not sexual, only for vulnerability). Scream and cry and laugh til we throw up. Hold hands and jump on 3 into the freezing cold river and watch our breath clouds plume around our faces and up into the night sky. I would do anything to make you feel again even if I have to provoke you into anger or even hatred for me. I wish I knew you in this life so I could take you away from all the pain that has caused you to cocoon yourself into nothingness for protection. Please remember that your cocoon, while necessary, is only temporary and when your cycle is over and metamorphosis achieved you will emerge entirely anew. Something empty becomes something beautiful and full with new wings. Cocoon yourself now, yes. But remember to emerge my friend. You are only in a time of great change. You will fly again. The skies will know you once more.
Thanks Israel.
Dude when you look at that rug next time you better be upright and just know I've seen my shit sideways as well. keep me up as well. Love ya don't know ya but keep ya head up!
Wow man
I fell in love with a nurse, I showed her this when we first became inseparable... Funny thing is we both work with the mentally ill.
ThoughtIWasDreamin I gotta know, are you still with them?
@@tysonjones8251 oh goteem
Probably not the best song to play for your significant other, considering the lyrics. 😂 Lmao
ThoughtIWasDreamin Does she, or maybe even yourself still have pharmacy keys you can hook a brother up with? Don’t know if you don’t ask right? Lol
@@Fiveinaline Just go to the doctor. They're not against prescribing medicine. lol
oh man this takes me back to when my daughter was born, she had colic and this was the only thing that would sooth her to sleep, must me maynard's voice :)
That's absolutely beautiful! Y'all have a wonderful day 😊
Aww.. The cutest thing i've read in a long time.
@Mod Spoge Podge lol How does that make them an amazing parent? For you all you know, they could get drunk every day and beat their daughter also. "Ohhh, you play a song about drugs and rehab to your sick daughter; you are an amazing parent!" Oooookay. Standards much? :D
Currently doing that with my fussy son
Netkos Ent you have a lot of things to work out don’t you ..
Love this track it reminds me of music from an older era like sometime between the 1920s & 40s as if it should be played on a Gramophone or something it just has that haunting past aesthetic to it imo.
Beautiful
This version of the song kind of puts me in a trance. It's more surreal to me. I can see through the narrator's eyes and feel what he feels for the "nurse"
I think this song is from the perspective of a mental patient who falls in love with a nurse and is delusional about her having feelings for him as well and when he says "She acts just like a nurse with all the other guys" He thinks she's giving other people the attention only he deserves.
He mistakes her kindness with love and she might not even have a clue he feels this way about her. She's just a simple nurse doing her job
Couldn't have said it better
Kumori Miyuki I can tell you exactly what it's about: getting over heroin addiction.
I think he's more so talking about about falling in love with his drug dealer than he is an actual nurse. The entire Fantastic Planet album is pretty much about doing drugs so it seems to fit better. But that what's beautiful about music and lyrics, it's open to whatever interpretation you can imagine.
Kumori Miyuki i kinda thought the line, "..acts just like a nurse.." might imply that she sticks to being professional around "all the other guys" and somehow he perceives her to treat him in a special way, even though she isnt.
Bill Billson I definitely agree
Love Maynard's voice so much, everything sounds so beautiful on this track
"she's got everything I need,pharmacy keys" lol that would be a perfect GF !!!!!
Maynard brought me here! The fucks a Grump!?
Someone who likes good music, good friends, and games ranging from good, to horrid, but enjoying the camaraderie nonetheless.
+Paradigm Storytime comradery*
Listen to the failure version, which is the original, then expand on failure. You won't be disappointed.
the original, the Failure version, is so good
Yeah I had never herd of them until i saw Tool live. They blew my mind.
did this after seeing Failure open for Tool. Changed my life, Failure's for sure in my top 10 bands list.
Wow great advice thanks.
can confirm. Went on this journey and Failure is awesome. cheers
This cover reminds me of the Johnny Cash cover of hurt. Where the two songs, while distinctly their own, seem to elevate one another. They inform each other and in that create something greater than the sum of their parts. Maynard is a genius but this work comes from the collaborative spirit that guides all of great art. Failure isn't so much a failure after all, no?
this is pretty wise!
Je répond en français .
Je ne sais pas si maynard est un génie. Je ne crois pas. Maynard est dans au moins 3 groupes.
J'aurai jamais payé la somme qu'il ont demandé pour la première édition de leur dernier album! Ça va pas chez eux? Putain en plus pour un album qu'on attendait depuis plus de 10 ans??!! Là je crois que je vais décrocher.. surtout que je trouve que puscifer deviens meilleur!
Tant pis.
This version feels intense and not only does the vocal pitch here feel more powerful but the instrumentals are much more powerful. The failure version feels like a bar song. One of those songs people would go on eating a burger while ignoring while being lyrically misleading. Something akin to last kiss where people just dont notice its meat.
The other comment about hurt... im a johnny cash fan but that song was so awful " to me" that it made me stop listening to him. I know this is an incredibly unpopular opinion but trent reznors hurt is so insanely intense and filled with emotion that johnny cash fell flat on his face. I heard for years after its release that NIN covered cash because people just assume as hes old or something.
I always though that instead of it being older, its more that hes version was so dated and felt watered down. If it had come out prior id say sure trent made a cover that took a bored feeling song and made it impactful but as its the other way around it just frustrated me.
As stated im apparently alone in this as everyone loved the cash version " so they say" since i dont hear anyone talk about it currently and i still ocasionally at least hear about nin. Albeit these are rare as nin has kind of faded into obscurity as well.
@@omanlady123456 wym by fading into obscurity?
one of the best perfect circle songs (even though its a cover) beautiful.
I always see this almost comicly serene sanitarium scene playing out in slow motion when I listen to this song. One of the greatest songs to just step back and analyze the day with. Things could always be worse.
Such a beautiful song
This is so goddamn beautiful in the middle of the LP
I don’t know what that whimsical sounding melody is at the end or what instrument was used but I look forward to it every time I hear this song. Woke up today with that playing in my head, had to have a listen. Good morning 🥳
yesssss
Both versions of this are absolutely amazing.
The Failure version, my god.. A song has not made me feel like that since the first time I heard Something in the Way..
The A Perfect Circle version of it.. It absolutely speaks to me in a totally different way. Maynard makes it seem so much for melancholy and sad, but at the same to uplifting and cheery. It just absolutely blows my mind.
Nothing is more pleasing to the eye than a beautiful nurse. It’s the man’s version of liking girls in uniform. Or maybe nurses are just seen as caring people.
this song has the ability to..
lift you up and stick you in a completely different world for all of 04:05 mins and then slowly replaces you back in reality.
Beauty in music.
Gotta give credit to Failure for writing the song. But i find this version more beautiful and creepy.
Duog Welkar OK you didn’t hear this from me, but this is the better version of an already fantastic song by Failure.
This song has much more effect on me. Don't tell anyone or I will be hated in a second.
Guess it’s what you prefer
I mean to me the OG sounds like it’s currently being told from a man in the same situation as the cover because Y’know, obvious is obvious- but rather than being still in trance due to possible drugs and such causing a dream/heaven like feeling, this man instead is currently beginning the process of what’s soon to become a complete breakdown.
Idk, I prefer Failure’s as i just tend to enjoy slow yet also crude and harsh sounding music but it’s obvious to see the appeal of the melancholic melody of this cover instead.
I bet most people don’t even know the original by failure which is a magnificent band
i feel like the majority of comments ive seen are about how its a failure cover
Your favorite bands favorite band.
@@sudmuck like the norm MacDonald of bands
@@johnsmith3859 most accurate description of anything ever. Damn, dude. Lol
I don't even know wtf the game grumps is....I heard this song for the first time when I popped the CD into my player in my pickup after I dug through albums at a record store! How has that become non-existent??! I feel like youngsters are missing out because they will never again be able to experience music like we did before limewire and Napster.....ok.....did I just sound like the old guy?! Disregard everything I just said and carry on! Ha! Glad you youngsters still appreciate bands like this!
LMMFAO...I'm afraid that you did indeed just sound like the old guy. I'm 50 and I hardly remember Napster, and never used them. And Limewire (hasn't been Limewire for many years, if they even still exist in any form ). Your comment did humor the hell out of me though, and I thank you for that. 🐺☮☯🕉🐺
Jess Blackwolf u should watch them they are really funny
For the nurses and other medical staffs who look after the patients... salute
Failure-Fantastic Planet. Thank you.
Am I the only one who has one small tear rolling down my face?
I'm not crying you're crying shut up
Go away Schlomo.
Somewhat Evil have you guys heard the interview they gave about this song? Its about him falling in love with a nurse and trapping her and keeping her for himself. First line "say hello the rugs topography" he knocks her out
Probably, yes. But "Gravity"...that one hits home for me.
This version really does hit in a different way than the original.
I can relate to this song in so many ways... Not just addiction...but a significant other
You’re stronger than both of them.
There's so many interpritations to this song. That's why I love it.
I think it's about a mental patient who's convinced that the hospital nurse is in love with him and that she treats him special from the rest of the patients.
The Grumps sure as hell know great music.
I played this during the ring ceremony at my wedding, best choice ever. The oldies loved it and my friends giggled :)
Dan is this you?
To the nurse that saved my life. Thank you
This song is relatable.
Its 2020. What a year.
This song reminds me of being in rehab there's always that one nurse I fall for
Oh my glob... the golden times returned like a film in my mind.
Such talent...you are amazing Maynard.
Failure or APC, both so amazing.
For the record, this is a cover. Failure was the band who wrote this
*Insert generic comment saying "HEY I'M GRUMP" or "Wow thanks Danny!" here*
This song is so darkly funny. Being a horror fan, I can definitely appreciate it.
To the negative nellys being rude to each other in the comments, really. You're here because of a beautiful song that belongs to this wonderful group of people. Go argue with the christians and show some love to your likeminded individuals.
I love this song alot and I love everyone's interpretation of the song.
My husband told me this was the song he heard while in an OD coma for 3 weeks.
One of my absolute all time favorites. First heard in 2003 and still evokes the same reaction in me that it did 15 years ago.
this song reminds me of someone i miss so much
Same
Who and why?
@@netkosent1620 we will never know
@@yogiattack9933 You may be right. Over a year ago I set out on my quest to find answers. As I write this, I'm currently riding down the Amazon river to speak with a shaman that lives in the woods. If the spirits of nature are unable to bring me the answers through psychedelic plants then I think we're out of luck.
This is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Even though it talks about the subject of being addicted to medication and lust.
I honestly wish A Perfect Circle would cover everyone of FAILURE's songs.
Ken Andrews' emotion, and their etherial sound will not be matched.
When I went to detox, I flirted with the nurse. We dated for like 5 months. That was fun, a Pink Cloud of a reality.
Anyone still here 2019?
Right here with ya man! 🤘
Where else would anyone be?
Here in Dec 2019
2020
2020 and still here my friend!!
This song just feels to me like lying in a hospital bed on all manner of drugs. I love it, it's so dreamy, but off sounding at the same time.
thanks I love this song, its in love sinking through the skins in the memory dept. backwards . dressed in white.
After nearly 2 decades of listening to and studying this song from a lyricist's perspective, I've come to a pretty solid theory about the actual meaning of the song. Initially, I fully believed that the "rug" was a literal one; I envisioned a man in an institution, transfixed on the carpet as many mentally ill people tend to obsess over ordinary things, and to "see" things that "normal" people do not. Along with my original understanding, I believed that the line about "she acts just like a nurse, with all the other guys" was a delusion about this nurse's secret love for him, and that "all the other guys" were merely patients to this nurse. The mention of drugs, in my mind, only confirmed my belief that he had been heavily medicated, thus causing the lethargy of laying on the ground and examining the "rug". However, this is not just one isolated song on an album; The Thirteenth Step is a full story about an addicted woman, and the consequences of her addictions, along with the codependency of her male partner; his addiction to HER. This song is a chapter in this album's story. It is not disconnected from the album's theme. Here's what I've found after so many years:
The person in the institution is not a man, but a woman. As addicts, we will set aside our morals, authentic feelings, and habits in order to get what we want. So, she devises a plan to get what she wants, that being access to drugs. While she herself may not have same-sex attraction, she has been observing a particular nurse who she discovers is same-sex attracted. She uses this in order to seduce her, and get this nurse to provide her with drugs. Notice that the title is, 'The Nurse Who Loved ME', not 'The Nurse I Loved'. Now, this next part may seem a stretch, but just hear me out: the rug is a metaphor. "Say hello to the rug's topography, it holds quite a lot of interest with your face down on it". This is a direct reference to the female anatomy. "Say hello" is a reference to the woman's inexperience and unfamiliarity with sexual intimacy with another woman. "She's got everything I need; pharmacy keys/some pills in a little cup" is about the addict's real motives. She doesn't need or want love, a relationship, or anything other than the drugs that this nurse provides. "She acts just like a nurse to all the other guys" was a line I once thought meant that the "male" patient was delusional, thinking that this nurse only treated the other patients as patients, but that she secretly loved him. Now I realized that this line is about the woman addict recognizing that this nurse has no interest in men, beyond her normal duties as a nurse. The "apples on the ground" are representative of the things that were once important to her: her values, her self-worth, her family and friends. But while "sleeping" (being high all the time), she "sneezed them out", leaving room only for her desperate desire for drugs.
This song (along with the entire album) is absolutely brilliant in its imagery, use of metaphor, musical composition, and mood. It paints a perfect picture of the mind of an active drug user, and the lengths we will go to, even at the detriment of ourselves and others, to feed that insidious thing we call addiction. Please reply if you have any insights, comments, or questions. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Ima learn this on ukulele :D
Fuck you from 11 years ago
Amazing cover...this mans voice is underrated
Such beautiful music!!! such a nice voice!!!Everything in this world isnt UGLY afterall....
came to the comments to see debates on what the song is about, only found fuckin game grumps shit.
Sometimes that's how life works out
Dayna Popdan
Same.
What do YOU think the song is about?
Awesome cover but definitely check out the original by failure
Oh my gosh! It was so cool to hear this again!!!
Not once, but twice...it closes a perfect circle!!! say hello both of you...
great Failure cover.
One time, my ex called me saying she wanted me back, after she cheated on me.. So, I asked her if I could sing her a song, and she eagerly said yes.. After that, I began singing this, with a lot of emphisis, and after I was done, she asked me, "What was that supposed to mean?" I simpily replied 'Everything you've lost.' Hung up on her, and haven't talked to her since.. I love this song.. It has a lot of meaning for me.. 5/5, one of APC's best.
god, i love Jimmy's ability to lay some double meaning into his lyrics. I'd say genius but, no, just human and not afraid to show it.
A great tribute to the original. But the original (Failure) is sublime.
Does this song remind anyone of Hemingways A Farewell to Arms? it fits the book so well, and the sounds fit the time, setting, and plot so well!
i thoughts similar about this song first time I heard it
Same. U found the 5 ppl on earth who read. Lol
If you played this song to a crowd of people in the 1940s, do you you think they would be able to tell if it was from the future or not? I'm not joking I'm serious. This song feels very 1940s-ish. Like it would be played in a 40s romance drama movie.
😍😍😍😍😍 Such an amazing throwback.
If only CAPSLOCK-BOY knew that Howerdel was the primary writer for APC, he might recant that scathing display of immaturity. One could only hope!
Grump bump
thanks arin
Fri, March 29, 2019. I was obsessed with this song when I was in foster care. This band, and tool obv. Now, my fiance is almost done becoming a nurse. Weird how that played out....
This was the song I listened to the very first time I took an oxy (which ended up turning into a 9 year addiction to both oxys and heroin) and I should have known it wasn't going to turn out well, my life was falling apart around me: I just lost a pregnancy a few weeks prior, my boyfriend was a physically and mentally abusive older guy who had manipulated my young and immature self into dropping all my friends, my family and I were constantly fighting over my relationship and I had lost a job that I loved because he didn't want me working. I still remember how none of that crap seemed to matter after poppin that oxy and just sitting there listening to this song which was odd considering i wasn't into this type of music at all but combined with the warm fuzzy euphoria I felt it just seemed to fit perfectly with the song. I never got to feel that same exact high again except for the first time I took heroin (which I also played this song too)so I spent the next decade trying to feel it again and nothing ever compared to that 1st high. I'm 6 years clean now and I think this is my 1st time revisting this song and ngl part of it makes me crave that feeling again but a bigger part of me feels proud because of how far ive come since that night .
Hope you're doing well; quite a tale, wow, sometimes music unites us outcasts, glad you wrote that experience, you are loved 🖖✌❤
Year and a half clean here, I also listened to APC when I first started using. Not this song in particular, but they all have that sort of "Past life" vibe to them. Hope you're doing well! Congrats on being clean!
The nurse is just doing a job and doesn't love him at all.
Well your very beautiful
I got out of rehab today, I'm not going to lie, this song played in my head every time I stared at the beautiful woman smiling from across the room. Junky Love in a 12 step program, they call it the 13th step.
Junky
yes .... it´s so magical
this song is SO pretty!
methadone clinic
That's where I go every day lol. Not going to lie, this song hold a special place in my drug addled heart.
pretty sure the part about the rug is about bein face down fucked up on the floor lmao xD imo
Pharmacy keys still reminds of what brought me to this song. That one dead rising game grumps episode
In love with this tune
Is anyone else reminded of Bioshock when listening to this?
It does fit, yeah.
chaos120m the ending to that movie sucks and that director has a shitty message. but brad pit was good in that movie
Norman Rucker movie was goat. can't wait for the series.
I feel more Silent Hill...
I was thinking more of Across The Universe. *spoiler alert* The scene where Max is recovering in the hospital after deployment.
Back cause of Danny Sexbang, don't get me wrong, I listen to this song all the time and this band, as well as Tool, all the damn time. Just thought I'd come and listen again cause Danny mentioned it lol
Can't wait for the next Tool album, Maynard is a musical genius, can't get enough of his work.
say hello to the rug's typography ( AKA face meet the floor) love this song!
I've been there, and this song also played in my head the entire time I was there. It is amazing that a non- addict could write a song with such truth.
the sexbang sent me.
come on and slam and welcome to the jam goddammit
anyone still here in 2018?
Evan .M of course
You
Almost 2019 bud
Ya
Don't call it a come back
i think the thing that makes this song even better is the possibility that since he's drugged up the whole love thing may not even be true but is just a figment of his imagination which would make the whole beauty of the song fell hollow and empty. Amazing song