Blurry

Blurry is a 2001 song by Puddle of Mudd, released as their second single from the album Come Clean. The song is probably the band's best known song, reaching the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts for ten and nine weeks, respectively. This soon propelled the single to mainstream success, reaching the #5 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The song starts off with harmonics played on the guitar along with the drums and bass. Though the song mainly has guitars with clean tones, distortion is used in the chorus. Blurry is about a breakup, and cowardice. The song was primarily written about how lead singer Wes Scantlin misses his son, Jordan. It is best known for its refrain, from which it derived its secondary name: "Can you take it all away? / Can you take it all away? / When you shoved it in my face / This pain you gave to me".

[Verse 1] Everything's so blurry and everyone's so fake And everybody's empty and everything is so messed up Preoccupied, without you, I cannot live at all My whole world surrounds you, I stumble then I crawl [Verse 2] You could be my someone, you could be my scene You know that I'll protect you from all of the obscene I wonder what you're doing, imagine where you are There's oceans in between us, but that's not very far [Chorus] Can you take it all away? Can you take it all away? Well, you shoved it in my face This pain you gave to me Can you take it all away? Can you take it all away? Well, you shoved it in my face [Verse 3] Everyone is changing, there's no one left that's real So make up your own ending and let me know just how you feel 'Cause I am lost without you, I cannot live at all My whole world surrounds you, I stumble then I crawl [Verse 4] And you could be my someone, you could be my scene You know that I will save you from all of the unclean I wonder what you're doing, I wonder where you are There's oceans in between us, but that's not very far [Chorus] Can you take it all away? Can you take it all away? Well, you shoved it in my face This pain you gave to me Can you take it all away? Can you take it all away? Well, you shoved it in my face This pain you gave to me [Bridge] No-nobody told me what you thought Nobody told me what to say Everyone showed you where to turn Told you when to run away Nobody told you where to hide Nobody told you what to say Everyone showed you where to turn Showed you when to run away [Chorus] Can you take it all away? Can you take it all away? Well, you shoved it in my face This pain you gave to me Can you take it all away? Can you take it all away? Well, you shoved it in my face This pain you gave to me No, this pain you gave to me This pain you gave to me [Outro] Can you take it all, can you take it all away? This pain you gave to me Can you take it all away? This pain you gave to me Can you take it all away? This pain you gave to me