Blurry

"Blurry"
Single by Puddle of Mudd
from the album Come Clean
Released	December 4, 2001 (2001-12-04)
Format	CD single
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	5:04 (album version) 4:17 (radio/video version)
Label	Flawless/Geffen Records
Writer(s)	Wes Scantlin
Puddle of Mudd singles chronology
"Control" (2001) "Blurry" (2001) "Drift & Die" (2002)

"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.^[1]

"Blurry" is about a break-up, as well as 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".

Music video

The music video for the song shows Scantlin playing with his son interspersed with the band playing in a garage, and towards the end as the song picks up, it shows Jordan driving off in the back seat with a man and a woman in the front seat (presumably Jordan's mother and stepfather), as Wes watches the car sadly. The video was directed by Limp Bizkit frontman, Fred Durst.

Uses

• This song was used as the title theme for the video game, Ace Combat 5.
• This song was used in the trailer for the 2003 film, A Man Apart.

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