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  • This song is about God....

  • Ever heard of Porcupine Tree? Amazing talent there.

  • Cool tune, I found out about these guys through reading 'Traveling Music' by Rush's Neil Peart. He talked about this band in his book. I'm a drummer of 35 years (hobby really) Huge fan of Rush and Neil's taste in music is pretty good too.

  • +1 if Boyce Avenue does it better.

  • wow. only 40 dislikes that very impressive

  • Hes everything I want

    Hes everything I need

    Hes everything inside me that I wish I could be

    He says all the right things at exactly the right time

    but he means nothing to me and I dont know why

    story of my life.....

  • I knew this guy that believed this song depicted the way he was toward his girlfriend. How he is everything to her and how she needs no other. I pointed out to him at the end of the song its about being the perfect man also being there for us by how we dont want him. There is no one perfect except...Him...

  • The song is about Jesus, there a christian rock band I don't think anyone gets this because this song was popular.

  • not that i can say this from experience, but i think that sometimes you need to relinquish the attention and care you give to someone before they start needing it and wanting it from you.

  • God watching this video and then reading the comments emphasizes how much I F*CKIN HATE THE goddam*ed kids and people of today. Do we have to see your f*cking invented phrases like "friend zone" in 1000 places. Don't fuc*ing invent new terms and then go around using them like they're a thing and you're cool. You're not, you're a fucking dork

  • @552mustang you do realize that you just completely obliterated the evolution of language, right? had we never started going around saying new things spoken language wouldn't exist, i think it is you who should think before speaking.

  • @552mustang You using the same fuckin words everyday for the rest of your life and not updating your words makes you a fucken caveman

  • I just got officially friend-zoned by someone I've liked for a long time about 20 minutes ago. So naturally, I came to mope and watch this video while I eat a ton of ice cream. ;_;

  • What do you all think this song is talking about? Im confused and was just wondering if its about him and what he is trying to say a girl or is that wrong?

  • This song has always spoken to me since I was in Jail in 2004. This is Jesus crying out to us all because he did not just die for the ones that believe in him but for all those that don't believe...

  • This song has always spoke to me too. I agree with you.

  • @bvc111 i always wondered the meaning of this song until my paster explained it all in church. God is crying out to all the believers and unbelievers because nobody really realizes that hes EVERYTHING we want and need but we still put him down and push him off to the side as if hes absolutely nothing.

  • Adam Lambert 0:26

  • great band!!!!!!

  • If anybody is complaining about being left in the friend zone you better grow up and nut up cause all you have to do is tell the damn girl or guy how you feel. Its all a matter of how your confession is going to effect your relationship and whether you're willing to risk the friendship for the possible relationship.

  • after watching/listening to this for I don't know how long....I just noticed he has blue eyes =P.....and no idea what you guys are talking about....friend zone and all that......and lastblakrose I'm with you girls deserve so much more respect then they have been given....as beautiful and amazing as they are.....never settle for second best....well have a nice day everyone...don't do anything illegal -cough- =P.....I love You, Garett

  • i remember hearing this song when i was 6, im now 18 and this may be about the friend zone, but for me its a good reminder of how fast 12 years has gone. Its true the friend zone may suck, but its not the end of the world.

  • Being in a friend zone aint that bad, friendship is forever while relationships can end.

  • Matt Scannell (the lead singer) has gorgeous eyes.

  • Dude... It would totally just make my millennium if you'd lend me those shiny pants D :}

  • I love this song but I didn't realize the band was so douchesque'. Still a great song.

  • Some people don't realize that girls get stuck in the friend zone too so I can relate to this song. I've been stuck in the friend zone quite a few times by guys.

  • This was the story of my life for the longest time, now I have someone who has full interest and loves me for me and I her. When I come back to this song it just reminds me of those times wondering.... and now i know i don't have to. =)

  • I'm actually pretty certain....given the first two stanzas and other songs by this band...that they are actually referring to God being everything she needs....not another guy. And when he changes to "I'm" He's speaking as if God was speaking....

  • Wallflowers. Gin Blossoms shit gotta love the "flash in the pan" 90s

  • great song. I fucking hate how its true...

  • SOML. And I feel so bad.

  • oh man!!! music of my youth!!!

  • just did an R&B cover to this song on my page..check it out please

  • This song makes me wish i could feel again

  • @1of111 dude, everything is gonna be okay. i promise. you WILL feel again.

  • @MYnameISiDOwhatIwant

    if so, only more pain :\

  • @1of111 nahh, you'll be fine. you've got to experience the bad before you can enjoy the good. cliche, but extremely true. trust me, i know from experience. :).

  • He reminds me of voldemort!!! OMG

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  • God, this reminds me of how fucked up my love life has been recently. Meh... fuck the friend zone!

  • Hey everyone, I'm an aspiring musician, been singing since I was a kid... I did my own cover version of this song, if you want to hear it, then go to my channel... I promise you will like it!!!

  • @JoshCarte2012 Dude I fucking love your voice. (No homo) I really like the cover you made you should make a tutorial on that song too. By the way the cover is really good, you have talent, You should just try singing the chorus with a raspy tone If you notice his voice is not really all that high pitched !

  • @borderboppin Thanks man I'll see what I can do with a tutorial. I'm working on a second cover right now, trying to get this channel going first.

  • Jade German, F OF! I'm such a loser for doing shit.

  • "...I was in love with this girl, and she was just a broken person. She kept turning to everyone except me for love and acceptance, and I wanted so much to help her. I wanted to be the one to give her everything she wanted, but I couldn't. She just couldn't accept it from me, and it was that pain, that led me to creating the song." Matt Scannell.

  • the most underrated overplayed song ever! 

  • truest of true <3

  • Amen.

  • He was everything I'd want

    He was everything I'd need

    He was everything inside of me that I wish I could be,

    He said all the right things at exactly the right times

    But I meant nothing to him and I don't know why

    This is what I herd the first time listening to this song :/

  • forever alone

  • friendzoned

  • Great freakin song....I LOVE IT!!

  • This is my song I love it lol

  • Please rise for the Friend Zone National Anthem.

  • @Shadowlolz Haha. Well put.

  • she's the perfect girl for me and i know im the perfect guy for her, but she doesnt want me and i dont know why...if only i could see why, this pain would go away

  • Lol this song to me sounds like he's talking about God. I mean, you can disagree, it just sounds very logical to me. I think this song is an awesome, spiritual metaphor in my opinion and the satirical point of view he uses in the song is great song writing, especially when he switches to "I" from "He."

  • @Quadropheno That was a common interpretation when the song came out, I for one believe it means whatever the listener hears but in an interview they talk about it and that everyone has been "friend zoned" before! But again, music is whatever the listener hears!

  • @Horseinthefog Oh okay, yeah i still like my interpretation better :)

  • Oh fuck, nostalgia.

  • what does the music video represent? this might be a stupid question but i really don't get it. it seems like it contradicts the song.

  • I consider this song part of the great 90's era even though it came out in 2000.

  • Y'all keep bitching about how girls keep guys in the "friend zone", but what about us girls? We get left there too and you all wonder why we turn to assholes who will, no doubt, break our heart? stop and take a look at the girls YOU'VE left in the friend zone before you run your mouth. (and, jsyk, I am one of those girls that falls for her best friends, and doesn't leave them in the "friend zone", but i've seen this happen to many of my best girlfriends. It's happened to me before too.)

  • @lastblakrose Ummm what? I have never put a girl in the friend zone unless she's put me there first

  • @lastblakrose You do realize that its a cultural norm for the guy to ask the girl out. It's hardly ever the case that the ladder asks out the former. That's why you always here about guys being afraid of rejection and these PUA sites that are in mass resurgence and have a pretty much exclusive male membership. It happens both way, but its probably more so with men.

  • @jshowa10 well then maybe us girls should step up and start asking the guys out once in a great while

  • @MsGothicgirl101 Why once in a great while? Why not when you like the person enough, and they haven't made the first move, you make it. Even though you might be rejected, it sure takes a lot of pressure off the guy and, in fact, we'd probably enjoy it more due to the shear spontaneity of it. I like girls that can take initiative, makes life less dramatic and more reliable.

  • @lastblakrose girls made it popular for a long time but because guys do it sometimes it's a big deal right i mean it is always the guys fault right that is the only possible way you can see because of what you probably went through... everyone has their story so just try and show some respect.

  • @lastblakrose Guys don't know about the friend zone. You're just not very attractive. (Sorry)

  • most of the time what you want, isn't what you need. or else ya wouldn't want it,lol

  • @Brentfil06: People will treat you like "anything" if you're not what they want while waiting for what they're really after; it's a nasty, yet common side effect of being open to others, whether there are good intentions or not. This is your first most important lesson about heartbreak; no, the outcome was not in your favor, but this should raise your awareness, partner.  :-) 1) Don't stalk her 2) Don't call her 3) Hit the gym, get the anger out until the next one shows up THIS IS PROVEN!! :-)

  • i seriously think some stupid ppl must dislike videos at random... WHO DOESN'T LOVE THIS????

    i also think Youtube needs to add a "LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!" button lol.

  • they used to play this song all the time at the dances in 5th and 6th grades. Ah, so long ago already.

  • Very interesting music vid

  • The amount of high school drama being chatted about in the comments made me throw up in my mouth.

  • man words can't describe how disappointing it is to have one's highschool relationships with the opposite sex summed up in one song.

  • i freakin LOVE how the red 'dislike' part of the bar is NOT EVEN NOTICABLE!! ha

    score to the peeps who "like" this!!

  • this Toni666Girl obviously doesn't deserve any MAN if that's how she views the friendzone.. if he's too kind to you it's cause he chooses to be.. don't take advantage of it don't cop out with the saying "I'd rather have him there forever, instead of risking breaking his heart." that's just fucked up.. I hope the guy you're with realizes how fucked up your mind is and just friend zones you.

  • You know what the worst part about the fucking "friendzone"? You think 100%, that you each like eachother. Then you get your hopes up, and start to get all those awesome feelings. Only to be just utterly crushed, it constantly happens to me.....I want to just give up!

  • There was this girl on this cruise that I really liked, but she was always hung out with this other guy way more than me, no matter what I did, and that guy didn't even have to try. It just made me so jealous, the fact I couldn't be as much of a friend to her as that guy, that I couldn't spend as much time with her.

  • I was s young when I first saw this video. I didn't even understand the song at the time but I love it now.

  • We can't live in the past. That's why we have to change the future. Abolish all of these shitty musicians in the present and bring back the alternative rock of the blessed 90's.

  • I can't get a girlfriend, wannnn it no fair my little bother have 3 right now!!!...oh, wait maybe if I actually ask a girl out I could get one... naw that sound lame

  • @id493337 Keep your head up, bro.

  • @tigerfan5

    Huh? why?

  • gawd i love tis song i cud listeen to this on repeat forever

  • @EMaster9,

    ........Thanks, But once I got past the whole "Friendzone" Thing...

    I found this amazing guy. Yea I was wrong for thinking I can protect him.

    I'm also getting married to him; So no I didn't hurt him.

  • Listening to this song reminds me of the first time i went bm in public. It was in a biger kind in Charleston South Carolina, oh the memories!!!!!!!!

  • @mikehunt2001 The first time you went "bm"...?

  • @Duskv20 Yeah.

  • I live in the freakin friend zone man.. had my heart broken and girls will never realize how much it truly hurts to be cut off in that kind of way

  • god girls take all the asshole guys over the nice guys wtf im glad girls are always getting there heart broken then they wouldn't be looking for that so called "perfect balance between assholes and nice guys"

  • Ron Paul 2012 great add for this song you are everything I want FREEDOM!!!!!

  • He's nothing you want, he's nothing you need, he's nothing inside of you that you wish you could be, he says none of the right things, at exactly the wrong time, but he means something to you and you don't know why...

  • @Brentfil06 yep, that's more like it.

  • @refugeeangel88

    Yes and it happened today. We are both freshman, and we are perfect for eachother, always texting eachother, smiling at eachother. Well it just happened right now. Her and some junior are now going out so I need to listen to this song again...and wonder why this could have happened.

  • @Brentfil06 and I don't know why...

  • @Brentfil06 Typical women.

  • I could just listen to 3:06 to the end over and over. 

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  • I am everything you want

    I am everything you need

    I am everything inside of you that you wish you could be

    I say all the right things at exactly the right time

    But, I mean nothing to you and i don't know why.

    It's the story of my life.

  • @kanyon842

    amen. 

  • @kanyon842 i know what you mean

  • @kanyon842 I know the feeling

  • I love this song :)

  • fuck my life

  • a girl broke up with me with this song before... stupid bitch.. >.>

  • Damn man i used to be jammin to this!!!!! goodmusic good timesss =)

  • I thought of this song immediately about my relationship with my bf. He is a great guy but I care about him more as a friend but he loves me to death.I got into the relationship bc I was comfortable with him and I stayed because I knew how much he cared about me. But if the feeling isn't there it just isn't. I know guys think if this girl just gives me a chance I'll make her love me but that's not how it works. All you'll do is get hurt. Which is what I will do to him bc I don't really love him.

  • @je143462 ...you realize you could have hurt him a LOT less if you just told him that from the start... all you did was make it worse. So really, you led him on just to hurt him in the end. Nice going, really, bravo.

  • @IanDrewAPicture Actually I did try to tell him this less than 3 months into the relationship but he convinced me that I was just emotionally scarred from a recent relationship I had gotten out of and I should stop looking for excuses bc I really did care for him (his words; not mine). I had gone through a tough time so I thought maybe I really didn't know my feelings and listened to him. But it's not a feeling I can ignore anymore.

  • @je143462 you owe it to him to tell him the truth. if you feel anything for him at all, even just as a friend, then you need to tell him. be gentle and considerate of his feelings, but be honest and firm about it. i've been in this situation a couple of times, and when i told them how i felt honestly, we broke up but still managed to keep a friendship. my ex husband and i were like that, and he remains one of my best friends to this day.

  • @draimanfan1984 Ive had that conversation with him around 5 times during the 10 months we've been together.I had been in a screwed up relationship that had ended a month before we started dating so I wasn't really trusting myself and my feelings. He's fought with me about it for the past couple of days. I told him no one can live with someone else until they could live by themselves and I need time to figure out myself. He pretty much told me to ignore those feelings :/

  • To all the guys complaining about the whole Friend Zone thing, yes it is a pain, but you cannot help who you are attracted to. If a guy isn't attracted to a girl despite the fact that she is a wonderful girl no one thinks twice but if a girl has a friend that she is truly just not attracted to but values as a friend and he has feelings for her than shes a bitch. It is in fact possible for guys and girls to be happily just friends. TRust me, I know.

  • @ohmygodgasm No, it's not.

  • @THIRTEENTWO I'm not saying that all girls and guys in the world can be buddies but one of my best friends in the world is a guy. We have openly discussed our lack of feeling for each other and have said multiple times that we wished we were siblings. I've known him since we were eleven and we have gone through so much together but dating is somethign that neither of us are interested in. Just because it didnt work in your situation does not mean its impossible

  • @ohmygodgasm Who said my situation? Not me. Yea, it can work between two people who are mutually unattractive. Or if they both have someone else they're interested in. But say if there's a pretty girl and a guy period the chances of them just being good buddies without the guy at least wishing for more are very unlikely. He might swear to the moon and back he wouldn't date the chick, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't if there was a chance. The only girls that can have guy friends are ugly ones.

  • @THIRTEENTWO that was horrifying offensive and sexist. Youre saying that if a girl is even remotely attractive that she can't have any guy friends? Maybe you just need to broaden your horizons. You are narrow minded and maybe you are simply incapable of having any sort of emotional platonic relationship with a girl. Which means you miss out on a great part of life.

  • @ohmygodgasm Uh, maybe he just hats platonic relationships.. xD

  • @jonathansanders12345 thats not much better. Platonic relationships open up a lot of new parts of life.

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  • one of the most under-rated bands around....

  • In a broader look.. the lyrics in the song talk about 2 guys and a girl. The girl keeps going after the wrong guys, mainly one certain guy, guy #1(hence going after mr. perfect or an idiot). Then guy #2 is chasing after the girl, but the girl is so caught up in guy #1 she doesn't realize guy #2. Guy #2 has everything inside of him(his heart, soul etc.) that the girl needs and wants, but in the end.. everything you want is not everything you need.

  • Help me

  • i saw these guys while i was serving in the desert earlier last year.

  • Absolutely true stuff. The deep kind of music(like this song) is the deep kind that hits hard. My boyfriend has many flaws and we fight all the time. Why I'm with him? I don't know why. I'm praying I get the strength to leave him soon. It'd be easier if he wasn't always emotionally abusing me, but I think I'll do fine without him.

  • Everything You Want Was I Believe The Most Played Song On The Radio In The Year 2000! Fabulous!

  • This was a better time in music.

  • this video expresses kinda how i feel at this moment cause me and my bf just broke up. and we had a real good relationship but no real reason for breaking up

  • I like this track because I feel for it, ah forget it, fak that bitch!

  • Just heard the opening on fox 25 boston news and had to look it up.

  • To y'all talking 'bout the friend zone...there's a saying that the kind of person you marry is the kind of person that you date. Keep that in mind.

  • @Thedyingfire Best Friends Make Best Lovers..<3

  • Not so much the friend Zone is horrid; To me it's more...

    "This boy is to kind, I'd rather have him there forever, instead of risking breaking his heart."

    Yes, us girls can get annoying with the friend zone... But's a way of protecting those dear to us. <3

  • @Toni666Girl:

    Shut the hell up. It does more harm than good. You will never realize how toxic people like you are.

  • @Toni666Girl I don't like how the other guy said it, but he's right. Does way more harm than good.

  • @Toni666Girl

    Your not protecting us, you are ruining our lives. I hope some jack ass breaks your heart.

  • @Toni666Girl "Protecting"...That's the biggest load of bullshit I have ever seen.

  • @Toni666Girl You've already broken his heart. You've done so much more harm than good.

  • I think I have a sign on my that says "Friend Zone" 90% of the girls i went after I was thrown there.

  • okay, imma girl and i totally agree that girls are annoying with the friend zone thing. bc we all get stuck on the same guys who break our hearts and we complain to the good guys. we clam all boys r the same, no, the good ones have just been friend zoned

  • @loveisacurse13 agreed

  • You know, this song reminds me of this girl I had a crush on. Haven't seen her in a while, but talked to her on facebook.

  • memoris hehe

  • i love this song!!!!!!!!

  • The Friend Zone: A slang term used to describe the area of attraction hot girls think of men who hang out with them as a "friend"

  • exactly how i feel

  • ok why does youtube not have a loop button?

  • @sk8rrmatty13 type "repeat"  between "youtube" and ".com"

  • dis reminds me of times u like someone but they never see you...as you.they never consider u an option ..just "only a friend"

  • Newton's law?

  • Wow, its hard to think I was born when all these awesome songs came out. I'm twelve, almost thirteen. You'd think I would like today's music better than this... but the truth, I love this more than today's stuff.

  • Nostalgia.. My very first concert was these guy's with Nine days. Sep. 2001, 10 years sure did fly by

  • woah i know this song but i never knew who sang it

  • WHERE DID THE 90s GO?!?!

  • @eyeoftheeagle1995 They went to Portland Oregon

  • @eyeoftheeagle1995

    Into the past.

  • Anyone who clicks "dislike" should receive an instant electrical shock.

  • @TheSnapshot250 fuck her then!!!!!!

  • He broke with me because he couldn't handle being with another. I know I am everything he wants, but his fear of what his parents might think of him being with another guy made him break it off with me. Worse feeling in the world.

  • Back when you didn't have to look a certain way to be a good band.

  • This reminds me of Katniss and Peeta from The Hunger Games.

  • You boys need to turn off the focus on friendliness and turn it on your sexiness. Just being friendly isn't alone going to make a woman sexually attracted to you. You have to make her work for your attention, otherwise your relationship won't be exciting enough for you to be her significant other.

  • @beachria sounds like the remark of a typical skank....a guy cant be someone different all the time. shit will always go stale thats life. What its all really about is tolerance and faith