This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Hey j-j-jaded, you got your mama's style
But you're yesterday's child to me
So jaded
You think that's where it's at
But is that where it's supposed to be
You're gettin' it all over me, ex-rated
My my baby blue
Yeah I been thinkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah you're so jaded
And I'm the one that jaded you
Hey j-j-jaded
In all it's misery
It will always be what I love and hated
And maybe take a ride to the other side
We're thinkin' of
We'll slip into the velvet glove
And be jaded
My my baby blue
Yeah I'm thinkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah I'm so jaded
And baby I'm afraid of you
Your thinking's so complicated
I've had it all up to here
But it's so overrated
Love and hated
Wouldn't trade it
Love me jaded
Hey j-j-jaded
There ain't no baby please
When I'm shootin' the breeze with her
When everything you see is a blur
And ecstasy's what you prefer
My my baby blue
Yeah I'm talkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah I've been thinkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah you're so jaded
Baby, jaded, baby
You're so jaded
'Cause I'm the one that jaded you
But you're yesterday's child to me
So jaded
You think that's where it's at
But is that where it's supposed to be
You're gettin' it all over me, ex-rated
My my baby blue
Yeah I been thinkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah you're so jaded
And I'm the one that jaded you
Hey j-j-jaded
In all it's misery
It will always be what I love and hated
And maybe take a ride to the other side
We're thinkin' of
We'll slip into the velvet glove
And be jaded
My my baby blue
Yeah I'm thinkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah I'm so jaded
And baby I'm afraid of you
Your thinking's so complicated
I've had it all up to here
But it's so overrated
Love and hated
Wouldn't trade it
Love me jaded
Hey j-j-jaded
There ain't no baby please
When I'm shootin' the breeze with her
When everything you see is a blur
And ecstasy's what you prefer
My my baby blue
Yeah I'm talkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah I've been thinkin' about you
My my baby blue
Yeah you're so jaded
Baby, jaded, baby
You're so jaded
'Cause I'm the one that jaded you
Lyrics submitted by jstalilwyrd, edited by MusicOracle
Jaded Lyrics as written by Steven Tyler Marti Frederiksen
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Note: When someone is described as being "jaded" it is almost always referring to them being cynical about something that they have previously experienced. Sure, they might be "tired or worn out" from it too, but that isn't the emphasis of the word. So, for example, if someone is "jaded" about "the Hollywood lifestyle" it generally would mean they feel negativity towards it and are no longer interested in it and don't have the same false illusions about it as they once did.
OK, so I've been laughing at some of the crazy interpretations of this song. They're quite funny actually. ...And nearly all of them are wrong.
This song is 100% about an older man (Steven) being tormented and conflicted about having taboo sex with a minor. Specifically, the daughter of a female acquaintance. I thought the lyrics were pretty clear the first time I heard them (before the video ever came out) as well as after the 100th listening.
It's definitely NOT about one of Steven's own daughters. Also, the video has nothing to do with the actual lyrics, other than presenting a beautiful and very young girl (Mila Kunis) as it's principle subject.
"Hey j-j-jaded, you got your mama's style but you're yesterday's child to me"
"You think that's where it's at but is that where it's supposed to be? You're gettin' it all over me. X-rated."
"In all it's misery it will always be what I love and hated. And maybe take a ride to the other side we're thinkin' of. We'll slip into the velvet glove...and be jaded."
"My my baby blue, Yeah I'm thinkin' about you my my baby blue. Yeah I'm so jaded and baby I'm afraid of you." He is aware of the consequences that having sex with her (baby blue) would bring and he is afraid of her because he may be too weak to stop himself from engaging in sex with her.
"There ain't no 'baby please' when I'm shootin' the breeze with her. When everything you see is a blur and ecstasy's what you prefer."
"My my baby blue. Yeah I'm talkin' about you. Yeah I've been thinkin' about you. You're so jaded 'cause I'm the one that jaded you."
So... does anyone still think it's a lovely song about his daughter? Lol. Definitely not!
@MusicOracle so were you listing those crazy interrogations that you were laughing at? Because I'll vote on velvet representing a vagina as my favorite one. <br /> I indeed still think it's about his daughter because I feel like he should know what he wrote it about. statuatory rape I don't think so wow.<br /> That's a very deep song and very few are as literal as What you have here. Im not trying to be funny or mean but the way interpret this is a little bit scary
I think it could be about one of Steven Tyler (or another member of the band's) daughters hence: My my baby blue Yeah you're so jaded And I'm the one that jaded you
and:
you got your mama's style
jaded: a) no longer interested in something, often because of having been overexposed to it b) exhausted, especially though overwork
this is an incredible song..
It's awesome and since my name is the Jade that's what makes it the best. Aerosmith rocks pretty hard.
Jaded means exhausted, not lose of virginity
I love this song... one of my favorite Aerosmith songs. Love when he sings "And i'm the one that jaded you..."
I belive in this song steven tyler sings of how because of doing drugs has kept him from giving his daughter the love and life she deserves and this song is telling her that . He also sings of how has he not only jaded his daughter but hes also jaded himself by not being there for her.
I htought the song was about Steven's daughter Liv. She didn't know Steven was her father until she saw Aerosmith woth her mother, model Bebe Buell, at the age of nine... The lyrics make most since to me in that perspective, but Liv and Steven both claim they have a good relationship and Liv never really felt "abondoned" or so forth because her mother's boyfriend at the time of her birth was her father figure, even after she met Steven... Anyway, enough analyzing. I love this song, it has beautiful imagery and the video compliments that. I love Aerosmith :)
In this song, Steve Tyler seems to be talking about the music & entertainment industry which has the power to "jade" and cause cynicism within people over time. He's definitely not immune to it, and accepts that, but deplores the fact that his jaded outlook on the world has been subconsciously passed onto the others around him - namely his daughter. In a way, any parent could be singing this to their child. When you're younger, you have an optimism for the world that is quickly scrutinized by those who are elder, more maturer, and who have seen the "cruelties of the world" so to speak. Indirectly, especially as a parent, you can drastically alter a child's outlook on the world. While protecting your children from reality is wrong, so is exploring your own life with so much bitterness and distrust so that your kids learn nothing about things in life that really matter.