I Miss You

Album: Make Yourself (1999)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about that feeling when you're madly in love but have to be away from that person - usually for work. You miss that person terribly and want them to know you're thinking about them.

    At the time, Incubus lead singer Brandon Boyd was involved with an English woman named Jo English, the subject of their song "Stellar." She is the likely inspiration for "I Miss You."
  • The song is part of Make Yourself, the third Incubus album. Thanks to the hit "Drive," it took off, making the band's dreams come true. It also had the unfortunate side effect of putting more distance between Boyd and his girlfriend, as the band was pressed to stay on the road and then make their next album right away. They split up, leading Boyd to write "Wish You Were Here," which became the lead single from that next album, Morning View.

Comments: 6

  • ZakBrandon Boyd didn't write this song. Great song, great band, but Dwight Meyers wrote it.
  • Cory from Victor, Nythis song means a lot to me. it reminds me of this girl who i met at an amusement park. we really got along. then we started going out. we broke up then got back together and now this song means even more to me than before.
  • Laura from New Ro,, NyI think I read somewhere that this was about Boyd's girlfriend being away. This song is amazing acoustic..you can really feel his emotion.
  • Dave from Worthing (near Brighton)"To know that you feel the same as I do
    Is a three-fold utopian dream" <3 yeh acoustic is a lot better.
  • Katie from Tallahassee, FlHe actually wrote this about his girlfriend who was a model and he wrote it about how much he missed her after she left.
  • Jeremy from Shelbyville, KyIt's a great song, the acoustic is even better.
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