True Love

Album: released as a single (2024)
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  • "True Love" is about the purity of first love – an experience that can only happen once in a lifetime.

    There's sweetness in the song's reverie but also sadness as Addiction frontman Perry Farrell contemplates the fact that, after that first true love ends, all relationships come heaped with the complexities and complications of those that came before. The song ends with Perry recognizing sadly that those days are done as he reveals he's still yearning to be with his first true love – or, perhaps, to be capable of loving that way again.
  • "True Love" was the second standalone single released by Jane's Addiction in 2024, following "Imminent Redemption." They also released the single "Another Soulmate" in 2013. The singles were their only releases since the band's last studio album, The Great Escape Artist, in 2011.
  • Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro lamented that "True Love," a song he was proud of, would likely never be heard live. He made the remarks after a September 13, 2024, Boston show in which Perry tried to punch him onstage. "I am proud of the work we did on this song but I am equally saddened by the fact that you will likely never hear it live," Navarro wrote in an Instagram post. The incident caused the group to discontinue their tour and possibly to end the band for good.

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