Three Days (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Three Days


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Artist = Jane's Addiction
Album = Ritual de lo Habitual
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Released = August 2, 1990
Format = CD, Vinyl
Recorded = 1989-1990
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 10:48
Label = Warner Bros.
Writer = Jane's Addiction
Producer = Dave Jerden, Perry Farrell
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Last single = "Stop!
(1990)
This single = "Three Days"
(1990)
Next single = "Been Caught Stealing"
(1990)
Misc =Extra track listing
Album = Ritual de lo Habitual
Type = studio
prev_track = "Been Caught Stealing"
prev_no = Track 5
this_track = "Three Days"
track_no = Track 6
next_track = "Then She Did..."
next_no = Track 7

"Three Days" is a ten minute, forty-eight second song featured on Jane's Addiction's 1990 album, "Ritual de lo Habitual". It is a three-part song that meditates on death and rebirth.

Lyrical meaning

The song was inspired by Xiola Bleu (Perry commonly wrote her name as "Xiola Blue"), who Perry Farrell had known since she was fourteen. Xiola Bleu came to Los Angeles for her father's funeral, and spent three days with Perry and his girlfriend Casey Niccoli, spending their time together in a "haze of sex and drugs." [cite web
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Bleu died of a heroin overdose in New York City in June, 1987. The song was written prior to her death.

Alternate versions

A live version of the song appears on the band's 1997 rarities compilation Kettle Whistle. The same version also appears on the soundtrack of Richard Kelly's 2007 film Southland Tales, which repeatedly quotes the "Shadows in the morning light" section of the lyrics and revolves around the final three days before the end of the world. The original version also made an appearance in the 1992 film Singles, a movie revolving around the alternative rock scene in the early 1990s.

Documentary

"Three Days" is also the title of a rockumentary that records J.A's 1997 relapse tour and features a wide array of musicians and actors including; Flea, Anthony Kiedis and John Frusciante of The Red Hot Chili Peppers (Flea was actually a J.A's bass player for the tour as Eric Avery refused to take part), Marilyn Manson, Alyssa Milano, Val Kilmer and Etty Lau Farrell (Perry Farrell's future wife and Satellite Party bandmate).

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