| Pearl Jam – All Those Yesterdays Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I agree that the feeling of the song has to do with sleep, rest and escape, but I relate more with SoBeR's ideas of the walls we build and the difficulties we have in changing. We often feel it's wrong (a "crime" even) to change our ideas and admit that we've been wrong in our atitudes for some time ("all those yesterdays"). So the song's saying: give up your struggle, cause it's only doing you harm and it's ok to admit you were wrong or off track. Coupled with this comes the seductiveness of rest as an escape and it feels to me that the resting is sort of the acknowledgement of defeat (that you were wrong in something and are giving up). The rest and escape is something a person might have been fighting against, but should give in to and admit their mistakes. |
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| Pearl Jam – Soldier of Love (Lay Down Your Arms) (Arthur Alexander cover) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Some info found at: http://weeklywire.com/ww/08-02-99/nash_music-notes.html Authors: Tony Moon and Buzz Cason First recorded in 1962, by Arthur Alexander; Later recorded by The Beatles in 1994; Eddie Vedder said his inspiration was the British group The Headcoats; See the page above for more info... |
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| Pearl Jam – U Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Well, I'm a sucker for catchy songs, but Pearl Jam rules, so that's ok in this case :). I think this song is really beautiful, here's my interpretation: He's saying that it's really hard for him to love this person and complains about a bunch of things that piss him off, but inspite of this he continues loving. So, he's saying how difficult it was to fall in love, and in the end he says "I thought it was easy to stay in love", implying two things: first, that he actually did fall in love, and second, the repetitive structure implies that staying in love will be just like falling in love in the sense that there it will be as difficult and have a bunch of annoying things, but he'll be able to do it anyways. The repitition of "you, you, you" to me represents two things: first, his fixation for the person he loves, which is a part of love, and second, the selfishness of that person for intending to be the center of the universe or something. I think it's really nice how he describes the hard parts of falling in love. But I will go further in my interpretation: it appears to me that the person he loves doesn't treat him too well, is selfish, and makes him insecure about falling in love, but the beautiful thing is that he does. It's like his love is beyond these problems and the selfishness of this person... OK, maybe I went over the edge, but this is how I see the song. |
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| Pearl Jam – U Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I didn't know what guile was, so, from http://www.m-w.com, I got: 1 : deceitful cunning : DUPLICITY 2 obsolete : STRATAGEM, TRICK |
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| Pearl Jam – U Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The version I'm listening to has some important differences... I suppose my version is the original from lost dogs, but I'm not sure... The differences: - instead of "I like to go deep", "I'd like to go deep"; - instead of "the way you sympathize", "the way you don't sympathize"; - instead of "I don't think it's easy to stay in love", "I thought it was easy to stay in love" |
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