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Pearl Jam – Throw Your Arms Around Me Lyrics	21 years ago
I love on the 'Gardens' DVD when he sings this with Mark Seymour - who wrote it. First time I heard it I nearly cried. Mark's got an amazing voice too and when he sings his bit you can see the admiration in Eds face as he looks up at him.

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Pearl Jam – Thumbing My Way Lyrics	21 years ago
I think it's a bit of philosophy on life. Like we're just on our way back to heaven, just passing through life 'just walking the miles', not really enjoying it, just waiting for our death. That's not my philosophy but it sounds like that's what he's singing about

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Pearl Jam – Given to Fly Lyrics

21 years ago

PJ10, you pretty much said what I was thinking. I think it's about Eddie and his love for surfing and all the spiritual elements of nature (the tree, the waves and ok... the smoke). I think it's just about optimism and beating The Man. And like you said alot of his songs have a spiritual element but I don't get much of a Jesus feel from alot of them (ok, garden could be interpretated certain ways...)

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Pearl Jam – Even Flow Lyrics	21 years ago
I read in an interview with Eddie how he got inspiration for this song after overhearing a couple of homeless guys having a conversation.

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Pearl Jam – Down Lyrics	21 years ago
Stevvveo said just what I was thinking. The lyrics are fairly obvious if you look at it from that perspective. Only problem is - Mike was never dirt!!!

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Pearl Jam – Dissident Lyrics

21 years ago

I haven't really thought about the lyrics to this very much but looking at it now and reading what others have wrote, I'm brought to thinking of the Magdalene Laundreys that we had here in Ireland until about 20 years ago. Unmarried women who got pregnant, if they weren't wanted by their family or the father, were put into homes - many of these women had been raped before and during their time in these 'homes'. When the baby was born, they could nurse them until it's new family came for it. I doubt this was Eddies intention while writing it but the more I read the lyrics, the more it seems it WAS written for those poor women.

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Pearl Jam – Black Lyrics

21 years ago

It really is a shame to see the level some people will stoop to, especially on a page dedicated to, in my opinion, the greatest song ever. Anyway I won’t waste any more of my time on THEM. Regarding the argument as to whether Staind’s version is better, although I’ve never heard it, it can’t be. ‘Black’ is Eddies song, his words, his experience (whatever experience that may be). Nobody else can just take those emotions and make it their own. In saying that however, ‘black’ is a song that many people can relate to. We’ve all lost somehow. We’ve all felt that ‘black’ feeling. Maggie gave just one example of a loss which isn’t necessarily death. I’ve heard a couple of times that this song is about Eddies ex who had an abortion. If you read an article written by him in Spin Magazine in ’92 called ‘reclamation’ (which can be found through the five horizons website), he talks about abortion and the right to choose. In one paragraph he speaks of his own experience: ‘Ten years old. That’s the age my child would have been. And I would not be here in Glasgow. I wouldn’t be in this band or traveling. And I wouldn’t have seen the liberal ways in which other countries we have visited deal with this issue. I wouldn’t have been asked to write this piece. The fact that I’ve been through it on all levels is the only reason I accepted.’ Anyway, it’s still an amazing song.

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