| Pearl Jam – Can't Keep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Well, you make a good case I guess. I still favour the death explanation but yeah, either interpretation is viable. | |
| Pearl Jam – Insignificance Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love how some of Eddies most effective lines are really obvious statements. "Its instilled to wanna live" - Its so simple and yet at the same time it makes you think. Brilliant. (another good example of this is "I am mine") |
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| Pearl Jam – Can't Keep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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But remember in the song 'Other Side' it defintitely refers to death and the term "other side" is a reasonably common expression for death. All the lines work for either a dreaming or death interpretation but I think there are a few particular lines which make the most sense if its about death. For instance I think "I want a last breath I don't let out" is extremely telling. And so is "I don't live forever". Also theres just an air of finality to the whole song. Hes forgiving every being, hes going to "leave this mind". I just don't think that line fits well with the dreaming interpretation. Your mind is where your dreams take place, the only way to truly leave your mind is through death. |
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| Pearl Jam – Can't Keep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, when I said "so that life can continue in other forms" all I meant was that when you die, all the biological material that was formerly trapped in your body will be used as food for insects, plants and eventually other animals so that they may live. So, the energy that was in you still exists, it doesn't just disappear. I wasn't actually meaning that a persons conciousness continues to exist after they die. I'm just clarifying what I was talking about though, not knocking your own beliefs. I did also say that no one really knows what happens when we die and I stand by that. |
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| Pearl Jam – Green Disease Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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An interprutation relating to greed, wealth and power does seem to fit. However, what I would like to know is what does he mean by a "green disease"? Maybe because bank notes are often green or depicted as being green, the green disease is a lust for money? I don't know. |
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| Pearl Jam – Cropduster Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song COULD be referencing 9/11 but the only line that really lends itself to that interprutation is "daddy's gone up in flames but this ain't no movie" and thats a bit of a stretch of the imagination I think. What is clear is that in the opening lines Eddie makes reference to the cyclical nature of life that is common to all kinds of life be it humans/animals/plants (thats why he says "eyes, no eyes, theres no difference, every life is looking in"). I think that this, taken with the chorus line, "everyone is practising, but this worlds an accident" seems to support NeuroticSurgeons interprutation. |
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| Pearl Jam – Can't Keep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I don't think this songs about suicide but it is about wanting to die (eventually). I agree with Regos the sane, its about not wanting to live forever. Humankind is so obsessed and scared over the concept of death. People often talk about how great it would be to live forever and science is constantly extending the average human life expectancy. This song is Eds way of saying that he can't identify with humanities fear of death and that when his time comes no one will be able to keep him here. Many of the lyrics are about all the things he looks forward to experiencing in death (things that he wouldn't get to experience if he lived forever). He wants to leave his mortal cares behind some day and find out what its like to die. Death is after all one of the great mysteries, whether you're religous, agnostic, or an atheist no one really KNOWS what happens when you die and I think Ed's saying he wants to find out. Also I think in that second to last line where he replaces "I DON'T live forever" with "I WILL live forever", hes expressing the idea that you don't have to look at death as an end, its only the recycling of energy and matter so that life can continue in other forms. |
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