| Pearl Jam – Immortality Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To me, this is not about Cobain at all. It is about the scum that use religion to steal away the life savings of poor, ignorant people. "Artifical tears" is a reference to the Jimmy Swaggart-type of fake pain. ("I have sinned against you.. Boo-Hoo..") "Vessel stabbed.. next up volunteers" refers people, one-by-one, giving their very life's blood to these televangelist vampires - their money. "Vunerable, wisdom can't adhere" refers to people that are too vunerable to use rational thought to see through the scam. "A truant finds home.. A wish to hold on.." refers to someone that feels they are not where they are supposed to be and comes "home" into the religious fold, only to find that what they thought would be a saviour is actually a sham, or "a trapdoor in the sun". "As privledged as a whore.. Victims in demand for public show.. swept out through the cracks.." is about how the people that are looking for help used for monetary gain and then swept away and discarded. "Holier than thou... how?" is another reference to the Swaggert-type that pretends to be closer to God than any of his followers can be , but Eddie asks how that can be possible. "Scrawl dissolved.. cigar box on the floor" refer to the predators taking checks and cash from the poor. "Scrawl dissolved" is the check being deposited into the vampire's account and people sometimes keep their savings in a hidden cigar box, which is now empty and on the floor. "Stripped and sold... auctioned forearm..." is about giving everything away (i.e. costing an arm and a leg), thinking they are paying admission to Heaven. "Some die just to live" means that people refuse to live during their mortal existence on Earth. They are waiting to die so they can have true life in the ever after. Pearl Jam makes reference to the sham and hypocrisy of organized religion in other songs. |
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