| Pearl Jam – Getaway Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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You can read the actual lyrics on the PJ site: http://pearljam.com/music/lyrics/997/studio/21986/getaway?ref_album_id=21996 He is saying "Science says" and it's a direct reference to to religious wackos who think fossils were implanted in the earth by Satan to fool us into thinking the Earth is more than 6000 years old. Google it, it's a thing. You must understand that Science is completely built on a foundation of questioning. Peer review is one of the necessary steps of the scientific method, the part of the process where your peers review your work and poke holes, question what you've done if they can't reproduce your results. It may only seem like you can't question science because science requires data/evidence if you're going to question. You can't just blabber into the air and think you're questioning science, you have to be in a lab or do some math/physics before anyone will take your questioning seriously. |
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| Pearl Jam – Getaway Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's pretty simple, a "live and let live" kind of message aimed at the "holy rollers" to try to keep their opinion to themselves and stop pushing their beliefs on everyone else. For anyone that has a "born again" in their family, I'm sure you can relate. |
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| Pearl Jam – Given to Fly Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Given to Fly is a song about living a life without meaning until finding that one thing that makes life worth living, something that connects you to the earth and makes you feel a connection to it. And when you find this thing, you become so immersed in it that it gives you a feeling of freedom and transcendence, and it's something you just feel like you have to share with everyone. Like you want to stop people in the street and say "Haven't you heard about this!?" Then when you do try to share it with others, there will be people that try to kill your enthusiasm, tell you it's stupid, or a waste of time. Often this just fuels your need to keep doing what you love, to get away from these people. This is how Eddie feels about surfing, and how I often feel when I'm snowboarding. In "Big Wave", Eddie describes surfing as "achieving levitation" which I think gives us a big clue about this song. |
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| Pearl Jam – Amongst the Waves Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think fanman475 got it backward. This song is about him and Jill. "Let's go swim tonight, darlin ... Just you and me and nothin' more" It's because they have both loved and lost that they can love each other fully (because you know what's like to lose it). "Love ain't love until you give it up" |
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| Pearl Jam – The End Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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@lifeonthehorizon yep, i picked up on that too. It's as if it's this person's last breath, it's pretty chilling! and Benny is right, this is a song about a man dying of a terminal disease, knowing he'll have to say good-bye to his family. as a man with a family, this song can bring tears to my eyes. And no, Eddie is not dying (I've heard some PJ fans say this). Eddie is a master of writing songs from another person's perspective. (Army Reserve, Come Back) |
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| Pearl Jam – Johnny Guitar Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I like to think of this song as the modern day "Pictures of Lily" From backspacerlyricspearljam.blogspot.com: Vedder was inspired to write the lyrics for "Johnny Guitar" after viewing a collage of album covers that is pasted on the bathroom wall of Pearl Jam's rehearsal area. Eddie noticed the album cover for Johnny "Guitar" Watson's 1979 album, What the Hell Is This?, and imagined a man who becomes attracted to one of the various women on the cover and then wonders why this woman would rather be one of Watson's many girlfriends instead of his only one. Yup. I can see why he was inspired to write about this! LOL: http://cover7.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/Large/51/611551.jpg |
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| Pearl Jam – Unthought Known Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In my opinion, this very well could be Pearl Jam's best song ever. Unthought Known kind of reminds me of Wishlist a bit, but where Wishlist wasn't exactly deep in thought, Unthought Known is masterfully written and beautifully insightful, giving us a list of things that we all should consider, we all can appreciate, and even things we should do to be responsible humans. This is my interpretation of the song, please feel free to disagree! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All the thoughts you never see, You are always thinking - Brain is wide, brain is deep, Oh are you sinking? - Feel the path of everyday, Which road you taking?" These 3 lines set up the problem. Our brains never stop, always making decisions whether we're aware or not. Are we letting these choices consume us? Stress us out? Overwhelm us? Keep us down? Or are we using our brains to make us happy? For the betterment of life? - Breathing hard. Making hay. Yeah, this is living. Eddie provides us his answer, breathing hard and making hay. That's what is living to him. "Making Hay" is an expression that means "To be highly productive for a limited period of time when the opportunity is present." And if you're not breathing hard, you're not doing much, are you? - Look for love and evidence that you're worth keeping - Swallowed whole in negatives It's so sad and sickening These lines give us examples of common pitfalls we should try to avoid. Such as appealing to others to determine our own self-worth, and allowing the bad things in life to define us, swallow us whole. - Feel the air up above, Full of blue sky - Fill the air up with love, Black with starlight - Feel the sky blanket you, With with gems and rhinestones - Feel the path cut by the moon, For you to walk on Here we are asked to go out and actually *do* these things. I think even the most hardened of us can look up on a beautiful night, bathed in moonlight, and feel *something* good. Many of us feel overwhelmingly inspired when doing this. This feeling of awe is something we all share, it unites us, and must be protected. - Nothing left. Nothing left. Nothing there. Nothing left. Now Eddie snaps us out of our euphoric state, reminding us that these things are in danger. Hate, war, intolerance, environmental destruction, all threatens this feeling for future generations. - See the path cut by the moon for you to walk on - See the waves on distant shores waiting your arrival But there is a path we can take to protect it all. On distant shores, to me, means that other people, different people, those we fear out of ignorance, ideological differences and simply geography, those people are waiting for us to come to them to be understood. Everyone wants to be understood, and when we understand each other, we'll finally realize that we're not so different after all. - Dream the dreams of other men you'll be no one's rival I wasn't sure at first if "dreaming dreams of other men" was meant to be taken as a good thing or a bad thing. But now I'm convinced that it's a good thing. We all have common dreams, to be happy, protect the ones we love, and make the future better for our children. When we all acknowledge this commonality, we won't have rivals. - Distant time, distant space, That's where we're living - A distant time, a distant place, So what are you giving? A challenge. What are you doing to protect our future? |
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| Pearl Jam – All Those Yesterdays Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Pearl Jam – All Those Yesterdays Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is really about stopping to think about where you want to be in your life and what you want to get out of it. Often times people find themselves in a rut, grinding out a work life day after day, accumulating stuff because we think it's necessary, all the while dreaming of a place we'd rather be, or something we'd rather be doing. They take pills to cope with life stress and come up with excuses (creating walls) to why they can't do what they really want to be doing in life. Eddie is reminding us that it's not too late to escape this situation we put ourselves in. And it's not a crime, it won't hurt anybody if we go and find that happiness, whatever it is and wherever it is. |
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| Pearl Jam – Big Wave Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I scream in affirmation Of connecting dislocations And exceeding limitation By achieving levitation" "A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw Delivered him wings Hey look at me now! Arms wide open with the sea as he's flung Oh oh, ooooooh, he's FLYING!" I think the last 2 lines of Big Wave reaffirms my belief that Given To Fly is really about surfing. Here Eddie claims that he can achieve levitation by surfing, just like the character in Given To Fly. I guess Eddie feels that being flung from a surf board makes him feel like he's flying. =) |
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| Pearl Jam – Marker in the Sand Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think that Eddie is a believer. He speaks like a free-thinker, using terms and phrases that we atheists use often, for example: "Those undecided needn't have faith to be free" Non-believers and free-thinkers often speak of the freedom that they feel from not being mentally entrapped by religion. Just Google "Ingersoll's Vow" "But the delusion is feeling dangerous to me" We also frequently consider religion as a dangerous mass delusion. There's no greater example of the harm that can be done in the name of these delusions than terrorism and Bush's Iraq crusade. Hence, "both sides claiming killing in God's name" Finally, Eddie is LITERALLY calling God out. "What do you say? .. I'm calling you out!" But God is nowhere to be found, conveniently. |
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| Pearl Jam – Big Wave Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Eddie is saying that even after a billion adaptations that evolved ocean crustaceans into humans, the ocean calls him back. Not only that, but the ocean that gave him life also lets him enjoy life. | |
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