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| Audioslave – Like a Stone Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I'm pretty sure the first verse is about Chris himself. He's on tour, sitting in his hotel room by the interstate reading the Bible (hotels used to provide free Bibles in each room for you younger folks who might not know). So he's recovering from the late night before "Cobweb afternoon in a room full of emptiness". He's considering his own mortality and the afterlife. The rest of the song is generally about someone waiting for death and contemplating life and past regrets and, most of all, what comes next. |
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| Pearl Jam – Whipping Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't see the abortion message. I think the song usesimages of abused slaves as a metaphor for current day struggles of the lower working class against the elite ruling class.
I think the abortion thing is a huge leap. Has eddie ever said this was a song relating to abortion?
Im glad, at least, that nobody thinks this song is about Kurt Cobain. Seems like every song on here from Pearl Jam from 1994 to 1998 somebody thinks is about Cobain. |
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| Pearl Jam – Daughter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"that's one more kid" is from a tag on the song, not this song. it's from Rockin in the Free World, a Neil Young song.
and "he won the lottery" is another tag, from the song WMA (White Male American) by Pearl Jam.
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| Pearl Jam – Daughter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Eddie Vedder about "Daughter":
The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour, as just outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down--so that the neighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed. |
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| Pearl Jam – Daughter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Eddie Vedder about "Daughter":
The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour, as just outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up getting the shit beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea of the shades going down--so that the neighbours can't see what happens next. What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives. They have to live with that abuse for the rest of their lives. Good, creative people are just fucking destroyed. |
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| Pearl Jam – Daughter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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funny, since eddie didn't have his first child until many years after this song was written. it's pretty common knowledge that this song is about a child, with a learning disability, who is verbally (and perhaps physically) abused by her mother.
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| Pearl Jam – Act of Love (feat. Neil Young) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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adam - it is a Neil Young original, but if you compare the lyrics, it looks like PJ's version was changed up a bit. I've been lucky enough to see PJ play this song live twice, including once with Neil in Toledo and the most recent time they played it in DC.
I think they've played it a total of 8 times in the 15 years since they collaborated with Neil on this version. |
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| Pearl Jam – Crown of Thorns Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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For those of you who say there would be no Pearl Jam had Andy Wood not died, that may be true. However, to think somebody with a bottomless pit of incredible songwriting and singing talent like Eddie Vedder would have eventually been discovered. The world without Ed Vedder's songs would be a world I don't even want to imagine. It would be like living inside Rush Limbaugh's asshole. |
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| Pearl Jam – Breath Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i agree with most of sambliss and stepout are closest to my own interpretation. i believe the song is mostly a statement - an inspiring one - about avoiding the trappings of material possessions, and living life to the fullest. the part i differ on a little - i think the song has dual meanings in a way - i think it's even more about living your life "between the doors" of birth and death, and to not let your faith sucker you into believing there's some paradise called heaven waiting for you after you die - live NOW. "there's much more than this" means much more to "mortal" life than religion allows. people spend their lives on the planet serving a God by sacrificing experiences. "you can't expect to go out with anything more" means, you live and you die, but there shouldn't be this expectation of an afterlife in heaven, but i think it's a double meaning - you also can't take your possessions with you, and again, it's about the experiences that should be accumulated, not the material stuff. |
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| Pearl Jam – Breath Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i agree with most of sambliss and stepout are closest to my own interpretation. i believe the song is mostly a statement - an inspiring one - about avoiding the trappings of material possessions, and living life to the fullest. the part i differ on a little - i think the song has dual meanings in a way - i think it's even more about living your life "between the doors" of birth and death, and to not let your faith sucker you into believing there's some paradise called heaven waiting for you after you die - live NOW. "there's much more than this" means much more to "mortal" life than religion allows. people spend their lives on the planet serving a God by sacrificing experiences. "you can't expect to go out with anything more" means, you live and you die, but there shouldn't be this expectation of an afterlife in heaven, but i think it's a double meaning - you also can't take your possessions with you, and again, it's about the experiences that should be accumulated, not the material stuff. |
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| Nirvana – Lake of Fire Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I agree this is a pretty straightforward song about the afterlife. Love it, both the Nirvana and MP versions. The only line that really requires interpretation is teh 4th of July thing. I disagree that it's a political or anti-founding fathers message. I strongly agree that it's related to the "fire"works. i.e., the fire from the fireworks is used here as a symbol for those who are now living eternity in the lake of fire. It's interesting that Kurt chose to do this song just months before his suicide - obviously spooky that he was contemplating the afterlife in this way. |
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| Pearl Jam – Blood Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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T-CAP 75 - Pearl Jam doesn't want to be known for their cleanly produced sound. This isn't unique of the vs. album, it's basically who they are. |
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| Pearl Jam – I Got Shit (I Got Id) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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wow, these lyrics are butchered. too bad, great song. i think it's about somebody who is depressed, lonely, and hates himself and has an object of his affection who is out of his league. |
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| Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think many of you hit the nail on the head.....some of you are reading way too much into it. The song is written from the woman's persptective. She has grown old...she has trouble remembering the name of this person who was once familiar. She admits that her appearance has changed so the person she sees probably doesn't recognize her. She wishes she would have gotten out of this town, but it "predicted her fate". Like many people from small towns, she got stuck there and she wishes she could have seen the world but nobody showed it to her. This is classic small town mentality - regret wasting your life in a small town, but blame others (parents, etc) for not helping you reach your potential or to live a great life. And one day, you realize you fell into a routine (working behind the counter), and now life has passed you by. |
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