| Pearl Jam – Why Go Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| They way he says fuck is extemely passionate as well. It's probably one of the biggest emphasis in the song. I love singing it with him. | |
| Pearl Jam – Once Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This just occured to me as well: "Oh, try and mimic what's insane, eh I am in it, where do I stand? Uh" He's telling the police try and pretend to be insane. He's not pretending anymore, he really did fall to insanity. |
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| Pearl Jam – Once Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Er, I never really said why the song was before Alive. Assuming this IS a police confession, then he describes the crime to the police and he goes to jail and all that fun stuff. However, someone like this probably would not have been thrown straight into jail and may have seen a psychiatrist or something first, and Alive is his repressed memories being brought back to him by the psychiatrist or whatever. Thus this is first, and then Alive is second on the album. Alive is the first part of the trilogy because chronologically the events in Alive happened first. | |
| Pearl Jam – Once Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have a couple theories about this song, as I've been listening to the album a lot lately. First things first, why would this song be first? The opening lines indicate that the song is a confession. I imagine he's in police custody and he is confessing (I admit it...) and explaining what happened (I'll relive it...). Like many others have said, the back seat lover is a prostitute and the 16 gauge is a literal gun. As far as the second verse goes, it's self explanatory until the last line. Like a lot of you I imagine, I thought he was either playing pocket pool or was hiding a boner or something, but he's keeping the gun in his pocket and he's waiting for the right time to kill the prostitute (or whoever). The line "You think I got my eyes closed but I've been lookin' at you the whole fucking time" could be referring to the police, in that they caught him but it was his intention to get caught and to be thrown in jail. It could be a double meaning, referring to his mother also, but I don't see why the police idea doesn't work. And if you know the meaning of the song I think the chorus is self explanatory. |
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