| Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun (Indio cover) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[drofphilosophy:12168] I love this song and everyone's enthusiasm, but sadly everyone misses an important point. Gordon Peterson, the original author of the song, took so much exception to the changes made by Eddie Vedder, that he sued Vedder and the label. He lost, but for those so interested in the nature sybolism, to neglect Vedder's replacing of "when I stay to pillage her" with "when i see her inner charm" (sometimes interpretted as "bitter charm") is just sad. Pillage is probably the most important word in the song. Lastly, the fact that Vedder change the nature sybolism in a nature focused song as part of a soundtrack to a film from a book about a young man who died trying to return to nature is even more ridiculous. Epic artistic fail by Vedder but of course not commercially. I even like Vedder somewhat, but Indio's version is so much more powerful, both rythmically (the original drums are literally inspirational) but especially lyrically, even if just by a few key words. | |
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