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| Pearl Jam – Alive Lyrics
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This song was actually the first of a mini-opera that Eddie wrote known as the "Mamasan Trilogy". The song describes a boy who grows up believing that one man is his father but finds out that he is not. He grows up to look just like his biological father and his mother falls in love with the son and sexually abuses him. The song "Once" is part II of the story and describes the boy obviously mentally disturbed who is not able to control his rage and goes on a killing spree. The triology is concluded with "Footsteps" where the boy is siting in his cell on death row awaiting his execution. |
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| Pearl Jam – Alive Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Partly it's about the boy growing up and not having known it was his father until his mother tells him that it was an acquaintance of the family's who died when he was a kid. The verse with the sexual content is a different scene. His mom has recently told him the truth about his dad and he's pretty messed up over it. Now he's with a woman, maybe a prostitute. He wants to have sex with her but he stops because of "...the look," that she has. Vedder explained that it wasn't the look on her *face* that stops the kid in his tracks... it's actually her vagina that he can't stop staring at. |
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| Pearl Jam – Alive Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is about a boy that grows up not knowing that his father is dead until his mother tells him so. The boy grows up looking like his father and the mom falls in love with him and sexually abuses him.The boy goes on a killing spree. |
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