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Pearl Jam – Parting Ways Lyrics	23 years ago
Honestly, in light of Vedders real life seperation from his wife, I think this was a song written about the fact they both knew their relationship was disolving, as much as they wished it wasnt, it was maybe damaged in a unrepairable way. Vedder had been with Beth for SO long, it had to be very hard for them both.

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Pearl Jam – Immortality Lyrics	23 years ago
I agree there has got to be some inspiration from Cobains suicide, the scrawl desolved cigar box thing is too dead on. Vedder may have distanced himself from that notion for personal reasons or because he didnt want a song to be considered a ode to Cobains suicide. I also feel several lines reference Courtney Love and the way she was treated after Kurts death.

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Pearl Jam – Footsteps Lyrics

23 years ago

Even with this being part of the mamasan trilogy, it can stand alone very easily without being about the end of a seriel killers life. I see it being about someone who was abused badly as a child and is , as an adult essentially a wreck, mentally ill even. "Don't even think about reachin' me...I won't be home. " that does not have to mean a physical home, i consider this to mean sort of out of your own head. I know when I have been in a deep depression I was almost commatose at times. "I got scratches all over my arms... One for each day since I fell apart. " clearly self mutilation IMO, I would scratch my arms up during those depressions. This song literally could be me at various points in my life.

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Pearl Jam – In My Tree Lyrics

23 years ago

I think in this song the "tree" would be life at the current time. he is safe in away from the abuse and pain of his past "no more crowbars to my head", how he lost his innocence due to the abuse he experienced as a child. Now, he has distanced himself, he has grown up , healed or started to and can look back on it and maybe regained some of what was stolen form him. He found or is finding who he is, but at the same time fears falling back into the old habits and issues. "Up here so high the boughs they break. "

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Pearl Jam – I Got Shit (I Got Id) Lyrics	23 years ago
This song so embodies a specific period of my life it is almost scary. This song ca insantly take me back there and is almost comforting. even tho' the song and that time in my life are so sad.

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Eminem – Cleaning Out My Closet Lyrics

23 years ago

Munchausen is a mental disorder where a parent will literally harm thie child to get attention, I have seen cases where the mother will put poison (usually just enough to make them sick) in their food, or they concoct wild stories about of strangers attacking and inflict injury on them (I personally saw this in someone we once knew, a man dressed like a ninja supposedly opend a door in a hallway of this persons mobile home and grabbed her daughter trying to yank her thru the opening left where the chain was on, hence sneding her husband from work and family all running to her aid.) In the video, you see the mother pouring pine cleaner in the kids cereal. This is a very good example. I have little doubt Mathers suffered some kind of abuse/neglect as a child, he is far too in touch with anger and other emotional issues in his lyrics not to have been. There are some things you just can not fake, and thisis one. A for his mothers cd, lawsuits, etc, she should be ashamed, you know if you were a bad mother at least own up to it, instead of abuseing your child even more thru the legal system and music industry. Thats exactly what she is doing, he has cut her out of his life, so she is using whatever she can as a weapon. I have heard the dear marshall song (downloaded of the internet, haha), and masicly she is playing the concerned mother roll and not understanding why he feels like he does, as if to convince the world her son is the one mentally off. Mathers appears to be, at least in my opinion, a very intellegent man, and wounded in ways that may never heal for him. Especially when family seem bent on picking the scabs.

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