"Fatal" as written by and Stone Gossard....
How good is he?
How warm are his eyes
You'll see it's not a reprise
Did he arrive
Too late and too tethered away
To put on his suit and his tie?
How good is he?
How warm is his heart
Or ego telling him which place to park
Did he relate, the message is clearly hardly
Grounds for dismissal outright
Grounds for dismissal outright
I wake up and wait up
When anger's in fashion
I wake up and wait up
It echoes through the mansions
I wake up and wait up
When April's in may, oh uh oh
I wake up and wait up
The answers are fatal
The answers are fatal
When I wait up and wake up
The answers are fatal
If he's truly out of sight
Is he truly out of mind?
If he's truly out of sight..
How warm are his eyes
You'll see it's not a reprise
Did he arrive
Too late and too tethered away
To put on his suit and his tie?
How good is he?
How warm is his heart
Or ego telling him which place to park
Did he relate, the message is clearly hardly
Grounds for dismissal outright
Grounds for dismissal outright
I wake up and wait up
When anger's in fashion
I wake up and wait up
It echoes through the mansions
I wake up and wait up
When April's in may, oh uh oh
I wake up and wait up
The answers are fatal
The answers are fatal
When I wait up and wake up
The answers are fatal
If he's truly out of sight
Is he truly out of mind?
If he's truly out of sight..
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How good is he?
Did he arrive too late and tethered away to put on his suit and his tie?
Grounds for dismissal outright?
The answers are Fatal could reference the significant other committing suicide or catching a fatal STD. The song "Wash" from the same album may be a reference to a cheating significant other "bringing back" an STD.
Planting the devil's seed... Though I stray. What she don't know today, might kill us both tomorrow. Wash my love.
i think its talking about a corporate businessman, and his daily life and decisions, and the lyrics are eddie's look into his life from a third person point of view. no matter how successful or high-up in the food chain you get, 'the answers are fatal'. i especially love the ending, how soft eddie's voice gets as it fades into the next track.
i can see lots of diffrent meanings to this song too though and i dont think the business one is my strongest.
loss of a friend
angry at something someone did
wanting to be with someone not here for a long time but realized hoe much you love them
how mean people out there can be just a few egs
I must apologize. I suppose I READ it somewhere...I didn't "HEAR it somewhere", as I previously wrote. And, since neither of us were present during the session, we should probably remove ourselves from theory.
But wouldn't you be amused if the answers were Play-Doh?