Jed The Humanoid Lyrics
poor jed, damn you new inventions.
Death because of negligence. R.I.P Jed
I really love how Grandaddy/Jason Lytle songs give everyone a totally different experience... Not many songs do that yet almost everyone of his does, amazing.
Just to throw it out there, maybe it is just a song about a new invention that gets depressed as newer inventions take away the initial attention it received... Ultimately leading to its suicide. Anyway you look at it the song is beautiful.
damn... I know exactly how it feels to lose someone close to you... or someone you always made fun of... it hurts. damn... it does! -Kate-
lol how sad, a robot drank itself to death...or is there some deeper meaning that i missed?
this song is beautiful surprised only 3 comments...although it seems silly singing such a pretty sad song about a "humanoid" i think it could be interpretted as losing someone you drifted away from, or jed could even be a metaphor for childhood...as they grew up (made new inventions) their childhood innocence is killed by alcohol and such
I just always assumed this was a imaginary friend from childhood, and eventually they gave him less attention and he just disappeared.
I thought this song had to do with a person that a bunch of people used for their own amusement. They weren't really his friends, but Jed believed it was so. When his 'friends' move on and find a new 'humanoid' to make fun of/use for their own amusement. When Jed realizes this he just turns to alcohol and eventually kills himself (maybe drinking is a factor).
That's why he was 'shocked' and 'broken' and why he 'exploded'. He's a humanoid because to the others, he is nothing but an object.
i really really love this song.
it reminds me of parents. they have this baby, this wonderful baby that they love so much and they're all so happy together. but then the parents get busy with their lives and their doings and they lose interest in their child. the child resorts to drinking and what have you and just finally. . .yeah.
its such a sad and beautiful song.
I'm not commenting on the meaning, but if you play backwards that unintelligible human-like voice at the end of the song, he says "he's a--he is a person now. [something]." That "something" is unintelligible to me, but sounds like "he's high now."
I thought it was interesting...