Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking home.
I'll take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb.
I'll make a right, after the arches, stinking grease and bone.
Stopped at the supermarket people stare like I'm a dog.
I'm going to Lukin's.
I've got a spot at Lukin's.
I knocked the door at Lukin's.
Open the fridge. Now I know life is worth.
I found the key but I return to find an open door.
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered, by rape, her own son.
I find my wife, I call the cops, this days work's never done.
The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun.
I'll take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb.
I'll make a right, after the arches, stinking grease and bone.
Stopped at the supermarket people stare like I'm a dog.
I've got a spot at Lukin's.
I knocked the door at Lukin's.
Open the fridge. Now I know life is worth.
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered, by rape, her own son.
I find my wife, I call the cops, this days work's never done.
The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun.
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This song is based on his experience with a stalker
Lukin describes the song in an interview for the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge: “Vedder had a stalker chick that would come by his house that was freaking him out. He would start to avoid his house after a while, so he would just come by my place. Vedder’d come over and we’d sit ‘round the kitchen and drink and stuff. He would talk about his stalker problem a little bit, but I would just blow it off. It was just drunken talk, throwing darts, having fun. There’d be other people there, sometimes four or five of us. Just me and Eddie and our wives and mutual friends like [then Mudhoney manager] Bob Whittaker. The Pearl Jam song ‘Lukin’ is about how my kitchen’s a sanctuary for him. Also, I was giving him shit about all their songs being too long. That inspired him to make ‘Lukin’ a one-minute song. I’ve always flipped him shit. Never let him be the rock star that he is.”
What I really love about PJ is the raw emotion that comes out in their songs. I can instantly name a track that describes my current state of mind. Lukin is a perfect example. It is a shot of pure adrenaline to the heart when heard played live! The band have gone thru so many different phases that I could actually document my whole life in snyc with the chronology of the albums.
I love this song, the speaker (Eddie) is just so angry. It always pops into my head when i do something really stupid, like when i locked my keys in the car when it was still running
I remember the first time I heard this song, was when PJ toured Australia in 1995, it was March and I saw them at Memorial Drive, the song didn't have a name but it sure did appeal to me, I was 17 at the time if my adding up is right and it espressed all my anger just perfectly through the music, a bit like killing in the name by RATM a few years earlier. I bought the bootleg for that show about 3vweeks later and the song was called 100 pacer.
Brilliant - says so much in less than a minute
matt lukin was the bassist from mudhoney, does that have anything to do with this song?
yes it does. and before that he was bassist for the melvins. i read that he shared a flat with kurt cobain cos they're from the same town.
yes it does. and before that he was bassist for the melvins. i read that he shared a flat with kurt cobain cos they're from the same town.
This sounds like it's based on an actual experience. Pearl Jam don't usually write stuff with an obvious meaning, and this sounds kind of spontaneous.
God, I LOVE this song. I think I once read it happened to Eddie. I've been wondering recently if it's a tribute to the Ramones 'machine gun' style of song, since PK like the Ramones.
I meant PJ, not PK. (Fucking typos.)