All Those Yesterdays

I think Stone might've written this one about Mike McCready.

The two were childhood friends long before Mike joined PJ. But a few years after the band made it big, Mike went through a tough time with health problems and addiction to pills and booze.

According to interviews I've seen, MM distanced himself emotionally from the other band members for a while, which could be reflected by these lyrics:

What are you running from? Taking pills to get along. Creating walls to call your own. So no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things that we all do.

man this song reminds me of a friend of mine!!

Sleep and winding down from the day, got to love sleep.

after living all of the pressures and anxieties of the world every day. Take a break. rest. We all go through these feelings.

All those yesterdays talks about human beings and how they build walls around them selves by the life style they choose, and the situations theyve been through, whove been stupid for a couple of times always beleive that he`s stupid, its never too late to change, forget what made u what u are and start changing ur self to something better, let ur mind relax, remove the walls of thoughts u live in...

Relates to how people need to let go and escape after the day is over. It isn't a crime to want to dream and forget everything for awhile.

I agree that the feeling of the song has to do with sleep, rest and escape, but I relate more with SoBeR's ideas of the walls we build and the difficulties we have in changing. We often feel it's wrong (a "crime" even) to change our ideas and admit that we've been wrong in our atitudes for some time ("all those yesterdays"). So the song's saying: give up your struggle, cause it's only doing you harm and it's ok to admit you were wrong or off track. Coupled with this comes the seductiveness of rest as an escape and it feels to me that the resting is sort of the acknowledgement of defeat (that you were wrong in something and are giving up). The rest and escape is something a person might have been fighting against, but should give in to and admit their mistakes.

this song epitomises pearl jam and eddie vedders lyrical mastery...

i think "all those yesterday " has something to do with hangin around with the wrong crowd...doin drugs just to be "in"...

--->What are you running from? Taking pills to get along. Creating walls to call your own. So no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things that we all do

you creat walls of your own...but later on you realize that no ones there for you...your freaking alone and desolate...

but the last line still stumps me...it seems that vedder thinks its no crime ...

listen to it when you're high...youll get the meaning...

i think its about old people .... and how they try to run away from the inevitable fact that they are slowly and surely nearing the end, by sometimes trying to work harder than their ageing body would allow, just so as to give the impression that they are young and active yet.... " what are you running from, taking pills to get along, ...so no one catches you drifting off"

i just looked at the title of this song and thought is it not just about if ya take drugs heavily youre goin to die short and simple although i know that it has a big meaning