@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
All my rivals will see what I have in store
My gun
I've been harboring fleets in this reservoir
Red sun
And this nation's about to explode
Your disciples are riddled with metaphors
Well-hung
Better pony up and bring both your barrel fulls
Not one
As we release this unspeakable toll
How's our mother to damn these contributors
With mud?
How will the man who made chemicals difficult
Shed blood?
How's our father supposed to be told?
My gun
I've been harboring fleets in this reservoir
Red sun
And this nation's about to explode
Your disciples are riddled with metaphors
Well-hung
Better pony up and bring both your barrel fulls
Not one
As we release this unspeakable toll
How's our mother to damn these contributors
With mud?
How will the man who made chemicals difficult
Shed blood?
How's our father supposed to be told?
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this song is about columbine...it makes reference to this in the lyric page in the album booklet. the first line is the most obvious allusion to it, the rest makes sense....mostly
the columbine thing does make sense, especially with the parenthetical title of the song ("growing up gay in littleton", littleton colorado being the city in which columbine is located, if i'm not mistaken) as mentioned in the booklet. "barrels full" (as in the barrel of a gun, duh) , "unspeakable toll", etc, also make a case for that.
this is one of my favorite songs.
Im pretty sure columbine was in middleton
Does anyone have a clue to what Vedder is mumbling during the bridge of this song??
The correct lyrics are "All the stars and everyone", not "All the stars around the world."
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“Supposed to be what the Columbine Killers were thinking the night before.”
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I always thought it was sort of thoughts from right before WWII from Japan's point of view because of the "red sun" line.
Double-0 9: I live your interpretation. It fits perfectly. Especially later with the part about the man that made "chemicals difficult". Sounds like Oppenheimer and Hiroshima.
This song is so sinister and evil. The slow gringing churn of the guitars reminds me of Not For You. But even nastier. The repeitive driving riff just sounds like the embodiment of insanity... almost makes me think of Dark Side of the Moon a little :P
And the poetic scheme makes it sound like a child's riddle. Even more evil sounding. This used to be one of the few PJ songs I literally hated. But it grew on me.
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