Porch Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Childlight 

Cover art for Porch lyrics by Pearl Jam

I don't see what's so hard to get about this song. It's partly polical but partly a call to join hands instead of leaving these brain dead twats like Georgey Bush to run the show

At LAST - someone who can think and reason!

I think the titular "Porch" refers to Middle America: the kind of dutiful, patriotic flag-hoisting folk who sit on their front porch and watch the world decline, but who never actively protest, or seek to enable positive change. They blindly accept what they're told by government (or like to complain about moral decay) but don't personally DO anything about it.

When Eddie sings "left the porch / hear my name / take a good look / this could be the day" he's proclaiming his intentions to be a political...