Once Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Boomsars 

Cover art for Once lyrics by Pearl Jam

Er, I never really said why the song was before Alive. Assuming this IS a police confession, then he describes the crime to the police and he goes to jail and all that fun stuff. However, someone like this probably would not have been thrown straight into jail and may have seen a psychiatrist or something first, and Alive is his repressed memories being brought back to him by the psychiatrist or whatever. Thus this is first, and then Alive is second on the album. Alive is the first part of the trilogy because chronologically the events in Alive happened first.