The song reference game

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  • I'm so high I hold this one breath deep within my chest...

    Breath... Deep :)
    ...makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
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  • this probably won't count but...

    every time i get me some it gets the best of me...

    makes me think of got some... lol
    ...makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Madrugada's Sirens mentions Pearl Jam's Sirens. :)
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  • JB128716 wrote:
    Catwoman1 wrote:
    I have the winner!!!!!

    Sirens: Let me catch my breath to breathe then reach across the bend

    The judges vote no on the last reference. We believe the correct lyrics are reach across the bed and not reach across the bend.

    Nice try.

    :cry: I wanted to win!!! I really thought Eddie was saying bend, but bed makes a lot more sense lyrically.

    Hey wait -- I still have the winner: Let me catch my breath to breathe then reach across the bed
    (as in Satan's Bed). Do I win now???!!!??
    You can't be neutral on a moving train.
  • JTHJTH Chicago Posts: 3,238
    JB128716 wrote:
    Rearview Mirror - Finally the Shades are raised

    They have a song title that consists of any of these words? :?
    Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town.

    Duh.
  • ayumiayumi Posts: 25
    in different order, but Nothingman does a mention to Lightning Bolt:
    "Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go..."
  • VeddernarianVeddernarian Posts: 1,905
    In My Tree + Severed Hand:

    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Oh please understand I just need, my friend, a way a way a way home.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Severed Hand (I've no fear but for falling down...) mentions Falling Down.
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  • nevmilesnevmiles Ottawa, ON Posts: 1,363
    There are a couple of rusted signs references:

    Thumbing My Way: "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead"

    Man Of The Hour: "And the road the old man paved. The broken seems along the way. The broken seems along the way. The rusted signs, left just for me"
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  • ayumiayumi Posts: 25
    Off he goes / Come Back

    He's yet to come back...but I've seen his picture
  • nevmilesnevmiles Ottawa, ON Posts: 1,363
    Bit of a stretch because it's a cover, but in Hard Sun:

    "When I walk beside her, I am the better man...."
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  • aennilaennil Posts: 415
    The End: Help me see myself, cause I can no longer tell. Looking out from the inside of a well, it's hell....
    Nothingman: Empty stares, from the corner of a shared prison cell. One just escapes, one's left inside the well

    and i have always wondered about these two No Code lines:
    Red Mosquito: If i had known then what i know now
    I'm Open: If he only knew now, what he knew then...
  • Undone:

    Well you know the pendulum throws.
    Farther out to the one side swinging.

    Edit: it's already posted :fp:
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Future Days (Hey Angel I am here to stay) mentions Angel.
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  • BoltOfLightnin'BoltOfLightnin' South Jersey Posts: 708
    nevmiles wrote:
    There are a couple of rusted signs references:

    Thumbing My Way: "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead"

    Man Of The Hour: "And the road the old man paved. The broken seems along the way. The broken seems along the way. The rusted signs, left just for me"

    This! My tattoo has a rusty Yield sign in it because of these lyrics :D
    No time to be void or save up on life...you've got to spend it all.
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Nothingman (took the other side) mentions Other Side.
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  • Catwoman1Catwoman1 Posts: 482
    Now I have the winner!!!! :D

    From Swallowed Whole:

    Down, down, down
    Down, down, down, down

    Seven song titles in two verses!!!
    You can't be neutral on a moving train.
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Catwoman1 wrote:
    Now I have the winner!!!! :D

    From Swallowed Whole:

    Down, down, down
    Down, down, down, down

    Seven song titles in two verses!!!

    :lol::clap:
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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Unthought Known (Swallowed whole in negatives...) mentions Swallowed Whole.
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  • aennil wrote:
    and i have always wondered about these two No Code lines:
    Red Mosquito: If i had known then what i know now
    I'm Open: If he only knew now, what he knew then...

    This is a great observation that I had missed before. We know E.V. writes song cycles, famously Alive-Once-Footsteps and also Why Go-Leash (and others I'm probably not remembering), but this Red Mosquito-I'm Open lyric-share seems to be an obvious callback. They're too similar to be coincidence, right?

    One such parallel lyric I *had* detected before occurs on Vs.—and is referenced by JB128716 in this thread—where Daughter and Rearviewmirror both reference "shades." Has anybody uncovered more callbacks on a single PJ album?

    In both the No Code and Vs. examples, the parallel lyrics occur on different sides of the record and both reverse or negate the sentiment expressed on the other side. The "shades go down," then later, "finally the shades are raised."

    From a textual reading of the lyrics, the "shades" reference in Daughter to me signifies to me window blinds being drawn to cover up abuse, e.g. "Young girl...violins(ence)," whereas the RVM "shades" reference I've always interpreted as sunglasses to cover bruising, e.g. "I guess it was the beatings" or "Wounds in the mirror waved."

    Has anyone ever connected the narrator in Daughter and RVM as the same person? The similar use of "shades" in both songs makes me wonder. Furthermore, the two songs have traditionally gone together. PJ played both on ’94 SNL and the songs are the two most-frequently-played live Vs. songs.

    The references on No Code, to me, seem to reference a loss of innocence and lingering regret. In both songs, the narrator is bound to a single room: "I was not allowed to leave the room" in Red Mosquito, and "A man lies in his bed, in a room with no door" in I'm Open. (What sort of room has no door, no exit? A coffin?) The first song references the sun, the second, the moon. (Sunrise, sunset. Life, death.)

    In Red Mosquito, the narrator seems to regret a past decision or interaction with the titular character ("If I had known then what I know now"). In I'm Open, he regrets passage into adulthood, indicating that illusion trumps reality ("If he only knew now what he knew then").
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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    edited December 2014
    Of The Girl (How he makes his getaway...) mentions Getaway.
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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Parting Ways (Drifting away...) mentions Drifting.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    lpeddle wrote: »
    Oh and Yellow Ledbetter (at least the studio version!) says "...can you see them out on the PORCH?" I know there's another song that has the word porch in it too but I can't think of it right now...

    SOLAT.. Step out on your porch..
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    edited June 2015
    Undone (Well you know the pendulum throws...) & (This is how I used to feel, but no more...) mentions Pendulum and No More.
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  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,769
    nevmiles said:

    There are a couple of rusted signs references:



    Thumbing My Way: "All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead"



    Man Of The Hour: "And the road the old man paved. The broken seems along the way. The broken seems along the way. The rusted signs, left just for me"

    See it's funny, because I've often thought some of these "references" are just regurgitated lyrics. Often times made me cringe.

    But, this has been an interesting thread.
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Alright (To disappear in thin air, it's yours...) mentions Thin Air.
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