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Ms. Haiku
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Ever since Given to Fly was released that has been my favorite Pearl Jam song. I LOVE that song.
Recently, I put a bunch of songs together including concert bootlegs for a hard time that I went through last year and early this year. I'm listening to the May 24, 2006 Boston concert, in particular Release.
With open heart surgery I became new in a sense. I have had four of them, and I remember the one from November 2013, and the one from February 1975. When I recovered from the 1975 surgery I came home and I felt of myself as sick (many new scars), and during the hospital I was extremely lonely. It was a loneliness so severe it was like holding a sustained coldness. For the next 38ish years I had to look at myself with that as the foundation.
However, with this 2013 surgery I look at things differently. For all the hospital stuff I went through I had many people helping me out; holding out their hands, and lifting me up. There was never a time when I was alone. I may have been in some pain, but not depressed. With this in mind, I think Release is the song for me. Release what is holding me back from the past-life in those 38 years, and take with me that big pink bubble of love that surrounded me during these recent difficult times.
Go bad time, shoo, be gone!
Recently, I put a bunch of songs together including concert bootlegs for a hard time that I went through last year and early this year. I'm listening to the May 24, 2006 Boston concert, in particular Release.
With open heart surgery I became new in a sense. I have had four of them, and I remember the one from November 2013, and the one from February 1975. When I recovered from the 1975 surgery I came home and I felt of myself as sick (many new scars), and during the hospital I was extremely lonely. It was a loneliness so severe it was like holding a sustained coldness. For the next 38ish years I had to look at myself with that as the foundation.
However, with this 2013 surgery I look at things differently. For all the hospital stuff I went through I had many people helping me out; holding out their hands, and lifting me up. There was never a time when I was alone. I may have been in some pain, but not depressed. With this in mind, I think Release is the song for me. Release what is holding me back from the past-life in those 38 years, and take with me that big pink bubble of love that surrounded me during these recent difficult times.
Go bad time, shoo, be gone!
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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Prague Krakow Berlin 2018. Berlin 2022
EV, Taormina 1+2 2017.
I wish i was the souvenir you kept your house key on..
I see the world on a rocking horse of time
I see the words in the rain
Does the official website have them wrong? Wondered about this for years now...
Tattooed Dissident!
But it wasn't until I was older that this song had an impact on me....I didn't grow up with my dad in my life...we have a relationship now....a friendship rather, but that song just expresses so much about how it feels to not have your father around...I feel....and the "Oh dear dad, can you see me now, I am myself, like you somehow...." I am like my father, even though I didn't grow up around him, I have things in common with him that are so weird and random that you would think you'd need to grow up around him to have...and "I'll ride the wave, where it takes me, I'll hold the pain, release me...." I'm along for the ride in this "friendship", but I don't dare let on that I still hurt over him choosing to not be a part of my life....and "I'll wait up in the dark, for you to speak to me, I'll open up, release me..." sometimes I find myself waiting for his approval, and wanting it so badly...even though I know it should really go the other way around...but this song means so much to me that I plan to get the lyrics inked on me with a custom wave...
Tattooed Dissident!
Was listening to London 2009 bootleg the other night though and it definitely sounds like 'world on a rocking horse of time'...
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
The words, but more importantly how Eddie expresses them, makes me tear up pretty much every time I hear this line. I have a similar personal story to some of those who have posted here, about my father. And it just makes me heart ache, listening to the build and crescendo of this song. Definitely still one of my favorites.
After 95 Eddie sings that in concert
Bfore then on all my boots it's 'words' on a rocking horse of time...
That's the source of my confusion!
I wait up in the dark for you to speak to me
for me it was both release from my mum's super-protective grip, as well as the relationship i've been in for far too long but don't know how to move away from...
mentioned this in my top 3 PJ songs, but this song featured in a dream i had a few years ago, when i was watching the band play in this hall, and Eddie {.....} sort of helped me - without speaking a word - to move away from the person i was having so much trouble with releasing myself from... and then they played the song...
and now i can;t hear it without getting a lump in my throat and seriously welling up...