I don't think I'd read into to it too much. In that promo video Ed mentions how they've "made self-indulgent records before and they'll probably do that the next time."
I think we'll see the touring slow down some but the band isn't going away any time soon.
So this life is sacrifice...
6/30/98 Minneapolis, 10/8/00 East Troy (Brrrr!), 6/16/03 St. Paul, 6/27/06 St. Paul
Its a really powerful song. I don't believe it's anything about him, just like Unemployable is not about him.
I think the song is about someone's life, and as he gets close to death from an illness, then finally dies. "the end".
I think it could abstractly be about Ed.
"It’s my fault now, I've been caught, a sickness in my bones.
How do you think it is to leave you here with the kids on your own,
Just don’t let me go."
His sickness could be the stage and his addiction to performing.
If we were to take lyrics at face value, Johnny Guitar would be the song I'd be most terrified about personally.
Why? Cause Eddie might lust for a woman? Scary.
I can see Ed writing The End just before he left on tour. "Sickness in my bones" I've often heard people who like to travel or move around alot say, "It's in my bones". He also stated that the second verse was written after he received a phone call from a friend.
By chance, I just ran to Eddie two nights in a row in Chicago and he seemed very healthy
He did say something at his solo show in philly about being on pain meds. I was there but did not hear everything he was saying at the time so I am not sure in what context it was said
Its a really powerful song. I don't believe it's anything about him, just like Unemployable is not about him.
I think the song is about someone's life, and as he gets close to death from an illness, then finally dies. "the end".
I think it could abstractly be about Ed.
"It’s my fault now, I've been caught, a sickness in my bones.
How do you think it is to leave you here with the kids on your own,
Just don’t let me go."
His sickness could be the stage and his addiction to performing.
And then he fell down the well...
ADD 5,200 to the post count you see, thank you.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
we should remember not to speculate on the band's personal lives, especially with the stuff that's been said so far.
I once wrote a song about a man dying, and the song is his message to his child. I am not dying, and I wasn't a father at the time, so don't read too much into it. Especially the person who mentioned the Big C. Jeez. :roll:
Gimli 1993
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
Whats with the ????????????????????????????????????. Does your brain not read and understand?
4 bucks says he calls you and "idiot". He calls a number of people that. It will have nothing to do with you. Then he will make a comment about Matt Chamberlain. He is predictable. One day the "ignore" function will work...
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*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
Whats with the ????????????????????????????????????. Does your brain not read and understand?
Your first post is pretty poorly written, does your brain not allow you to type what you think? My question marks are for the sheer wonder at the sentiments found in your posts.
Whats with the ????????????????????????????????????. Does your brain not read and understand?
Your first post is pretty poorly written, does your brain not allow you to type what you think? My question marks are for the sheer wonder at the sentiments found in your posts.
Matt Chamberlain is still the drummer for PJ.
I was only half right.
ADD 5,200 to the post count you see, thank you.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
I mean, anybody with a Hoff avatar and openly argues that Matt Chamberlain was PJ's best drummer deserves to be called an idiot, right?
I kid.
...and I easily bated him into using "idiot" within 2 posts.
And I didn't say that Chamberlain was PJ's best drummer. I believe what I said was that Chamberlain was the most well rounded drummer for PJ. From Chamberlain's numerous bands, it's clear can play very fluidly and he is a happy-medium between Abbruzzese, Cameron, Krusen and Irons, but without the extreme polar opposite playing style that each of them had from each other. ...but I don't wanna hijack the OP's thread.
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*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
This song....i picture a couple who were never married but had kids so they are still in contact with each other...they broke up because the guy fucked up...but deep inside they still love each other but are apprehensive to express or announce it...especially the woman.....and the man sits alone in his home..in the dark..he feels trapped by his regret...heart full of pain and sorrow to the point of contemplating suicide...if she only knew she could save him with the 3 words he longs to hear.
What were all those dreams we shared those many years ago,
What were all those plans we made, now left beside the road.
Behind us in the road.
(young couple making plans for many things, some of which didn't happen)
More than friends, I always pledge, ‘cuz friends they come and go,
People change as does everything, I wanted to grow old,
I just want to grow old.
("more than friends" = lovers/husband-wife; I just want to grow old = looking forward to growing old with her)
Slide on next to me, I’m just a human being,
I will take the blame, but just the same, this is not me, you see, believe,
I’m better than this – don’t leave me so close,
(he made a mistake, or they're going thru tough times, and is feeling vulnerable. "slide on next to me, I'm just a human being" = I know I made a mistake, but please be with me; "don't leave me so close" = though you're sitting with me, don't be so emotionally distant)
I’m buried beneath the stones,
I just want to hold on and know I’m worth your love,
and I, don’t think, there’s such a thing.
(he's overwhelmed by his position from his potential aforementioned mistake in the relationship, and he just wants to be loved, and know he's worth her love, though he doesn't believe he could ever attain "true" worth of her love)
It’s my fault now, I've been caught, a sickness in my bones.
How do you think it is to leave you here with the kids on your own,
Just don’t let me go.
("It's my fault now, i've been caught, a sickness in my bones" = I screwed up, and this illness is karma coming back around)
Help me see myself,
‘Cuz I can no longer tell,
(the sickness is getting worse, and he can no longer recognize himself)
Looking up from inside of the bottom of a well, it’s Hell,
(perhaps he's now medicated heavily or in a coma, and he's deep in a "well")
I yell, but no one hears before, I disappear, whisper in my ear.
Give me something to echo in my unknown future,
you see, my dear, the end, comes near, I’m here, but not much longer.
(he's scared and he's "yelling" inside, but since he's heavily medicated or in a coma or whatnot, no one can hear him. he's scared what death will be like, and he's about to die, and he's just hoping to have some words from her to comfort him before he disappears)
at the end of the song, in the last verse you hear a breath coming in, which is the last breath, and he dies.
ADD 5,200 to the post count you see, thank you.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
What were all those dreams we shared those many years ago,
What were all those plans we made, now left beside the road.
Behind us in the road.
(young couple making plans for many things, some of which didn't happen)
More than friends, I always pledge, ‘cuz friends they come and go,
People change as does everything, I wanted to grow old,
I just want to grow old.
("more than friends" = lovers/husband-wife; I just want to grow old = looking forward to growing old with her)
Slide on next to me, I’m just a human being,
I will take the blame, but just the same, this is not me, you see, believe,
I’m better than this – don’t leave me so close,
(he made a mistake, or they're going thru tough times, and is feeling vulnerable. "slide on next to me, I'm just a human being" = I know I made a mistake, but please be with me; "don't leave me so close" = though you're sitting with me, don't be so emotionally distant)
I’m buried beneath the stones,
I just want to hold on and know I’m worth your love,
and I, don’t think, there’s such a thing.
(he's overwhelmed by his position from his potential aforementioned mistake in the relationship, and he just wants to be loved, and know he's worth her love, though he doesn't believe he could ever attain "true" worth of her love)
It’s my fault now, I've been caught, a sickness in my bones.
How do you think it is to leave you here with the kids on your own,
Just don’t let me go.
("It's my fault now, i've been caught, a sickness in my bones" = I screwed up, and this illness is karma coming back around)
Help me see myself,
‘Cuz I can no longer tell,
(the sickness is getting worse, and he can no longer recognize himself)
Looking up from inside of the bottom of a well, it’s Hell,
(perhaps he's now medicated heavily or in a coma, and he's deep in a "well")
I yell, but no one hears before, I disappear, whisper in my ear.
Give me something to echo in my unknown future,
you see, my dear, the end, comes near, I’m here, but not much longer.
(he's scared and he's "yelling" inside, but since he's heavily medicated or in a coma or whatnot, no one can hear him. he's scared what death will be like, and he's about to die, and he's just hoping to have some words from her to comfort him before he disappears)
at the end of the song, in the last verse you hear a breath coming in, which is the last breath, and he dies.
we have almost the same vision up to the point where you think he's sick...i think "sickness in my bones" isn't literal..more figurative...like when someone says "i feel it in my bones".
but hey we could both be wayyy wrong! it's still fun to try and decipher Ed's lyrics!
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3 Decibels Doubles the Volume
2006
Its a really powerful song. I don't believe it's anything about him, just like Unemployable is not about him.
I think the song is about someone's life, and as he gets close to death from an illness, then finally dies. "the end".
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
I think we'll see the touring slow down some but the band isn't going away any time soon.
6/30/98 Minneapolis, 10/8/00 East Troy (Brrrr!), 6/16/03 St. Paul, 6/27/06 St. Paul
I think it could abstractly be about Ed.
"It’s my fault now, I've been caught, a sickness in my bones.
How do you think it is to leave you here with the kids on your own,
Just don’t let me go."
His sickness could be the stage and his addiction to performing.
Why? Cause Eddie might lust for a woman? Scary.
I can see Ed writing The End just before he left on tour. "Sickness in my bones" I've often heard people who like to travel or move around alot say, "It's in my bones". He also stated that the second verse was written after he received a phone call from a friend.
By chance, I just ran to Eddie two nights in a row in Chicago and he seemed very healthy
And then he fell down the well...
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
I once wrote a song about a man dying, and the song is his message to his child. I am not dying, and I wasn't a father at the time, so don't read too much into it. Especially the person who mentioned the Big C. Jeez. :roll:
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
PJ's music does this to us ALL sometimes.
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
?????????????????????????
?????????????????????????
He means Chamberlain. :geek:
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
2nd time he was stuck in a well.....
Remember Nothingman?
4 bucks says he calls you and "idiot". He calls a number of people that. It will have nothing to do with you. Then he will make a comment about Matt Chamberlain. He is predictable. One day the "ignore" function will work...
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
Your first post is pretty poorly written, does your brain not allow you to type what you think? My question marks are for the sheer wonder at the sentiments found in your posts.
Matt Chamberlain is still the drummer for PJ.
oh yeah, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I was only half right.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
I kid.
...and I easily bated him into using "idiot" within 2 posts.
And I didn't say that Chamberlain was PJ's best drummer. I believe what I said was that Chamberlain was the most well rounded drummer for PJ. From Chamberlain's numerous bands, it's clear can play very fluidly and he is a happy-medium between Abbruzzese, Cameron, Krusen and Irons, but without the extreme polar opposite playing style that each of them had from each other. ...but I don't wanna hijack the OP's thread.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
man this is some good weed!
What were all those dreams we shared those many years ago,
What were all those plans we made, now left beside the road.
Behind us in the road.
(young couple making plans for many things, some of which didn't happen)
More than friends, I always pledge, ‘cuz friends they come and go,
People change as does everything, I wanted to grow old,
I just want to grow old.
("more than friends" = lovers/husband-wife; I just want to grow old = looking forward to growing old with her)
Slide on next to me, I’m just a human being,
I will take the blame, but just the same, this is not me, you see, believe,
I’m better than this – don’t leave me so close,
(he made a mistake, or they're going thru tough times, and is feeling vulnerable. "slide on next to me, I'm just a human being" = I know I made a mistake, but please be with me; "don't leave me so close" = though you're sitting with me, don't be so emotionally distant)
I’m buried beneath the stones,
I just want to hold on and know I’m worth your love,
and I, don’t think, there’s such a thing.
(he's overwhelmed by his position from his potential aforementioned mistake in the relationship, and he just wants to be loved, and know he's worth her love, though he doesn't believe he could ever attain "true" worth of her love)
It’s my fault now, I've been caught, a sickness in my bones.
How do you think it is to leave you here with the kids on your own,
Just don’t let me go.
("It's my fault now, i've been caught, a sickness in my bones" = I screwed up, and this illness is karma coming back around)
Help me see myself,
‘Cuz I can no longer tell,
(the sickness is getting worse, and he can no longer recognize himself)
Looking up from inside of the bottom of a well, it’s Hell,
(perhaps he's now medicated heavily or in a coma, and he's deep in a "well")
I yell, but no one hears before, I disappear, whisper in my ear.
Give me something to echo in my unknown future,
you see, my dear, the end, comes near, I’m here, but not much longer.
(he's scared and he's "yelling" inside, but since he's heavily medicated or in a coma or whatnot, no one can hear him. he's scared what death will be like, and he's about to die, and he's just hoping to have some words from her to comfort him before he disappears)
at the end of the song, in the last verse you hear a breath coming in, which is the last breath, and he dies.
*NYC 9/28/96 *NYC 9/29/96 *NJ 9/8/98 (front row "may i play drums with you")
*MSG 9/10/98 (backstage) *MSG 9/11/98 (backstage)
*Jones Beach 8/23/00 *Jones Beach 8/24/00 *Jones Beach 8/25/00
*Mansfield 8/29/00 *Mansfield 8/30/00 *Nassau 4/30/03 *Nissan VA 7/1/03
*Borgata 10/1/05 *Camden 5/27/06 *Camden 5/28/06 *DC 5/30/06
*VA Beach 6/17/08 *DC 6/22/08 *MSG 6/24/08 (backstage) *MSG 6/25/08
*EV DC 8/17/08 *EV Baltimore 6/15/09 *Philly 10/31/09
*Bristow VA 5/13/10 *MSG 5/20/10 *MSG 5/21/10
NOT.....we are talking Stones here baby!!!!!!
• 2003-07-05• 2004-10-01
• 2005-10-03• 2006-05-27
• 2008-06-19• 2009-10-27 2009-10-28 •2009-10-30
• 2009-10-31
*Tres Mts 2011-03-23
*Eddie Vedder 2011-06-25
- 2013-10-21
- 2013=10-22
-2016 -04-28
-2016 -04-29
...alright, I'll leave.
but hey we could both be wayyy wrong! it's still fun to try and decipher Ed's lyrics!