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donald Cronindonald Cronin Posts: 49
edited December 2009 in The Porch
Am I missing any:

Out of my mind
Last Exit (under your tongue, I'm like a tab)
Habit
Given to Fly (had a smoke in a tree)
In Hiding
Nothing as it seems (don't feel like methadone)
Save You (maybe not?, seems to be about helping a friend with addiction)
Down (think I'll throw these pills away)
Severed Hand
Gonna see my friend
Got some
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  • OlDiamondbackOlDiamondback Posts: 100
    Get Right.

    About sharing a joint and getting high (at least that's the way I hear it...)

    edit: oh, and the little drawing of the joint next to the lyrics.
  • KloddzKloddz Posts: 2,573
    Blood, maybe?

    Stab it down, one-way needle, pulled so slowly...
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  • mvwmvw Posts: 1,687
    All Those Yesterdays -

    "What are you running from?
    Taking pills to get along
    Creating walls to call your own
    So no one catches you?
    Drifting off and doing all the things...
    That we... all do"
  • KloddzKloddz Posts: 2,573
    mvw wrote:
    All Those Yesterdays -

    "What are you running from?
    Taking pills to get along
    Creating walls to call your own
    So no one catches you?
    Drifting off and doing all the things...
    That we... all do"
    Good call!
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  • JordyWordyJordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Deep - pretty much the whole thing, particularly the "sinks the needle deep, can't touch the bottom" line.
  • mvwmvw Posts: 1,687
    What about "The Real Thing" w/Cypress Hill? There has to be some pot reference in there somewhere. I can't seem to think of the lyrics right now. Short term memory loss is a bitch! :mrgreen:
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,870
    Spin the Black Circle has a double entendre

    "See this needle, see my hand, drop drop droppin it down, oh so gently"
    350x700px-LL-d2f49cb4_vinyl-needle-scu-e1356666258495.jpeg
  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    Best one ever- Of The Girl. At the end of the song if you listen closely (best on headphones) you will hear someone inhale, breathe out and say "marijuana." Pretty cool little hidden thingy. Starts at 4:45 into the song, voice says marijuana at around 4:51
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • hollow bottlehollow bottle Posts: 183
    Spin the Black Circle

    2 ways of interpreting this song.

    "See this needle...See my hand"
    "Turn me up...Won't turn you away"
    "Pull it out...A paper sleeve" (heroin)
    "I'm so big...A my whole world"
    "I'd rather you...I'd rather you...Than her"
    "Your so warm...Oh the ritual"

    Totally about injecting heroin or spinning on a turntable or both.
    TDR
  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,425
    hollow bottle wrote:
    Spin the Black Circle

    2 ways of interpreting this song.

    "See this needle...See my hand"
    "Turn me up...Won't turn you away"
    "Pull it out...A paper sleeve" (heroin)
    "I'm so big...A my whole world"
    "I'd rather you...I'd rather you...Than her"
    "Your so warm...Oh the ritual"

    Totally about injecting heroin or spinning on a turntable or both.

    Just about spinning records.
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,870
    DewieCox wrote:
    hollow bottle wrote:
    Spin the Black Circle

    2 ways of interpreting this song.

    "See this needle...See my hand"
    "Turn me up...Won't turn you away"
    "Pull it out...A paper sleeve" (heroin)
    "I'm so big...A my whole world"
    "I'd rather you...I'd rather you...Than her"
    "Your so warm...Oh the ritual"

    Totally about injecting heroin or spinning on a turntable or both.

    Just about spinning records.

    and how vinyl is like a drug to him, hence the double entendre
    350x700px-LL-d2f49cb4_vinyl-needle-scu-e1356666258495.jpeg
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,870
    4-20-02

    "using,using,using,takes its toll"
    350x700px-LL-d2f49cb4_vinyl-needle-scu-e1356666258495.jpeg
  • mcthudmcthud Posts: 366
    Depends on how you look at it, but The Fixer

    "When something's low
    I wanna put a little high on it"
  • donald Cronindonald Cronin Posts: 49
    Nice, I missed some obvious ones.

    I must isten to "of the girl" and check that out!!
  • OlDiamondbackOlDiamondback Posts: 100
    Rats spelled backwards is "star" which is a reference to the "blue star" stickers that were laced with LSD that weirdos used to hand out to little kids back in the 70s.

    bluestar.jpg

    They don't eat, they don't sleep...two things you don't do while tripping.

    True story.
  • CranMalReignCranMalReign Posts: 1,928
    Why Go

    Yup, that's one.

    And Stupid Mop... b/c there's no way they weren't on drugs when deciding to put that on the record. :)
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    time to dream, to himself
    he waves goodbye, to himself
    i'll see you on the other side...
    another man...moved by sleight of hand...
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  • NeilJamNeilJam Posts: 1,191
    JordyWordy wrote:
    Deep - pretty much the whole thing, particularly the "sinks the needle deep, can't touch the bottom" line.


    Not the whole song though. I believe part is about the subject raping a woman - "she doesn't like the view, but he sinks himself deep."
  • Drop the LeashDrop the Leash Posts: 220
    I always thought the pills in down are about medicine for mike?? But I have no idea.....
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  • Better DanBetter Dan Posts: 5,684
    Gmoney wrote:
    Best one ever- Of The Girl. At the end of the song if you listen closely (best on headphones) you will hear someone inhale, breathe out and say "marijuana." Pretty cool little hidden thingy. Starts at 4:45 into the song, voice says marijuana at around 4:51


    I just heard that with headphones! I've heard that sound for years and it never registered to me what it meant. I wonder why they included that?
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  • GmoneyGmoney Posts: 1,618
    DS114969 wrote:
    Gmoney wrote:
    Best one ever- Of The Girl. At the end of the song if you listen closely (best on headphones) you will hear someone inhale, breathe out and say "marijuana." Pretty cool little hidden thingy. Starts at 4:45 into the song, voice says marijuana at around 4:51


    I just heard that with headphones! I've heard that sound for years and it never registered to me what it meant. I wonder why they included that?
    I think it was inspired by the Binaural recording technique. A lot of weird uses of it in that song, coin dropping ect... They were probably stoned or smoking when doing some recording and jsut threw it in there. Sounds pretty cool to me, and fits the mood of the song for sure.
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • theanswersarefataltheanswersarefatal Posts: 239
    wow no one's mentioned even flow??

    "Even Flow...thoughts arrive like butterflies..."

    correct me if i'm wrong but i always thought that referred to the even flow of heroine into the veins...
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,549
    theanswersarefatal wrote:
    wow no one's mentioned even flow??

    "Even Flow...thoughts arrive like butterflies..."

    correct me if i'm wrong but i always thought that referred to the even flow of heroine into the veins...
    u are so right
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  • Snoopy Died For Our SinsSnoopy Died For Our Sins Posts: 2,608
    LUKIN...

    open the 'fridge, now I know life is worth

    I always read into it as LUKIN havin' the good shit to ease Ed's mind
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  • FrankY59FrankY59 Posts: 1,049
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    theanswersarefatal wrote:
    wow no one's mentioned even flow??

    "Even Flow...thoughts arrive like butterflies..."

    correct me if i'm wrong but i always thought that referred to the even flow of heroine into the veins...
    u are so right


    Im gonna go with a homeless paranoid schizophrenic/mental illness.
  • hollow bottlehollow bottle Posts: 183
    DewieCox wrote:
    hollow bottle wrote:
    Spin the Black Circle

    2 ways of interpreting this song.

    "See this needle...See my hand"
    "Turn me up...Won't turn you away"
    "Pull it out...A paper sleeve" (heroin)
    "I'm so big...A my whole world"
    "I'd rather you...I'd rather you...Than her"
    "Your so warm...Oh the ritual"

    Totally about injecting heroin or spinning on a turntable or both.

    Just about spinning records.

    Not just about spinning records. That was a very creative to get both topics across. It is way to obvious.
    TDR
  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    SO FAR WE HAVE

    Out of my mind
    Last Exit (under your tongue, I'm like a tab)
    Habit
    Given to Fly (had a smoke in a tree)
    In Hiding
    Nothing as it seems (don't feel like methadone)
    Save You (maybe not?, seems to be about helping a friend with addiction)
    Down (think I'll throw these pills away)
    Severed Hand
    Gonna see my friend
    Got some
    Get Right
    Blood
    All Those Yesturdays
    Deep
    The Real Thing w/ Cyrpus Hill
    Spin The Black Circle
    Of The Girl
    4/20/09
    The Fixer
    Rats
    Why Go
    Sleight of Hand
    Even Flow
    Lukin
    Unthought Know
    Red Mosquito

    I want to add UnThought Known - like In Hiding and Got Some needs no explaination for me
    I want to add Red Mosquito
    anyone alphabatise or albumatise for order
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  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    Can we add the "dot" track from Yield (don't know it if is red or green "dot" - i am color blind and cant ask anyone right now

    SO FAR WE HAVE

    Out of my mind
    Last Exit (under your tongue, I'm like a tab)
    Habit
    Given to Fly (had a smoke in a tree)
    In Hiding
    Nothing as it seems (don't feel like methadone)
    Save You (maybe not?, seems to be about helping a friend with addiction)
    Down (think I'll throw these pills away)
    Severed Hand
    Gonna see my friend
    Got some
    Get Right
    Blood
    All Those Yesturdays
    Deep
    The Real Thing w/ Cyrpus Hill
    Spin The Black Circle
    Of The Girl
    4/20/09
    The Fixer
    Rats
    Why Go
    Sleight of Hand
    Even Flow
    Lukin
    Unthought Know
    Red Mosquito
    The "Dot" track from Yield
    My Pearl Jam Fan Videos
    Best on the web - check them out
    http://www.youtube.com/user/cantkeepmehere
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  • CranMalReignCranMalReign Posts: 1,928
    cantkeepmehere wrote:
    Can we add the "dot" track from Yield (don't know it if is red or green "dot" - i am color blind and cant ask anyone right now/quote]

    I, too, have colorblindness issues... but it's red. In fact, I think a name I've heard bounced around for it is "The Color Red".
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