THE ENd

PB8253

I've never had the urge to actually write in to the band i love to listen to how they've grown since ten but one song in paticular on the new record has me thinking is Ed Sick?? in the last song The end it sounds as if he's telling us or is this complete fiction? I thought I read once the Ed's father died of Multiple sclerocis or leukimia.... like the songs says... a sickness in my bones???? im just wondering.

Paka

i'm not quite sure if a man like Eddie Vedder would be able to hide such a destiny. not that i'm questioning his abilities as an actor but the way i experienced him at the last coupla shows in europe i just simply can not think about him being sick in any bad way. he seemed so fit, passionate and happy about what he was doing...
i'm pretty sure that if a person finds out about such a sickness it would definitely change more in its life than just to write a short (but very powerful) song about it...
it MUST be fiction..

Mookie P Jammer

I don't think anyone knows the truth to that statement other than Ed and those ones he can count on both hands that he's loved! In my opinion I believe that his lyrics are just a reflection of his growth. The early songs showed the pain and struggle he dealt with as a child/teen/young man. Even referencing molestation and suicide. Ed is in in his forties now. Life's perception has changed. When you have a child, as Ed has within the past few years, you start to look at things differently. The life that you once might have wanted to end early, now begs to live as long as possible, just for the chance to see every moment of your childs life. So, you stop thinking about wanting to die, yet realize the fact that you are closer to dying, and now don't want to. And it scares you. So he channels the future, knowing that he hopes to spend the rest of his life with his now fiance, and children, yet know that one must leave this earth before the other.
-RB

Stereotype

Now that you've pointed it out - I can easily see how it could be about being sick and knowing that one would die and what and who he will leave behind...alone. It was probably meant that way.

I must say I personally feel it as a song about someone who is a bit disappointed about himself. Especially about the way he has handled some situations in the past. I could be about giving up...it could be a state of mind that closest around him can't understand. Being yourself can be hard - I can relate to that. And it's painful and he himself can't understand it. Lost in yourself. The last verse doesn't quite fit into this interpretation - but in the worst case scenario the guilt could be so big that maybe he is thinking about suicide.

My favorite verse is "give me something to echo, in my unknown futures ear".

kasiabi

PB8253 wrote:

I've never had the urge to actually write in to the band i love to listen to how they've grown since ten but one song in paticular on the new record has me thinking is Ed Sick?? in the last song The end it sounds as if he's telling us or is this complete fiction? I thought I read once the Ed's father died of Multiple sclerocis or leukimia.... like the songs says... a sickness in my bones???? im just wondering.

Oh, God, I'm not the only one to have thought so, then? Spoooooooooky!!!
Eddie, please: speak to us!!! We're terrified!
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