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How many songs about death PJ have?

into the jaminto the jam Posts: 54
edited April 2010 in The Porch
I was thinking that PJ has a lot of songs about death suicide and all that stuff... These ones I recall:

long road
jeremy
alive
sad
come back
yellowledbetter
deep (I gess)
once
immortality
ligth years
rival
slegth of hand
other side
footsteps
last kiss
4-20-02
dead man
leather man
man of the hour (I gess)
state of love and trust (I gess)
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  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    ok you completely just threw me off with Leatherman lol i don't see it..

    other than the fact that the dude is dead i guess
  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    some of those songs could be interpreted another way not simply just death

    Come Back is another one that clearly is about death
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • Gonzo1977Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    There's a difference between a song about "DEATH" and a song like Leatherman which is about a..."Dead Guy"
  • allstar340allstar340 Posts: 809
    into the jam wrote:
    I was thinking that PJ has a lot of songs about death suicide and all that stuff... These ones I recall:

    long road
    jeremy
    alive
    sad
    come back
    yellowledbetter
    deep (I gess)
    once
    immortality
    ligth years
    rival
    slegth of hand
    other side
    footsteps
    last kiss
    4-20-02
    dead man
    leather man
    man of the hour (I gess)
    state of love and trust (I gess)
    It's spelled "guess"
    And deep isn't about death really.
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  • Gonzo1977Gonzo1977 Posts: 1,696
    "Dirty Frank" is the ultimate death song!!
  • youngsteryoungster Posts: 6,576
    into the jam wrote:
    I was thinking that PJ has a lot of songs about death suicide and all that stuff... These ones I recall:

    long road
    jeremy
    alive
    sad
    come back
    yellowledbetter
    deep (I gess)
    once
    immortality
    ligth years
    rival
    slegth of hand
    other side
    footsteps
    last kiss
    4-20-02
    dead man
    leather man
    man of the hour (I gess)
    state of love and trust (I gess)

    Add Garden to the list. Ed said in one of the Boston shows in 06 that garden was written about a military cemetary.
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  • StereotypeStereotype Posts: 885
    Sad?
    Really?
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  • Innocent_BystanderInnocent_Bystander Posts: 615
    Stereotype wrote:
    Sad?
    Really?
    Someone's girl died: "Undertow of futures laid to waste; He will always love you, its sad"
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    Circle comes around each time
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    Stereotype wrote:
    Sad?
    Really?

    Wikipedia (as much as it can be trusted), pointed to the article below about Sad originally being called "Letter to the Dead."
    http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=812822
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    last exit
  • Keith_RineckKeith_Rineck Posts: 7
    Mushmouthmatt wrote:
    last exit

    There's no time for me to address the other songs mentioned within this thread, but I assure you that LAST EXIT is not about death. I see how it could be interpreted that way, but truth be told it is about something different. I'd bet a mushroom and cheese pizza and a bottle of wine on it. ;)
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Keith_Rineck wrote:
    There's no time for me to address the other songs mentioned within this thread, but I assure you that LAST EXIT is not about death.

    I'd like to be convinced that it's not...
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  • einatshauleinatshaul Posts: 2,219
    Hey, I sure believe him
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    into the jam wrote:
    I was thinking that PJ has a lot of songs about death suicide and all that stuff... These ones I recall:

    long road
    jeremy
    alive
    sad
    come back
    yellowledbetter
    deep (I gess)
    once
    immortality
    ligth years
    rival
    slegth of hand
    other side
    footsteps
    last kiss
    4-20-02
    dead man
    leather man
    man of the hour (I gess)
    state of love and trust (I gess)

    You left out Life Wasted. Ed has been quoted to say that this is about driving home from a friends funeral, or maybe just a funeral in general.

    Arc...a tribute to the nine that died at the Rokslide incident ( I probably spelled that wrong)

    Bee Girl, the girl in the song is terminally ill...

    Army Reserve (maybe?)

    I guess you could consider Low Light about death, becuase a lot of people believe that it's about a fatal car crash...
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Keith_Rineck wrote:
    There's no time for me to address the other songs mentioned within this thread, but I assure you that LAST EXIT is not about death. I see how it could be interpreted that way, but truth be told it is about something different. I'd better a mushroom and cheese pizza and a bottle of wine on it. ;)

    I just read the lyrics, and the only other interpretation I can make on it is that it's about somebody coming out of their shell??

    Interesting...I've never thought of it that way. I guess I just had this paradigm that it was about dying. Thanks for opening my eyes :)

    I still like to tihnk of it about dying though ;) lol
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  • JazzmannJazzmann Posts: 98
    Why haven't anyone mentioned Present Tense yet? Isnt it partly about death?
  • Stone IronsStone Irons Posts: 430
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Bee Girl, the girl in the song is terminally ill...

    That song is about the Bee Girl from Blind Melon's "No Rain" music video, who I'm pretty certain has never been terminally ill.
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  • Leofish2Leofish2 Posts: 138
    Gonzo1977 wrote:
    "Dirty Frank" is the ultimate death song!!

    Lmfao
  • DPrival78DPrival78 Posts: 2,263
    dcfaithful wrote:
    You left out Life Wasted. Ed has been quoted to say that this is about driving home from a friends funeral, or maybe just a funeral in general.

    i think life wasted is more about, well, life than anything else. eddie said he came up with the song while driving home from johnny ramone's funeral - it's not about driving home from a funeral.
    i'm more a fan of popular bands.. like the bee-gees, pearl jam
  • legates54legates54 Posts: 72
    Life Wasted is about driving back from Stevie Ray Vaughn's funeral.
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    legates54 wrote:
    Life Wasted is about driving back from Stevie Ray Vaughn's funeral.


    Do you mean Johnny Ramone's funeral?
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