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Low Light Best song in catalogue?

CTPJFanCTPJFan Posts: 5
edited September 2007 in Given To Fly (live)
I love this this song, and first song off of Yield I learned by heart since it was released. But can anyone please tell me what it's about???????? Heard it live twice now, I can die happy.
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  • Bangers_n_mashBangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Not exactly sure what it's about but Jeff wrote it for "his lady" as Ed said in Wembley.

    Try the Words And Communication forum.
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  • magikevmagikev Posts: 296
    You'll probably shoot me for this, but . . . Low Light is one of my least favorites. I never understood why so many love it. Please enlighten me :)
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  • magikevmagikev Posts: 296
    oops . . . double post . . . edited
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  • upina2001upina2001 Indiana Posts: 764
    it comes from the best album so it has that going for it. :D

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  • heyjoseheyjose Melbourne, Australia Posts: 503
    I think it's one of the finest moments PJ ever put to record. Just beautiful. "It's the sound.." Wish Boom would play piano on it (like on the studio recording) live.
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  • CTPJFanCTPJFan Posts: 5
    heyjose wrote:
    I think it's one of the finest moments PJ ever put to record. Just beautiful. "It's the sound.." Wish Boom would play piano on it (like on the studio recording) live.
    Boom can play Piano on any PJ song, but the two best ones: Lowlight and Indifference
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    1998: Hartford
    2000: Boston #1
    2003: Albany, Unionville, Boston #2, Camden #1, NYC (MSG #1), Hershey
    2004: Reading, PA (Vote For a Change Tour)
    2006: Albany, Hartford, Boston #1,
  • mak.mak. Posts: 56
    According to wikipedia...

    Jeff Ament discussed the song in an interview:

    “ I think "Pilate" was the question I was asking myself, and "Low Light " was the answer, the realization. Have you ever read The Master and Margarita [by Mikhail Bulgakov]? I just read that book, and at the end they talk about Pontius Pilate being all alone on a mountain with his dog. He couldn't sleep and he couldn't function. It really struck me hard, because at that point I was feeling very alone. I've always had this recurring dream about being old and just me and my dog sitting on the porch. It wasn't necessarily a sad dream or a premonition, but it did get me to thinking about why Pilate was so alone and freaked out. Then I realized he didn't get to finish his conversation with Jesus—that's why he can't function, because he didn't tie up the loose ends in his life. Later, I was playing the guitar, and I was hit so hard by this amazing, emotion. In that moment the words "low light" came out, and somehow those were the only words to explain what I was feeling. It was a kind of gratefulness at finding that place of calm and peace at my center and getting a glimpse of the person I could choose to be. It was the purest happiness that I've experienced in a long time, that particular emotion. God, I thought I was going to explode. I feel very lucky to have been able to put it down on tape that morning and work through it until it became a song"
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  • mjbmjb Posts: 1,315
    Call me bonkers, and keeping in mind that I have a lot of love for Low Light BUT...I can do without the opening "clouds roll by" line which opens the first verse - always feels somewhat awkward to me.
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