Dissidents

mkg14

Sorry if I spelled it wrong, but why does Ed refer this to a "Pot Smoking Song?"

Anyone?

Thanks!

armanHammer

It's 'Dissident', and I have no idea. Where/when did he say that?

The song is about a lady who takes in a runaway felon for the night and falls in love with him, but "she folded" and called the authorities and can't get it out of her mind.

"When she had contact with the conflict, there was meaning. But she sold him to the state. She had to turn around."

This quote is taken from http://www.korat.co.il/pearljam/Ibook/

"The toughest thing is to devote yourself to a cause,' eddie elaborated. "And the people who do that should be praised. Because there are people who literaly give up thier lives for a cause. Like that abortion doctor who was shot in Florida. He gave his life to keep alive the freedom of women to have an abortion. And it's something that should be thier right by law. It's not as if he was doing anything illegal, though there are alot of fucking people out there right now who want to criminalise abortion.

In 'Dissident', I'm actually talking about a woman who takes in someone who's being sought after by the authorities for political reason. He's on the run, and she offers him a refuge. But she just can't handle the responsibility. She turns him in.Then she has to live with the guilt and the realisation that she's betrayed the one thing that gave her life meaning. It made her life diffucult. It made her life hell, but it gave her a reason to be.But she couldn't hold on. She folded. That's the tragedy of the song.'

- Ed Vedder

What I said was somewhat incorrect.

schuhljam

Thanks, I Have Never Heard That.