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ledbetter meaning

theinbetweenisminetheinbetweenismine Posts: 15
edited June 2004 in Words and Music...Communication
what do you think the true meaning of ledbetter is? everytime i listen to it i think something different..
"those who dance are called insane by those who don't hear the music"
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  • redsdiseaseredsdisease Posts: 147
    there is no meaning, just random lines that Eddy made up on the spot.
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  • soapyrowssoapyrows Posts: 235
    it has lots of different meanings i reckon its kinda crypic/abstract. i love it :D
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  • mitchhedbergmitchhedberg Posts: 5
    Although it is true that often times, Eddie ( ie not y), makes up certain lyrics to Yellow Ledbetter, the original version did have meaning and wasn't a bunch of nonsense...

    I take it as sort of an anti war type song, or not even antiwar but rather a song talking about the after affects of a war in a negative light

    thumbing through the lyrics -
    Unsealed on a porch a letter sat - which is like a letter sent to a family saying that there son has died at war

    I don't want to be a boxer or a bag - I think this can have a double meaning, but I think of it as in war, you either hit or get hit, as in kill or get killed, but I guess you can also think of it as coming home in a box or in a bag, because if you get killed your either in a box or in a bag...

    and I think the whole sand aspect of the song is about the beachfront of a war.

    Anywho, I'm pretty sure eddie said something about this song being about war or something to that extent...

    on a side note, I'm pretty sure that Yellow Ledbetter is the name of a beach
  • a country doctora country doctor Posts: 145
    this theme comes agian and again and again and again and again and again

    the studio version seems to be unfinished and does not really make sense, but it IS an anti war song, you can guess that because in live versions he improved the text so that it really seems to be an anti war song ( listen to the L@TG garden version of it, there it is very clear what he's talking about)

    in the first Golfwar a Yellow BEDletter was the name for letter that told the family of a dead soldier, well that he was dead

    "Unsealed on a porch a letter sat" i guess this one is the letter

    "And they called and I said that "I want what I said" and then I call out again.
    And the reason oughta' leave her calm, I know."

    and you can interprt these lines that a peron calls god and says that he/she wants his relative back,(i want what i said), but god says no, and the reason i oughta' leave her calm, well you see it doesn't really make sense

    ;-)
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  • dreadheaddreadhead Posts: 64
    i think ledbetter is a song best left unanalised sometimes. its just such a powerful mix of music (especially the guitar part) and words that make ledbetter so fucking amazing
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  • Mr PyjamaMr Pyjama Posts: 253
    Originally posted by a country doctor
    in the first Golfwar a Yellow BEDletter was the name for letter that told the family of a dead soldier, well that he was dead

    ;-)

    The title comes from a combination of this and also Mike's guitar part is strongly influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughn (?) and Ledbetter was the name of the street he lived on i think.

    The lyrics are just lots of ideas Ed came up with, it is in some ways war related.
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  • a country doctora country doctor Posts: 145
    Originally posted by Mr Pyjama
    Mike's guitar part is strongly influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughn (?) and Ledbetter was the name of the street he lived on i think.

    don't think so

    YL reminds me more of Little Wing bei Jimmy Hendrix
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  • theinbetweenisminetheinbetweenismine Posts: 15
    thanx:)
    "those who dance are called insane by those who don't hear the music"
  • artin90artin90 Posts: 66
    mmm... i think on the 2003 tour a lot of times he changed the lyrics to saying he wanted the soldiers to come home
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  • NothingbetterNothingbetter Posts: 570
    Eddie make an anti-war song? Surely not :)
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