Funny/Odd Interpretations

robbie

not my misinturp, someone i know said he thought pearl jam lost their writing ability when they started doing gay sex slave songs, he was refering to 1/2 full and though the line "dont see some men as 1'2 empty, see them 1'2 full of shit thinking that were all but slaves" was "........shaft full of shit thinking that were all BUTT slaves" i did attempt to tell him the correct lyrics, but he refused to listen.

Listless

I had some really strange interpretations when I was younger but I dont remember them all...I thought that "GO" was about a blow job and "Even Flow" about a poet looking for an inspiration

tylervedder

Jeremy is smokin' crack today.........

Listless

Blow five virgins and a pelican (glorified version of a pellet gun)

boonie

First post but I've been lurking. This thread is calling my name. I thought the first line of crown of thorns was "tell you a story bout Mr. Freddy Crougar.

STXLAX

black- For the longest time I never knew the real lyrics:
"Her legs spread out before me" haha

I also thought they were talking about a daughter:
"Oh and I know our daughter was everything. I know she gave me up that she was..."

Then one day I looked at the lyrics and I felt like the biggest dumbass.

STXLAX

Listless wrote:

Blow five virgins and a pelican (glorified version of a pellet gun)

haha yeh i definatly thought it was "pelican".

Hitch-Hiker

ExTReMe FrEAk wrote:

I always thought, and still think that "Around the Bend" is about prison sex. The raper talking to his bitch before, during, and after.

I'll show you why I think this.

I'm wishing you all well.
Mind a peice within your cell. <-- I find this is the key to the interpretation.
Covers up, "I cast you off." <-- His prison bitch is refusing to be raped.
I'll be watching as you breathe. <-- His getting a kick from his bitch's panic.
I lie still, you move, I send you off around the bend. <-- Party time. His bitch searches for a 'happy place.'

I hold your head deep in my arms. <-- "You're not getting away"
My fingertips, they close your eyes. <-- His bitch really wants to find that happy place now.
Off you dream my little child. <-- The raper knows his bitch is off to his 'happy place'
There's a sun around the bend. <-- "Oh! There's that happy place!"

All evenings close like this. <-- I'd tell you, but I think you get it.
All these moments that I've missed. <-- read above.
Please forgive me, won't you dear? <-- read above.
Please forgive and let me share with you around the bend. <-- wonders where his bitch goes to for his 'happy place.'

You're an angel when you sleep. <-- The anal sex is over for now.
How I want your soul to keep on, and on, around the bend. <-- "I love it when they don't scream"

Dammit :( I'll never be able to use that as a lullabye again.- i'll have nightmares.

NewZealandJamFan

pearljamfan11 wrote:

When I first started listening to PJ...this is kind of embarassing...I thought Animal was about some kind of a crazy orgy. I thought the lyrics were "I'd rather be with A MAN YOU KNOW"

boy am i glad i was wrong.

I also thought Mankind was about masterbating. "I'll be playing with my magazine, usin' up my Listerine"

Seriously, I'm not sex crazed, but at first these were my thoughts!

How would you use Listerine for masterbating!!!! Ouch that would probably sting if you had cuts. I always thought Lukin was just a Yellow Ledbetter style song of chucking in any words Ed cared to throw in. Also very scared about that prison sex post......

AlreddieInLove

Listless wrote:

Blow five virgins and a pelican (glorified version of a pellet gun)

LOL. Christ.

For some reason the chorus to Go used to sound like Stop the wombat...

And I don't think that's how the line goes in Mankind is it? But that sounds like a dirty line to me too.