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pearljamfan11
pearljamfan11 Posts: 50
edited May 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
Do you think Ed is literally talking about Bugs? That's always been my initial thought, but then there is definitely a possibility that it means something else...deeper.

All thoughts are welcome.


PS - I admit, i don't mind this song a bit!
He who forgets will be destined to remember.
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  • EddieVedderSlut
    EddieVedderSlut Posts: 18
    mmm it wouldnt surprise me if the song actually IS about bugs.
    I guess he wrote it in some heroin hazy fog or something.

    Its a good song. It gives me a laugh
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  • Merkyjamm
    Merkyjamm Posts: 272
    Nah, it's definitely deeper than being about Bugs. Of course, it could mean nothing at all...
    Too many cowboys, not enough indians, so just go ape shit!

    I may be boring but at least I'm not Jack fucking Johnson.

    TV is such shit; let's go outside and ride bicycles, right now!

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  • pirljamgirl
    pirljamgirl Posts: 259
    i always think of it as being the soundtrack to Franz Kafkas "The Metamorphosis"

    just me, it's weird....
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  • St. Nick
    St. Nick Posts: 72
    I think it's probably a metaphore. For a certain kind of people maybe?
  • Bu$hleague
    Bu$hleague Posts: 78
    I think it's about the media and selling out..

    "Bugs on my window trying to get in.
    They don't go nowhere. Waiting, waiting...
    Bugs on my ceiling. Crowded the floor.
    Standing, sitting, kneeling. A few block the door.
    And now the questions..."

    "..Do I join them? Looks like that's the one.
    I got bugs on my skin. Tickle my nausea.
    I let it happen again. They're always taking over.
    I see they surround me I see, see them deciding my fate.
    Oh, that which was once, was once up to me. Now it's too late."
    "I'm like an opening band for the sun"
  • Angled light
    Angled light Posts: 7
    Most people think it refers to bugs, as in- the electronic listening devices, bugs..using them as a metaphor, for the lack of privacy he was enduring due to the bands fame.
    love is a tower, of strength to me
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  • Veddie_Edder
    Veddie_Edder Posts: 39
    Bu$hleague wrote:
    I think it's about the media and selling out..

    "Bugs on my window trying to get in.
    They don't go nowhere. Waiting, waiting...
    Bugs on my ceiling. Crowded the floor.
    Standing, sitting, kneeling. A few block the door.
    And now the questions..."

    "..Do I join them? Looks like that's the one.
    I got bugs on my skin. Tickle my nausea.
    I let it happen again. They're always taking over.
    I see they surround me I see, see them deciding my fate.
    Oh, that which was once, was once up to me. Now it's too late."


    I think you're right. But to that other guy, IDK if Eddie did heroin or not.
    Right on dude!!!!!
  • EddieVedderSlut
    EddieVedderSlut Posts: 18
    Veddie_Edder wrote:
    I think you're right. But to that other guy, IDK if Eddie did heroin or not.


    are you talking about me?
    Maynard James Keenan & Billy Howerdale - I'm so weak and powerless over you

    Jag önskar att jag var en jävla grungare!!
  • bambi girl
    bambi girl Posts: 406
    i love bugs! so much!

    makes me dance.
  • pearljamfan11
    pearljamfan11 Posts: 50
    I think all the ideas have been really good...electronic bugs, real bugs, the media...they all make sense. the beauty about Ed's writing is that he probably intended for us to believe all of those when he wrote it. It was probably about all three ideas...maybe even more.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.
  • sourdough
    sourdough Posts: 579
    As amusing as some of the "song" like Bugs are, I wish they used the space to include other more legit songs.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    pearljamfan11 wrote:
    Do you think Ed is literally talking about Bugs? That's always been my initial thought, but then there is definitely a possibility that it means something else...deeper.

    All thoughts are welcome.


    PS - I admit, i don't mind this song a bit!

    Well, I think he's talking about people who are pesty like bugs.
    But the beauty of the song is that he COULD be talking only about bugs. :D
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  • pearljamfan11
    pearljamfan11 Posts: 50
    sourdough wrote:
    As amusing as some of the "song" like Bugs are, I wish they used the space to include other more legit songs.
    I understand where you're coming from, but I think Vitalogy was a different ball game for Pearl Jam. Ed's state of mind and the state of the band was pretty fucked up and pissed off. I think with songs like Pry, To, Bugs, Aye Davinita, and Stupid Mop...they were challenging listeners and their fans to consider this as a collective thought. They were saying "I challenge you to hear an accordian while I sing about bugs. I challenge you to hear me sing one line over and over again. I challenge you to hear us chanting. I challenge you to listen to this fucked up ending."

    Obviously, not a direct quote, but I think that's what they were trying to do. Overall, they were saying "we're fucked up right now, and so is this album. If you wanna know where our heads are at, here ya go." You gotta think, even the art work is all black and dark - and the booklet (based off the real book) is full of fucked up passages and images.

    I think it's about as close as PJ has come to a "concept album".
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.
  • Merkyjamm
    Merkyjamm Posts: 272
    pearljamfan11 wrote:
    I understand where you're coming from, but I think Vitalogy was a different ball game for Pearl Jam. Ed's state of mind and the state of the band was pretty fucked up and pissed off. I think with songs like Pry, To, Bugs, Aye Davinita, and Stupid Mop...they were challenging listeners and their fans to consider this as a collective thought. They were saying "I challenge you to hear an accordian while I sing about bugs. I challenge you to hear me sing one line over and over again. I challenge you to hear us chanting. I challenge you to listen to this fucked up ending."

    Obviously, not a direct quote, but I think that's what they were trying to do. Overall, they were saying "we're fucked up right now, and so is this album. If you wanna know where our heads are at, here ya go." You gotta think, even the art work is all black and dark - and the booklet (based off the real book) is full of fucked up passages and images.

    I think it's about as close as PJ has come to a "concept album".
    It may not be their best LP but it's by far the coolest!
    Too many cowboys, not enough indians, so just go ape shit!

    I may be boring but at least I'm not Jack fucking Johnson.

    TV is such shit; let's go outside and ride bicycles, right now!

    Madrid 07/09/06 - Little mofo'ing Wing!!!
    Wembley 06/18/07 - Speechless

    www.last.fm/user/StNick_
  • whoYOUare
    whoYOUare Posts: 274
    i think eddie is talkin about people... around this point in his life he seems to be real cynicle and his view on humanity was a little less that grand, so it seems like it could be about all the 'bad' people out there... "should i eat them? raw or well done? should trick them? i dont think they're that dumb, should i join them? looks like thats the one"
    peace
  • Angled light
    Angled light Posts: 7
    Angled light wrote:
    Most people think it refers to bugs, as in- the electronic listening devices, bugs..using them as a metaphor, for the lack of privacy he was enduring due to the bands fame.



    that's most people. i always thought bugs=drugs.
    love is a tower, of strength to me
    i am the shoreline, but you're the sea
  • pmack215
    pmack215 Posts: 49
    Bu$hleague wrote:
    I think it's about the media and selling out..

    "Bugs on my window trying to get in.
    They don't go nowhere. Waiting, waiting...
    Bugs on my ceiling. Crowded the floor.
    Standing, sitting, kneeling. A few block the door.
    And now the questions..."

    "..Do I join them? Looks like that's the one.
    I got bugs on my skin. Tickle my nausea.
    I let it happen again. They're always taking over.
    I see they surround me I see, see them deciding my fate.
    Oh, that which was once, was once up to me. Now it's too late."

    exactamundo!
    EV is such a poet and i love the concept, however i wish it was more of a "song" - more melodic and perfected (i understand, though). i just hate when they waste tracks on an album with this shit, like they did a few times on vitalogy. these are not things i can listen to regularly.
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  • jeremy
    jeremy Posts: 409
    i think it's time for ''bugs'' to be part of a show..

    i think it's gonna be a highlight in a future show..

    i wish it will be in katowice(i'll be there)

    and who knows..maybe ed will tell us all about it..

    my opinion..bugs=people,media maybe
    ''walk the bridges before you burn them down...''
    and always remember ''it's no crime to escape!!!"
  • schwa
    schwa Posts: 8
    i'd love to hear this one live too.

    and i think the bugs are many things (media, music industry, etc)... one of them being us, the psychoticallty adoring fans. one of the themes of vitalogy is the realtionship between the fan and the musician (in a syd barret/pink floydian sense)... and remember, cobain had passed only a few months before the album was in the studio and one of the things that did him in was the pressures of that relationship.

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