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favorite pj song that you have no clue what it means

funkhouser311funkhouser311 Posts: 5
edited February 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
id have to go with leatherman, unless there somethin obvious in there that im not picking up, then i just feel like a jerk
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  • Spot In The SkySpot In The Sky Posts: 1,175
    bushleauger...

    ...just joshin.

    maaaybe...um...original yellow ledbetter before he added the war lyrics, even though thats probablt what it was about before. im just an idiot-sorry
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    funkhouser311 wrote:
    id have to go with leatherman, unless there somethin obvious in there that im not picking up, then i just feel like a jerk
    leatherman is about a homeless man who wore a homemade leather suit and traveled around getting food from everyone. her was never late. :)

    thats a real meaning by the way. fascinating story actually. apparently ed may be related to this guy.. look it up, he wandered around new york state somewhere abouts :)
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  • IGotMemoriesIGotMemories Posts: 6
    scratching my head with "Pilate"


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  • funkhouser311funkhouser311 Posts: 5
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    leatherman is about a homeless man who wore a homemade leather suit and traveled around getting food from everyone. her was never late. :)

    thats a real meaning by the way. fascinating story actually. apparently ed may be related to this guy.. look it up, he wandered around new york state somewhere abouts :)


    thats pretty sweet, i should stop thinking so hard
  • solat9solat9 Posts: 20
    For a while I couldn't figure out what "Fatal" was about, but I just came up with an interpretation of that.

    I also agree with "Pilate", i've never really figured that one out.
  • obbleobble Posts: 49
    Yellow Ledbetter. In the Lost Dogs book McCready confesses that he doesn't know what the song means and he doesn't care.
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  • BlyssBlyss Posts: 166
    dirty frank
  • yield21yield21 Posts: 9
    Low light
    I can´t understand what it`s about.I understand the words,but not what they mean all together!
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  • MerkyjammMerkyjamm Posts: 272
    I think Off He Goes has a deeper meaning than what it appears on the surface...But I may just have been listening to too much Libertines and Las lately...
    Too many cowboys, not enough indians, so just go ape shit!

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  • katjankatjan Posts: 6
    For me that would be garden. It's a very powerfull song and I especially like this part:
    "i don't question, our existence
    i just question, our modern needs "
    But I haven't got a clue what the song is about. Maybe I will someday...
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  • Mojo Risin'Mojo Risin' Posts: 7
    Yellow Ledbetter! I love this song but I haven't got the slightest idea what it means. Can anybody please help me and Mr. Mike McCready.
    Oh tell me where your freedom lies
    The streets are fields that never die
    Deliver me from reasons why
    You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly
  • MerkyjammMerkyjamm Posts: 272
    I always imagine YL to be along the idea of reading between the lines and accepting the truth of war, but that's a personal interpretation.
    Too many cowboys, not enough indians, so just go ape shit!

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

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  • St. NickSt. Nick Posts: 72
    katjan wrote:
    For me that would be garden. It's a very powerfull song and I especially like this part:
    "i don't question, our existence
    i just question, our modern needs "
    But I haven't got a clue what the song is about. Maybe I will someday...

    I love garden. The only bad thing about it in my opinion are those lines. I feel the song so much, without litteraly understanding the lyrics, but since I do question our existence a lot, that part ruines the song for me a bit. I would eddie to sing:

    "I do question, our existence
    and I question, our modern needs."

    oh well, can't have it all now can you. :)
  • capybaraletcapybaralet Posts: 145
    probably All or None

    and I think you people are thinking to specific about song meanings.

    for example: In My Tree isn't about anything specific, in my mind (or if it is, it's is just an extended metaphor, an example; ) I think it is simply about alienation, putting yourself above in every sense.
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  • onejourneyonejourney Posts: 285
    Low Light...great song...not sure what its about....but I dont care....:)

    Pilate is a good one....

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  • BamBamBamBam Posts: 1
    Yellow Ledbedder, best song ever
  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    YL is it for me.
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  • poto101poto101 Posts: 406
    Blyss wrote:
    dirty frank

    back in 91 or 92 they had a bus driver named frank who was kinda creepy, so eddie jsut started jammin and creatin some lyrics. it's in a book called "guitar world presents: Nirvana and the Grunge revolution" very good book with PJ, AIC, Soundgarden, Nirvan interviews.
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  • kelsso7kelsso7 Posts: 1
    I have always loved Daughter. What does it mean?
  • Thin Air 211Thin Air 211 Posts: 114
    maybe i'm just stupid but....I am mine?? im a pretty slow person, but i just never you understood it or even thought about it much at that.

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  • PerfectlyUnkeptPerfectlyUnkept Posts: 60
    I'll go Porch.

    I like the words, they sound good together, but I've never really connected them to anything specific or worked out a meaning or anything (if there is one).
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  • tylerpjtxtylerpjtx Posts: 201
    kelsso7 wrote:
    I have always loved Daughter. What does it mean?
    its about a girl (or boy) who's been opressed by her parents and needs freedom and is resilient over the pain of it all and knows it'll be better soon and makes it happen: "she holds the hand that holds her hand, she will rise above"
    Thin Air 211 wrote:
    maybe i'm just stupid but....I am mine?? im a pretty slow person, but i just never you understood it or even thought about it much at that.

    I am mine
    its about as humans we are our own....our time here is up to us, what we do is our choice..."i know i was born and i know that i'll die..the in between is mine" perhaps it also is a statement about religion too, but me being religious, i dont like to think about that as much as the first one.
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  • tylerpjtxtylerpjtx Posts: 201
    PerfectlyUnkept wrote:
    I'll go Porch.

    I like the words, they sound good together, but I've never really connected them to anything specific or worked out a meaning or anything (if there is one).
    i think porch is just about a girl that left him without saying bye and him wanting to tell her some stuff first
    all these burning battlefields are now behind us, life has brought us here together to remind us, that love will rise above it all and just keep growin, life keeps flowing and every moment starts right here with us
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  • Julia_89Julia_89 Posts: 12
    definatly yellow ledbetter. i dont undertsnd the meaning of the song, but i love the vocals and guitar in it.
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  • faithful227faithful227 Posts: 352
    def yellow ledbetter fav damn song no idea at all what its about , or what eddie's sayin' half the time.
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  • low lighterlow lighter Posts: 59
    low light for me.. and its probably one of my favourite songs, damn i love it.. but i dont have the slightest clue on what the songs about i cant say well its about this.. or that.. i just dont know.. but im ok with that actually
  • pjfan020pjfan020 Posts: 426
    i definitely have to go with lukin on this one. The song is awesome, but i have no idea what's going on except for, "i'm going to lukins, lock the door to lukins, opened the fridge, and ....."
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  • PuckJamPuckJam Posts: 94
    pjfan020 wrote:
    i definitely have to go with lukin on this one. The song is awesome, but i have no idea what's going on except for, "i'm going to lukins, lock the door to lukins, opened the fridge, and ....."

    Matt Lukin was the bassist (I think) for Mudhoney. The song is basically about how people won't leave Ed alone and he goes to Lukin's to relax (I'm going to Lukin's, I got a spot at Lukin's, Knock the door at Lukins, open the fridge, now I know life is worth.)

    I always thought Yellow Ledbetter had no meaning. They were just jamming and Ed made the lyrics up on the spot and some of them are just incoherant mumblings. That's why the live versions are always different. There are no official lyrics.

    I would say Pilate is the big one that I can't even come close to figuring out. Did Pilate actually have a dog? Is he refering to Jesus?
  • ListlessListless Posts: 37
    Yellow ledbetter(what a surprise), State of Love & TRust (is it about suicide?-anyway still most of the lines dont make sence) and Breath(ok, I get the part, go out, reach the door but "a breath and a SCREAM"??
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    "I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane."
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  • themysteriousxthemysteriousx Posts: 20
    In "Breath" the breath and scream part I think is when the elder says go out and live!! See the world! It means don't be scared go take a deep breath and LIVE (scream).

    WTF does the title Yellow Ledbetter mean? Was Huddie Ledbetter a total fucking coward or something???? I can almost get some of the lyrics, but the title...
    'And his loneliness is proof'
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