Alive...with a prostitue?
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I got a back street lover on the passenger seat.
Who else could it be? "back street lover" ... prostitute?
Of course, the whole song is about the mom going mad that her son is growing up to look like his dad or whatever, so I don't see where the prostitute would fit in.
And yes, I did mean Once. D'oh!
Who else could it be? "back street lover" ... prostitute?
Of course, the whole song is about the mom going mad that her son is growing up to look like his dad or whatever, so I don't see where the prostitute would fit in.
And yes, I did mean Once. D'oh!
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I think you will find the phrase "I got a backstreet lover on the passenger seat " is in fact from the song "Once" and not from "Alive"
lol. I was wondering what was wrong with what I read but I couldn't put my finger on it. and that was it. :rolleyes:
but I've wondered the line too..
and yes, it is Once, not Alive.....
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Yes I did. I was even looking online at the lyrics to get the correct line. I had a long day yesterday.
In Alive the lead finds out his father is not his real dad and we find out that his mother has the hots for him we assume that this probably becomes physical becasue...
In Once the lead is a serial killer and who he kills are back street lovers who he picks up and they sit in his passenger seat like all serial killer he obviously gets captured because...
In Footsteps he is incarserated (spell very tired) I always envision it as a mental hospital but it could be a prsion maybe death row...
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And yeah, i've known what the songs were about, i've just always wondered about the back seat and how that all fits in.
Hmm.. On a sidenote.. "back seat lover.." in Once, "on the back side..." in some version of YL. Ya think Ed could be into chick's asses?
I think Eddie goes into more deeply in the Rolling Stone cover article done by Cameron Crowe when VS. was released.
From the article:
"Together the three songs told a story, as Vedder recalls today, "based on things that had happened, and some I imagined." The "mini opera" tape was carefully designed by Vedder, the graphics Xeroxed at work and the package entitled "Mamasan." "
'Alive' is... it's torture. Which is why it's fucked up for me. Why I should probably learn how to sing another way. It would be easier. It's... it's too much."
"Vedder continues: "The story of the song (Alive) is that a mother is with a father and the father dies. It's an intense thing because the son looks just like the father. The son grows up to be the father, the person that she lost. His father's dead, and now this confusion, his mother, his love, how does he love her, how does she love him? In fact, the mother, even though she marries somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than the father. You know how it is, first loves and stuff. And the guy dies. How could you ever get him back? But the son. He looks exactly like him. It's uncanny. So she wants him. The son is oblivious to it all. He doesn't know what the fuck is going on. He's still dealing, he's still growing up. He's still dealing with love, he's still dealing with the death of his father. All he knows is 'I'm still alive' -- those three words, that's totally out of burden." "
"Because he's fucked up forever! So now he doesn't know how to deal with it. So what does he do, he goes out killing people -- that was [the song] 'Once.' He becomes a serial killer. And 'Footsteps,' the final song of the trilogy [it was released as a U.K. B side to 'Jeremy'], that's when he gets executed. That's what happens. The Green River killer... and in San Diego, there was another prostitute killer down there. Somehow I related to that. I think that happens more than we know. It's a modern way of dealing with a bad life." "
It is a truly great article I can remember reading it over and over and my girlfriend's house....When I was 18-19 god it is so long ago...
Here is a link to read the whole thing...
http://www.cameroncrowe.com/eyes_ears/articles/crowe_jrl_5_aganst_wrld.html
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And there you have it.
Not too far missed...
Back street lover on the side of the road.
I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode.
(snip)
Oh, Indian summer and I hate the heat.
I got a back street lover on the passenger seat.