my interpretation of Fatal
StuffnJunk
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i picture it being about a businessman who dies in the 9-11 attacks, and his widow being alone in their "mansion" afterward...and the sound of the attack "echoes through the mansion"
a business man that someone like Eddie or PJ would normally consider the devil, but he is looking at the human side of this person, getting up, putting on his suit and tie (i believe stone wrote the lyrics, not eddie anyhow)
great song but unfortunately, as with all songs written by stone (all those yesterdays, no way, rival, of the girl, thin air, parachutes) it NEVER gets played live
whats really upsetting is that unlike those other songs, Fatal didn't even make the album!!!
a business man that someone like Eddie or PJ would normally consider the devil, but he is looking at the human side of this person, getting up, putting on his suit and tie (i believe stone wrote the lyrics, not eddie anyhow)
great song but unfortunately, as with all songs written by stone (all those yesterdays, no way, rival, of the girl, thin air, parachutes) it NEVER gets played live
whats really upsetting is that unlike those other songs, Fatal didn't even make the album!!!
"I'll tell you what: If all I had was Pearl Jam, and I didn't have another band in the world, I would not be worried. Because in there is the essence of making great music. You don't have to use it all at once, but it's there." - Neil Young
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Seems to me its from the perspective of a woman who should probably let someone go, but is torn whether to or not. I base that on the lines:
how good is he?
the message is clearly hardly grounds for dismissal outright
I wake up and wait up
if he's truly out of sight, is he truly out of mind
and other lines I can't think of at the moment. I could be way off. But that's the great thing about interpretation
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(DOn't mention this to the nutjobs on the Moving Train ... they might accuse Stone of being in on the "conspiracy").
the song, in many ways, reminds me of Sleight of Hand, thematically.
Except in Slight, you've got a poor, middle-of-the-road schlub hating his life, in Fatal, you've got what I assume is a pretty well-to-do businessman hating the dreariness of his life.
He's got a job that requires a suit and tie, and a prime parking spot, but apparently it isn't enough ...
In that, I guess it also shares a theme with Soon Forget. Maybe that's why it didnt' wind up on Binaural -- it's covering the same territory as other songs on that record.
for the least they could possibly do