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I Got Id

justheretotalkjustheretotalk Posts: 3
edited June 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
This is in reply to the thread posted a few months ago. Although I am new to this forum I happen to be working at a sleep disorders lab and came across the message pit. As to the lyrics for I GOT ID doesn't it sound as if the song is about a person who is deformed in some way physically or mentally and because of this deformity he has to fall in love in his dreams because no one in the physical world will show him affection or love. Just wanted to throw that out there as a possible. Let me know what you think?
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  • HitchikerHitchiker Posts: 21
    I think the song is about a lonely individual, who wants to make contact somebody but for some reason cant. Your idea about deformity could apply i dont know for sure though. The lyrics seem straight forward but like many of PJ's songs most are ambiguous.

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  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 734
    justheretotalk wrote:
    This is in reply to the thread posted a few months ago. Although I am new to this forum I happen to be working at a sleep disorders lab and came across the message pit. As to the lyrics for I GOT ID doesn't it sound as if the song is about a person who is deformed in some way physically or mentally and because of this deformity he has to fall in love in his dreams because no one in the physical world will show him affection or love. Just wanted to throw that out there as a possible. Let me know what you think?

    see my post here: http://forums.pearljam.com/showpost.php?p=1893979&postcount=2

    Everyone is allowed their own interpretation, that being said, I don't see the physical deformity angle...but the mental anguish angle surely makes sense.

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    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
  • justheretotalkjustheretotalk Posts: 3
    I conjured the deformity interpretation from one of the last lines. "I'll just smile and wait for the dream. when I'm not ugly and you're looking at me." Meaning that in his dreams he's beautiful and everyone can fall in love with him.
  • Bu$hleagueBu$hleague Posts: 78
    justheretotalk wrote:
    I conjured the deformity interpretation from one of the last lines. "I'll just smile and wait for the dream. when I'm not ugly and you're looking at me." Meaning that in his dreams he's beautiful and everyone can fall in love with him.

    I think it's just someone who sees themselves as a perpetual loser; and is in love with a girl he beleives he can never have. It's not necessarily Quasimoto here; just someone who has no self esteem.

    (Think emo music... except not lame)
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  • mrwalkerbmrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    Bu$hleague wrote:

    (Think emo music... except not lame)


    That's awesome
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  • WillWill Posts: 41
    I can see where you're coming from with that, but I don't think it's as drastic as a deformity. Maybe this guy has managed to convince himself that he is ugly, but mentally not necessarily physically.
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  • Ros12PJRos12PJ Posts: 4
    Bu$hleague wrote:
    I think it's just someone who sees themselves as a perpetual loser; and is in love with a girl he beleives he can never have. It's not necessarily Quasimoto here; just someone who has no self esteem.

    (Think emo music... except not lame)


    It seems to me to be along these lines as well...and if not along the lines of self-esteem per se, perhaps someone who can't see the main character of the song anything more than a friend, etc.
    "...but he stayed in the game, after all, he's a hockey player."
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