Alive V2
Pearjamfanno1
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My friend just recently took the time to listen to Ten. He said it was wierd how theres a verse in Alive about incest, the verse...
Oh, she walks slowly, across a young mans room
She said Im ready...for you
I cant remember anything to this very day
cept the look, the look...
Oh, you know where, now I cant see, I just stare...
I was like 'what the hell are you talking about', id listened to this album for 3 years and never ever thought that verse in that way. So i go home and listen to Alive again and then check up the lyrics and was left thinking 'holy sh*t, has this verse got incestual connotations'.
So i need to settle this, is this a purely innocent verse or is there a hint of Incest?
Oh, she walks slowly, across a young mans room
She said Im ready...for you
I cant remember anything to this very day
cept the look, the look...
Oh, you know where, now I cant see, I just stare...
I was like 'what the hell are you talking about', id listened to this album for 3 years and never ever thought that verse in that way. So i go home and listen to Alive again and then check up the lyrics and was left thinking 'holy sh*t, has this verse got incestual connotations'.
So i need to settle this, is this a purely innocent verse or is there a hint of Incest?
S'cuse the shit name!
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8/7/08, 6/9/09
wow never took it this literal. so do we know that ed really went through that whole battle with his mother?
2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
of course not, its just a song. but that is what its about.
8/7/08, 6/9/09
listen to Alive...Part I
then listen to Once...Part II
and the final chapter...listen to Footsteps, it takes place in prison.
true. but ed always said alive was more personally based about him and his father issues.
2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
It's also a trilogy...Alive, Once, Footsteps that carry on the story. Alive - the discovery of the father not his biological and his dad already dead, then the molustation. Once - because of all the shit he becomes a serial killer. Footsteps - convicted of his crimes.
If I don't lose control
explore and not explode
a preternatural other plane
with the power to maintain.
Like a tear in all we know
once dissolved, we are free to grow
"What is human?,... What is more?"
I'll answer this
when I get home.
He used to say the song was hell for him...but then all the fans turned into a celabratory "I'm Still ALIVE" and, he saysm "the curse was lifted"...but yeah, he says the song is about him...except the incest part...but does say that his aunts were all.."Wow..he looks just like his good-looking father..." They would stare at him and give him knowing looks...
Vedder continues: "The story of the song 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."
Elvis' "Suspicious Minds" blasts on the jukebox as Vedder continues. "Now the second verse is 'Oh she walks slowly into a young man's room... I can remember to this very day... the look... the look.' And I don't say anything else. And because I'm saying, 'The look, the look' everyone thinks it goes with 'on her face.' It's not on her face. The look is between her legs. Where do you go with that? That's where you came from."
"But I'm still alive. I'm the lover that's still alive. And the whole conversation about 'You're still alive, she said' And his doubts: 'Do I deserve to be? Is that the question?' 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."
-Alluding to tie dye lady's comment:
" It's also a trilogy...Alive, Once, Footsteps that carry on the story. Alive - the discovery of the father not his biological and his dad already dead, then the molustation. Once - because of all the shit he becomes a serial killer. Footsteps - convicted of his crimes."
Rolling Stone 10/28/93
Five Against the World
by Cameron Crowe