All or None...What's it mean to you....

Jamal

stateofblack wrote:

This song is very personal to me and my situation. My best Friend, my soulmate............ It's time to let go, I need to let go, for self preservation. It's just too painful. I must move on. All or None, I need to choose None. unfortunately I will lose my Best Friend, but it is the only way.....

Congratulations if you CAN do that, I've tried, and I failed, I just couldn't do it.
Amazing how people, as different as they probably are, can be in exactly the same situation...

And even more amazing is how some people manage to cover all those things so well in a song

stateofblack

I know, I have tried several times too, and have failed.but there has to be an end somehow, someway, dont'cha think? or are we supposed to live like this forever?

by the way, Thank you Eddie for writing a song for me

Jamal

stateofblack wrote:

I know, I have tried several times too, and have failed.but there has to be an end somehow, someway, dont'cha think? or are we supposed to live like this forever?

by the way, Thank you Eddie for writing a song for me

Us, ... I suppose you should say: "us"

And no, we are not meant to live like this forever, let's just kill the person instead, that way, we don't really have a choice

j/k

stateofblack

Eddie, Thanks for writing a song for "US".

I think the song of the week for me will be Indifference.

Obsidian22

1.stateofblack and Jamal need to get a room!
2.I somehow doubt Ed wrote All or None with you in mind.
3.Didn't Stone and ed write the lyrics. Stone wrote the music.
4. You both sound very young in your limited experience of love. Friendship in the long run means a hell of a lot more than "getting the one you can't live with or without."
5.What do you think about the lyrics in All or None:

Here's the selfless Confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that,... Our Destinations
Are the ones we've been before.

Ms. Haiku

It's a hopeless... situation
And I'm starting to believe
That this hopeless... situation
Is what I'm trying to achieve
Maybe the protagonist is redefining *hopeless*, a hopeless situation may not be hopeless if we strive towards it.

But I try
To run on
Towards
All or none,... all or none
Nothing wrong with giving your all. In fact, if the choice is one or the other, how could it be none? These are not the words of those who choose none.

Here's the selfless confession
Leading me back to war
Can we help that,.. our destinations
Are the ones we've been before
Oops, someone did a boo boo, didn't learn from past mistakes.

I still try
To run on
Towards all
Or none,... all or none
You gotta give it your best even when you fuck up.

To myself I... surrender
To the one I'll never please
To be unsatisified is not so bad. If it's to the point of disillusion then it's not so good, but if being unsatisified means leaving what doesn't work to find what does, it's not so bad.

But I still try,.. to run on
I still try,.. to run on
But it's
All or none,... all or none.
Keep it up! You can do it! You're almost at the finish line, and then you can try a new goal.

See, it's a rather inspiring song, not so boo hoo.

stateofblack

1.stateofblack and Jamal need to get a room!
2.I somehow doubt Ed wrote All or None with you in mind.
3.Didn't Stone and ed write the lyrics. Stone wrote the music.
4. You both sound very young in your limited experience of love. Friendship in the long run means a hell of a lot more than "getting the one you can't live with or without."


Thought I would answer you:

1. Don't need a room just sharing some feelings with a fellow Jammer
2. Really?! Eddie didn't write the song with me in mind, you don't say
3.Eddie and Stone wrote the song
4.Agreed, Friendship is very important. Young and inexperienced in love?! you should really not comment on something you know nothing about - it just makes you sound like a dummy.

Obsidian22

I love seeing you post your wisdom, especially when it's related to lyrics. You are also a Goddess of Rock!

Jamal

stateofblack wrote:

Thought I would answer you:

1. Don't need a room just sharing some feelings with a fellow Jammer
2. Really?! Eddie didn't write the song with me in mind, you don't say
3.Eddie and Stone wrote the song
4.Agreed, Friendship is very important. Young and inexperienced in love?! you should really not comment on something you know nothing about - it just makes you sound like a dummy.

4. Iwouldn't say he's a dummy, just a quick judge

Being young doesn't mean you're inexperienced, nor do I think getting that one is more important than friendship
I just said it's hard to be around her without falling in love with her even more

NothinGBetteRPJMaN

stateofblack wrote:

This song is very personal to me and my situation. My best Friend, my soulmate............ It's time to let go, I need to let go, for self preservation. It's just too painful. I must move on. All or None, I need to choose None. unfortunately I will lose my Best Friend, but it is the only way.....

Ohhhh this is exactly where I am right now.....and i have tried as well and failed and when i came back and we talked again i found out she didnt understand that concept that well and hated me while i wasnt talking to her.....it sucked

But now i think I am at a point where it doesnt bother me anymore.....and im over it which makes things better cause now i can talk to her and not be hurt because we cant be.....but instead i get mad at her because of what happened

I think Jamal covered exaclty how i interpret the song......but i see everyone elses interpretaions in the song very well too.....its just this relates to me more

fanch75

stateofblack wrote:

What is this song about?? Any ideas?

It means, "Thank God this shitty horrible CD called riot act is over. I'm going to throw in YIELD and forget how I just wasted hte last 45 minutes of my life by listening to this boring pile of bile."

Jamal

fanch75 wrote:

It means, "Thank God this shitty horrible CD called riot act is over. I'm going to throw in YIELD and forget how I just wasted hte last 45 minutes of my life by listening to this boring pile of bile."

Aww man, you don't even like all or none on it?

Pearl Jam and toast

Jamal wrote:

Aww man, you don't even like all or none on it?

Fanch + alcohol = riot act hitler.

Jamal

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Fanch + alcohol = riot act hitler.

LMAO
could you possibly have said in a funnier way??? :D:D

A riot act hitler
should be a poster status here on the thread
*mods, if you read this, change his status *

stateofblack

UGH!!!!!!!!!! I just had my chance to go for NONE and I blew it, just couldn't do it. To myself, I surrender .......... DAMN!

Strutter

i think the most discussible lines are

But I try
To run on
Towards
All or none,... all or none

because i consider that the most important word here is TOWARDS and if you think he's trying to tend "all or none" then he's her friend and he'd risk it all than be in this HOPELESS SITUATION (this has been written by Jamal i think)-been there,done that :-(

but if you think that he's trying to continue fighting AGAINST "all or none" then i think that he doesn't want ALL because it's to suffocating for him and he doesn't want NONE because that means that he's gonna lose her- he just wants his freedom in a relationship

They played it in Zagreb...i was standing in the crowd with my eyes closed refraining myself from crying...

hell of a song

Jamal

Strutter wrote:

They played it in Zagreb...i was standing in the crowd with my eyes closed refraining myself from crying...

hell of a song

I envy you, cause they didn't play it in Belgium
Think I would have cried if they had

Hell of a song, that it is...

I think you have a very good point in your opinion on the lyrics, too...
We can all interpret this the way we want to, and that's what makes part of its power...

Strutter

Jamal wrote:

I envy you, cause they didn't play it in Belgium
Think I would have cried if they had

Hell of a song, that it is...

I think you have a very good point in your opinion on the lyrics, too...
We can all interpret this the way we want to, and that's what makes part of its power...

thanx! i would have cried like a baby if they played Indifference!-they played it in belgium...:-)
so if you had been here and if i had been there we would have cried! LOL
it's the magic of this song to interpret the way you want to...but just wanted to express myself :-)

p.s. join our INDIFFERENCE discussion

1STmammal2wearPants

fanch75 wrote:

It means, "Thank God this shitty horrible CD called riot act is over. I'm going to throw in YIELD and forget how I just wasted hte last 45 minutes of my life by listening to this boring pile of bile."

well thats gotta be the dumbest thing ive heard on these boards.

Pearl Jam and toast

1STmammal2wearPants wrote:

well thats gotta be the dumbest thing ive heard on these boards.

You should visit A Moving Train