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Which song don't you get?

ycckkycckk Posts: 23
edited June 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
We've all listened!! We've all heard!! But there's just that song you don't get!!
I'm on this "Gremmie out of Control" kick ..i don't get it!! "RATS" i've never gotten it. my question to all of you. Is there a song...you can admitt, you don't get?
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  • StellaStella Posts: 283
    I don't get the love for betterman and wishlist. They aren't so great.

    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.
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  • Androgynous MindAndrogynous Mind Posts: 520
    Stella wrote:
    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.

    Agreed. That song is so fucked up. Someone was trippin on acid.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Stella wrote:
    I don't get the love for betterman and wishlist. They aren't so great.

    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.

    i don't get that some people think betterman is a love song.


    i don't get yellow ledbetter but then i make up my own words, throw in a couple of la las and it totally makes sense. :)
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  • travis2000travis2000 Posts: 39
    catefrances wrote:
    i don't get that some people think betterman is a love song.

    I know. That sounds almost like the same story as with Alive. On storytellers Ed lets everyone know the story behind it and how it was misunderstood. Of course it changed, but to the casual PJ listener, they would think that 'I'm still alive' has always been a good thing
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  • LaneyLaney Posts: 5
    I believe that Betterman is a love song (sorf of) - it's about a relationship gone bad.
    And the thing with Yellow ledbetter is... well, I guess no one except Ed really gets it.
  • Androgynous MindAndrogynous Mind Posts: 520
    Laney wrote:
    And the thing with Yellow ledbetter is... well, I guess no one except Ed really gets it.

    Yeah, Ed sings it at the end of their shows when he is so wasted on red wine and Heineken.
    He doesnt really know what is going to come out of his mouth.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • stpaulbrowncoatstpaulbrowncoat Posts: 12
    Love the guitar work on Yellow Ledbetter...lyrics???? don't know. Nice melody, though.
  • KleinKlein Posts: 32
    Rats is about the Press or Paparazzi... similar to BUGS.
    I kind of like the fact that I have no idea what Eddie is saying in Yellow Ledbetter... I too just make up my own words, add a few yelps here and there and the song is complete.

    As for a song I just don't get, well, let me see...

    Apart from the ones already mentioned in this thread, I have come up with my own interpretation of pretty much every song.

    Oh I have one, why in Daughter does he sing "Don't call me daughter"
    Never understood that line.
    Has it got do with low self esteem?

    Klein
  • LaneyLaney Posts: 5
    That line was confusing me too, but now I think, that it's because the mother-daughter relationship is screwed up. So she has no right to call her daughter, because she is an awful mother.
    Well, but that's just my opinion.
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Posts: 7,265
    Parachutes seems to flip flop between sentiments. I don't know if it is a song about staying together, just meeting, or about to leave.
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  • disconnecteddisconnected Posts: 2,875
    Androgynous Mind wrote:
    Yeah, Ed sings it at the end of their shows when he is so wasted on red wine and Heineken.
    He doesnt really know what is going to come out of his mouth.

    Oh yes he knows what's coming out of his mouth:
    This was sung by Eddie Vedder during the Arnhem show (08-29-2006) after the solo:

    Oh, I'd like to see'm I'd stay in holland forever and a day.....
    Oh I know and I phone and I couldn't left the message, but I'm stuck in the USA...
  • mumimumi Posts: 662
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Parachutes seems to flip flop between sentiments. I don't know if it is a song about staying together, just meeting, or about to leave.
    I guess I don't get most of the songs lyrics :D
    The ones I get, are great!
    And yeah, YL is a "YOU'll never get it"
    Uno es dueño de lo que calla
    y esclavo de lo que habla.
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Laney wrote:
    That line was confusing me too, but now I think, that it's because the mother-daughter relationship is screwed up. So she has no right to call her daughter, because she is an awful mother.
    Well, but that's just my opinion.

    Yep. But I think the "the picture kept will remind me" line makes no sense.
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  • bacchanalbacchanal Posts: 149
    DOSW wrote:
    Yep. But I think the "the picture kept will remind me" line makes no sense.

    the picture kept....is the pic in the daughters mind of her mother before she turned into a bad mother....i think.....hehe
  • PJ-SinPJ-Sin Posts: 348
    bacchanal wrote:
    the picture kept....is the pic in the daughters mind of her mother before she turned into a bad mother....i think.....hehe


    Thats what I always thought, or maybe an old pic of when the mother wasnt so bad?
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  • Androgynous MindAndrogynous Mind Posts: 520
    disconnected wrote:
    Oh yes he knows what's coming out of his mouth:
    This was sung by Eddie Vedder during the Arnhem show (08-29-2006) after the solo:

    Oh, I'd like to see'm I'd stay in holland forever and a day.....
    Oh I know and I phone and I couldn't left the message, but I'm stuck in the USA...

    Sorry, maybe he is just so wasted most of the time at the end of the show that he slurrs his words and I can't understand what they are.

    In reference to the lyrics:
    Nobody is stuck here either. If he wants to get up and move to the Netherlands, be my guest. They can make music anywhere. He threatened to leave when President Bush was first elected, but he is still here.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    Love Boat Captain -- Oh I understand it well enough, i just don't GET it...

    As fer Yellow Ledbetter, facinating Mr. Spock, they don't actually list the lyrics on the 10 site, but you can google them and find a rendition of the studio lyrics and uh, yeah ... that pretty much goes to show why he just kinda makes up the lyrics for the most part everynight.

    I believe it's basically a story of a family out on the porch of house as they are told the news that a member of the family has been killed in a war -- perhaps from the perspective of the deceased ... or his brother ... or a neighbor.

    Many of the impromptu sessions seem to involve answering machines or calling up someone to get an explanation... or something.

    Just saw it in a list of Top 50 downloaded Guitar Tablature! (Only PJ song in the list I saw....)
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  • parel jamparel jam Posts: 7,223
    To me it's Grievance...
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    PJ-Sin wrote:
    Thats what I always thought, or maybe an old pic of when the mother wasnt so bad?

    'don't call me daughter
    not fit to
    the picture kept will remind me'

    the mother is a bad mother. she is not fit enough to call her own child daughter cause she is certainly no mother. the picture inside the girl's head, her memories, are what will always remind her of that.

    i love that song so much.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • KleinKlein Posts: 32
    ahhh yes...

    How can you have a daughter if you're not a mother?

    It all makes sense, thank you.

    Klein
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Klein wrote:
    ahhh yes...

    How can you have a daughter if you're not a mother?

    It all makes sense, thank you.

    Klein

    the same way being a father doesn't make you a dad.

    holy crap dude it's not literal. :)


    am currently listening to this on the halifax 05 boot. thanks j.
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    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    stpaulbrowncoat wrote:
    Love the guitar work on Yellow Ledbetter...lyrics???? don't know. Nice melody, though.
    yea,i agree! Seen many attempts on trying to work out the lyrics. Gotta be the best pj song written,that and 'Why go'.
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  • yellowled24yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    catefrances wrote:
    'don't call me daughter
    not fit to
    the picture kept will remind me'

    the mother is a bad mother. she is not fit enough to call her own child daughter cause she is certainly no mother. the picture inside the girl's head, her memories, are what will always remind her of that.

    i love that song so much.

    Maybe the girl is adopted?
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    yellowled24 wrote:
    Maybe the girl is adopted?

    neh. the mother has too many expectations on the girl that she can't live up to. no matter how hard she tries she can't be what her mother wants. the mother resents her for it, just as the daughter 'hates' the mother for those unreal expectations. why can't she love her daughter for who she is, not what she wants her to be.
    this is my opinion anyway. :)
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  • SoonForgotten2SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    Androgynous Mind wrote:
    Sorry, maybe he is just so wasted most of the time at the end of the show that he slurrs his words and I can't understand what they are.

    In reference to the lyrics:
    Nobody is stuck here either. If he wants to get up and move to the Netherlands, be my guest. They can make music anywhere. He threatened to leave when President Bush was first elected, but he is still here.

    Do you often make it a point to go completely out of your way to take offense to something?
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  • SoonForgotten2SoonForgotten2 Posts: 2,245
    You know, maybe Daughter is a prequel to Why Go. I think they can be seen as one continuing story.
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  • CaresserCaresser Posts: 3
    I know the lyrics to Immortality. But what is it really about? The lyrics don't make sense to me. I know this is probably an obvious one. But please someone fill me in. What's with the "stripped and sold Mom and the auctioned Forearm"?
  • is it just my wayis it just my way Posts: 96
    i guess it always depends on your own experiences as for Daughter i dont take it as the mother being the "bad" person, just somone bad in the childs life and the child is ashamed of whats happened and doesnt feel they deserve to be called a "daughter" as they are not fit to be one.. etc.. and the pictures kept is the pictures in the childs mind of the bad shit that happened will always be with her through her life and will never be forgoten, but hey she will rise above!!!
  • krisseveekrissevee Posts: 8
    STELLA wrote:
    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.

    yeah me too, i duno what the point of the song is, but i also thnk that its not sposed to have a certain meaning. all i know is that its real recordings from patients in a mental hospital.....fukin well scary.

    and i dont get the title. like in relavence to the song. (even though someone does say stupid mop, its not really about that one patient)
    theres other voices too

    anyways haha, its really creepy!
  • krisseveekrissevee Posts: 8
    catefrances wrote:
    neh. the mother has too many expectations on the girl that she can't live up to...

    yeah, thats true, but i think daughter is actually about an abusive relationship between the mother/daughter (possibly father?) because the daughter not only cant live up to the expectations, but because she is slow

    eddie was reported saying so, and at the end of the song he says "the shades go down"

    they pull the shades down so no one sees them beating her.

    just what i think! lol and from what ive heard/read
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