Which song don't you get?
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I think RATS is like hiphop in don-t like it0
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aye davanita, foxymophandle......
why waste the track when u had all those from lost dogs?? come on, man. i'm sure there is some sort of "artistic reasoning" but i think i'll need matt, mike, jeff, ed, stone to explain it to me themselves.*Just 4 today, I am FREE*
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Actually, I never REALLY understood Alive. I thought I understood it, but then I found this:
"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 someone else, there's no one she's ever loved as much as 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. Now the second verse is "Oh she walks slowly across a young man's room. She says 'I'm ready for you.' I can't remember anything to this very day except 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. It's 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, that's when he gets executed." - Eddie Vedder (Rolling Stone, October 28, 1993)
I didn't know that was what Once was about either! Or Footsteps!
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pmack215 wrote:i'm sure there is some sort of "artistic reasoning" but i think i'll need matt, mike, jeff, ed, stone to explain it to me themselves.
well, let us know how that turns out, eheverybody wants the most they can possibly get
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Unbelievable21 wrote:Actually, I never REALLY understood Alive. I thought I understood it, but then I found this:
"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 someone else, there's no one she's ever loved as much as 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. Now the second verse is "Oh she walks slowly across a young man's room. She says 'I'm ready for you.' I can't remember anything to this very day except 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. It's 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, that's when he gets executed." - Eddie Vedder (Rolling Stone, October 28, 1993)
I didn't know that was what Once was about either! Or Footsteps!
http://www.twofeetthick.com/tft/readArticle.action?id=62
There has always been undertones of incest referring to just what you speak of however you have to remember Ed's a storyteller and he does a fantastic job of utilizing several storylines together and weaving them into one. I like the "between her legs" idea and it may be true, but at the same time I have heard Ed speak of "the look" he would get from his stepfather's younger girlfriends (like they wanted to jump his bones); maybe he recognized that look in his Mom (due to the resemblance of his Dad as suggested) AND maybe in addition the "you know where" euphemism holds true...the cool thing is that he probably thought about all this and more.Left the Porch0 -
I like the "between her legs" idea and it may be true, but at the same time I have heard Ed speak of "the look" he would get from his stepfather's younger girlfriends (like they wanted to jump his bones);
Actually, that "between her legs" interpretation comes directly from ed's mouth. Remember the Rolling Stone feature that came out at about the time they were recording Vs.: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."
http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/rs102893.shtmleverybody wants the most they can possibly get
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slightofjeff wrote:Actually, that "between her legs" interpretation comes directly from ed's mouth. Remember the Rolling Stone feature that came out at about the time they were recording Vs.:
http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/rs102893.shtml
That's much more interesting; thanks for the reference. He must not have shared this information with Kim Neely when she authored Five Against One, because I believe that is where I read it years ago. Either way thanks a bunch.Left the Porch0
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