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Drop The Leash 10
Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
edited September 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
What do you guys think this song is about?

I personally think its Ed's relationship with his fans and how he so grateful for it
I will be what i could be
Once I get out of this town


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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    It's more of a ballad to his Mrs. and baby...but everyone has their own interpretations....however, this is a love song...
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  • Rhyno
    Rhyno Posts: 304
    It's about many things to many people!
    Cheers!
    Rhyno

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  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    Drop The Leash 10 wrote:
    What do you guys think this song is about?

    I personally think its Ed's relationship with his fans and how he so grateful for it


    why deny what a lovely song!
    danny d
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    It's such a beautiful song and one of the best off the album, definately a love song :)
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Minimie
    Minimie Posts: 116
    I read somewhere that it is about his relationship with his daughter. A lovesong for Olivia.
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  • urbanhippie
    urbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    Whatever its about, its beautiful...
    A human being that was given to fly.

    Wembley 18/06/07

    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • yellowbird
    yellowbird Posts: 184
    Minimie wrote:
    I read somewhere that it is about his relationship with his daughter. A lovesong for Olivia.

    "i don't want to know your past"
    "you're never here....at home"
    ??

    i agree it is a love song
    but not for a child
  • InHiding19
    InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    It also takes a political standpoint in the lyrics

    "And War, Break the sky and tell me what it's for"
    Out of the Blue and Into the Black................Uncle Neil Philly 08 here I come!!!!
  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    in evolution of a relationship with the sun and the ocean (nature) (god)..and the process of not wrecklessly destroying yourself..

    in other words...back to the theme of the album..

    escaping a life wasted and figuring shit out on your own.
  • brainofjb
    brainofjb Boston Posts: 381
    this song is so beautiful!!! love the lyrics!

    Its gonna be one of my lullabyes for my daughter, when she is born :)
    There's the moon asking to stay
    Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
  • SonicDub
    SonicDub Posts: 40
    I thought this song was about his girlfriend or daughter,but i read somewhere it's about johnny ramone ??
    did'nt Eddie mention in an interview that most of the words on the album where written about Johnny Ramone,with come back being the most obvious example.
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    yellowbird wrote:
    "i don't want to know your past"
    "you're never here....at home"
    ??

    i agree it is a love song
    but not for a child

    Maybe that's the daughter talking to the father...

    I think this song is a conversation back and forth between the two, or almost a "one more lesson before I die" type of songs.
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  • Gmoney
    Gmoney Posts: 1,618
    i think its about a lot of things... his girl, his daughter, war, all the things that mean the most to him. I think it mt be his best lyrics ever. Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today.
    Further back and forth a wave will break on me, today...
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    A perspective on humanity. At age 40-something, perhaps?
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    yellowbird wrote:
    "i don't want to know your past"
    "you're never here....at home"
    ??

    i agree it is a love song
    but not for a child


    I know the lyrics say " I dont want to know your past"....

    but I always hope (and therefore think it says) "I dont want to know you've passed...(or your passed)...but together share the dawn".....I like that lyric so much more....it says that a person is missing a loved one and is forcing themselves to pretend they are spending time with them one last time etc....

    My two cents on the best song off of Avo. (some people Hate this song??????)
  • GreyRedGirl
    GreyRedGirl Comber, Ontario Posts: 35
    The first couple times I listened to the song I thought it was gorgeous. But the more I heard it the more I heard the lines...

    Nothing else
    Cause when we're dead
    We would've had it all

    ... and Ed says 'dead' so distinctly, so clearly, it kinda ruins the love song aspect of it. My buoyancy and loving feelings are dampened when I hear 'dead'. >.<
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    GreyRedGirl wrote:
    The first couple times I listened to the song I thought it was gorgeous. But the more I heard it the more I heard the lines...

    Nothing else
    Cause when we're dead
    We would've had it all

    ... and Ed says 'dead' so distinctly, so clearly, it kinda ruins the love song aspect of it. My buoyancy and loving feelings are dampened when I hear 'dead'. >.<

    Well, we do all die, someday. :)
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  • deadnote
    deadnote Posts: 1,678
    well i think theres a very human side of this song that is alive or immortal and very sad kind of like the peak of a good buzz
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out

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