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SwitchSwitch Posts: 119
edited May 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
It's just occurred to me...i havn't got a clue what this song is about.

From what i can tell, it appears to be about a guy who loses his love...possibly in a car crash, and had to lay her to rest himself, and is trying to stop himself from killing himself over it.

Anyone enlighten me?
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  • release16release16 Posts: 3
    I think you're right about the song. One of my favorites.
  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    nothin', I'll do this one myself
    oh oh oh myself....Myself

    yeah, yeah


    It's all about masturbation ;)

    I think it doesn't have to do something with a loss but more about someone who's unfaithfull. He's loving his one but has real problems to be faithfull and want to choke someone else!!! And he's struggling against that feeling.
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • SwitchSwitch Posts: 119
    luxpjamer wrote:
    nothin', I'll do this one myself
    oh oh oh myself....Myself

    yeah, yeah


    It's all about masturbation ;)

    I think it doesn't have to do something with a loss but more about someone who's unfaithfull. He's loving his one but has real problems to be faithfull and want to choke someone else!!! And he's struggling against that feeling.

    So the barrel shaking at his head is a metaphor for the potential death of his relationship?
  • luxpjamerluxpjamer Posts: 837
    Switch wrote:
    So the barrel shaking at his head is a metaphor for the potential death of his relationship?

    If he choke someone else is like playing russian roulette!!
    Beavis : Is this Pearl Jam?
    Butt-head: This guy makes faces like Eddie Vedder.
    Beavis: No, Eddie Vedder makes faces like this guy.
    Butt-head: I heard these guys, like, came first and Pearl Jam ripped them off.
    Beavis: No, Pearl Jam came first.
    Butt-head: Well, they both suck.
  • gue_bariumgue_barium Posts: 5,515
    Switch wrote:
    It's just occurred to me...i havn't got a clue what this song is about.

    From what i can tell, it appears to be about a guy who loses his love...possibly in a car crash, and had to lay her to rest himself, and is trying to stop himself from killing himself over it.

    Anyone enlighten me?

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  • BrezBrez Posts: 570
    "Help me from myself" I always thought that was about suicide... might be just me... aaand that's all I've ever gotten out of it.
    And before his first step... He's off again...
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    I think it's about a guy who kills his lover ... then flips out about it, can't believe what he's done.

    "Lay her down as priest does ... should the Lord be counting." -- after he kills her, he feels so guilty that he takes care of the corpse, and buries it ... as a priest would.

    that's one example.
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  • danika_bookwormdanika_bookworm Posts: 162
    luxpjamer wrote:
    nothin', I'll do this one myself
    oh oh oh myself....Myself

    yeah, yeah


    It's all about masturbation ;)

    I think it doesn't have to do something with a loss but more about someone who's unfaithfull. He's loving his one but has real problems to be faithfull and want to choke someone else!!! And he's struggling against that feeling.
    Remember the movie "Singles"? A part of this song has been played in the part when the female protagonist discovered that the guy she was dating was unfaithful. So I guess you are right about the unfaithfulness of the partner of the voice in the song.
  • blue rosesblue roses Posts: 49
    you should see the mtv unplugged version of -state of love and trust- its awesome
  • SwitchSwitch Posts: 119
    I have man, and it's damn sweet.
  • blue rosesblue roses Posts: 49
    yeah doesn't it
  • PiCTuReKePTPiCTuReKePT Posts: 311
    eddie with his cap!!!!! i guess i know the part he speaks after performing the song thoroughly...
  • Unbelievable21Unbelievable21 Posts: 35
    If I am correct, the lyrics for the song are based on what Eddie took from watching the film. So I guess it's about whatever happens in the movie. I've never actually seen the movie, so I can't prove this, hence the "if" part.
  • Outshined90Outshined90 Posts: 19
    I just recentrly discovered this song and it was love at first sight....or first listen.
    I'm not really sure what's the song about, I didn't see Singles.
    But the part that's really got me thinking is "and I listen to both sides of a friend". What does that mean?
    "Don't ever let the truth get it the way of telling a good story"
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Unbelievable21 wrote:
    If I am correct, the lyrics for the song are based on what Eddie took from watching the film. So I guess it's about whatever happens in the movie. I've never actually seen the movie, so I can't prove this, hence the "if" part.

    Nah, it doesn't really relate to the movie at all. In fact, I think it was written before the film.

    The song you might be thinking of that ed wrote in direct response to a film was Man of the Hour, which was based on the Tim Burton film "Big Fish."
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • SwitchSwitch Posts: 119
    Last time i checked it was "And I listen for the voice inside my head..." and the next time it's "And i listen from both sides of the bed..."

    And i would guess that means, assuming that the song is about cheating or whatever, that he analyses the situation with his spouse and with his affair to find out which is better or something.
  • deadnotedeadnote Posts: 1,678
    i think its about drugs
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • pmack215pmack215 Posts: 49
    i think its about self-reliance, self-confidence, self-trust, being comfortable w/ yourself.
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  • Unbelievable21Unbelievable21 Posts: 35
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Nah, it doesn't really relate to the movie at all. In fact, I think it was written before the film.

    The song you might be thinking of that ed wrote in direct response to a film was Man of the Hour, which was based on the Tim Burton film "Big Fish."

    No, it was SOLAT, but I got it from Wikipedia, so it might be wrong (they've been wrong before).
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Love_and_Trust)
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Switch wrote:
    Last time i checked it was "And I listen for the voice inside my head..." and the next time it's "And i listen from both sides of the bed..."

    Check again. It's "both sides of a friend."
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    pmack215 wrote:
    i think its about self-reliance, self-confidence, self-trust, being comfortable w/ yourself.

    Not sure how you could get this from this song, but to each is own. It's a song about killing a lover.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • StellaStella Posts: 283
    pmack215 wrote:
    i think its about self-reliance, self-confidence, self-trust, being comfortable w/ yourself.

    Yeh, i get this from the attitude of the song, more so than the actual lyrics.
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  • ManimalManimal Posts: 152
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Check again. It's "both sides of a friend."

    I hear "both sides of the bed" and I checked on pearljam.com, they have that too.

    I always took it as it was he's fault that someone died, and he can't deal with it or doesn't see a way out of it so it plans to kill himself.
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  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Manimal wrote:
    I hear "both sides of the bed" and I checked on pearljam.com, they have that too.

    I always took it as it was he's fault that someone died, and he can't deal with it or doesn't see a way out of it so it plans to kill himself.

    I guess, but I don't hear that at all ... and pearljam.com lyrics are often wrong, ironically enough.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
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