eddie songs that best describe eddie

PJRock75

We really wouldn't know this...but in the beginning Alive, in the middle Corduroy, now...gotta wait for the next album

dcfaithful

DrHeidi41 wrote:

Release seems so autobiographical and cathartic, especially given what we know about Ed and his family relationships.

I was thinking about Release too, such a beautiful and powerful song.

elle74

I would definitely say Off He Goes

Know a man
His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's always movin' much too fast

Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes

He's yet to come back
But I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size

He's been taken...where, I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes

And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned
It seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles... And he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surroundin' bullshit
That has grown

And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we always did, my same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next

Before his first step, he's off again



Believe it or not, it was my friends wedding song (which I found very weird!!)!!!

dimitrispearljam

save you

redeye

justam wrote:

Only he and his family know. The rest of us are only guessing I'd say.

yep id go with that

PearlOfAGirl

Given to Fly
No Where Man
Oceans
Nothing Man
RVM
Off He Goes

verbtotrust4130

UsmanI wrote:

I would say Off He Goes could def be about him. I think the person he describes in the song sounds a lot like him. "Know one man, his face seems pulled and tense, like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds."

Yah, I saw a version of Off He Goes on you tube or something and he said, "Here is a song about being friends with an asshole." Then he waited a few seconds and said, "me." It went something like that.

panjok2

verbtotrust4130 wrote:

UsmanI wrote:

I would say Off He Goes could def be about him. I think the person he describes in the song sounds a lot like him. "Know one man, his face seems pulled and tense, like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds."

Yah, I saw a version of Off He Goes on you tube or something and he said, "Here is a song about being friends with an asshole." Then he waited a few seconds and said, "me." It went something like that.

Now I have heard a few different things about who eddie is talking about in 'off he goes' but would love to know the truth! Dont give me a hard time about this but I read a comment on youtube and the guy said the song was about Kurt Cobain and that Eddie wrote it a week after kurt died! I guess i can see how he had perfect unkept clothes and he always had a strain on his face but last i remember they didnt like eachother so what do you think?

fortyshades

panjok2 wrote:

verbtotrust4130 wrote:

UsmanI wrote:

I would say Off He Goes could def be about him. I think the person he describes in the song sounds a lot like him. "Know one man, his face seems pulled and tense, like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds."

Yah, I saw a version of Off He Goes on you tube or something and he said, "Here is a song about being friends with an asshole." Then he waited a few seconds and said, "me." It went something like that.

Now I have heard a few different things about who eddie is talking about in 'off he goes' but would love to know the truth! Dont give me a hard time about this but I read a comment on youtube and the guy said the song was about Kurt Cobain and that Eddie wrote it a week after kurt died! I guess i can see how he had perfect unkept clothes and he always had a strain on his face but last i remember they didnt like eachother so what do you think?

I always thought that this song was about Jack Irons, struggling with his bipolar disorder, but what do I know...

And the song(s) that best describe Eddie? I would say the whole catalogue. (The songs he penned.) He wrote the damn things. There should be something autobiographical in there, even unintended.

avlys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35Qq5Ybpo0 here's the video (Off he goes)

Electric_Delta

Pry, To

heidimarie5857

The End-

What were all those dreams we shared
Those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made
Now left beside the road?

It's my fault now
Having caught a sickness in my bones
How it pains to leave you here
With the kids on your own
Just don't let me go.

To me, this is about Eddie being away from his family while on the road and working. He feels bad that his woman is home with the kids and is urging her to hold on to their shared dreams. It's like his love song to Jill.

This is a song that I can relate to personally. I am a stay at home mom to 2 little girls and my man works around the clock. We are each kind of on our own path right now but we have dreams and goals for our family's future . . .in the meantime 'Just don't let me go'.

whispering hands

justam wrote:

Only he and his family know. The rest of us are only guessing I'd say.

here here! on that one!!

phungi

fortyshades wrote:

panjok2 wrote:

Now I have heard a few different things about who eddie is talking about in 'off he goes' but would love to know the truth! Dont give me a hard time about this but I read a comment on youtube and the guy said the song was about Kurt Cobain and that Eddie wrote it a week after kurt died! I guess i can see how he had perfect unkept clothes and he always had a strain on his face but last i remember they didnt like eachother so what do you think?

I always thought that this song was about Jack Irons, struggling with his bipolar disorder, but what do I know...

And the song(s) that best describe Eddie? I would say the whole catalogue. (The songs he penned.) He wrote the damn things. There should be something autobiographical in there, even unintended.

Give Off He Goes another listen, and think of him singing about/looking at himself...

pandora

Arc
beautiful
thoughtful
compelling
freeing
heavenly
hopeful
wonderful.....

Liesl

its all of them....has to be. The level of emotion and passion that comes out in his work, they are all him and others around him...listen

pandora

heidimarie5857 wrote:

The End-

What were all those dreams we shared
Those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made
Now left beside the road?

It's my fault now
Having caught a sickness in my bones
How it pains to leave you here
With the kids on your own
Just don't let me go.

To me, this is about Eddie being away from his family while on the road and working. He feels bad that his woman is home with the kids and is urging her to hold on to their shared dreams. It's like his love song to Jill.

This is a song that I can relate to personally. I am a stay at home mom to 2 little girls and my man works around the clock. We are each kind of on our own path right now but we have dreams and goals for our family's future . . .in the meantime 'Just don't let me go'.

I feel Eddie writes his songs from others perspectives often. The songs are not always about his own personal experience but what he would feel if it were him. This a sign of a very talented insightful writer.
I think he has lost people in his life now and imagines through his words what he would be feeling if it were him leaving this world.
This is also very good for his audience because there are people out there who are facing leaving.
His pleading in the song brings emotion that can be related too, making it very real.
It is the single hardest thing we all face and I think he is singing to us about it.
When I face this I want his voice and his words near, in The End.

megatron

my friend texted me yesterday, "i've had pandora's eddie vedder channel on all day and haven't heard one vedder song"

i replied, "so vedder"

pandora

megatron wrote:

my friend texted me yesterday, "i've had pandora's eddie vedder channel on all day and haven't heard one vedder song"

i replied, "so vedder"

this whole" pandora" thing is so weird to me :?

Newch91

I heard somewhere that he said he wrote "Off He Goes" about him.