Why aren't "Got To Give" lyrics included?
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Comes Than Goes is about CC (and some bitterness towards VC). Brother the Cloud is about his actual brother Chris Mueller. But beyond that I think people are reading into things that probably aren’t there. I actually think that Scared of Fear is a political song, the “hurtling yourself just to hurt me” referring to someone who votes against their own economic interests to “own the libs” for example. “Have I lost my friend” could be about a loved one going down a Qanon rabbit hole, or who you don’t speak to anymore after an argument, or who died of Covid after refusing masking/vaccine.
Dark Matter is an album thematically about personal connections, how we keep them and how we lose them. It deals heavily with topics of mortality. So people are seeing a person with whom connection was lost who died in those lyrics. But that could also be true of Layne or Lanegan, Andy or Kurt. What is death if not the ultimate lost connection? But I don’t think anything on this album is specifically about CC, the album is about the ways we lose people and he’s one of the many people they’ve lost.Post edited by kmcmanus on0 -
Remember ed lost his brother Chris also
Which will be very difficult to handle for him
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
kmcmanus said:Comes Than Goes is about CC (and some bitterness towards VC). Brother the Cloud is about his actual brother Chris Mueller. But beyond that I think people are reading into things that probably aren’t there. I actually think that Scared of Fear is a political song, the “hurtling yourself just to hurt me” referring to someone who votes against their own economic interests to “own the libs” for example. “Have I lost my friend” could be about a loved one going down a Qanon rabbit hole, or who you don’t speak to anymore after an argument, or who died of Covid after refusing masking/vaccine.
Dark Matter is an album thematically about personal connections, how we keep them and how we lose them. It deals heavily with topics of mortality. So people are seeing a person with whom connection was lost who died in those lyrics. But that could also be true of Layne or Lanegan, Andy or Kurt. What is death if not the ultimate lost connection? But I don’t think anything on this album is specifically about CC, the album is about the ways we lose people and he’s one of the many people they’ve lost.I gather speed from you fucking with me.0 -
BF25394 said:kmcmanus said:Comes Than Goes is about CC (and some bitterness towards VC). Brother the Cloud is about his actual brother Chris Mueller. But beyond that I think people are reading into things that probably aren’t there. I actually think that Scared of Fear is a political song, the “hurtling yourself just to hurt me” referring to someone who votes against their own economic interests to “own the libs” for example. “Have I lost my friend” could be about a loved one going down a Qanon rabbit hole, or who you don’t speak to anymore after an argument, or who died of Covid after refusing masking/vaccine.
Dark Matter is an album thematically about personal connections, how we keep them and how we lose them. It deals heavily with topics of mortality. So people are seeing a person with whom connection was lost who died in those lyrics. But that could also be true of Layne or Lanegan, Andy or Kurt. What is death if not the ultimate lost connection? But I don’t think anything on this album is specifically about CC, the album is about the ways we lose people and he’s one of the many people they’ve lost.*opinions expressed herein do not represent the band whom I’ve never met. Use opinions as directed. Keep away from children.*0 -
People in the jamily hiveminding together truths about what songs are about is disturbing"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"0
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BF25394 said:kmcmanus said:Comes Than Goes is about CC (and some bitterness towards VC). Brother the Cloud is about his actual brother Chris Mueller. But beyond that I think people are reading into things that probably aren’t there. I actually think that Scared of Fear is a political song, the “hurtling yourself just to hurt me” referring to someone who votes against their own economic interests to “own the libs” for example. “Have I lost my friend” could be about a loved one going down a Qanon rabbit hole, or who you don’t speak to anymore after an argument, or who died of Covid after refusing masking/vaccine.
Dark Matter is an album thematically about personal connections, how we keep them and how we lose them. It deals heavily with topics of mortality. So people are seeing a person with whom connection was lost who died in those lyrics. But that could also be true of Layne or Lanegan, Andy or Kurt. What is death if not the ultimate lost connection? But I don’t think anything on this album is specifically about CC, the album is about the ways we lose people and he’s one of the many people they’ve lost.
It's possible that 'comes then goes' is about Chris Cornell, but it's pure speculation either way.0 -
Spiritual_Chaos said:People in the jamily hiveminding together truths about what songs are about is disturbing0
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Not to mention that it's certainly about Chris Cornell! Without doubt 100% Ed came to my house last night and told me personally.
Seriously, it's like Ed saying Immortality isn't about Kurt. Of course it is (it's also about Ed, so maybe that's how he justifies his misdirection). There are no other theories that makes sense. The trick is reading lyrics, not reading into lyrics (I'm sure some of you will have a field day with that point). They can all be applied to anything you want, they can all be interpreted in light of anything you want, but past history and Occam's razor would suggest that most Ed songs are about Ed's life or something he has personally experienced - and when there are corroborating facts out there in the world, then it only makes the case stronger.
Think about yourself - would you feel more emotionally connected to (and thus want to write and sing about) experiences of your own life and your own observations or about the experiences and observations of abstract characters - and which do you think would be more convincing to a listener? I'm not saying that abstract characters don't exist in song, literature, etc. - of course they do - or that when applied they aren't ever convincing - of course they are - but I would argue that most Ed songs are pretty specific, even if certain aspects of some have overlapping character or situational interpretations. For example, I wouldn't claim to know where something like Given to Fly comes from - maybe just some interesting way of playing on a biblical story - but I'd put money on where songs like Rearviewmirror and Footsteps come from. If you can't get that Comes then Goes is about Cornell, then why bother with this discussion at all? Everything is about everything, all is relative, blah blah blah boring...0 -
quartered said:Not to mention that it's certainly about Chris Cornell! Without doubt 100% Ed came to my house last night and told me personally.
Seriously, it's like Ed saying Immortality isn't about Kurt. Of course it is (it's also about Ed, so maybe that's how he justifies his misdirection). There are no other theories that makes sense. The trick is reading lyrics, not reading into lyrics (I'm sure some of you will have a field day with that point). They can all be applied to anything you want, they can all be interpreted in light of anything you want, but past history and Occam's razor would suggest that most Ed songs are about Ed's life or something he has personally experienced - and when there are corroborating facts out there in the world, then it only makes the case stronger.
Think about yourself - would you feel more emotionally connected to (and thus want to write and sing about) experiences of your own life and your own observations or about the experiences and observations of abstract characters - and which do you think would be more convincing to a listener? I'm not saying that abstract characters don't exist in song, literature, etc. - of course they do - or that when applied they aren't ever convincing - of course they are - but I would argue that most Ed songs are pretty specific, even if certain aspects of some have overlapping character or situational interpretations. For example, I wouldn't claim to know where something like Given to Fly comes from - maybe just some interesting way of playing on a biblical story - but I'd put money on where songs like Rearviewmirror and Footsteps come from. If you can't get that Comes then Goes is about Cornell, then why bother with this discussion at all? Everything is about everything, all is relative, blah blah blah boring...
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pjl44 said:Spiritual_Chaos said:People in the jamily hiveminding together truths about what songs are about is disturbingI gather speed from you fucking with me.0
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BF25394 said:quartered said:Not to mention that it's certainly about Chris Cornell! Without doubt 100% Ed came to my house last night and told me personally.
Seriously, it's like Ed saying Immortality isn't about Kurt. Of course it is (it's also about Ed, so maybe that's how he justifies his misdirection). There are no other theories that makes sense. The trick is reading lyrics, not reading into lyrics (I'm sure some of you will have a field day with that point). They can all be applied to anything you want, they can all be interpreted in light of anything you want, but past history and Occam's razor would suggest that most Ed songs are about Ed's life or something he has personally experienced - and when there are corroborating facts out there in the world, then it only makes the case stronger.
Think about yourself - would you feel more emotionally connected to (and thus want to write and sing about) experiences of your own life and your own observations or about the experiences and observations of abstract characters - and which do you think would be more convincing to a listener? I'm not saying that abstract characters don't exist in song, literature, etc. - of course they do - or that when applied they aren't ever convincing - of course they are - but I would argue that most Ed songs are pretty specific, even if certain aspects of some have overlapping character or situational interpretations. For example, I wouldn't claim to know where something like Given to Fly comes from - maybe just some interesting way of playing on a biblical story - but I'd put money on where songs like Rearviewmirror and Footsteps come from. If you can't get that Comes then Goes is about Cornell, then why bother with this discussion at all? Everything is about everything, all is relative, blah blah blah boring...0 -
BF25394 said:quartered said:Are all of you morons?
It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
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quartered said:Lifted said:quartered said:Are all of you morons?
It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).
I will not speculate on what these songs mean to Ed, but I will say that the words are beautifully written throughout the album and touch on universal themes that virtually any adult could relate to. Lyrically, i think this album is right there with No Code for the strongest in the PJ catalog. People were calling this a divorce album when it came out, which I didn't really get....and 50+ SPINS (pun intended) later, I still don't.
Lastly, why do so many people on this board want so desperately to believe that every song is about Chris Cornell? More than likely, none of these songs are about him.
Also, seriously, Comes then Goes is CLEARLY about Cornell, so is Scared of Fear. It doesn't mean that when you write, you're not associating other characters into your storyline or into a character, but who else did Ed have a scene with (Scared of Fear) but Cornell? He was his friend. His friend left him and Seattle (did Ed go to Chris's funeral? No. Why not?), I guess I missed part of the Won't Tell story, but the simplest explanation is usually right, and Ed's lyrics have overwhelmingly been personal (either about his perspective or of someone who he's been in contact with in some way - most often the former). All I'll say about the divorce comment is - hmm, what happened next?
I'm definitely getting banned now.
a vision
you caught her again
a wood cut in red."
How is that CC? His wife adulteress? Sliced wrists?
My contextualizations make more sense than suppositions?
I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle0 -
IF it's about cc that part is maybe about his nasty wife
this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -0 -
Spunkie said:BF25394 said:quartered said:Are all of you morons?
It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).I gather speed from you fucking with me.0 -
Some of you people need to chill out. Who cares who the songs are about. Just enjoy them.0
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BF25394 said:Spunkie said:BF25394 said:quartered said:Are all of you morons?
It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
Animals were hiding behind the Coral
Except for little Turtle
I could swear he's trying to talk to me
Gurgle Gurgle0 -
Spunkie said:BF25394 said:Spunkie said:BF25394 said:quartered said:Are all of you morons?
It's about he and his wife, which he also references at the end of Upper Hand (goes from 'just need a few of you' - i.e., his wife and two daughters to 'maybe just the two of you' - only his two daughters) and Setting Sun (which is all about he and his wife). He doesn't want to be too overt about what he's alluding to in Got to Give (although Setting Sun is pretty direct, so not sure about that), but it's clear (although I guess you could argue it could be about any of his past relationships, but seems unlikely) there are four (well five - the daughters are kind of rolled up in one) main characters in the album - Chris Cornell, Trump, Ed's wife, Ed's daughters, then one for Jeff's wife (Won't Tell), and the whole Seattle scene remnants (Wreckage).I gather speed from you fucking with me.0 -
Major snoozefest!
Spunkie is likely 12-years-old and it's not clear to me that BF25394 knows how language works, so...
However, lastexitlondon has made a real leap - the one that Ed wishes had not led the character in Comes then Goes is none other than Vicky Cornell! This is not rocket science. I apologize, so sorry, about the sarcasm...0
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