Alive and incest?
phungi
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Direct quotes from Eddie, circa 1992 state:
"It's about incest; and it's about murder; and you know all those good things. And if you can picture it in your mind, the third song takes place in a jail cell. So this is our own little mini-opera here." --EV, 6/18/92
(http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/dec99/index.shtml)
However, deeper comments reveal:
Vedder continues: "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 somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than 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.": http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/art ... 2893.shtml
So, I am confused about a song I thought I knew so well...
Is the reason for "I can't see I just stare" because he was molested, or is this simply dysfunction due to the burden of knowing his father was not his actual father, and the mother looks at him like the father, perhaps in a sexual way?
Is this about incest, implied incest, or nothing sexual at all?
"It's about incest; and it's about murder; and you know all those good things. And if you can picture it in your mind, the third song takes place in a jail cell. So this is our own little mini-opera here." --EV, 6/18/92
(http://www.fivehorizons.com/songs/dec99/index.shtml)
However, deeper comments reveal:
Vedder continues: "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 somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than 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.": http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/art ... 2893.shtml
So, I am confused about a song I thought I knew so well...
Is the reason for "I can't see I just stare" because he was molested, or is this simply dysfunction due to the burden of knowing his father was not his actual father, and the mother looks at him like the father, perhaps in a sexual way?
Is this about incest, implied incest, or nothing sexual at all?
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