The End
This is such a 'punch in the gut' song. I really like it - but am a little worried about where it came from...it sounds really....real. I'm worried. I keep listeneing to it and the gravity of the song is pulling all kinds of emotion out of me. I don't know what to do with this one. Anybody else feel this way??
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Sorry to be snarky, but I do not think we can assume it is autobiographical. Otherside didn't mean he was dead. I don't think that The End means anything either. Just an awesome song that I can't stop listening too!!!!
Love this CD!
yea, i know what you mean. but i tend to think (and hope) that its what makes ed such an amazing songcrafter. he can make it feel so personal and real. in an interview ed said the second verse was written after listening to a phone message from a friend in spain while he was in the middle of writing the song. that said, who knows what the truth is? perhaps ed didn't want to reveal too much in the interview. its hard not to wonder because there are obvious parallels, but in the meantime i'll chalk it up as just an amazing and sad song that pulls you in. but i still continue to wish ed, and all my friends threw away the cancer sticks.
I wish they ended the album with a happy song.
2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
2011: Ed Solo Hartford
2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
pretty simple. its a song about dying with unavoidable parallels that could be inferred from the lyrics. while it is true that many or most of the songs are not literal, there are also plenty that likely are. Alive comes to mind right off. its also well known that ed smokes. smoking kills. while i still think it is unlikely, its not inconceivable that ed would write a beautiful song from a first-person perspective of what it feels like to know you will be dying soon. dismiss it if you want, but we're just saying that they subject matter and lyrics are haunting in their potential applicability to a first-person account. we all hope its just because ed has the talent to pull it off and that would be the most logical explanation, but if doesn't make you pause and think for just a second, well...then i guess you must think ed will live forever.
Yes... you said what I was originally thinking - except you said it way better than I did!
“I got a phone call from a friend, from Spain. I couldn’t pick up the phone because I was recording the guitar part. I had written half the song’s lyrics. When I checked his message, he had said something that enabled me to write the second verse, and in 20 minutes, it was done. That’s how it happened on this record. It was writing the quick ones – there was no room for the other stuff. We’ll see how long approaching it like this goes. But it’s the right way for us to do it right now.”
http://www.twofeetthick.com/2009/09/ed- ... -by-track/
so think positive..
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
"Doo do do do doo do doo, Doo do do do doo do doo..."
I don't think Ed is predicting his own demise.
for the least they could possibly do
Well it'll be interesting to find out who Eddie is singing about (if he is indeed singing about anyone he knows) but rest assured, it won't be him! If he had the big "c", for instance he wouldn't be well enough to tour. A friend of my husband's and mine smoked weed and cigarettes every day and he got lung cancer, dying within 6 months, it was really quick. Eddie may look somewhat older in recent photos, but he's not looking sick!
In Nothingman: "one's left inside the well..."
and in "The End": "Looking up from inside of the bottom of a well, it’s hell,
I yell"....
Maybe I am going to deep here but maybe The End is from "Nothingman's" perspective?