Lyrics Help (Corduroy)

Cropduster623
Cropduster623 Posts: 5
edited August 2008 in The Porch
Okay I am debating my friend. I need to know what Eddie is saying here:

Is it..

1. "Take my hand, not my picture spilled my tincture."
or
2. "Take my hand, not my picture see my t-shirt."
or
3. Other
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  • satansbedbugs
    satansbedbugs On Tour Posts: 2,413
    take my hand........get a poster ........sell a possssssssteeeerrrrrrr
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  • FrankieJ
    FrankieJ Posts: 602
    The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here and I'm a mess
    I take your entrance back...can't let you roam inside my head
    I don't want to take what you can give...
    I would rather starve than eat your bread...
    I would rather run but I can't walk...
    Guess I'll lie alone just like before...

    I'll take the varmint's path...oh, and I must refuse your test
    Push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
    I don't want to hear from those who know...
    They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
    I don't want to limp for them to walk...
    Never would have known of me before...
    I don't want to be held in your debt...
    I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
    I'm already cut up and half dead...
    I'll end up alone like I began...

    Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed
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  • Cropduster623
    Cropduster623 Posts: 5
    Thats not the entire song though
    FrankieG wrote:
    The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here and I'm a mess
    I take your entrance back...can't let you roam inside my head
    I don't want to take what you can give...
    I would rather starve than eat your bread...
    I would rather run but I can't walk...
    Guess I'll lie alone just like before...

    I'll take the varmint's path...oh, and I must refuse your test
    Push me and I will resist...this behavior's not unique
    I don't want to hear from those who know...
    They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
    I don't want to limp for them to walk...
    Never would have known of me before...
    I don't want to be held in your debt...
    I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
    I'm already cut up and half dead...
    I'll end up alone like I began...

    Everything has chains...absolutely nothing's changed
    -All encompassing trip
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    pretty sure it's the 1st one.
  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    spill my tincture .. for sure
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  • FrankieJ
    FrankieJ Posts: 602
    Cropduster623 wrote:
    Thats not the entire song though

    yeah, i was reading through it to find that line, but I couldn't. So i just posted it anyway, thinking I was just missing it.
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  • abyanks
    abyanks Posts: 59
    isnt it in the booklet?
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Your answer is 1.

    And I will fight "everything has chains" to my death bed.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    tincture
  • CitizenRick
    CitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Your answer is 1.

    And I will fight "everything has chains" to my death bed.


    What do you think it is? change?

    I thought that for years.
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • LukinFan
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    http://www.pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=Corduroy
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    CitizenRick wrote:
    What do you think it is? change?

    I thought that for years.

    Everything has changed ... absolutely nothing's changed.

    And I really will physically fight anyone who argues with me. Even Ed himself ...
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    LukinFan wrote:
    http://www.pearljam.com/songs/song.php?song=Corduroy

    wtf why do they only have 1/2 of the song up...
  • CitizenRick
    CitizenRick Posts: 1,079
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Everything has changed ... absolutely nothing's changed.

    And I really will physically fight anyone who argues with me. Even Ed himself ...

    Whoops...I meant changed not change. Yeah...I'll bet after seeing people mishear it for changed he probably thought "ooh...that would've been even better".

    Either way it's a cool line.
    "Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse...of my innocense, got back my inner sence, baby got it...still got it"
  • Spencer
    Spencer Posts: 867
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Everything has changed ... absolutely nothing's changed.

    And I really will physically fight anyone who argues with me. Even Ed himself ...

    The real, 100% lyric is: "everything has chains" and I think it's by FAR a superior lyric to "everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed".

    The first actually has a clear meaning and uses the image of chains to effectively communicate what Ed was trying to convey, that even though he's rich and famous he still has the problems everyone faces (ie: the CHAINS!).

    The second line is just meaningless, Kurt Cobain-esque "yeah, maybe it's one thing...or maybe it's ANOTHER! Wooooo!!!" laziness. I mean, I really like Nirvana but you get what I mean.

    Ed uses both live however, he alternates it at random.
  • SBC03
    SBC03 Posts: 502
    "Take my hand, not my picture," spilled my tincture
    I don't want to take what you can give...
    I would rather starve than eat your bread...
    All the things that others want for me...
    Can't buy what I want because it's free...
    Can't buy what I want because it's free...
    Can't be what you want because I'm...
    Why ain't it supposed to be just fun
    Oh, to live and die, let it be done
    I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...
    It's your move now...
    I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you..


    you meaning us?
    See this needle...a see my hand...
    Drop drop dropping it down...oh so gently...
    Well here it comes...I touch the plane...
    Turn me up...won't turn you away...
  • Gossard_Is_God
    Gossard_Is_God Posts: 1,031
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Everything has changed ... absolutely nothing's changed.

    And I really will physically fight anyone who argues with me. Even Ed himself ...

    yep yep yep
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  • Panic821
    Panic821 Posts: 106
    i thought it was:

    "Take my Hand, not my Picture" spelled my Tshirt

    haha. but i think Spilled my tincture is the correct one.
    my signature.
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Everything has changed ... absolutely nothing's changed.

    And I really will physically fight anyone who argues with me. Even Ed himself ...
    thats what i thought too. but i like the chains line
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    spencer wrote:
    The real, 100% lyric is: "everything has chains" and I think it's by FAR a superior lyric to "everything has changed, absolutely nothing's changed".

    The first actually has a clear meaning and uses the image of chains to effectively communicate what Ed was trying to convey, that even though he's rich and famous he still has the problems everyone faces (ie: the CHAINS!).

    So someone wants to fight, eh? ;)

    I disagree on both counts. I think "chains" is too straightforward and lazy to be an Ed line.

    Change makes a lot more sense, and is a lot cooler, and is a lot more poetic to me.

    The song, obviously, is about the trappings off fame, and how people see you differently, as something more than human, when you become famous. It is about Ed's desire to be treated like a normal human being, for cryin' out loud.

    You have to read the "changed" line with the next line ... which is "take my hand, not my picture."

    Here's what the line means: Everything has changed AROUND ME -- I don't work at a gas station anymore, I'm famous, I'm on the cover of Time magazine, every 15-year-old on the planet knows my name. But absolutely nothing has changed WITHIN ME -- I'm still the same guy I was when I worked anonymously at a gas station.

    So what does famous Ed want from us? "take my hand, not my picture." ie, Realize I'm just a regular human being. No need to photograph me like I'm a monkey in a zoo exhibit. Just take my hand. I'm just like you.

    That is much, much cooler than using the word "chains" to mean "problems" -- which has been done to death since the advent of the English language.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do

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