eddie songs that best describe eddie

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  • PJRock75
    PJRock75 Posts: 869
    We really wouldn't know this...but in the beginning Alive, in the middle Corduroy, now...gotta wait for the next album ;)
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    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.
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  • elle74
    elle74 NJ Posts: 58
    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



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  • dimitrispearljam
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    save you
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  • redeye
    redeye Posts: 620
    justam wrote:
    Only he and his family know. The rest of us are only guessing I'd say. :p
    yep id go with that
  • PearlOfAGirl
    PearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
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  • verbtotrust4130
    verbtotrust4130 Posts: 52
    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
    panjok2 Posts: 4
    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
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    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
    avlys Posts: 91
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35Qq5Ybpo0 here's the video (Off he goes)
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  • Electric_Delta
    Electric_Delta Posts: 977
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  • heidimarie5857
    heidimarie5857 Posts: 7
    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
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    justam wrote:
    Only he and his family know. The rest of us are only guessing I'd say. :p
    here here! on that one!!
  • phungi
    phungi Posts: 641
    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...
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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Arc
    beautiful
    thoughtful
    compelling
    freeing
    heavenly
    hopeful
    wonderful..... :D
  • Liesl
    Liesl Posts: 64
    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
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    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
    megatron Posts: 3,420
    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
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    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
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    I heard somewhere that he said he wrote "Off He Goes" about him.
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