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  • jodiem
    jodiem Posts: 133
    thefixer9 wrote:
    This is Pearl Jam's second best song ever!!! :D "I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down"


    Completely agree!

    This is my second favourite song (Black is first) and that is my most favourite line of the song. I am getting it tattooed on my back in a couple of weeks! :):D:):D:):D

    I take the part of "never let you down" as the fact that I never want to let myself down. But I do love it in the literal sense of never wanting to let your partner/lover down... I also love the lyrics as the continual wishing to be something more...

    I do heart this song...
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  • hockeygrrl
    hockeygrrl Posts: 141
    jodiem wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    This is Pearl Jam's second best song ever!!! :D "I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down"


    Completely agree!

    This is my second favourite song (Black is first) and that is my most favourite line of the song. I am getting it tattooed on my back in a couple of weeks! :):D:):D:):D

    I take the part of "never let you down" as the fact that I never want to let myself down. But I do love it in the literal sense of never wanting to let your partner/lover down... I also love the lyrics as the continual wishing to be something more...

    I do heart this song...

    I hope you will share your tattoo with us once you get it done. I'm looking to get something with Force of Nature pretty soon....
    <b>One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain</b> <i>~Bob Marley</i>
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    I love that in Oz Ed sang "I wish I was a neutron bomb & I would never go off". That line's always troubled me about the song, why would Ed want a neutron bomb to ever go off? I really don't want to start any kind of political or pro or anti-nuclear discussion but IMHO they should never go off! They should not exist!
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  • jodiem
    jodiem Posts: 133
    I hope you will share your tattoo with us once you get it done. I'm looking to get something with Force of Nature pretty soon....[/quote]


    Absolutely :D Just working on the design and font now..
    1995: Perth
    2006: Sydney x 2
    2009: Philly, Sydney
    2013: San Diego, LA1 & 2, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Vancouver, Seattle

    EV Solo - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney x 2
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    YLed2 wrote:
    "I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on."

    This was my favorite line in this song for a long, long time. To me, it talks about the desire to become so ingrained in someone's life, so entrenched there, that you're almost taken for granted (in a good way).

    Most of us do not give much thought to whatever it is we hang our house keys on. We walk into our homes, and almost without thinking, as a matter of habit, maybe without even looking, hang our key where it is supposed to go.

    We don't think much about that souvenir, or whatever it is, but it serves an indispensible purpose. It does a job. It is, in a way, here for you.

    To me, the metaphor is: I want to be so "here for you" that you don't have to wonder about whether I will be or not. I'm here for you, without you having to ask. To the point where you don't even think to ask.

    I've always loved that idea.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
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  • cyndarious1
    cyndarious1 Posts: 430
    I love Wishlist. I don't listen to it as often as I used to, but it still puts me in a good mood when it's playing on my Iphone. I remember that Yield was the second PJ album that I listened to after Ten, and Wishlist was the first song that I immediately liked. The riff is just so simple and beautiful, and the solos are gorgeous.

    The only thing is that, I don't know if you agree with this, but Yield doesn't sound so well compared to the other albums, in terms of quality, I mean. I'm glad they put it in Rearviewmirror; that version sounds excellent. I couldn't ask for more.
    November 22nd, 2005.
  • PJForceofNature
    PJForceofNature Posts: 3,087
    I was listening to a version of Wishlist today from MSG 2003, and I have decided it's my favorite live version of the song-just love how it seems to go on and on and never end, and I love all the extras that Eddie tacks on after the original song! :thumbup: :clap:
    "A beacon on dry land"
  • The Oracle
    The Oracle Posts: 530
    PJForceofNature wrote:
    I was listening to a version of Wishlist today from MSG 2003, and I have decided it's my favorite live version of the song-just love how it seems to go on and on and never end, and I love all the extras that Eddie tacks on after the original song! :thumbup: :clap:
    :wave: :thumbup: +1
  • VanOssie
    VanOssie Posts: 48
    "I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up" = I wish to be that transcendent emotive force that is the magic of music. (Think of ALL the intangible reasons you turn up a song ...)
  • big mick
    big mick Hull UK Posts: 773
    I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down

    I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up

    As a married man, this means to me, being reliable for the wife and kids and the 'neutron bomb' bit at the beginning is being spontaneous for her too.

    Just what I've thought about it, I am probably way off the mark and I'm certain Ed had other ideas when it was written.
    Reading England 2006, Manchester England 2009, London England 2010, Manchester 1 2012, EV London 1 2012
  • Constant Recoil...
    Constant Recoil... Posts: 1,276
    I used to think "I wish I was a neutron bomb for once I could go off" was actually

    "I wish I was a new trombone, for once I could grow old"

    I played the trombone so when I looked up the lyrics (2 weeks ago) I almost cried a little. :oops:

    Please listen to that like thinking trombone and tell me it doesn't sound like that.
    I still sing "trombone" and if they play it at a concert you can be I'll be screaming trombone as loud as I can!! :lol:

    Come on it kinda makes sense
  • Smoke In A Tree
    Smoke In A Tree Posts: 20
    I wish I was a disease, a disease called love & peace. I love the live versions of wishlist, love the tags at the end and this line was one of my favorites!
    Nature has it's own religion, gospel from the land.
  • Brain of Dave
    Brain of Dave Posts: 149
    For my birthday one year, my sister got me a framed collection of pictures she found on the internet and put together next to each other.

    I couldn't recognize the significance haha!

    The first picture was a mushroom cloud from a bomb going off. The second picture was three crucifixes on a hill. The third was an ornament, the fourth a star atop a Christmas tree and so on...
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  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    Brain of Dave wrote:
    For my birthday one year, my sister got me a framed collection of pictures she found on the internet and put together next to each other.

    I couldn't recognize the significance haha!

    The first picture was a mushroom cloud from a bomb going off. The second picture was three crucifixes on a hill. The third was an ornament, the fourth a star atop a Christmas tree and so on...
    Very cool. :)
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    EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
  • eltonwise
    eltonwise Posts: 7
    Whislist is a crazy song, every phrase has a great meaning!

    Certainly a track to empathize!
    _E_l_t_o_n_w_i_s_e_
  • mikalina
    mikalina Posts: 7,206
    For personal reasons - I'm very fond of this peticular verse.


    I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on
    The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top    ....
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  • Versus13
    Versus13 Vancouver, BC Posts: 197
    "I wish I was the souvenir you kept your housekey on" and "I wish I was the full moon shining off your Camaro's hood" could imply the desire for someone to care for you as much as they do for their material possesions
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