Alive Chorus??!?!

LeatherMosquitoMan
LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
edited December 2011 in The Porch
Ok... so i'm probably going to look like a complete idiot, but i NEVER knew or heard this before....

These are the lyrics here, on pj.com...

Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey...oh...

I just listened to the Rebecca's Empire cover... and went back and listened to Alive studio...

Edit: Link: http://grooveshark.com/#/s/Alive/4k32Qd?src=5

Oh I, Hurt, i'm still alive....

WTF??

Makes COMPLETE sense!
-Chris
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Oh yeah. Never knew that
  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    Lol i guess everyone else knew this..
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  • thefixer9
    thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    I don't think it's I, hurt, I'm still alive..... :?
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  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    This reminds me of taking my friend to his first show.. towards the end of rearviewmirror, he was yelling "soy beans!!! soy beans!!! soy beans!!! soy beans!! clever!! clever!! once you, where in my REARVIEWMIRROR!!!

    I didn't say shit until the parking lot.. :lol:
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  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    thefixer9 wrote:
    I don't think it's I, hurt, I'm still alive..... :?

    Go listen to the studio Rico.

    Then take a listen to the version on the link.
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  • kellanazzie
    kellanazzie Posts: 1,484
    Interesting....and now I'll be listening to Alive for the next few days....alot... :lol: Could it just be her interpretation? She says "a" look instead of "the" look & "from" you know where instead of "oh" you know where....ahhh, the mysteries of Eddie Vedder language....love it!!!


    "SoyBeans"... :lol::lol::lol:
  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    kellanazzie wrote:
    Interesting....and now I'll be listening to Alive for the next few days....alot... :lol: Could it just be her interpretation? She says "a" look instead of "the" look & "from" you know where instead of "oh" you know where....ahhh, the mysteries of Eddie Vedder language....love it!!!


    "SoyBeans"... :lol::lol::lol:


    I thought it might just be here interpretation too, but now every time i hear the studio it's impossible to not hear "Oooooh I, Huuuuuuurt, I'm still alive"

    You can hear the 't' of hurt right before he flicks to "I'm"
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  • animus
    animus Twin Cities area Posts: 530
    wait. so its not soy beans in rearviewmirror...? :roll:
  • uglybabo
    uglybabo Posts: 530
    I think its but I'm still alive.

    He almost said this in the VH1 Storytellers description of the song. Kind of like that's all well and good BUT I'm still alive.
  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    uglybabo wrote:
    I think its but I'm still alive.

    He almost said this in the VH1 Storytellers description of the song. Kind of like that's all well and good BUT I'm still alive.

    So..

    "Oooohhh IIIIII, Buuuuuuut, I'm still alive"?

    Doesn't really fit.
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  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    Lol, take a listen, it'll take 2 minutes, and instead of:

    Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
    Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive
    Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
    Hey...oh...

    Try and hear:

    Oh I, hurt, I'm still alive
    Hey, I, I, hurt, I'm still alive
    Hey I, hurt, I'm still alive
    Hey...oh...
    -Chris
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    2011 St. Louis (EV)
    2012 Tulsa 1 & 2 (EV)
    2013 Chicago, Dallas & OKC
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Just when I thought I could speak Eddie Vedder....
  • thefin190
    thefin190 Posts: 918
    Cavstarr313 wrote:
    This reminds me of taking my friend to his first show.. towards the end of rearviewmirror, he was yelling "soy beans!!! soy beans!!! soy beans!!! soy beans!! clever!! clever!! once you, where in my REARVIEWMIRROR!!!

    I didn't say shit until the parking lot.. :lol:

    Haha...for the longest time, I thought he said "Sun feels.....sun feels....clearer!" Kind of makes sense if you didn't know the real lyrics. To be fair, Eddie's singing does sound kind of muffled in that song, and mixes up the first chorus with the second chorus often.
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  • Purlyjem
    Purlyjem Posts: 126
    I have an old bootleg from an early show where Eddie is really making it clear what Alive is all about.

    Parts of Alive go like this:

    "Is something wrong she said?
    Ofcourse there is..you stupid bitch"

    "Oh the look..the look...oh you know where..
    between her f#cking legs..I just stare"!

    And then in end he screams at the end: "Why the harm?! yeah, the harm...stop the harm....yeah oh uh uh...yeah yeah yeah".

    Hearing that made a very big impression me. On the album recordings he is not really singing it like that though, but live he did once. Guess we'll never know! :roll:
    I have no idea what show it was, I have it on cassette tape SOMEWHERE...I will try to find out which one it was.

    But yeah... I hurt, I'm still alive...mmm...interesting!

    For the new jammers here... Daughter and Rearviewmorror are connected. In the end of Daughter "the shades go down"...but in the end, at the end of Rearviewmirror things feel better, and "the shades are raised". Always found that great to know after reading that in an interview with Ed.
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  • tvismyfriend
    tvismyfriend Posts: 2,118
    Some of them are but. I remember hearing that the chorus was about him questioning why he's still alive.
  • Markiemark70
    Markiemark70 Posts: 103
    Absolutely loved that by the way! Got me thinking, it's about time and it would have been nice for the 20 year to have one of those tribute albums made.

    I have been loving the one that Spin did for Nevermind's 20th and I think it would be awesome to have one of those made for our guys.
  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    tvismyfriend wrote:
    Some of them are but. I remember hearing that the chorus was about him questioning why he's still alive.

    'But' doesn't fit though...
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    2009 LA 1, 2, 3 & 4, San Diego
    2011 St. Louis (EV)
    2012 Tulsa 1 & 2 (EV)
    2013 Chicago, Dallas & OKC
  • kellanazzie
    kellanazzie Posts: 1,484
    edited December 2011
    For sure there is a distinction...sometimes before "I'm still Alive.." I hear oh & other times it very much sounds like "ohhh, I huuuurt, I'm still Alive...." I kind of like that....I know my heart hurts when someone does me wrong.

    I know somewhere, an interview maybe??...Ed has said how the song started out with the narrator questioning why he was still alive but the fans & audiences changed that for him. Meaning, "ya? do what you will but, fuck you man, I'M STILL ALIVE!!!"
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  • Gremmie03
    Gremmie03 Posts: 507
    I thought it was
    "Oooohhh IIIIII, Heeearrrd, I'm still alive"
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  • teeman
    teeman Posts: 337
    Gremmie03 wrote:
    I thought it was
    "Oooohhh IIIIII, Heeearrrd, I'm still alive"

    Perhaps it's "I herd, I'm still alive"

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