Daughter Violins(ence)?

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  • papa_pearls_jam.pj20
    papa_pearls_jam.pj20 Chicago USA Posts: 2,142
    Smellyman wrote:
    Always liked..... PaintED big .... turnED into....one of his enemies......

    Even better, I like it when he sings it live, "one of his fucking enemies".

    Blood's an amazing song.
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  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    This change in lyrics as someone else has said is a reason I love this band!

    Just hearing line changes from demo to studio versions is amazing song writing talents... There's even a song on PJ20 that doesn't even really have lyrics and is awesome... You can see the start of lyrical sounds put in and I guess the lyrics come later...

    With the violins(ence) thing, I have thought they both fit well, but they may have played the violins card for the censors... If a song had violent themes back in the 90's, maybe the radio stations wouldn't have played it or not been liked by the record company or something... To confuse the censors and also to confuse listeners so they open their minds to different meanings or how one word can change something... I mean all these theories are just that... No one knows why except the band and a few others I guess...
  • StillHere
    StillHere Posts: 7,795
    i think its both

    if you look up the lyrics in the music tab, it has it listed as Violins(lence) or something similar to that. (too lazy to go look right now)

    A play on words, right

    I would love to see Ed's original handwritten lyrics, I would bet he has it written just like that ^^

    One of the best things about this music is the myriad of meaning you can take from one song

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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    I think Ed got the idea from that ABC song from the 80's - "When Smokey Sings"...

    "When Smokey sings,
    I hear violins/ence..."

    At least, everyone I knew sang it that way - even when I worked in radio and tv...

    :fp:

    And yes, I have read somewhere as well that the "innocents" in "I am Mine" refers to the people that died at Roskilde and "innocence" means the band lost their innocence when that happened, in terms of it being such a life altering event for them all..they had "pre-Roskilde" Pearl Jam and "post-Roskilde" Pearl Jam, as explained in PJ20...
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