What does I Got Shit mean?
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Who is the person he keeps talking about? Who is the "you?" as this person sounds if he is complete isolation for a rather long period of time. (empty cup drifting in the middle of the sea) Is he reverting back to a time so far gone by? "I've got memories I've Got Shit." Who helped this guy walk the line when they held him in that night? And what's up with the "I've never held you in real life" line? "I'm not ugly and you're looking at me." That line makes no sense to me in context. The song is so eerie and odd.
The verses clearly makes sense to me, but the chorus seems defiant of that, thus making me question the entire song. Is the chorus a memory?
The verses clearly makes sense to me, but the chorus seems defiant of that, thus making me question the entire song. Is the chorus a memory?
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3 Decibels Doubles the Volume
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3 Decibels Doubles the Volume
2006
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they need to release a couple ep's dont they
dreamer in my dream
we got the guns
i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
Frank: Are you saying you want a piece of me?
Elaine: I'll drop you like a sack of potatoes.
Frank: You want a piece of me? YOU GOT IT!
routine was the theme..
there aint gonna be any middle any more
Memories are all he has. He has nothing tangible. Nothing but his loneliness and the past.
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i believe the line was, "i could drop you like a bag of dirt." but good reference!
what else needs to be said
he states - So Ill just lie down and wait for the dream
Meaning he is dreaming about this person not thinking of him as ugly, I don't think he means the literal team ugly as in beauty/apperance but instead an ugly personality.
before - I paid the price. Never held you in real life.
He states - Oh, I walked the line when you held me close that night.
Meaning he never got the chance to be with this person again.
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Is it possible that he's referring to a dream here too? That his dreams are the only thing to hold him together at night, yet he is unable to hold and manifest his dreams in real life?
3 Decibels Doubles the Volume
2006
Yeah I kinda went back/fourth before writing. I think its more of a memory then a dream, which I mean can overlap but remembering when they were together and hoping it would happen again, but he fucked up and it wont.
San Francisco - July 15/16/18, 2006 Bridgeschool - October 21/22, 2006
Lollapalooza - August 5,2007
EV Berkley - April 7/8, 2008 The Who Rock Honors - July 12, 2008
Outside Lands - August 28, 2009 Seattle - September 21/22, 2009 San Diego - October 9, 2009
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For the longest time I was wrong about a lyric and I was really bummed because I thought it was one of Eddie's best ever. When he says "If just once I could feel loved..." I thought he said "I'd say it like I mean it!!!" but he actually says "oh stare back at me yeah..." I like my misheard one better, so much that it used to give me chills to think about it. Oh well the beauty of PJ is that I can still feel that lyric if I want to.
This is how I always interpreted it
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Been a month and a day since I heard myself talk
Only advantage this life's got on me
Picture an empty cup in the middle of the sea
And I fight back in my mind
Never lets me be right
I've got memories, I've got shit
So much it don't show
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held my hand that night
An empty shell seems so easy to crack
I Got questions, don't know who the fuck I'm ever gonna ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for a dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me
And I'll stay in bed
All blue, I've seen hell
If just once I could feel love
Oh, stare back at me
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held my hand that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me close that night
Oh, I paid the price, never held you in real life
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We all know how Ed likes to change lyrics around. I don't remember which show (been to about 35 of 'em) but I was in the front row just a hair to Ed's left and I'm pretty sure he sang something like:
And I'll stare you back
Oh blue eyed sea, yeah
If just once I could feel love
Oh, stare back at me
I've always liked that and sang it that way ever since.
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id from wickipedia
Id
The term id (inner desire) is a Latinised derivation from Groddeck's das Es.[2] It stands in direct opposition to the super-ego. It is dominated by the pleasure principle.
The id is the unconscious part of the brain that is the center of controlling all unknown pleasures or desires. These desires one may or may not be aware of, however, according to Freud, one will never be capable of understanding all desires. The sexual desire, firstly, may be prevalent in one's mind, although, if one were focused on understanding all of the sexual desires, one would be very disturbed to discover what actual sexual desires one may harbor in one's subconscious. Secondly, the id is the part of the mind that controls all religious and spiritual beliefs.
The mind of a newborn child is regarded as being completely "id-ridden", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and demands immediate satisfaction. This view equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual - often humorously - with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end.
The id is responsible for our basic drives such as food, sex, and aggressive impulses. It is amoral and egocentric, ruled by the pleasure–pain principle; it is without a sense of time, completely illogical, primarily sexual, infantile in its emotional development, and will not take "no" for an answer. It is regarded as the reservoir of the libido or "love energy".
A popular interpretation of the id is not that it "convinces" the mind to ignore social norms, but rather in itself just does not take social norms into account. The id is the primal, or beast-like, part of the brain, determined to pursue actions that are pleasurable, such as eating and copulation. The prime motivation of the id is self-survival, pursuing whatever is necessary to accomplish that goal.
My lips are shaking, my nails are bit off
Been a month and a day since I heard myself talk
Only advantage this life's got on me
Picture an empty cup in the middle of the sea
He is enclosed, in his own world. The visual of the empty cup is one of nearly being swallowed up , but he is afloat yet his cup is empty while in a sea of water noting abundance surrounds him but he does not have.
And I fight back in my mind
Never lets me be right
I've got memories, I've got shit
So much it don't show
The id does not show, but it is there and he is fighting it, struggling against it.
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held my hand that night
Walked the line, is this a reference to Johny Cash 'Walk the line'? That song is about being right and doing right to keep the relationship you are committed to. So maybe he did walk the line when had was close to the person of his infatuation.
An empty shell seems so easy to crack
I Got questions, don't know who the fuck I'm ever gonna ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for a dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me
Another reference to the loneliness of being enclosed and seperated from others. Then finally knowing he may not be the attractive one he dreams of her wanting him.
And I'll stay in bed
All blue, I've seen hell
If just once I could feel love
Oh, stare back at me
Great reference to the feel of love being returned to him but it wasn't hasn't - didn't stare back at him so it was only a wish or hope.
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held my hand that night
Oh, I walked the line, when you held me close that night
Oh, I paid the price, never held you in real life
His short time with her was not real enough to last. Maybe it was just a dream. He paid the price, walked the line but never held in real life.
The id experience is not the real experience.
Hell I don't know but I gave it a shot.
I guess Ive always listened and interpreted it together with Long Road.
They were released on the same single and Ive always assumed they were linked, as if from the same persons perspective. They were tied in with the Dead Man Walking Soundtrack and I guess Ive always considered Long Road to be about the death row inmate contemplating their own fate beyond the execution and I Got Shit to be them considering their life, memories and all they've left behind.
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I like the live versions with the "only got to hold you in my mind" line, sounds a bit better.
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For the most part, I agree with this interpretation, except I think that the "shit" is a double entendre. Yes, it means that the memories and dreams are shit compared to the real thing, but It's also about carrying a lot of baggage or psychological weight that runs deep (as the alternate title also suggests).