Dance Of The Clairvoyants lyrics

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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    That desire to reproduce/populate and create order by fixing and filing things really reminds me directly of the entire theme of DTE.  Fire things fits in with that just as well and having both makes it a miniature mirror image of Do the Evolution.
    Ed is certainly well-versed in carrying themes and motifs throughout his career, I love that about his lyrics.  Symbols like lightning bolts, the moon, cars, etc. really call back to other songs and link it all up in a very nice way.
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  • herogroundzero
    herogroundzero Posts: 366
    TJ25487 said:
    What was Ed thinking??? He has no chance of remembering all of these lyrics live! Hahaha! 
    I love the internet ! there is so much shit to giggle at...all the freakin time   ;)
  • BennyLaRue
    BennyLaRue Posts: 751
    Maybe you guys don't realize - Sea is a mod. Those seem to be the official lyrics and have been added to the Pearl Jam YT channel, or rather, the lyrics have been expanded today to include the dix/fix/fire line.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    BennyLaRue said:
    Maybe you guys don't realize - Sea is a mod. Those seem to be the official lyrics and have been added to the Pearl Jam YT channel, or rather, the lyrics have been expanded today to include the dix/fix/fire line.
    Yeah, but I would sure like to have a C Note for every time the official lyrics for a song don't match up to what is actually sung on an album!
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited February 2020
    I really don't hear "who's greater than the sum"
    It definitely sounds more to me like "can be greater than the sum" with the "can" clipped off so that it actually comes out " not one man, cbe greater than the sum"
    Post edited by rgambs on
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  • BennyLaRue
    BennyLaRue Posts: 751
    rgambs said:
    BennyLaRue said:
    Maybe you guys don't realize - Sea is a mod. Those seem to be the official lyrics and have been added to the Pearl Jam YT channel, or rather, the lyrics have been expanded today to include the dix/fix/fire line.
    Yeah, but I would sure like to have a C Note for every time the official lyrics for a song don't match up to what is actually sung on an album!
    Sure but for lyrical interpretation, the official would be the starting point, ie. no need to try and explain "file".
  • halshakarchi
    halshakarchi Posts: 176
    edited February 2020
    Huh... these lyrics were available day one in Apple Music.
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,896
    edited February 2020
    Apple music had them wrong. Fire things  makes perfect  sence . I feel file does  not. Why would a boy file more than a girl.? 
    But guns mainly fired by boys who want to feel big imo.
    Post edited by lastexitlondon on


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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    LOndon, was just thinking the same thing, but was glad it hadn't been brought up. I have a half-bro n his sister was a domestic violence death.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,636
    halshakarchi said:
    Huh... these lyrics were available day one in Apple Music.
    No one was sure about "the dix and fix and fire things" part
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  • fortyshades
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    Fire things make more sense. Boys/ men want to destroy. Nature (alsof looking at the video's)  are an enormous motive in this song. To me it is all about disconnect of nature and with each other. (Which also explains the "positive", which.doesnt sound positive at all, but forcing yourself to think that way, while everything is falling apart aroumd you. Therei s also a def. political emotive here. What was the interpretation given on the YT channel?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    File things makes perfect sense too, we are so very desirous of putting labels on everything and everyone, creating what we consider order among the chaos of nature, and exerting control.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,189
    As a parent of teenage girls (like Ed) I wondered if "fire things" referred to vaping.  I know that's a stretch but teenage boys do tend to focus on 

    1. Their dicks
    2. Pics of themselves
    3. Vaping

    of course that is if the lyrics are "dicks and pics and fire things"
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,189
    PB11041 said:
    dix?
    Dixville Notch?
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

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  • BennyLaRue
    BennyLaRue Posts: 751
    Gern Blansten said:
    As a parent of teenage girls (like Ed) I wondered if "fire things" referred to vaping.  I know that's a stretch but teenage boys do tend to focus on 

    1. Their dicks
    2. Pics of themselves
    3. Vaping

    of course that is if the lyrics are "dicks and pics and fire things"
    I see "boys" here as just a synonym for the entire male gender, not just young men. This particular line (which officially is "dix and fix and fire things") seems to be about toxic masculinity and male stereotypes, of which guns are a big part. It makes the most sense given the theme of the song but what seals it is at the end of Mach III, Ed makes a gun motion with his hand while he sings the line.
  • TJ25487
    TJ25487 Posts: 1,501
    BennyLaRue said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    As a parent of teenage girls (like Ed) I wondered if "fire things" referred to vaping.  I know that's a stretch but teenage boys do tend to focus on 

    1. Their dicks
    2. Pics of themselves
    3. Vaping

    of course that is if the lyrics are "dicks and pics and fire things"
    I see "boys" here as just a synonym for the entire male gender, not just young men. This particular line (which officially is "dix and fix and fire things") seems to be about toxic masculinity and male stereotypes, of which guns are a big part. It makes the most sense given the theme of the song but what seals it is at the end of Mach III, Ed makes a gun motion with his hand while he sings the line.
    Winner winner chicken dinner on this! Great job Benny. I think you have cracked the Ed code! 
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,189
    BennyLaRue said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    As a parent of teenage girls (like Ed) I wondered if "fire things" referred to vaping.  I know that's a stretch but teenage boys do tend to focus on 

    1. Their dicks
    2. Pics of themselves
    3. Vaping

    of course that is if the lyrics are "dicks and pics and fire things"
    I see "boys" here as just a synonym for the entire male gender, not just young men. This particular line (which officially is "dix and fix and fire things") seems to be about toxic masculinity and male stereotypes, of which guns are a big part. It makes the most sense given the theme of the song but what seals it is at the end of Mach III, Ed makes a gun motion with his hand while he sings the line.
    nice....makes sense
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    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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  • RhinoJam
    RhinoJam Raleighwood Posts: 596
    I think it would have been nice if the lyrics would have progressed more in the "Grow their dicks and fix and file things"

    Grow their wits and hit and fire things
    Grow their tricks and mix and admire things
    Grow their dicks and fix and file things

    or some other variation on the lyrics... it seems like other parts of the story/song progress, but that lyric is on repeat and could have more impact if it were in the last iteration of it... 

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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    TJ25487 said:
    BennyLaRue said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    As a parent of teenage girls (like Ed) I wondered if "fire things" referred to vaping.  I know that's a stretch but teenage boys do tend to focus on 

    1. Their dicks
    2. Pics of themselves
    3. Vaping

    of course that is if the lyrics are "dicks and pics and fire things"
    I see "boys" here as just a synonym for the entire male gender, not just young men. This particular line (which officially is "dix and fix and fire things") seems to be about toxic masculinity and male stereotypes, of which guns are a big part. It makes the most sense given the theme of the song but what seals it is at the end of Mach III, Ed makes a gun motion with his hand while he sings the line.
    Winner winner chicken dinner on this! Great job Benny. I think you have cracked the Ed code! 
    Finally, I see the gun motion you are referring to at the end of the song. For the longest time, I could only see the "positive, positive!" promise of the cross your heart and gun motion.
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • BloodMeridian80
    BloodMeridian80 Seattle Posts: 715
    Vedd Hedd said:
    This sort of confirms its about relationships.  Even tho somehow that was in question before?
    Yes, relationships, but what relationships? Person to person, humanity to the planet, one’s actions to one’s motivations...etc. 

    All could be correct. It’s the malleability of Ed’s lyrics that are fantastic and why it attracts a diverse fan base. Love these.

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