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hearing this song live is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by VEDHEAD27
AMEN KADDI!!!

I finally got to witness this groove at the Benaroya show and GOOD LORD!!!! THIS SONG IS SOOOOO DAMN SEXY!!!

*grinds everything in site*

LOL!

Really though! I LOVE IT! And acoustic? On top of the actual acoustics in that place?! Surround sound?! That intro and how the song just eases into YOU. MAN! Everyone was feeling it. Clappin away. It was GORGEOUS!

This song had me in TEARS! It just felt so damn good it made me cry. haha.

THANK YOU PEARL JAM

GO STONEY! GO!



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Wow, Lyd!! You said that PERFECTLY!!!! I second that

*cheers for Stoney*

PJ Lovin',
Jessie
of_the_girl

GREAT song. SO glad I got this as an opener in SA...woooooohooo!! Can't get enough of this song and I hope they play it more.

just listened to jones beach 8/24.... great opening!!!!!! really changed my feelings about this song

how he makes his getaway....

I absolutely love the Boston III version. It's so beautiful.

amazing song

I was explaining to my wife how much I'd LOVE to make a video to this song. I went so far as to do a line-for-line, cut-for-cut description of it.

SETTING - Nighttime, city street<open> - you see MAN driving in his BMW/MERCEDES with a determined look on his face
CUT TO outside car, pulling into parking lot of a strip club. MAN takes a sip of wine or booze, then gets out and walks into strip club, makes his way to the front, sits down and watches.
He deals ‘em off, off the top, ties ‘em off
CUT TO man thumbing through a thick roll of $100 bills, camera pans up to him counting money
Fills it up with his past, gets carried away
QUICK FLASH of still photo of man and traditional American Family
Half his life, a hand-me-down, wasted away
FLASH between PHOTO and scenes of them arguing. Camera quickly zooms to her eyes and
He fills it up with the love of a girl
ZOOM OUT from eyes to reveal a stripper, (played by the same woman). Stripper dances, cut back and forth to show the man staring at her longingly, almost to tears

He left it alone, drilled the pain with money to buy
MAN reaches down, grabs a bill, and stuffs it in her garter. STRIPPER continues dancing.

How he makes his getaway
How he makes his getaway
Chorus has cuts of him kissing and making love to his wife intercut with the stripper, making the two seem very similar. Cuts of WIFE go in the more lull sections of the music, and the stripper shows up during the 'dirty' lead-guitar
fast fade to black

He chose a path, heavy the fall, quarter to four
Repeating same scene as opening here, quickly progressing through the parking and entering the bar. Man and stripper are both wearing different clothes; signifies it being a different day, driving home that it's something he does often. Stripper is dancing for him and he goes to grab a bill, but drops it

Fills his mind with the thought of a girl
At this point, he stands up, looks her dead in the eye, and kisses her wildly, passionately. She seems to enjoy it

How he makes his getaway
The two of them are kissing and grinding together, clumsily making it from the bar to the parking lot
How he makes his getaway
she sits on the hood and lies back, pulling her on top of him, still kissing
How he makes his getaway
they get in the car, and she's all over him, kissing his neck
Getaway
scene continues, with cuts from the car driving back to the steamy interior. They arrive at the man's apartment, make their way to the door, still being frisky. She pushes him up against the door, and you see him sink into her kiss.. there are very short, quick flashes of the earlier flashes of his wife every few seconds. He turns around unlocks the door, and just as the lead guitar winds down, the camera pulls back... you see him grab her by the waist and spin her around in front of him, so that he's now facing the doorway. QUICK CUT to INSIDE APARTMENT. You see the man's lone sillouhette in the doorway. He turns on the light switch, revealing little more than a black easy chair, a coffee table, and TV.. no decorations, very bland. CUT TO outside, stripper spins back around behind him and pushes him through the doorway, then follows him inside. Camera moves into where the door would be, and you see her pushing him to the easy chair, leaning down to kiss him again, then running to the door and slamming it right at the camera... camera moves to nearby window, watching through curtains.. you see her from behind pull off her top, then cut back to man's face.. look of rapture and excitement, then you see his wife smiling at him, and then slow pull back and you see him simply sitting in the chair, alone. FADE OUT with music.

Too bad they don't do videos. :(

too bad in deed ... you got some ideas floating there

It was so great to see them play this song at Boston III, in addition to Breath which came later. Breath has to be one of m y favorites.

It's played at about the same tempo as the "Ten" cut of "Even Flow", but making use of minor chord sequences and melodies (in Eminor, actually). The song's lyrics are more imagistic that straightforwardly narrative, but on my level of interpretation (right or wrong) it's about a very young woman who, in a small town "has little chance to make good".... It's not obvious from the lyrics, but it reads to me to be about the fact that this young woman is a single mom and needs to make an escape from her surroundings. There's a slow interlude with pounding drums, where the young woman becomes the narrator, singing a lullaby to her child, "Hush now baby, don't you cry/you're my little apple pie"...because the song is in a fairly rocky kind of mood the sense of the young woman's plight and desperation come over. Ed sings it well.

It sounds to me a little like "Mamasan" in the way it was recorded, insofar as I bet that Stone or Jeff worked out the music and Ed put the lyrics over it.

It's a real piece of PJ history which I like, because people often hear "Ten" in terms of a finished product that just hit everyone's public consciousness in complete form. Here we hear a work in progress, at that initial stage: we can hear and the way PJ work very hard to be the exceptional band they are.