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  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    mrs potter wrote:
    I think of the song as someone who lost a loved one long ago and has now,
    somehow, reconnected. They have saved each other, he more than her.......because of love.
    They have found the answer ( "the missing links") and that's all they need.
    Love, real love, is something extraordinary. Surpasses anything else here on earth. Surpasses space and time. Sometimes it takes a fall to realize that.

    I am struggling with the meaning of this song..

    the war reference at the end seems random.. and Eddie's lyrics are never random.. help me pull this songs meaning together
  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    So the first time I listened to the new album, the first 5 songs just kind of flew by and all ran together (although they're all completely awesome, don't get me wrong). Then Parachutes came on, and I just completely stopped what I was doing. It is absolutely gorgeous and probably my favorite song of the album. I felt such a rush of euphoria the first time I listened to it, and it still gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
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  • pearlmutt
    pearlmutt Posts: 392
    the song very just by coincidence chronicles the relationship of me and my husband. the album came out on his birthday and it means sososososo much to us that the same day we saw our baby for the first time (the ultrasound) we also bought the album . . . may 2nd.

    but we love this band so personally for how much their songs have touched us.

    when my husband was in the navy riot act came out, and "i am mine" was in his head the entire time he decided to leave. september 11th had happened, he had to move with the ship, and we knew it was just a matter of time before they'd start deploying people. he came home when he got the chance and did not go back . . . his friend who joined two weeks after was not allowed out and went to iraq.

    the years we've spent waiting and hoping that the military would not call him back to finish his inactive duty has been at times terrible. every time military personnel called our home, i thought i'd pass out.

    on the twelth of may this year he was honorably discharged. so parachutes very literally reminds me of all this time for us after the decision we made with "i am mine"

    thanks so much pearl jam . . . we love you!

    Why deny all the troubles when combined
    With the missing link it don't feel like home now

    That your gone all the trouble suddenly explained infinitum
    You're always wishing and never here at home

    You all the dreams we shared and
    Lights we turned on
    But the house is getting dark

    And I don't want to know your plans
    But together share the dawn
    And I won't need nothing else
    Cause when we're dead
    We would've had it all

    And I would've fallen from the sky to you
    Parachutes have opened now

    Heaven knows if there's a ceiling
    Gone so low with the kneeling
    Please know that
    That I've got all the friends I need and
    Before my light goes out
    As the doors are closing now

    And far away will be my home
    And the grass beside them blown
    But I don't need
    Further back and forth, a wave will break on me today

    And love
    Wish the world could glow again with love
    One can't seem to have enough

    And war
    Break the sky and tell me what it's for
    Travelling on my own

    And love
    What a different life
  • prljmfan92502
    prljmfan92502 Posts: 144
    It is one of the most beautiful pj songs to date. I just wish i could hear it live. I know i would be crying!!
  • oktacoma
    oktacoma Posts: 335
    Abuskedti wrote:
    I am struggling with the meaning of this song..

    the war reference at the end seems random.. and Eddie's lyrics are never random.. help me pull this songs meaning together
    Someone else suggested that there is a theme to this album and it is about a soldier. I could definitely see that and if so, this may be about a soldier at war and his/her love for someone. Absolutely beautiful and soothing song.
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    played live for the first time tonight. sheer beauty :)
  • Ulalume
    Ulalume Posts: 48
    Damn, this song gets more personal and beautiful everytime I listen to it. I didn't pay attention when I first heard it, until someone very much loved by me posted the lyrics to it on another MB. I haven't been able to stop listening to it. I was so pissed that it wasn't played at the first Chicago show. Oh well, at least they did "Come Back," another favorite of mine.
    How dark a woe! yet how sublime a hope!
    How silently serene a sea of pride!
    How daring an ambition! yet how deep--
    How fathomless a capacity for love!
  • Jam-fan
    Jam-fan Posts: 70
    ahhh Parachutes: another classic Stone song

    i love the quick little transition in the guitar, it fits the lyrics perfectly
    words can't begin to describe how i feel about this song, i can't help but quit whatever i'm doing just to hear it
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i just can't enough of this song. it really touches my heart.
  • armyreserve
    armyreserve Posts: 209
    Parachutes is very Beatle-esque to me! What a great song!
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  • VEDHEAD27
    VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    VEDHEAD27 wrote:
    Yesterday I started getting this sinking feeling in my tummy and a rush of goosebumps here and there....I feel it....I mean I really feel it.....THEY ARE ABOUT TO PREMIRE THIS IN BOSTONE(the one I'm especially feeling) OR CAMDEN! AHHHHHH!!! I really, really feel it. HOLY SHIT! What's gonna happen to me B??? :eek: Please say some prayers for me you guys. :eek:



    :eek: :o :eek:

    AHHHH!!! THEY PLAYED IT AT BOTH shows! BOTH!??? AND premired in BOSTONE??? *just got chills*

    This song live???? I can't even get into it right now.........imagine everything we love about it x a million......no, it's beyond anything we can possibly imagine. Nothing can prepare you guys for this. WOOOW! :o *slaps self* Was this for real????? I am still in euphoric shock. No joke. BOSTONE II was THE SHOW and having it premire there??? My good god. It was perfect. I couldn't believe it was happening. It was too fuckin beautiful for words. Ed's voice is dead on!!! To hear the sweet ass/romantic ass words sung directly into your ears, and to feel the beeeautiful voice rise and fall and this *I'm week in the knees* gorgeous guitar humming through you?!?! :o Oooh my god! Just when you think you can't possibly love a song anymore deeply than you already do.....whew! Just when you think the beauty couldn't possibly be anymore overwhelming if it tried!? DAMN! As soon as he got to the ending part I lost it....tears of severe ectasy and "this is WAY TOO FRICKIN GORGEOUS I'm about to puke"/"is this really happening" tears started running down my face. *heart caves in* It was too much to bear. My body was forced to sway and I put my arms up beside me during "a wave will break on me" Just drinking up every drop of this sweetness. Experiencing the entire song live felt like one giant wave breaking on me. I really can't even explain it right. I wish I could but you'll know what I mean soon enough. :)

    I honestly cannot wait until you all get to experience this. It's pure bliss. Ecstasy to the extreme. The after effects of this song were just as intense. Leaves you completely light headed and elevated....as if a PARACHUTE has opened up in the venue and you're just floating all around. :o Once again, everything about this one of a kind beauty is BRILLIANT!!!!

    {{{THANK YOU DREAM TEAM!!!}}}

    What a dream this heaven sent baby is and what a DREAM COME TRUE experencing it live was! Jesus!


    {{{THANK YOU PEARL JAM!!!}}}
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i am SO happy you got this lydia! just hearing it over the phone in boston brought me to tears, i can't even begin to imagine being in the building!!

    i'm hoping to hear it when they come around to the west for sure....sounded beautiful from what i heard!
  • Jam-fan
    Jam-fan Posts: 70
    wow, i am unbelievably jealous

    any bootlegs of it out there?
  • MercurySilver
    MercurySilver Posts: 7
    When I first got this album 'bout a month ago, when I got to this song, I literally played it about four times in a row. In my truck, driving down the road... I think I was just a bit overwhelmed and just kept hitting the back arrow.

    Comming out of a bad brake up, I think it was just a bit more than I could handle. It's now in my head 24/7. Almost to the point where I need to smash my head in with a brick. I walk around work all day singing and humming it and driving my friends (not PJ fans) crazy.

    I was so pleased to be in Boston on the 25th when they played it live for the very first time EVER!

    I litterally wept...

    (previous post)

    Hello Jammers!

    I've been trying to post my views of the show for days now but had some problems setting up my account.

    Let me first start by saying that I am a true PJ vet.

    I have seen PJ at least once (usually more) every time they have played in the Boston area since Lallapalooza II back in 1991.

    That's right... Ninety F%$#ing One!

    I flew to Las Vegas in October of 2000 for their 10th B-Day show too! Which, as I'm sure you can imagine, was increadably touching and very emotional and was the greatest performance I have ever seen by any band - And I have seen many... That was - until May 25th at the Boston Garden.

    I don't know what it was... I was there the night before too and it didn't seem to compare. As many have said; I believe BI was simply a warm-up... a soundcheck, if you will, to BII. The band just seemed to be in a great, excited and loving mood - coming on almost 20 minutes early and rocking 'till the roof was about to cave in. The croud was electric. The set was dream-like and could not have been planned better (if at all).

    It seemed as though the whole second encore was shot from the hip with Ed just jumping around between songs grasping his brotheren and calling audables. Just going with his gut. It was truly beautiful.

    They could have played for ten hours if it could be allowed and the crowd would have been right there with them the whole time.

    The PJ fan base is a wonderful phenominon. Not seen since the likes of The Dead but much cooler and better smelling.

    Anyway, I just wanted to relate this to the younger fans who were there (and there seem to be many - or I just may be getting old) who believe that they saw a true moment in Pearl Jam history and to let them know that they had indeed. Coming from a long-time PJ fan from even before the conception of PJ - (I'm talkin' MoLoBo Yo! I was following Stone and Jeff from even before Ed!) And I'm here to testify. Boston II was like going to church and having God Almighty Herself show up to rock the altar!

    Peace and Love to all of you! I'll see you the next time in Boston!

    -Mercury
  • paintEDbig
    paintEDbig Posts: 11
    "And love,... what a different life
    Had I not found this love with you"


    ----captures everything I feel about my wife, she was, is and will be forever be my parachute...
    Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

    Calvin to Hobbes
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i just love reading all these :)
  • thefirmestpath
    thefirmestpath Posts: 21
    Hey chiqui-

    You were the first person I ever responded to on this board a couple of weeks ago. 'Member?

    Just wanted you to know that I think your little song here is the most beautiful piece that Stone and Ed have written together. I really can't think of anything PJ that compares to it- acoustically. This is absolutely the best "slow" song to date by these guys. There's just something about Stone with an acoustic...

    Eds lyrics are perfect.
  • redvedder
    redvedder Posts: 56
    Hearing Parachutes live at the Camden II show was amazing. At the end of the song, I turned to my best friend and repeated the last line (see my signature! :) ) and said, "Isn't that beautiful?!" Needless to say, she asked her husband to play the song SEVERAL times on our car ride home...i did not mind at all though. That was my favorite song on the new cd from the first time I played it.
    "Oh dear dad, can you see me now? I am myself, like you somehow."


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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    thefirmestpath wrote:
    Hey chiqui-

    You were the first person I ever responded to on this board a couple of weeks ago. 'Member?

    Just wanted you to know that I think your little song here is the most beautiful piece that Stone and Ed have written together. I really can't think of anything PJ that compares to it- acoustically. This is absolutely the best "slow" song to date by these guys. There's just something about Stone with an acoustic...

    Eds lyrics are perfect.
    hey there, sure i remember ya :) good to see you!

    i wish this was "my" song!! heehee

    but yeah, ed and stone....what a combination. the melody along with the words....unadulterated magic.

    i am dying, aching, hoping to get this song at any of the shows i attend....i'm gonna be a huge mess. if you hear of someone exploding at any of the SF or gorge shows if they play this....you guys will know who it is :o haha

    i enjoy seeing how others here are affected by this song as much as i am....makes me feel good to see others 'get it'!
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    "what a different life had i not found this love with you"

    preaching truth! just revisiting this beauty :) i can't wait to hear this in person!!!

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