Wash

dreamncolor
dreamncolor Posts: 380
edited July 2008 in Words and Music...Communication
one of the saddest, heartfelt...yet sexiest of pj songs.......such a total favorite that gets me every time.


Wash

Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste.
Smiling eyes before me and tears from my face.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

Sin for sale. Buying just a need. O who planted all the devils seeds?
And what's the truth? And the truth that lies at home.
It's on the inside and I can't get it off. Yeah.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

What's clean is pure. But hey, I'm white on the outside. Though I stray.
What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow. Bring it back someway.
Bring it back, back, back... to the clean form. To the pure form.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love.
Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love. Yeah
Wash my ...wash my...wash my love....yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh




i loooovvvvveeddd that they opened the last show of the north american tour at pnc arts center in 2003 with this tune - what an opener!!!
i'll ride the wave where it takes me
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  • PJammin'
    PJammin' Posts: 1,913
    my favorite version is the one off of Lost Dogs. the ending is simply awesome.
    I died. I died and you just stood there. I died and you watched. I died and you walked by and said no. I'm dead.
  • i forget
    i forget Posts: 281
    This song is incredible. Makes me melt. Can't wait to experience it live...
  • Righteous Jammer
    Righteous Jammer Posts: 509
    The end of this song gives me chills everytime I hear it!!
    It doesnt hurt.... when I bleed
    but memories...they eat me
    I've seen it all before,...
    bring it on cause I'm no victim.
    -Ghost
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    a poet wrote:
    The end of this song gives me chills everytime I hear it!!

    yes!!! when ed gets all snarling in his voice...such emotion....amazing........
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • spnoone
    spnoone Posts: 633
    first song i ever heard em play live. wash, along with i've got a feeling, will always be special to me. mike gave me a copy of the alive single after a show in ithaca and i listened to those 3 songs, totally lost, totally elated for the whole 4 hour drive back to rochester that night (for people with a sense of direction or, ya know, a map, it should take about 2 hours.) and i still cant warm up to the lost dogs mix because i'm so attached to that 1st version.
  • heave
    heave Posts: 159
    has anyone heard the punked-up version of the song they performed new year's eve a long time ago??? that version was pretty good!
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Anyone ever wonder if there is an anti-interracial-coupling thing going on here? see:

    I'm white on the outside, though I stray (narrator in song hooks up with black girl) and then:

    back to the clean form, to the pure form. wash my love.




    just always seemed damn close to a condemnation of mixing the races. not that it would bother me: I don't necessarily judge an artist by the thematic or idealogical content of their art, only how well they pull it off, especially in a situation like this, where the narrator may very well not be Ed.
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  • Edistheman
    Edistheman Posts: 4
    This is def. one of my favorite tracks on Lost Dogs. I have yet to hear it live, but I cannot wait. The music makes me want to play in the rain...

    "oh please let it rain today, this city is so filthy, like my minds and ways..."

    "WASH MY LOVE..YAH"
    - Keep on rockin' in the free world
    * Increase the peace *
    - Ashleigh
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Edistheman wrote:
    this city is so filthy, like my minds and ways..."


    like my mind in ways
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  • vedhead011
    vedhead011 Posts: 300
    grooveamatic wrote:
    Anyone ever wonder if there is an anti-interracial-coupling thing going on here? see:

    I'm white on the outside, though I stray (narrator in song hooks up with black girl) and then:

    back to the clean form, to the pure form. wash my love.




    just always seemed damn close to a condemnation of mixing the races. not that it would bother me: I don't necessarily judge an artist by the thematic or idealogical content of their art, only how well they pull it off, especially in a situation like this, where the narrator may very well not be Ed.


    Just because those are the words being presented doesn't mean that that is what the person is saying is right. It could mean that society labels inter-racial love as un-clean and impure. but by depicting it as love, something natural, saying that it is right, leads to the opposite of society being the one who is wrong for condemning it.
    AskPearlJam: PearlJama101-guest says: Who's idea was it for Eddie to play banjo on "Soon Forget"?
    Eddie: I don't know whose idea it was but it was turned down.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Look at it from a different perspective, it could be someone with HIV trying to hide it from new lovers, white as in snow white is a metaphor in some books for purity, so the main character is trying to appear as without HIV, so more disease "devil's seed" can be sown. I haven't heard this yet, now I'm intrigued, and I'm sure my interpretation will change tomorrow.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    vedhead011 wrote:
    Just because those are the words being presented doesn't mean that that is what the person is saying is right. It could mean that society labels inter-racial love as un-clean and impure. but by depicting it as love, something natural, saying that it is right, leads to the opposite of society being the one who is wrong for condemning it.

    very nice point. thank you.
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  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Bibliobella wrote:
    Look at it from a different perspective, it could be someone with HIV trying to hide it from new lovers, white as in snow white is a metaphor in some books for purity, so the main character is trying to appear as without HIV, so more disease "devil's seed" can be sown. I haven't heard this yet, now I'm intrigued, and I'm sure my interpretation will change tomorrow.

    Nicely done. Nice reminder that there is always another way to look at anything, especially a work of art. Cool.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    You say your down on your luck...
    and you say its a long way up...
    And when your really down and out
    and you feel like there's no way out
    let go...
    ...don't care about what they say...
    ...live and die anyway...
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    i've always taken it to mean...cheating on a significant other...that no matter what...you cannot escpae what you have done. every time i read through the lyrics...i believe that more and more. that said - tis the beauty of music - we all get different things from it. tis a beautifully tragic song in my minds eye.....terribly sexy too.....unbelievable. :)
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • asdfgzxcvb
    asdfgzxcvb Posts: 1
    Commy wrote:
    It has to do with a taboo. Children, relatives, something of that nature. Wanting that in a sexual context could be construed as dirty. Hence the need to 'Wash my love'.
    Oh please let it rain today...
    this city...so filthy...
    like my mind in ways...
    Wash my love

    So, you're saying that Eddie fantasizes about incest and kiddie porn?
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    asdfgzxcvb wrote:
    So, you're saying that Eddie fantasizes about incest and kiddie porn?

    the narrator in a song is not always the singer. think about Daughter.
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  • 3sheets
    3sheets Posts: 290
    don't care for this song except the 12/31/92 show when they opened with a very fast, crunchy version of it. best version ever. that's how they should play it when they do
    Live Free or Die!
  • dreamncolor
    dreamncolor Posts: 380
    what's clean is pure, but hey, i'm white on the outside, though i stray
    what she don't know today, might kill us both tomorrow, bring it back some way
    bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form


    to me all of this means...even if you are never *caught*...you know you cheated and wronged your partner.........and how you wish you could bring it back to how it once was. to me - this song is very straightforward lyrically. could be just me though. :p
    i'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • grooveamatic
    grooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    dreamncolor wrote:
    what's clean is pure, but hey, i'm white on the outside, though i stray
    what she don't know today, might kill us both tomorrow, bring it back some way
    bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form


    to me all of this means...even if you are never *caught*...you know you cheated and wronged your partner.........and how you wish you could bring it back to how it once was. to me - this song is very straightforward lyrically. could be just me though. :p


    I respect your opinion, but I think it's anything but straightforward. I think it's a puzzle.
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