The Mamasan Trilogy

Will
Will Posts: 41
edited January 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
Alive - Once - Footsteps

I've been listening to these three tracks over and over. I can fit Alive and Once perfectly, but I'm having trouble with Footsteps. This guy's obviously been through hell, as we can work out through the first two songs, but I can't grasp that he's addressing his mother. It seems like too much of a girlfriend situation. Can anyone give me any pointers!?
... still Alive...
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  • Eddie_Vedder_83
    Eddie_Vedder_83 Posts: 281
    Alive is partially about incest, everything after the first verse (except the chorus of course lol) is fiction) and in Footsteps he is on death row
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  • sbhoju
    sbhoju Posts: 13
    Footsteps is the protagonist doing a bit of self-analysis... plus he's making ti very clear where he wants the blame to lie. Written very much in hindsight.

    "Did what i had to do. If there was a reason it was you" -- Pretty clear. Taling about the crimes he'd committed in 'Once' and how the blame lies with the mother and the fact that she took his innocence in 'Alive'.

    "Just let me continue to blame you." -- He refuses to accept blame for his won actions.

    "Footsteps in the hall" -- A prison guard perhaps? Execution imminent?

    All the times "It was you" is wailed... he's pointing the finger. His mother, who brought about the whole Oedipus Rex situation, is the one who brought about his crimes.
    Seriously, just drop the leash already!
  • Will
    Will Posts: 41
    Ahh cool. Cheers guys.
    ... still Alive...
  • VMGACg
    VMGACg Posts: 135
    alive - bad upbringing - bad relationships with mother and stepfather
    once - he becomes a delinquent and lashes out at everyone
    footsteps - his childhood catches up wit hhim and leaves him on death row and i guess its as hes walking down the linoleum floor to be executed.
    I am questioning my education
  • PJaholic
    PJaholic Posts: 81
    yeah, footsteps is the guys last words as he is about to be executed.
    "i'm lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side"
  • emerge
    emerge Posts: 22
    I've been wondering where I could find the song Footsteps.

    Has he changed the title or what?

    (Me = Noob)
  • PJaholic
    PJaholic Posts: 81
    its on the Jeremy cd single or more recently on Lost Dogs
    "i'm lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side"
  • emerge
    emerge Posts: 22
    What does Mamasan mean by the way? Or where does it come from?

    Is it a madeup word? Any special meaning?
  • St. Nick
    St. Nick Posts: 72
    emerge wrote:
    What does Mamasan mean by the way? Or where does it come from?

    Is it a madeup word? Any special meaning?

    It looks like mama - son which kinda where the songs are about.
  • AxlUlrich
    AxlUlrich Posts: 12,652
    i always thought a mamasan is someone in charge of whores..kinda like a female pimp :D
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  • a country doctor
    a country doctor Posts: 145
    hihi

    probably mama&son, mama and sOn you know?

    prbably he somebody couldn't read his a and thought it was o
    stone:hey eddie, are you workin on a new song?
    ed: umm yes
    stone: let me see you sheet (stoney can't read it) mamasan? huh? nice name

    and ed thought it was good, so he kept it and never told stone about his mistake, and on the 7th day he took a drop today, you know time to emancipate, no in fact he took a rest
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