Thumbing My Way

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  • Red Ledbetter
    Red Ledbetter Posts: 35
    I hear this song every single day. It's so amazing. So well written, with so many amazing visions.

    Absolutely of Pearl Jam's 5 best songs ever.
    Michael

    be strong. be proud. be you.

    - life comes from within your heart and desire -
  • obiwon76
    obiwon76 Posts: 568
    Not sure if this has ever been done before at a PJ show, but imagine if this happened during an encore:


    Man Of The Hour, Thumbing My Way, Off He Goes, Gone....

    There is some connection with these songs, can't put my finger on it...
    San Fran 92, San Fran 93, Berkeley 93, Indio 93, Fairfax 94, DC 95, San Fran 95, DC 95, Va Beach 98, Columbia 98, Dc 98, Va Beach 00, Columbia 00, Philly 03, Bristow 03, Chicago 06, Chicago 06, Dc 06, DC 08
  • ShE.dREAmS.in.CoLOr
    ShE.dREAmS.in.CoLOr Posts: 341
    obiwon76 wrote:
    This is the type of a song where I will purchase an entire show just for this song.
    yep! i feel the same way. i use to listen to this song a lot when a former boyfriend and i broke (how cliche of me, haha) and that line where he says:

    "I can't be free with what's locked inside of me...
    If there was a key, you took it in your hands."

    fit exactly what i was feeling at the time. made me cry everytime i heard it. i was like "yeah that's exactly how I feel too!" like someone totally understood me. haha. ahhh i love this song!! :)
    1998 : 9/19
    2000 : 9/4
    2003 : 7/1
    2006 : 5/30
    2007 : 8/5
    2008 : 6/17; 6/19; 6/20; 6/22; 6/24; 6/25; 8/16 (EV); 8/21 (EV); 8/22 (EV)
    2009 : 6/11 (EV); 6/12 (EV); 8/23; 8/24; 10/27; 10/28; 10/30; 10/31
    2010 : 5/13
    2012 : 9/2; 9/21; 11/27 (EV); 11/28 (EV)
  • obiwon76
    obiwon76 Posts: 568
    I think anyone who likes this song probably has gone through a break-up or have a loved one leave, or you left a loved one. It's the only way that I can relate to the lyrics, I put myself into the picture of the character that is being described in the song. It hits home.
    San Fran 92, San Fran 93, Berkeley 93, Indio 93, Fairfax 94, DC 95, San Fran 95, DC 95, Va Beach 98, Columbia 98, Dc 98, Va Beach 00, Columbia 00, Philly 03, Bristow 03, Chicago 06, Chicago 06, Dc 06, DC 08
  • comebackwoman
    comebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    This song makes my heart ache a little. It's beautiful. My favorite lines:

    "All the rusted sign we ignore throughout our lives
    Choosing the shiny ones instead"
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
  • obiwon76
    obiwon76 Posts: 568
    Ed played a solo version at the first Adelaide show, I didn't realize how beautiful it was solo until hearing that version.
    San Fran 92, San Fran 93, Berkeley 93, Indio 93, Fairfax 94, DC 95, San Fran 95, DC 95, Va Beach 98, Columbia 98, Dc 98, Va Beach 00, Columbia 00, Philly 03, Bristow 03, Chicago 06, Chicago 06, Dc 06, DC 08
  • bharQ
    bharQ Posts: 1,201
    Calgary '05 best version :)
    09/04/05 - Calgary, AB
    08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    It is amazing how many songs on this album have amazing lyrics.

    It is one of the many. I like it alot.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    "there's no wrong or right.......But I'm sure there's good and bad"

    It's a way to look at life and get some bearings on the world. It's so much easier to decide whether something's good or bad rather than right or wrong.

    Love taking the rusty signs and gravel roads whenever I'm off camping, daytripping. It's the only way to go.
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,380
    This song belongs in the Porch forum. Such sad news from so many people recently. Of course in AET there's engagements, pregnancies, and weddings. Is that what Thumbing My Way is all about? After all this loss to appreciate the milestones of life however someone chooses his/her milestones? Somehow as I write it, though, the sentiment seems cliche. Eddie did a good job.

    People so young are dying. Even though I don't want to die, and I'm sure they didn't either, it just doesn't seem fair that the young die before the old. I would like to ask my one living grandparent her thoughts on this, but I only talk to her every 5 years, and it's usually at her birthday party. Not a time to talk how the young die, eh?

    Again, this song makes me think of my grandpa, too. Hey grandpa, what are you up to? You have a celestial cake you want to share with me?
    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
  • obiwon76
    obiwon76 Posts: 568
    I think what draws me to the music is for each song there is this undertone meaning that each person can associate with. "Light Years" could be losing someone way before their time and how unfair it is. "Thumbing" could mean the same thing, depends on how the listener interprets it. That is why I love this band for providing me outlets to let things out and dig deeper into the meaning of my life and the strange occurances I must deal with.

    Nobody wishes for death, but I remember a line from one of my favorite TV shows, "Six feet Under".

    "Why is there death?"

    "Cause with death comes new life"...
    San Fran 92, San Fran 93, Berkeley 93, Indio 93, Fairfax 94, DC 95, San Fran 95, DC 95, Va Beach 98, Columbia 98, Dc 98, Va Beach 00, Columbia 00, Philly 03, Bristow 03, Chicago 06, Chicago 06, Dc 06, DC 08
  • poto101
    poto101 Posts: 446
    hate to kill your guys' ideas (i always thought the same aswell), but isnt this about his barber who died of HIV or something????

    i coulda sworn i heard this story a long while back.
    It's all happening....

    East Troy 2003
    Chicago x2, Summerfest x2, 2006
    Chicago THE VIC, Lollapalooza, 2007
    bonnaROOOOOOO 2008
    Chicago x2 2009

    (EV chicago 2008 night 2)
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,380
    poto101 wrote:
    hate to kill your guys' ideas (i always thought the same aswell), but isnt this about his barber who died of HIV or something????

    i coulda sworn i heard this story a long while back.
    I think it is about someone who knew who died of HIV. However, it always reminds me of my grandpa because death is involved, and one day I expect to see him on the road, you know.

    Also, I thought the word "dad" was in there. Wasn't in the original lyrics?
    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
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    sebaarg88 wrote:
    No matter how cold the winter, there's a springtime ahead
    That is such an amazing line to me. It's very simple yet so powerful.

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