Untitled 'I'm Still Here'

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  • fran9480
    fran9480 Posts: 53
    Sometimes when I write things that are deeply personal I will shift a detail or two to lessen the ties to the author.

    I was thinking that when Ed says "24 years old" he may actually be talking about Beth, who at the time they broke up could have been 34 years old.

    Possible?
  • eastvillage
    eastvillage Posts: 6
    i've never heard it, but it reads like beautiful poetry and i'd LOVE to listen.
    thanks! :)
  • untitled
    untitled Posts: 86
    eastvillage wrote:
    can some one pm me a copy of this song?

    thanks! :)

    me too please please please (pm the copy of this song)
    just wanted to dance to bad music
    drive bad cars
    watch bad t.v.
  • fran9480
    fran9480 Posts: 53
    The thing I have always enjoyed most about it is its kind of "anti-poetic" stance. There are a few truly magical lines, but for the most part, it's just this unabashedly raw, audio of the inside of Ed's mind...and therein lies the magic.
  • untitled
    untitled Posts: 86
    fran9480 wrote:
    ..but for the most part, it's just this unabashedly raw, audio of the inside of Ed's mind...and therein lies the magic.

    i couldn't have said better
    simple things are always so beautiful
    just wanted to dance to bad music
    drive bad cars
    watch bad t.v.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    untitled wrote:
    me too please please please (pm the copy of this song)
    I PM'd you.
  • untitled
    untitled Posts: 86
    aNiMaL wrote:
    I PM'd you.

    i PM'd you too :D
    just wanted to dance to bad music
    drive bad cars
    watch bad t.v.
  • untitled
    untitled Posts: 86
    heard the song for the first time few minutes ago and am listening to it right now as well. goose-flesh from the combination of that amazingly truthful and emotional lyric with the low and sad and expressive ed's voice. and his intonations here! intonations matter the most. so very beautiful.
    just wanted to dance to bad music
    drive bad cars
    watch bad t.v.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    I think a lot of the words bring the reader to the moment the protagonist feels them, and it flows well like a story, but

    I swear I died inside that night

    Is so cliche, it almost ruins the words for me. He was on such a roll, the protagonist thinking a certain way that flowed, and then this bombshell. Then afterwards it's redeemed with more in the moment stuff, but really that line . . . patoowie.
    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
  • totaledhead
    totaledhead Posts: 197
    can someone please send me a copy of it, ive been waiting to hear it for months!!

    thanks a million

    XxX

    P@M

    EDIT: i got a copy thanks Ben :D
  • Blockhead
    Blockhead Posts: 1,538
    Can someone PM me the song, thanks
  • fran9480
    fran9480 Posts: 53
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I think a lot of the words bring the reader to the moment the protagonist feels them, and it flows well like a story, but

    I swear I died inside that night

    Is so cliche, it almost ruins the words for me. He was on such a roll, the protagonist thinking a certain way that flowed, and then this bombshell. Then afterwards it's redeemed with more in the moment stuff, but really that line . . . patoowie.


    I agree with you, yes, very cliche. Buuut, and this is a gastronic but here, the way he says it, I think for the first time I actually heard someone say that and truly believed it. That's the difference for me. Same thing goes for "darlin' join the club", you can just hear the confusion.
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    HeidiJam wrote:
    Can someone PM me the song, thanks
    I PM'd you. :)
  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    I think a lot of the words bring the reader to the moment the protagonist feels them, and it flows well like a story, but

    I swear I died inside that night

    Is so cliche, it almost ruins the words for me. He was on such a roll, the protagonist thinking a certain way that flowed, and then this bombshell. Then afterwards it's redeemed with more in the moment stuff, but really that line . . . patoowie.
    Wow, Ms. Haiku, I have to respectfully dissagree with your feeling on this song. Have you actually listened to the song, or just read the lyrics?
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Wow, Ms. Haiku, I have to respectfully dissagree with your feeling on this song. Have you actually listened to the song, or just read the lyrics?
    I've just read the lyrics you posted, and I have only read the reviews. Never heard it.
    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
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    Ooops extra post, sorry.
    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
  • anarchist_grunger
    anarchist_grunger Posts: 161
    i absolutely love that song...

    "So I imagine in a month or 12
    I’ll be somewhere having a drink
    Laughing at a stupid joke
    Or just another stupid thing
    And I can see myself stopping short
    Drifting out of the present
    Sucked by the under tow and pulled out deep
    And there I am standing
    Wet grass and white head stones, all in rows
    And in the distance there’s one off on it’s own
    So I stop, kneel
    My new home
    And I picture a sober awakening
    A re-entry into this little bar scene
    Sip my drink till the ice hits my lip
    Order another round
    And that’s it for now
    Sorry, never been too good at happy endings"

    this is me...this is my life...:(
    "It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
    Push me pull me. See ya later

    <present tense inhabiter #0003 & Even Flow psycho #0036>
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    So, at one of the Boston shows was the first time I realized that Garden of Stone was about a military cemetary. Aha! It made sense. Now here's this line:

    Wet grass and white head stones, all in rows


    What's up with this? Why is Eddie bringing it up again? Is it his place of contemplation, maybe a relative in there? Or is his view of a break up after break up after break up turned into the metaphor above?
    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
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,381
    I was thinking of the line above and thought of the following:

    forced to lie down orderly
    like the cross roads between each square
    on a piece of graph paper
    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 anyone who has been in a relationship and had it end, can relate to those words. I was in one with someone who I truly loved, someone who I thought was the one to spend the rest of our lives together. When it ended, just like the lyrics state, you curse the day you met, the day you fell in love, every single thought, vision is of that person, and you slowly go into the recovery mode, but you are 1/2 there, just going through the motions until your life can go back to a normal state. Ed is great poet.
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