Weird question for Why go

UpSideDown
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edited September 2006 in Words and Music...Communication
When she scratches a letter....do you picture a letter, as in like dear mom........or as in something from the alphabet
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  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    A "Dear mom" type thing.
    I think she's writing to a future "patient" so that person won't feel alone like she does now.

    ~paraphrased E.V.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    as in "dear mom" I always thought. could be either though. ambiguity is good :)
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  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    danny72688 wrote:
    A "Dear mom" type thing.
    I think she's writing to a future "patient" so that person won't feel alone like she does now.

    ~paraphrased E.V.


    Yep, that is how I always took it.
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  • pjrvm
    pjrvm Posts: 99
    She scratches a letter...into a wall, made of stone. she's in some type of institute and she's carving a letter of a word into the wall. probably her name, or the word Fuck, I would imagine it's the word Fuck
  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    pjrvm wrote:
    She scratches a letter...into a wall, made of stone. she's in some type of institute and she's carving a letter of a word into the wall. probably her name, or the word Fuck, I would imagine it's the word Fuck


    Yeah i always imagined the girl scratching her name into the wall in her room/cell, so furture patients would read it and realise they weren't the only ones.
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  • vedderfan10
    vedderfan10 Posts: 2,497
    The mental institutions I've worked at aren't made of stone or cement. They're more homelike these days (at least in this part of Canada)...the Big Institution (Riverview) is slowly getting torn down, but that's the place you got sent to for being "boy crazy" "promiscuous", smoking pot, truancy from school, and post-partum depression. Back in the day, nobody knew what to do with kids exhibiting that behaviour...everyone makes those places out to be much worse than it actually is...But I think Ed said somewhere that the song was about a friend of his (or a friend of a friend) who was institutionalized for smoking dope...If that happened today in BC, there'd be nobody on the streets - they'd all be locked away!!

    Anyway, I have a lot of friends who are psychiatrists, so the line "she's been diagnosed by some stupid FUCK!" is bang on in some cases!
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  • Jeronimo
    Jeronimo Posts: 30
    danny72688 wrote:
    A "Dear mom" type thing.
    I think she's writing to a future "patient" so that person won't feel alone like she does now.

    ~paraphrased E.V.

    I think so too: "She scratches a letter. Into a wall, made of stone. Maybe some day another child, won't feel as alone, as she does..."
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  • Pearl_Jam_Necklace
    Pearl_Jam_Necklace Posts: 501
    danny72688 wrote:
    A "Dear mom" type thing.
    I think she's writing to a future "patient" so that person won't feel alone like she does now.

    ~paraphrased E.V.


    yeah i think so,too
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  • karma defect
    karma defect Posts: 5,483
    Corey Erven wrote:
    When she scratches a letter....do you picture a letter, as in like dear mom........or as in something from the alphabet


    I picture a messages. Like in for instance Shawshank redemption.
    « One man's glory is another man's hell.
    You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
    Together in the darkness, alone in the light.
    I took it upon me to be yours, Timmy,
    I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»
  • karma defect
    karma defect Posts: 5,483
    Pearl_Jam_Necklace wrote:
    yeah i think so,too


    Yes something like don't let the bastards get you down.:D
    « One man's glory is another man's hell.
    You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
    Together in the darkness, alone in the light.
    I took it upon me to be yours, Timmy,
    I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»
  • Danni C
    Danni C Posts: 54
    Diagnosed by some stupid Fuck....

    Great line..

    I think this line defines the song completely.


    Her parents have put her in this place because they are not willing to take responsibility upon themselves for the child they have raised.
    The girl was institutionalized and labeled by people who could never understand her, as insane. she could do nothing but stay trapped in that hospital. She was writing a letter to future patients to they do not feel alone and making them aware that other people have been through the same before them.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    I think she was writing to know that she still could. She had to go so down within herself for strength to live through the experience, that even this small act is a reflection of her strength to know that she still exists. I don't think she's thinking of the future, just moment by moment.
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  • jammin1586
    jammin1586 Posts: 39
    Yeah, I didn't think it was a message to future patients. If she's a younger child I imagine it would be just like scribbiling because she's lonely and it's just about all she can do to pass the time.

    "She scratches a letter into a wall, made of stone. Maybe some day another child, won't feel as alone, as she does..."

    The second sentence implies that the 1st sentence is demonstrating that she is lonely. And that's what a lonely person like a prisoner would do, just scratch things into walls. I don't think she's thinking about future patients at all, she's not some prophet, she's just a young girl. And for a young girl to alleviate the loneliness of a future child with a single letter seems a little unreasonable.

    Keep it simple ;) That's my take.
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  • foxymop_stupidmop
    foxymop_stupidmop Posts: 159
    pjrvm wrote:
    She scratches a letter...into a wall, made of stone. she's in some type of institute and she's carving a letter of a word into the wall. probably her name, or the word Fuck, I would imagine it's the word Fuck


    That is exactly what I always have thought!! It's like you're in my head, man...;)
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  • WickedJeremy
    WickedJeremy Posts: 229
    jammin1586 wrote:
    Yeah, I didn't think it was a message to future patients. If she's a younger child I imagine it would be just like scribbiling because she's lonely and it's just about all she can do to pass the time.

    "She scratches a letter into a wall, made of stone. Maybe some day another child, won't feel as alone, as she does..."

    The second sentence implies that the 1st sentence is demonstrating that she is lonely. And that's what a lonely person like a prisoner would do, just scratch things into walls. I don't think she's thinking about future patients at all, she's not some prophet, she's just a young girl. And for a young girl to alleviate the loneliness of a future child with a single letter seems a little unreasonable.

    Keep it simple ;) That's my take.

    Interesting take there. I always heard it as if her point in writing is for that future child. But yeah, she is curing her loliness by talking to the wall so to speak. I guess her age either way is kind of irrelevant. She's been in theplace for two years so she is probably at least pre-teen or older (12+).

    But yeah, why go home? There she is expected to be weak. But she is strong. She'd rather not play pretend and be another clone without real parents. Probably better off without them as this point. Why go home?
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  • Ian M
    Ian M Posts: 123
    I might have this wrong, but isn't the artwork surrounding the song lyrics in the booklet a picture of a wall with the letter 'Y' written on it (as in 'Y' Go).
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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Ian M wrote:
    I might have this wrong, but isn't the artwork surrounding the song lyrics in the booklet a picture of a wall with the letter 'Y' written on it (as in 'Y' Go).
    I stand waiting to be corrected...
    So the letter she scratches is "Y." Makes sense to me. Her name could be Yvette, though.
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  • vedderette
    vedderette Posts: 4
    I always thought it was just a letter, as in one from the alphabet. Never quite looked at it in the other context before!! I shall listen to the song with new meaning now.

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