Hard To Imagine

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  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    To me, the song is about gaining the courage to release some emotion or secret that you've kept in for so long, but were afraid to for some reason.
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • bucket1988
    bucket1988 Posts: 212
    AOL Sessions version is bomb.
    The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head...
  • circles down
    circles down Posts: 182
    When they busted into this at the Gorge in 05 it became and has remained my all time best concert moment, maybe one of my all time moments period!

    1. birth of daughter
    2. wedding
    3. hard to imagine at the gorge
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,786
    i allways wanted to hear this song and my dream became reality at the meadowlands show this year 2nd night i had 1st row seat directly in front of stone and when he broke into it i was totally satisfied that song made my night.......
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Pappas
    Pappas Posts: 809
    I'LL TRY TO EXPLAIN, I HOPE THIS WORKS SOMEHOW


    one of the all time great tracks, highly underrated

    hope i hear it live in the 5 aust shows im goin to
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  • imspinnin
    imspinnin Posts: 933
    This tune..get's me in tuned.
    Love it, love it!!!
    Opens up the mind, heart and soul...:o
    If I could be anything in the world I would be your teardrop...I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Pappas wrote:
    I'LL TRY TO EXPLAIN, I HOPE THIS WORKS SOMEHOW


    one of the all time great tracks, highly underrated

    hope i hear it live in the 5 aust shows im goin to

    I'm looking at 7 shows, possibly 9, and this song is definitely at the top of my list!!! I don't know what i'll do if i miss it and then they play it in Perth....
  • humanlight
    humanlight Posts: 271
    Fetus Jr. wrote:
    IMO, it's just about the feeling of being very depressed, or even suicidal. Painting a picture in only grey, with no bright lovely colors. I'd tell a story but no one would listen that long, the feeling of having no self-esteem, no self-worth. Tear into yourself, apparently someone who cuts themselves just to feel. Counting the scars, one for each day. I believe it his the person's heart that beats like a bomb that could go off at any moment, potentially ending all that they are. Then, I have trouble with the last line......

    That's my interpretation anyways....I don't know if I'm just stating the obvious but.,.....great song though, my favorite from that disc.


    I think you are right on. I believe this person is at the calm before the storm. It is sort of like in those movies where a soldier is in a war and everyone slows down, you only hear the person's heart beat. And in that moment the soldier has decided that this is his reality. He can either fight, or give into the death. I think the song expresses that moment. The last line is about that look around and remembering all the bullshit that he/she has seen.
    "F**K you, I have laundry to do" -ed
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    One night, I taken into the woods to camp overnight. Me and my friend were having a hard time getting the fire going. So we torched the pillow. We would have burned my sleeping bag too, but it was of a particular, form fitting design. That's the memory I recall in hearing "Light your pillow.."
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle

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