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dissidentbehindthec
dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
edited February 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
Crazy Mary - what's the song about/was it written after a real person? And if so, how much of it is true? Stuff like that....fill me in. :)
Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • dissidentbehindthec
    dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
    *bump* ...anyone?
    Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    i hope you at least know it was written by an artist called Victroia Williams (and the studio cut on the album was played with Victoria).

    cant say much about the other stuff.. maybe i'll read into it .. :)
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • dissidentbehindthec
    dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
    Oh, so that's the woman in the background singing? I see...
    Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    I've never heard the recorded version, only live ones. Was it a Ten Club single, or a B-side or what?
    I'll Ride The Wave Where It Takes Me
  • LightYear
    LightYear Posts: 41
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    I've never heard the recorded version, only live ones. Was it a Ten Club single, or a B-side or what?

    From "The Sky I Scrape"...

    1. This Victoria Williams song features Pearl Jam with Williams providing background vocals and some guitar.

    2. The song appears on Sweet Relief, a benefit for Victoria Williams who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and needed financial help to pay her medical bills.
    "No time to be void or save up on life...
    You got to spend it all."
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    what's the song about?
    c'mon now.

    this isn't a Nirvana song.
    It is intelligible.
    Infact ... it's a downright blatant story.
    Crazy woman lives ...
    crazy woman is known by some
    Crazy woman is crazy
    Crazy woman is no more.

    Crazy crazy crazy,
    fear tragedy fear
    freedom fear
    freedom

    it's kinda like a george bush speach ...
    freedom freedom freedom
    liberty freedom.
    liberty liberty.

    uh ok.
    just kiddin' there.
    got carried away.

    no, probably a made up story.
    no real mary.

    Though i did know this girl once named mary, and boy was she a tard.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • LimeDisease
    LimeDisease Posts: 89
    Its about my mother.
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    for those of you who have never heard the version on sweet relief its a million times better than live.

    its a story. maybe about alcoholism of parents, i dunno. Read it and decipher your own interpretation and it will mean more to you. stunning song.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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    Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!

    "Make our day"
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    for those of you who have never heard the version on sweet relief its a million times better than live.

    that whole album is incredible... i haven't heard any other victoria williams songs then what is on there, but she is an outstanding songwriter.
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  • Pearl_Jam_Necklace
    Pearl_Jam_Necklace Posts: 501
    blackredyellow wrote:
    that whole album is incredible... i haven't heard any other victoria williams songs then what is on there, but she is an outstanding songwriter.
    yes i sooooooooo agree with you on this..
    ...It's only after disaster that we can be resurrected...
    it's only after you've lost everything ...that you are free to do anything....(Fight Club)

    ... I'll ride the wave...where it takes me....
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    When it first came out I thought it was about a girl who had a psychological illness, and was alone because her behavior was unpredictable. After many years, though, it seems it's just about an independent woman in a town where a woman's independence may not be supported. Like Janie in the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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  • pjfan020
    pjfan020 Posts: 426
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    for those of you who have never heard the version on sweet relief its a million times better than live.

    its a story. maybe about alcoholism of parents, i dunno. Read it and decipher your own interpretation and it will mean more to you. stunning song.

    NO WAY!!! When they play it live, it's sooo much better. When Boom and Mike trade off solos, it adds a lot to the song. But, that's your opinion. It's like they say, "When in Rome."
    "Tonight we're just gonna play you some good old American Rock and Roll." tom petty-7-15-05

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