Given to fly

porsche007
porsche007 Posts: 40
edited January 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
What is the meaning behind this brilliant, under-rated song !!!! I have only just got into this song and well - it has just gone right up into my top three which shows how much it means to me i hope you appreciate.

Thanks Guys !!!
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  • Stone Irons
    Stone Irons Posts: 430
    "[I imagined the song as] a 20-page cardboard (children's) book with a line on each page and a picture to go with it. It's a fable, that's all. The music almost gives you this feeling of flight, and I really love singing the part at the end, which is all about rising above anybody's comments about what you do and still giving your love away. You know ? not becoming bitter and reclusive, not condemning the whole world because of the actions of a few." -Eddie Vedder (Philadelphia Inquirer, February 8, 1998)
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  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    porsche007 wrote:
    What is the meaning behind this brilliant, under-rated song !!!! I have only just got into this song and well - it has just gone right up into my top three which shows how much it means to me i hope you appreciate.

    Thanks Guys !!!

    Hardly feel that it is under-rated.

    But yes, it is an amazing song.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Stone Irons wrote:
    "[I imagined the song as] a 20-page cardboard (children's) book with a line on each page and a picture to go with it. It's a fable, that's all. The music almost gives you this feeling of flight, and I really love singing the part at the end, which is all about rising above anybody's comments about what you do and still giving your love away. You know ? not becoming bitter and reclusive, not condemning the whole world because of the actions of a few." -Eddie Vedder (Philadelphia Inquirer, February 8, 1998)
    Well, then I say put the pedal to the metal, Eddie Vedder, and write that children's book. I'm not expecting another neice or nephew, but you never know.

    Imagine all of the colors, and the freedom of feeling like you're flying. All the negativity could just fade away into faint colors. Or however else he wants it.
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  • imspinnin
    imspinnin Posts: 933
    Hubby has an itch for another Tat, so I suggested Given to Fly...ha ha we'll see:)
    I would love to have it done myself, with a pair of angel wings below it...

    Such an emotional song...even EV has had trouble in the past holding back tears while singing it: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.
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    I think I read somewhere this one was originally titled "Given to Die".
    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
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    It's written about Plato's "The Allegory Of The Cave".

    http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/platoscave.html - looks like a pretty reliable transcript of it..

    It's even more brilliant in this context. The song is pretty open ended until you read that and then all of the sudden it hits you and it's like.. "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". :)
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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  • PJamGrunge10
    PJamGrunge10 California Posts: 596
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    It's written about Plato's "The Allegory Of The Cave".

    http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/platoscave.html - looks like a pretty reliable transcript of it..

    It's even more brilliant in this context. The song is pretty open ended until you read that and then all of the sudden it hits you and it's like.. "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". :)

    I recently studied that story (lightly) in my English class and I don't see any connection really :confused:
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    PJamGrunge10 wrote:
    I recently studied that story (lightly) in my English class and I don't see any connection really :confused:
    If you take the general storyline of 'the cave' it's rediculous how closely the story in 'GTF' matches up with it.
    Come on pilgrim you know he loves you..

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