What issues you believe repeat in PJ songs over the years?

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  • markymark550
    markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,223
    definitely social issues.....Jeremy, Daughter, Why Go
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    love, loss, redemption, anger, nature, frustration, greed, acceptance.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Eddie Louis Severson
    Eddie Louis Severson Posts: 285
    don't forget religion, although it isnt always repeating but I do get the sensation that eddie tries express what he feels on the subject.
    I believe Eddie is completely lost regarding religion. He is seeking, and I think he wants to believe but doesn't exactly know how.

    Or something likewise..
    Nothing Better than Leather, man!

    ''i dont wanna think, i wanna feel''
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    cars.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    pmack215 wrote:
    am i wrong or does eddie not write ALL the lyrics (except for mankind & inside job)? i believe when songs are "written" by other's it pertains to just the music.

    am i wrong?

    Um ... ed wrote all the lyrics (save Mankind) on the first four albums. Beginning with Yield, other members began contributing lyrics.

    Jeff wrote the lyrics to Lowlight
    Stone wrote the lyrics to No Way
    Matt wrote the lyrics to Get Right

    There are a handful of others, as well. If you look at the liner notes, they'll usually note who wrote the words and who wrote the lyrics.
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  • pmack215
    pmack215 Posts: 49
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Um ... ed wrote all the lyrics (save Mankind) on the first four albums. Beginning with Yield, other members began contributing lyrics.

    Jeff wrote the lyrics to Lowlight
    Stone wrote the lyrics to No Way
    Matt wrote the lyrics to Get Right

    There are a handful of others, as well. If you look at the liner notes, they'll usually note who wrote the words and who wrote the lyrics.

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  • MarylandTeacher
    MarylandTeacher Posts: 233
    Eddie Louis Severson wrote:
    I mean, there must be a few issues Pearl Jam keeps going back to... probably Politics is one... but I believe they are even deeper


    The dull ache of love's loss.

    Mr. Bruno
    Dalai Lama—To say that humility is an essential ingredient in our pursuit of spiritual transformation may seem to be at odds with what I have said about the need for confidence. But there is clearly a distinction to be made between valid confidence or self-esteem, and conceit - which we can describe as an inflated sense of importance, grounded in a false image of self.
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Eddie Louis Severson wrote:
    don't forget religion, although it isnt always repeating but I do get the sensation that eddie tries express what he feels on the subject.
    I believe Eddie is completely lost regarding religion. He is seeking, and I think he wants to believe but doesn't exactly know how.

    Or something likewise..


    I don't get the sense he is lost at all. Trying to find your way and make sense of the world, and being lost, are 2 totally separate things.
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    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Eddie Louis Severson
    Eddie Louis Severson Posts: 285
    BinFrog wrote:
    I don't get the sense he is lost at all. Trying to find your way and make sense of the world, and being lost, are 2 totally separate things.

    You're probably right, but don't you feel Eddie isn't sure about his feelings towards religion?
    I mean, he doesn't strongly criticize any kind of beliefs, but he doesn't support them either... Maybe this is a reason why he has become fed up of fame, because it has limited his ability to explore life and to develop as a human being..
    Nothing Better than Leather, man!

    ''i dont wanna think, i wanna feel''
  • Jack's Life, Wasted
    Jack's Life, Wasted Posts: 4
    i agree that it doesnt seem that he has any definate religious belief, but i wouldn't say that he is lost or anything.. think of I Am Mine- "the faithful they are all standing in line".. suggests that he doesnt believe in organised religion sorta stuff, he'd rather just get on with his own life "i that i was born and i know i will die, the in-between is mine, i am mine"
  • Pearls&Stones
    Pearls&Stones Posts: 585
    Dustin51 wrote:


    driving



    Cars / Driving is more of a theme than an issue, but they go back to it a lot.

    Rearviewmirror
    MFC
    Gone
    Black Red Yellow
    Hitchhiker
    I love my female wife...
    we sit around and wonder exactly why our marriage should feel threatened by gay marriage
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Eddie Louis Severson wrote:
    i dont think its a bad thing that they repeat themselves... i think its interesting... its a good way to notice what is really importante to the band

    its interesting that when they do cover a topic more than once they take a different approach or perspective on it

    for example RVM is driving away from problems but "gathering speed" from whoevers fucking with you, yet in Gone the person driving away seems exhausted from their current life and is leaving it all behind for good.

    Also Sad & Otherside - the same story from opposing viewpoints. (losing someone you love). You could say that Even Flow and Soon Forget are the opposite sides of the same topic too - homeless people forgotten by capitalist enterprising society & young hotshot who could be consumed & destroyed by it...interesting stuff...
  • NothingW.
    NothingW. Posts: 19
    conflicts between parents and kids:

    Daughter, Why Go, Leash...
    Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
    Goodbye for now.

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