Wash

little_wish · March 2006

I am giving this song a HUUUUGE B-U-M-P

I have been listening to this one more recently and I am falling in love alll over again!

So sexy and yet heartfelt, as originally stated...

WASH MY LOVE WASH!

||Release_Me|| · March 2006

I love love LOVE the Mexico '03 version. "Oh who planted...El Diablo seeds"

Great song, prefer it live though.

WashMyLove · March 2006

I definetly agree with you. Eddie voice sounds sexy in this song. I love the version of the alive single. Is the best in my opinion.

I sure need someone to wash mine.
:P

karma defect · March 2006

grooveamatic wrote:

Anyone ever wonder if there is an anti-interracial-coupling thing going on here? see:

I'm white on the outside, though I stray (narrator in song hooks up with black girl) and then:

back to the clean form, to the pure form. wash my love.

Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste.
Smiling eyes before me and tears from my face.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

Sin for sale. Buying just a need. O who planted all the devils seeds?
And what's the truth? And the truth that lies at home.
It's on the inside and I can't get it off. Yeah.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

What's clean is pure. But hey, I'm white on the outside. Though I stray.
What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow. Bring it back someway.
Bring it back, back, back... to the clean form. To the pure form.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love.
Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love. Yeah
Wash my ...wash my...wash my love....yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh

just always seemed damn close to a condemnation of mixing the races. not that it would bother me: I don't necessarily judge an artist by the thematic or idealogical content of their art, only how well they pull it off, especially in a situation like this, where the narrator may very well not be Ed.

I think it means that he ain't white on the inside .

White being a symbol of purety and innocence.
So he is white on the outside, if you were facing him you could see him being white. You would think he is a good clean cut fellow who walks the line, doesn't step outside of the pattern to witch society thinks he should stick.
He looks like an exceptable dude. Yet you can't see his inside. You don't know of his dark side.
He strays means in my opion that he is tempted to follow his "darkside".
He's not content with the the road his life is on, but he doesn't feel there is much he can do about it. So he is tempted to flee and hide from the truth. When he's done so he's sorry and wishes he could make it undone.
He's affraid that he has put to much at risk and will lose what is dear to him.

decides2dream · March 2006

*bump* for a song that always gets me......

Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste.
Smiling eyes before me and tears from my face.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

yeah. :cool:

btw - just an aside. now with the *official* lyrics on the pearljam.com site...find it interesting? amazing how wrong i was in many tunes. granted, ed can be fairly inaudible at times...but even so. i definitely thought it was "inches from my face." interesting........ however, still, wowza for this tune!

Omarama · March 2006

decides2dream wrote:

*bump* for a song that always gets me......

Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste.
Smiling eyes before me and tears from my face.

Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.

yeah. :cool:

btw - just an aside. now with the *official* lyrics on the pearljam.com site...find it interesting? amazing how wrong i was in many tunes. granted, ed can be fairly inaudible at times...but even so. i definitely thought it was "inches from my face." interesting........ however, still, wowza for this tune!

it is 'inches from my face' well on lost dogs anyway.

dreamncolor · March 2006

Omarama wrote:

it is 'inches from my face' well on lost dogs anyway.

yea, sure sounds like it. however, the *official* lyrics on the pearljam.com site say otherwise.

eh well, i prefer 'inches from my face'....far better imagery imho. anyhoo..........yea...........wash my love....beautiful.

imspinnin · April 2006

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Look at it from a different perspective, it could be someone with HIV trying to hide it from new lovers, white as in snow white is a metaphor in some books for purity, so the main character is trying to appear as without HIV, so more disease "devil's seed" can be sown. I haven't heard this yet, now I'm intrigued, and I'm sure my interpretation will change tomorrow.

that's it...I've always thought of it in that way...Go Ms. Haiku:)

little_wish · April 2006

This song makes me wanna..... oooooh i don't know!

It just gives me the chills when I hear it

:D:D:D:D:D <---- for wash!

imspinnin · April 2006

I melt when Ed takes a DEEP inhale on lost dogs...

What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow "inhale" bring it back some way...
Damn it's felt to the core...

WASH MY LOVE...WASH MY LOVE...WASH MY LOVE

Omarama · April 2006

dreamncolor wrote:

yea, sure sounds like it. however, the *official* lyrics on the pearljam.com site say otherwise. eh well, i prefer 'inches from my face'....far better imagery imho. anyhoo..........yea...........wash my love....beautiful.

i know what you mean about far better imagery lol.i guess on all the other versions the pearljam.com lyrics are right

Trickett · April 2006

the Lost Dogs version is amazing - not that the other version isn't. When I first heard it it was on the Special Edition of Ten with Dirty Frank and Wash as European bonus tracks. Didn't strike me as much until I heard the Lost Dogs version and everytime I hear it it stops me in my tracks. It's one of those PJ songs, like Sad and Garden IMO, that just have the ability to really move you.

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!

Brisk. · April 2006

whats clean is pure but hey!

iam still white on the outside!

Blue11 · April 2006

they opened the Ottawa show with this song, and it was awesome....my friend loved it too, I think it was the first time he heard it live....

prytocorduroy · May 2006

This is such a good fucking song. How did it get cut from Ten?! I always think of water hearing that sweet guitar riff (duh!) and love the lyrics. I can't express how good the fucking lyrics are. And the bass fits perfectly, just a great, great, fucking song. Listen to it all the time.

decides2dream · May 2006

i really, really, really want to hear this again - up close and personal tomorrow at irving. *chills* can never get enough of this tune.

VEDHEAD27 · May 2006

I'm currently blastin the gorgeous/sexy song right now...as I periodically stare out my window at the pouring down rain.

Whew! *magic* Wow! Seriously what a feeling...what a song. So clean & pure!! It really, really is.

I am praying to the PJ gods that I finally get to experiene this live in '06! I'll pray for you too decides2dream.:)

LOVE IT!

Ahnimus · May 2006

I'm not as emotional about music as many of you appear to be. However this song is one of many Pearl Jam songs that I love. In-fact often I will have a singing session in which I sing to this song aswell as others.

My interpretation without putting any thought into it was wanting to wash the love away, as in to overcome the hurt of a past relationship. However now that I have read over the lyrics, it does appear to be more closely related to HIV or some other STD. Also consider that 'devil's seeds' in a biblical sense has been interpreted as 'homosexuality' though I doubt that is the reference in this song.

I have this song on the album Ten along with Dirty Frank and Alive (live). It was a replacement for the original Ten album which was stolen from me.

VEDHEAD27 · June 2006

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

I am praying to the PJ gods that I finally get to experiene this live in '06! I'll pray for you too decides2dream.:)

LOVE IT!

Ooooh...my....god!

!!!! My prayers where answered! It finally happened.....and the feeling that has WASHed over me is one that won't ever go away. What a way to open a show. This feeling?! Holy shit. The beauty, the sexiness...all of it just sparkling through you...washing your soul.

High as a damn kite. Whew! To finally experience this song live?!? Wow!

*tears up* And the ending?! Where he explodes?! :eek: Ahhh! Unbelieveable. THANK YOU PEARL JAM! Supernatural beauty going on here. Beyond words....

(((THANK YOU, THANK YOU PEARL JAM))))

imspinnin · June 2006

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

Ooooh...my....god! !!!! My prayers where answered! It finally happened.....and the feeling that has WASHed over me is one that won't ever go away. What a way to open a show. This feeling?! Holy shit. The beauty, the sexiness...all of it just sparkling through you...washing your soul. High as a damn kite. Whew! To finally experience this song live?!? Wow! *tears up* And the ending?! Where he explodes?! :eek: Ahhh! Unbelieveable. THANK YOU PEARL JAM! Supernatural beauty going on here. Beyond words....

(((THANK YOU, THANK YOU PEARL JAM))))

waaahhh...I've never heard WASH live:(
Hey VEDHEAD27...what's up girl?!?

How's it going?? I'm the gal from Boston 1, with the Given to Fly corset...just want to say..."Hellllooooo":)

Wash

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