Daughter --> Leash --> RVM

Brez wrote:

Well hopefully you do now...?

Nah. The songs have similar themes to them, but to say they're all a coherent story is a stretch. There is no concrete evidence that shows they're all one story.

But hell, it's all interpretation. (see my sig)

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

I agree about these songs. Though I think a coherant story with Daughter and RVM is very possible.. even likely. The "Shades" reference is a big signal.

Hmmm... now that I think about it, that's very true. That definitely makes the end of Daughter a lot more interesting...

can try and answer the why go question:
her mom's way of dealing with reality is not dealing with it,
just like smoking pot (in a way - not always! most of the times it just feels good...)
is a way of not dealing with things. a way of escape.

This is, I suppose, a tetralogy about a young teenage girl who has SLD (Specific learning disability) and is abused physically by her step-father and emotionally by both of them. They are both mind-shaping and controlling freaks.

DAUGHTER
It indicates that the girl is indifferent and alone. Because of her disability mother reads aloud and she tries to understand it, she tries to make her proud. The step-father isn’t a bit understanding and he loses his nerves all the time-he’s like a bomb ready to explode-so he beats the hell out of her. The shades go down so that the neighbours don’t see what is going on. When the shadows are down you don’t even notice that the room you’re in is painted-you don’t see life as fun or in color-you see it just from the dark side. Kids with SLD are very creative, capable and smart and the girl is preoccupied with both violins(ence) because the music is her escape from reality, from violence.
He’s not fit to call her daughter. The violence, the anger, the rage that she has seen in his eyes and felt on her skin is a picture that’ll remind her for the rest of her life of that non-worthy person who is nobody and nothing.
She trusts her mother and she relies on her protection but she’s only holding a hand that holds her down, because the mother is by his side.

WHY GO
Now, she has done something that, her mother taught her, has put her in an institution for over two years. The doctor diagnosed her somekind of disease and the mother agreed.
The easy-way-out was this institution to treat her with psychoanalysis and make her weak. She’s stronger and she could play their game –she could pretend to be another brainwashed patient.
She feels alone, angry and she scratches a letter into a wall so, when another controlling parent locks his child in an institution that this child feels relieved and knows that he isn’t the only one who’s going through this stuff.
And now she tries to find a reason to go home-but there isn’t one. Her mother is by her husband’s side, she agrees with the doctor what is absolutely insane, and child’s pain mutates and feels abandoned by her own mother, with whom from now on she doesn’t want to see.

LEASH
The troubled ones should unite, because they understand each other.
Her thoughts are black as fuel. She has found her friends and they have the means to correct themselves, to improve each others, to stray from physical and emotional pain.
She’s lost, she’s no guide, that’s why she sticks to her lover, and she’s by his side.
She stands and it was their idea that she needs to prove to be a man, to prove that you can stand on your on.
Now, they together will find a home within themselves and their place in the society and they delight in their youth.
The parent controlling, the leash needs to be dropped, she need her space, her freedom. Filled with anger and rampage, she yells and roars at the parents.

REARVIEWMIRROR
It’s time to go, to emancipate, and to leave her past behind her.
She’s fed up with the controlling thing and the beatings which made her wise and she doesn’t have a reason at all to give thanks or to even apologize for what she is, what the essence of her existance is.
This violence, mind controlling, this leash was holding her down. The animosity is knotted by fear.
Now, as she runs away she goes through these past events and she knows that the beatings didn’t break her so much as it affected her emotionally. She remembers how she trusted her mother and but turns out that she’s a backstabbing b***h. The girl also realizes that she was a fool playing by her rules.
The more they try to gain her back, the more she gathers speed and segregates from them.
She hardly believes, but the shades are raised!


this is what i'm gonna present on my english tomorrow