Which song don't you get?

ycckk
ycckk Posts: 23
edited June 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
We've all listened!! We've all heard!! But there's just that song you don't get!!
I'm on this "Gremmie out of Control" kick ..i don't get it!! "RATS" i've never gotten it. my question to all of you. Is there a song...you can admitt, you don't get?
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  • Stella
    Stella Posts: 283
    I don't get the love for betterman and wishlist. They aren't so great.

    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.
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  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    Stella wrote:
    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.

    Agreed. That song is so fucked up. Someone was trippin on acid.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Stella wrote:
    I don't get the love for betterman and wishlist. They aren't so great.

    I don't get Hey foxy mop etc... It's just plain creepy.

    i don't get that some people think betterman is a love song.


    i don't get yellow ledbetter but then i make up my own words, throw in a couple of la las and it totally makes sense. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • travis2000
    travis2000 Posts: 39
    catefrances wrote:
    i don't get that some people think betterman is a love song.

    I know. That sounds almost like the same story as with Alive. On storytellers Ed lets everyone know the story behind it and how it was misunderstood. Of course it changed, but to the casual PJ listener, they would think that 'I'm still alive' has always been a good thing
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  • Laney
    Laney Posts: 5
    I believe that Betterman is a love song (sorf of) - it's about a relationship gone bad.
    And the thing with Yellow ledbetter is... well, I guess no one except Ed really gets it.
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    Laney wrote:
    And the thing with Yellow ledbetter is... well, I guess no one except Ed really gets it.

    Yeah, Ed sings it at the end of their shows when he is so wasted on red wine and Heineken.
    He doesnt really know what is going to come out of his mouth.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • stpaulbrowncoat
    stpaulbrowncoat Posts: 12
    Love the guitar work on Yellow Ledbetter...lyrics???? don't know. Nice melody, though.
  • Klein
    Klein Posts: 32
    Rats is about the Press or Paparazzi... similar to BUGS.
    I kind of like the fact that I have no idea what Eddie is saying in Yellow Ledbetter... I too just make up my own words, add a few yelps here and there and the song is complete.

    As for a song I just don't get, well, let me see...

    Apart from the ones already mentioned in this thread, I have come up with my own interpretation of pretty much every song.

    Oh I have one, why in Daughter does he sing "Don't call me daughter"
    Never understood that line.
    Has it got do with low self esteem?

    Klein
  • Laney
    Laney Posts: 5
    That line was confusing me too, but now I think, that it's because the mother-daughter relationship is screwed up. So she has no right to call her daughter, because she is an awful mother.
    Well, but that's just my opinion.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Parachutes seems to flip flop between sentiments. I don't know if it is a song about staying together, just meeting, or about to leave.
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  • disconnected
    disconnected Posts: 2,875
    Androgynous Mind wrote:
    Yeah, Ed sings it at the end of their shows when he is so wasted on red wine and Heineken.
    He doesnt really know what is going to come out of his mouth.

    Oh yes he knows what's coming out of his mouth:
    This was sung by Eddie Vedder during the Arnhem show (08-29-2006) after the solo:

    Oh, I'd like to see'm I'd stay in holland forever and a day.....
    Oh I know and I phone and I couldn't left the message, but I'm stuck in the USA...
  • mumi
    mumi Posts: 662
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    Parachutes seems to flip flop between sentiments. I don't know if it is a song about staying together, just meeting, or about to leave.
    I guess I don't get most of the songs lyrics :D
    The ones I get, are great!
    And yeah, YL is a "YOU'll never get it"
    Uno es dueño de lo que calla
    y esclavo de lo que habla.
  • DOSW
    DOSW Posts: 2,014
    Laney wrote:
    That line was confusing me too, but now I think, that it's because the mother-daughter relationship is screwed up. So she has no right to call her daughter, because she is an awful mother.
    Well, but that's just my opinion.

    Yep. But I think the "the picture kept will remind me" line makes no sense.
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  • bacchanal
    bacchanal Posts: 149
    DOSW wrote:
    Yep. But I think the "the picture kept will remind me" line makes no sense.

    the picture kept....is the pic in the daughters mind of her mother before she turned into a bad mother....i think.....hehe
  • PJ-Sin
    PJ-Sin Posts: 348
    bacchanal wrote:
    the picture kept....is the pic in the daughters mind of her mother before she turned into a bad mother....i think.....hehe


    Thats what I always thought, or maybe an old pic of when the mother wasnt so bad?
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  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    disconnected wrote:
    Oh yes he knows what's coming out of his mouth:
    This was sung by Eddie Vedder during the Arnhem show (08-29-2006) after the solo:

    Oh, I'd like to see'm I'd stay in holland forever and a day.....
    Oh I know and I phone and I couldn't left the message, but I'm stuck in the USA...

    Sorry, maybe he is just so wasted most of the time at the end of the show that he slurrs his words and I can't understand what they are.

    In reference to the lyrics:
    Nobody is stuck here either. If he wants to get up and move to the Netherlands, be my guest. They can make music anywhere. He threatened to leave when President Bush was first elected, but he is still here.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • acutejam
    acutejam Posts: 1,433
    Love Boat Captain -- Oh I understand it well enough, i just don't GET it...

    As fer Yellow Ledbetter, facinating Mr. Spock, they don't actually list the lyrics on the 10 site, but you can google them and find a rendition of the studio lyrics and uh, yeah ... that pretty much goes to show why he just kinda makes up the lyrics for the most part everynight.

    I believe it's basically a story of a family out on the porch of house as they are told the news that a member of the family has been killed in a war -- perhaps from the perspective of the deceased ... or his brother ... or a neighbor.

    Many of the impromptu sessions seem to involve answering machines or calling up someone to get an explanation... or something.

    Just saw it in a list of Top 50 downloaded Guitar Tablature! (Only PJ song in the list I saw....)
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  • parel jam
    parel jam Posts: 7,223
    To me it's Grievance...
    ♪♫♪♫♫

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    PJ-Sin wrote:
    Thats what I always thought, or maybe an old pic of when the mother wasnt so bad?

    'don't call me daughter
    not fit to
    the picture kept will remind me'

    the mother is a bad mother. she is not fit enough to call her own child daughter cause she is certainly no mother. the picture inside the girl's head, her memories, are what will always remind her of that.

    i love that song so much.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Klein
    Klein Posts: 32
    ahhh yes...

    How can you have a daughter if you're not a mother?

    It all makes sense, thank you.

    Klein

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