What do you think Faithfull is about?

justam · July 2007

spendingitall wrote:

I think that perhaps he's saying "a furry thing" and implying "everything" - a nice play on words and it does go along quite well with the notion that the higher power exists in each of us as individuals as well as in the form of a collective unconscious. We are all just members of another species of furry thing. "God" or whatever exists in all creatures and in the Earth itself, not just humans, and certainly not just in members of one organized religion.
This is a very interesting thread!

This is interesting!

vedderfan10 · August 2007

Isn't it about having faith in yourself, your loved ones, your spouse, humanity, and geckos?

On the surface to me, it sounds like although tempted, he won't cross the bridge to be unfaithful...the plaque on the wall could be referring to an obvious sign that he was not unfaithful...

However, it still sounds like it's very sarcastic. The man upstairs can hear everyone yelling and screaming (praying) yet bad shit still happens, so all we can do is accept it....so yeah, that last line, VERY sarcastic...

Snake · August 2007

Yea the key is to watch Ed when they play this song.

Ms. Haiku · August 2007

I've disliked this song for a long time. The music was grating on my nerves.

However . . . it's starting to get under my skin. After reading what it could be about, and just listening listening listening to it as I'm listening to Yield more, I'm starting to like it.

Life is weird. There must be a Santa Claus.

pearldiver · August 2007

I belive they got some ideas for this song from the book entitled Ishmael. Read it. It's good.

Jeanwah · August 2007

I believe it's about what others mentioned...that we shouldn't place such faith in a higher power, that we need to believe in ourselves, and we wouldn't need the myth of a God in the sky dictating our lives. Life is all in our own hands. It's up to us being faithful in each other and ourselves.

InHiding19 · August 2007

bega78 wrote:

I think it has a religous feel to it - saying that organised religion is fraught with dangers "Belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear";

that reliance on God/Allah/Budda etc to somehow give us whatever it is we are lacking instead of getting off our bum and working for it ourselves isn't the best approach "Whatever the notion, we laced in our prayers The man upstairs is used to all of this noise I'm through with screaming"

And that in the end all we can rely on is our personal relationships with ones we love "And everything is you, Me you, you me, it's all related, What's a boy to do? Just be darling and I will be too ... Faithful to you

To me the entire album kind of has this theme, but thats just me.

TVVNCYBRAPJ · August 2007

fanch75 wrote:

It's about drinking shitloads of natural light and being faithfull to Natty when people give you shit about drinking it.

Hell yeah, I get that all the time

Carlos D · August 2007

I've always thought it to be about believing in God in spite of there being no physical evidence.The 'echo' being the fact that people are left to figure out for themselves whether or not God exists rather than getting a definite answer.I've always thought the 'We all believe' was a positive thing,suggesting that people believe in God no matter what happens to them in life and that belief is essentially a good thing.

I know most other people don't share that interpretation but that's the way I've always seen it.

Kevin Davis · August 2007

Huh.

I always thought the words were: "You are, you are, a furry thing."

Kind of makes sense, this being a song about man and God, and us being mammals and all.

Huh.

Kind of like the pelican in "Glorified G," isn't it?

Learn somethin' new everyday.

deadnote · September 2007

i think faithful is a song about love

Mrs. Brightside · September 2007

pearldiver wrote:

I belive they got some ideas for this song from the book entitled Ishmael. Read it. It's good.

I agree! I heard somewhere that the novel Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, had a strong influence on the Yield album. There are "echoes nobody hears," yet "we're faithful" to these echoes, "we all believe." These echoes could be what really ties us together, no matter what religion or social standing: the deepest values and beliefs of our society. Beliefs such as: humans are destined to conquer and rule the earth; we have a god-given right to people the earth; the strongest individual will survive at any cost, and so on. These ideas are so embedded in our culture, we really stop thinking of them...like the hum of traffic in the background that is always there, yet you never really "hear" it.

In fact, many of those ideas could be seen as M-Y-T-H-S. Does it really make sense that one species (us) out of the millions on this planet is supposed to procreate in heavy concentrations, destroy natural resources, and even wipe out other species for non-food purposes? How many places on earth are left that have not been stepped on by people?

I do find threads of optimism in Yield: there is a voice inside - we don't always listen to our inner voice, but it's there. Maybe it's that inner voice that needs to be released ("key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere" from GTF). Time to reconcile oneself that yeah, I've wasted a heap of yesterdays living in a daze (like so many forgotten, tossed out paper plates), but now it's time to go forward and be faithful to that inner voice that tells us how to live consciously, wisely,compassionately.

Or maybe "Faithful" is really (as I read on the Internet) a passionate testimonial to marriage, 'cuz you know, the band is all growed up now!!! Ha ha!

But seriously, Ishmael is worth a read.

smile05 · October 2007

its always been about the killer guitar section in the middle for me

fully made up when they played it at wembley07

yellowbird · November 2007

amit wrote:

Ed - "its about belief that everythings gonna be alright"

madison garden dvd

"voice inside, so drowned out.."
everything is gonna be alright...if you listen to the "right" voice inside.
sometimes that is hard to distinguish.

the song to me is about longing. longing to be enlightened and the impatience that goes along with that longing. and also about people trying to screw with your thoughts and beliefs by using scare tactics.

hippiemom · November 2007

slightofjeff wrote:

ps -- and I've never really understood the "furry thing" bit. Ed's got me there.

I wish I had saved this (or had a better memory), because I don't remember any of the details, but a couple years ago someone posted a long explanation of "furry thing" and the song as a whole that made perfect sense. All I can remember is that it had something to do with Plato.

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