What the Hell is Pearl Jam's "Alive" about anyway??

[WoodrowFan]

Did his mother have a botched abortion and he survived? what??


Son, she said, have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin’ but a...
While you were sittin’ home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin’, sorry you didn’t see him, but I’m glad we talked...

Oh i, oh, I’m still alive
Hey, i, i, oh, I’m still alive
Hey i, oh, I’m still alive
Hey...oh...

Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man’s room
She said I’m ready...for you
I can’t remember anything to this very day
’cept the look, the look...
Oh, you know where, now I can’t see, I just stare...

chorus

Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You’re still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. here:

by Matzy94 on 01-09-2002 @ 07:06:25 PM
This song was actually the first of a mini-opera that Eddie wrote known as the "Mamasan Trilogy". The song describes a boy who grows up believing that one man is his father but finds out that he is not. He grows up to look just like his biological father and his mother falls in love with the son and sexually abuses him. The song "Once" is part II of the story and describes the boy obviously mentally disturbed who is not able to control his rage and goes on a killing spree. The triology is concluded with "Footsteps" where the boy is siting in his cell on death row awaiting his execution.

this was taken from

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=41591

[Elidor]

4. Cool site!

Just yesterday I was wondering what on earth Tiny Dancer was all about. Well here it is:

Q: What is Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" about? My friend says it's some woman muse, but I think he's singing to his penis.

A: "That's Great!" says a laughing Bernie Taupin, the song's lyricist. "But I wouldn't belittle myself so." Your friend is closer to the truth, although Taupin says the song wasn't about any one woman. "We came to california in the fall of 1970, and sunshine radiated from the populace," he says. "I was trying to capture the spirit of that time, encapsulated by the women we met. They were free spirits, sexy in hip-huggers and lacy blouses, and very ethereal, the way they moved. So different from what I'd been used to in England. And they all wanted to sew patches on our jeans. They'd mother you and sleep with you - it was the perfect Oedipal complex." Why "tiny," then? They were all petite and lithe. And 'Tiny Dancer' sounds better than 'Small Dancer' or 'Little Dancer'

[KurtNYC]

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interesting

[Mistress Quickly]

3. Eddie has issues