Alive music, by Pearl Jam: meaning and analysis of the lyrics
Alive This is the first single from the band Pearl Jam. A song was composed by guitarist Stone Gossard and the lyrics were written by vocalist Eddie Vedder.
Alive It appears in the album of the band titled Have (1991) and tells the story of an incest.
Released on August 2, 1991, the song is considered one of the two greatest successes of the North American rock band.
Lyrics
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, 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 ...
I, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Hey I, boy, I'm still alive
Hey I, I, I, I'm still alive, yeah
Ooh yeah... yeah yeah yeah... oh... oh ...
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 ...
I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Analyze the lyrics
Alive He tells the story of a young man who lost or discovered that he was finally his stepfather.
Or biological father had died and a mother entered into a later relationship, like the one who would become or be his stepfather.
A mãe chama o filho, que já é adolescent, to talk about or matter:
Son, she said, have I got a little story for you (Filho, ela disse, tenho uma historinha para você)
What you thought was your daddy was nothin 'but a... (Or what you thought was that seu pai não passava de um ...)
While you were sittin 'home alone at age thirteen (Enquanto você estava sozinho em casa aos treze anos)
Your real daddy was dyin ', sorry you didn't see him, (O seu verdadeiro pai estava morrendo, sinto muito que você não o tenha seen)
In spite of the fact that I have to convey the sad reality of the year, it shows me to be in a certain way relieved by having thrown this weight with two shoulders:
but I'm glad we talked... (But I'm happy about thermos discussed)
It seems to me that I have never surpassed the death of my first love, or my father's life. Most of the composições two Pearl Jams was raised from real stories about people that Vedder knew. AliveFor example, it is based on Vedder's personal experience. Or breeder assumes that you compose “based on things that happen and others that you imagine”.
I am surprised with the physical appearance of filho, which becomes more and more like a dead father. How is my first love, deceased, somehow perpetuated through descent:
Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive (Hey eu, ah, eu I'm still alive)
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive (Hey eu, ah, eu I'm still alive)
Hey... oh... (Hey... Ah)
Incest: a controversial issue Alive
From then on, the most controversial part of the lyrics begins, when it is suggested that a dor gives mãe a cam a ter um incestuous relationship like filho Due to its semelhança as a biological country.
O own lyricist já assumiu that to the letter of Alive It's about incest, embora the verses sejam more discreet when addressing that questão. We hardly know that or filho já é um jovem when me enters my fourth of her:
Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man's room
She said I'm ready... for you (Ela disse estou pronta... for you)
I can't remember anything to this very day (Eu não conigo lembrar muito daquele dia)
'Cept the look, the look... (Exceto or olhar, or olhar)
Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare... (You know where, agora eu não posso enxergar, eu only faced)
The public attends as a problematic relationship between me and filho face as the predator has serious psychological problems. At a certain moment, I perceive a confusion that face of the filho as or pai:
Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You're still alive, she said
The letter is disturbing because we see that a woman is scared with the possibility of first love being alive in the presence and not the body of the filho.
At the same time we see a response from filho, who claims to be alive and deserves his chance to have an independent and happy life:
Oh, and do I deserve to be (I deserve to be)
Is that the question (É essa a questão)
Translation
Filho, ela disse, I have a story for you
Or what do you think was that seu pai não passava de um
When you were sozinho at home for thirteen years
O seu verdadeiro pai de ella was morrendo, I feel very much that you have not seen or seen
More you are happy about thermos discussed
I'm still alive
Hey eu, ah, eu I'm still alive
Hey eu, ah, eu I'm still alive
Hey... Ah
Ela walks vaguely, hair four of a young man
Ela disse is ready... for you
I don't get to plant a lot of this day
Exceto or olhar, or olhar
You know where, agora eu não posso enxergar, eu only faced
I'm still alive
Hey eu, more, eu I'm still alive
Hey eu, garoto, eu I'm still alive
Hey eu, eu, eu, eu I'm still alive
Oh sim, sim sim sim... oh... oh
I was afraid of something wrong, ela disse
Of course I am
You continue alive, ela disse
I deserve to be
That's the question
E is formed... E is formed... I'm going to answer... What am I going to answer
I'm still alive
Hey eu, ah, eu I'm still alive
Hey eu, more, eu I'm still alive
Yeah eu, ahh, eu I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
About the creation of Alive
A procure for a vocalist
Após a morte do vocalista Andy Wood, victim of a heroin overdose, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament (former members of the Mother Love Bone band) began to seek someone to occupy or posto that was from Wood.
It lasts for the recovery of the death of a friend who died prematurely, with only 24 years of age, not on March 19, 1990. Second Jeff Ament:
"Naquele moment, depois Andy morreu, Stone was the only person [of Mother Love Bone] growing at a really consistent level"
Stone Gossard, or guitarist, havia raised Dollar Short (to melody of the song that would be Alive) and was waiting for a letter to complete its composition.
Dollar Short It was included in a fita demo raised hair members of the band in hopes of finding a new singer for the group.
Foi or vocalist Eddie Vedder who, when he obtains a copy of the fita as the chords of Stone, writes a letter that fictionalized a descoberta do eu lrico de que o pai não era, de fato, o pai biological.
A song based on Vedder's own personal experience and is considered to be a partially autobiographical creation. O own Vedder, in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, stated:
“A history of music is that a mother is married like her husband, pai do seu filho, and ele morre. It is an intense coisa because I look physically like a country. Or filho grows to be or pai, even though she lost. Or pai is dead, and now is this confusion, his mãe, his love, how does he love, how does he love? Na verdade, me, even though I was married with another person, I never loved someone like my first husband, who died. You know how it is, first loves and other things. More or cara morreu. How can you get it back? More or more... It seems exactly like it. He's strange. Então ela quer ele. O filho é alheio a tudo isso. He doesn't know what the hell is happening. The ainda is coping, the ainda is crescendo. Ele ainda is lidando como amor, ele ainda is lidando com a morte de seu pai. "
Or vocalist and composer Vedder works as a frontman at a gasoline station in San Diego (Califórnia) to finance his career as a singer and composer. It was Jack Irons, ex-drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers, his friend, who passed on to a demo of guitarist Stone Gossard.
The band was trying to find a vocalist and the material seems to have fallen short of it.
Alive e a mini opera Mamasan
Tudo changed when, during a manhã qualquer, when he surfaced in the middle of New York, Vedder had the idea of playing a demo with the daquelas lyrics that would be known as mini opera Mamasan. Alive face part, therefore, of a trilogy created by Vedder composts pelas canções Alive, Eleven and Footsteps.
Or future vocalist, from the time he was still shy, then he ran to the Mission Beach apartment that he divided with his longtime girlfriend, Beth Liebling.
A fita containing such a mini opera was carefully produced by Vedder that entitled the creation of Mamasan and sent to the band.
Or insert with an image of Vedder feita from the photocopier of the work. As illustrations are made by myself by the composer's own hair and it is not known what they represent (will they be meteorites? sperm to procure an egg?). Or in this case, tell me also a date with the month of the day: 9/13.
Quem first ouviu a fita foi or bassist Ament, em Seattle, which he immediately linked to the guitarist and disse "Stone, é melhor você vir ata aqui".
In a week or group I was reunited Alive It was the first music they played together.
Not on June 18, 1992 in Zurique, in Suíça, the band plays three pieces of music together. Eddie thus appears as follows:
“I don't want to ravage any interpretation of music that you have, but these children are about incest and assassination of all those boas. And you can imagine isso in your mind, a third music happens in a prison cell, then this is our little mini opera. "
Conheça melhor a trilogy
Alive, the first part of the trilogy, and the third song of the star album Have, launched in 1991. Be em Alive o eu lrico e a mãe posuem an incestuous relationship, na song followed or individual appears disturbed and becomes um serial killer that sai exterminating innocent people.
This is the history of Eleven, to second faixa gives trilogy:
I admit it... what's to say... yeah... (I admit... or what to say... sim ...)
I'll relive it... without pain... mmm... (Eu vou relieve... sem dor... mmm ...)
Backstreet lover on the side of the road
I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode
I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes (Eu tenho um caliber 16 escondida debaixo das minhas roupas)
We will assist or modus operandi do assassin in sequence, we wait for the last part of the trilogy.
A third song, girl Footsteps, já appears to sentence a subject to death penalty, the letter portrays his execution.
Don't even think about reachin 'me, I won't be home
Don't even think about stoppin 'by, don't think of me at all (Nem pense em vir aqui, não pense em mim de maneira nenhuma)
I did, what I had to do, if there was a reason, it was you... (Eu fiz o que eu tinha que fazer, uma reason ela foi você)
Or album Have
The album of a North American band, released in 1991, is considered to be two albums of the most recent rock. A coletânea gathers 11 faixas, são elas:
- Eleven
- Even flow
- Alive
- Why go
- Black
- Jeremy
- Oceans
- Porch
- Garden
- Deep
- Release
Official clip
Or clip of Alive It is a preto and branco and it was filmed no show feito pela banda no day August 3, 1991 in Washington.
These images were directed by Stone Gossard's childhood friend named Josh Taft.
Released in setembro, or video was indicated to receive or Melhor Video Alternativo (1992) not MTV Video Music Awards.
Conheça also
- Music Black, do Pearl Jam
- Music Smells like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana
- Music Minha Alma (A Paz que Eu Não Quero)
- Music Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin
- Music Don't look back in anger
