“It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.” PeopleFirstsSaidEarthSongGrowsForeverHeardLetting GoUnrequited LoveHarshTruestUnrequited Author:Eddie Vedder
“This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.” WayLittlesSongFourGroupsToolsStringsSongwriting Author:Eddie Vedder
“Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.” WantWellsSaidRealityFallClassTeacherBillsClassroomElectricPencilsLectures Author:Eddie Vedder
“War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.” WarMatterFallSidesHurtBombsIt Hurts Author:Eddie Vedder
“It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.” FeelsWritingTryingKindMadeWantedSongEmotionSituationCarLike YouLeavingMoodRememberedBad Situations Author:Eddie Vedder
“There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.” BigsHappensNightSittingCrowdsNosesSmokingHanging OutPrivilegedTrailers Author:Eddie Vedder
“You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.” WorldTryingDoeEndsBigsGoneSacrificeGoes OnProveRevengeNewspapersChanging The WorldThings ChangeParagraphKilling YourselfBest RevengeProving Yourself Author:Eddie Vedder
“Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.” MeanTreeSavedHurricanesUpbringing Author:Eddie Vedder
“It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis -- far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.” KnowsWayFeelsBelieveMeanStillsI CanDifficultGoneFiguresBasesFeels Right Author:Eddie Vedder