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] Date Posted: 10:08:31 12/15/07 Sat I have posted this over on pearljam.com message board as well and I am sorry for the cut and paste, but I really dont want to type it all over again so here it is..... Perhaps I am stretching. Perhaps someone else has already said this or posted this and if that is the case, I am sorry if I am stepping on someone else's post, but I have been re-visiting all the PJ albums again and I found myself listening to Elderly Woman.... in a whole new way than I ever had. I assure you I was not under the influence of chemicals when I hear it this way and I wanted to get some thoughts on the subject or some opinions. I am sure some of you have thought this all along but this really got me thinking how timeless and important this music is. For me to be a fan from the beginning and for me to have heard this song probably hundreds of thousands of times, to hear it in a whole new way really impacted me. THANK YOU PJ!! Anyway, I heard this song for years and years as a mental soliloquy "spoken" to and by the Elderly Woman....... I know what the song is about, but this particular listen I heard it as an actual VERBAL discussion between the Elderly Woman....and the patron who is the object of her musings. I am not one who ever demands that other fans see the songs the way I do so I am about to print the lyrics as I heard them on this particular listen through. If you have not ever heard this song in this fashion and would like to not be predisposed to hearing it in this way please do not read further. For those that are interested in how I personally heard the song this time around here it is: *the capitalized words at the end of each lyric are who I heard saying it to the other* i seem to recognize your face: PATRON haunting, familiar, yet i can't seem to place it: PATRON cannot find the candle of thought to light your name: PATRON lifetimes are catching up with me: ELDERLY WOMAN all these changes taking place, i wish i'd seen the place: ELDERLY WOMAN but no one's ever taken me: ELDERLY WOMAN hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...:ELDERLY WOMAN hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...:ELDERLY WOMAN i swear i recognize your breath: PATRON memories like fingerprints are slowly raising: PATRON me, you wouldn't recall, for i'm not my former: ELDERLY WOMAN it's hard when, you're stuck upon the shelf:PATRON i changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate: ELDERLY WOMAN perhaps that's what no one wants to see: PATRON i just want to scream...hello...: ELDERLY WOMAN my god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return: ELDERLY WOMAN but now here you are, and here i am: PATRON hearts and thoughts they fade...away...:ELDERLY WOMAN hearts and thoughts they fade...away...PATRON hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...ELDERLY WOMAN hearts and thoughts they fade... PATRON Like I said before this was just the way I heard it this time and I thought I would share it. I dont believe there is a right or wrong way to listen to music, so I am not sharing this to tell people "I know how to listen to this song" I just wanted to share it with other Jammers and see what they thought. It really makes me happy to know that, at least for me, the songs keep changing and challenging me to hear them in different ways as time goes on. That to me is the measure of a great band and great music. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: RVM [Edit] |
Date Posted: 11:55:11 12/15/07 Sat Very interesting. When I hear it, I always think of a 40-something female gas station attendant, and the lyrics are her thoughts as she recognizes a person she hasn't seen in years - perhaps he moved away after high school or something - and it jogs her memory about small-town life. RVM [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: prince119 [Edit] |
Date Posted: 12:59:11 12/15/07 Sat I posted under the wrong name ha ha this is usually Tom. I heard it like that as well for a long long time Tux.....just recently I heard it this way. It was on a car trip with my girlfriend to my hometown for Thanksgiving when I first "heard" it. Now the last 3 times I have listened I have heard that conversation in the music. The way he inflects his voice at different times in the song helps the interpretation. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: prince119 [Edit] |
Date Posted: 13:01:11 12/15/07 Sat >I posted under the wrong name ha ha this is usually >Tom. > >I heard it like that as well for a long long time >Tux...and I actually thought of it as an employee in a Post Office or in a roadside Novelty store attached to a gas station somewhere in Montana. Just recently I heard it this way. It was on a car trip with my girlfriend to my hometown for >Thanksgiving when I first "heard" it. Now the last 3 >times I have listened I have heard that conversation >in the music. > >The way he inflects his voice at different times in >the song helps the interpretation. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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