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[repent]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I believe the song Rearviewmirror is about escaping an abusive father.

huh?

thats reading a little too much in to it I think.
Ive never heard them explain the songs origin, but it neve mentions anything about someone's father.
Alive is about a failed mother, but Rearviewmirror leaves a lot open to interpretation.


Repent

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by repent

huh?

thats reading a little too much in to it I think.
Ive never heard them explain the songs origin, but it neve mentions anything about someone's father.
Alive is about a failed mother, but Rearviewmirror leaves a lot open to interpretation.


Repent

It is 100% about leaving home and an abusive father. It's even obvious if you read the lyrics.

Alive is part of the mamason trilogy.....Once ( about a serial killer - the father ), Footsteps ( about the dude being on death row ) and Alive which is about the relationship between the surviving wife/mother and son.

[repent]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

It is 100% about leaving home and an abusive father. It's even obvious if you read the lyrics.

Alive is part of the mamason trilogy.....Once ( about a serial killer - the father ), Footsteps ( about the dude being on death row ) and Alive which is about the relationship between the surviving wife/mother and son.

perhaps you are one of those want to be insider guys who hangs out on pearl jam chat rooms and talks about this crap,
but from the lyrics alone, its not specific about what relationship(if any relationship) the song's theme is compromised of.
I dont even need to look at the lyrics to know that.
never mentions the word "father" at all.


Repent

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by repent

perhaps you are one of those want to be insider guys who hangs out on pearl jam chat rooms and talks about this crap,
but from the lyrics alone, its not specific about what relationship(if any relationship) the song's theme is compromised of.
I dont even need to look at the lyrics to know that.
never mentions the word "father" at all.


Repent

Because you aren't clever or smart enough to understand even the most simplistic of lyrics, geez dude " rearviewmirror " is as simple as it gets, you then resort to 3rd grade insults?

Pretty sad.

The funny thing is you are theoretically mocking someone for hanging out in a chat room....while YOU are in a chat room!!!!!!

[repent]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Because you aren't clever or smart enough to understand even the most simplistic of lyrics, geez dude " rearviewmirror " is as simple as it gets, you then resort to 3rd grade insults?

Pretty sad.

The funny thing is you are theoretically mocking someone for hanging out in a chat room....while YOU are in a chat room!!!!!!

has nothing to do with cleverness or smarts.
just not arrogant enough to read something into someone else's words.
they may be in fact talking about an abusive father, but there is certainly nothing in the lyrics that conclusively states that.

and there is a big difference btwn an internet horse racing forum and a band chat room.
not even close to the same thing.
have fun weirdo.


Repent

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Well said as usual. It is absolutely about leaving home, and an abusive parent. Read the lyrics. This is pointless.

Well said

Suzanne Vega's "Luka" never uses the words parent, child, or abuse, and it is unequivocally about a set of parents abusing their child.

Repent, your notion of how songwriting works is inherently flawed in insinuating that a song cannot be about something if that word is not literally in it.

Alanis Morissettes famous "You Oughta Know" is about an ex-boyfriend. It never, in the lyrics, says ex-boyfriend -- but any non-deaf nitwit could figure that out.

Need I continue?

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

No, I don't think anyone needs to. You are right, and seriously isn't that what's great about some songs, and writing in general. getting the point across by explaining a situation without saying: Dad did this. i was mad. That would be a great song I'm sure.

wow, now that i think about it -- this may be the ONE topic on which i am the board expert

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

wow, now that i think about it -- this may be the ONE topic on which i am the board expert

Well congratulations then!

dixie is still far in the lead in terms of being the board expert in the most categories. They're too numerous for me to even try to list, but I'll bet DaHoss could give it a good whirl. Track bias is a given.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Well congratulations then!

dixie is still far in the lead in terms of being the board expert in the most categories. They're too numerous for me to even try to list, but I'll bet DaHoss could give it a good whirl. Track bias is a given.

well ya know, when many have been in the racing game for longer than i've been alive -- there is a modicum of humility on the big issues.

so i'll take what i can get. if songwriting is the one thing i can claim -- you better believe i'm going to claim it.

....since track bias is already taken.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

No, I don't think anyone needs to. You are right, and seriously isn't that what's great about some songs, and writing in general. getting the point across by explaining a situation without saying: Dad did this. i was mad. That would be a great song I'm sure.

And was Puff the Magic Dragon just a children's song??