Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam lyrics that make you cringe.
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:37 pm
Coast to Coast
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Pearl Jam have never really been great lyricists, but they're good for what they are. Avocado, though, has long been my least favorite album for lyrics. It's full of facile rhymes, awkward wording, ham-handed imagery and an inordinate amount of cliches.
You're always saying that there's something wrong I'm starting to believe it's your plan all along Death came around, forced to hear its song (UGH) And know tomorrow can't be depended on
Looking in the eyes of the fallen you've got to know there's another another another another another another way
With the living let what is living love
Well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake On his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
I feel the need Planted in me Millions of years ago Can't you see
I'm gone, long gone This time I'm letting go of it all So long Long gone, I'm letting go of it all Cause this time I'm gone
And of course, How I choose to feel is how I am
Let me run into the rain to be human light again
Life comes from within your heart and desire
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Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam lyrics that make you cringe.
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:44 pm
Coast to Coast
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spenno wrote:
I think some of those are really good, especially those from Unemployable and Big Wave (it works in the overall context).
I'm judging them from a lyrical standpoint, not as an overall song. They're clunky and badly formed, with awkward phrasing, ill-fitting syllables and a lot of high-school-poetry cliches ("if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?").
And about "Big Wave", the use of "can't you see" to fill a hanging line is a pet peeve of mine, and something that happens too often. Like Natalie Umbriglia's "Torn". "this is how I feel". Oh, this is how you feel? Okay.
But of course these songs are better than their lyrics, which is why we discuss songwriting and not just lyrics. Lyrics aren't that important in rock music. Unless you're Bob Mould.
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Post subject: Re: Pearl Jam lyrics that make you cringe.
Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:45 pm
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theplatypus wrote:
spenno wrote:
I think some of those are really good, especially those from Unemployable and Big Wave (it works in the overall context).
I'm judging them from a lyrical standpoint, not as an overall song. They're clunky and badly formed, with awkward phrasing, ill-fitting syllables and a lot of high-school-poetry cliches ("if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?").
And about "Big Wave", the use of "can't you see" to fill a hanging line is a pet peeve of mine, and something that happens too often. Like Natalie Umbriglia's "Torn". "this is how I feel". Oh, this is how you feel? Okay.
But of course these songs are better than their lyrics, which is why we discuss songwriting and not just lyrics. Lyrics aren't that important in rock music. Unless you're Bob Mould.
Don't it make you smile?
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