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Have a drink, they're buying Bottom of, bottle of denial Big guy, big eye, watchin me Have to wonder what it sees Progress laced with ramifications Freedom's big plunge
Pull the innocent from a crowd Raise the sticks then bring em down If they fail to obey If they fail to obey
For every tool they lend us A loss of independence I pledge my grievance to the flag Cause you don't give blood then take it back again We're all deserving something more
Progress, taste it, invest-it-all Champagne breakfast for everyone
Break the innocent when they're proud Raise the stakes then bring em down If they fail to obey Oh if they fail to obey
Pledge your grievance to the flag C'mon, don't give blood then take it back again We're all deserving something more
I want to breathe Follow the scene I want to taste Everyone i see I want to run when i'm up high I want to run into the sea I only want life to be... I just want to be... I will feel alive as long as I am free...
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Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
Easily my favorite song off Binaural, and the best political song they ever wrote. A ton of great lines. My favorite is probably
Pledge your grievance to the flag.
That's what democracy is supposed to be about--being able to use the political process to address your legitimate needs. A country that is unable to do that is unable to call itself democratic, and when the needs of the wealthy and powerful trump the needs and interests of the commons the system is broken and needs to be resisted.
I wish they made a video for this focusing on the WTO protests. It could have fit nicely with DTE.
I was SO excited for Binaural when they played this on Letterman. One of Eddie's finest songs.
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in my top three pearl jam songs, and never leaving.
eds aggresion in this song is just phenomenal.
2000 versions are my favorite.
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warehouse21sj wrote:
i love this song, but what is it about? i think its something specific but i cant remember exactly what it is.
really great tune though, one of my favs from binaural. and once again, its better live!
I believe it was inspired by the World Trade Orgainization protests (which many people think marked the rebirth of an active progressive movement in the US) in Seattle while they were recording Binaural
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stip wrote:
warehouse21sj wrote:
i love this song, but what is it about? i think its something specific but i cant remember exactly what it is.
really great tune though, one of my favs from binaural. and once again, its better live!
I believe it was inspired by the World Trade Orgainization protests (which many people think marked the rebirth of an active progressive movement in the US) in Seattle while they were recording Binaural
that must be it. i remember reading an article about it a while ago, but i forgot what the specific inspiration was.
i remember hearing this on letterman, such a great performance.
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i wasn't a big fan of it when i first heard binaural, but then I heard it live on one of the '00 bootlegs and fell in love. It had a lot of energy, especially in the last part.
Then I got to see it in Asheville for the VFC. 2nd tune, right after Sometimes. It just fit in perfect with the event. I was really hoping for it at the borgata...
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tiguipj54 wrote:
Great song i love the drumming of matt on this one.... i wish it has been on the greatest hits... always good live
It got nominated for a grammy, so I was suprised that it didn't make it. There was room to squeeze it on.
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Bammer wrote:
Even Flow > Grievance
But is Grievance > No Code?
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Easily one of the best hard-rocking songs the band has ever laid down on record. The 1-2-3 punch of "Of the Girl," "Grievance" and "Rival" is simply fucking amazing.
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one of the best songs from binaural, and its one of the best songs eddie wrote.
the lyrics ...well im from argentina and i can say the lyrics fits so nicely with was happening in my country.
with every tool they lend us a lost of independece....
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The song has to do with the post industrial modern world, a world in which we have slowly become enslaved by the instruments that are supposed to make the world better.
Henry David Thoreau (I know, he's been dead a long time) wrote that "Men are tools of their tools." The more tools you have, the more freedom you give up. Think even of the computer you are on. What did we gain? What have we lost? Get rid of your computers for a few weeks and see what happens.
"progress, taste it, invest-it-all
champagne breakfast for everyone."
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orchiddoctor wrote:
Get rid of your computers for a few weeks and see what happens.
I know what happens. I have way too much e-mail sitting in my in box when I get back
I think that analysis makes more sense for a song like DTE. Grievance (and especially the protests that inspired it) are much more about making the benefits of modernity equitable and available to everyone, and ending the exploitative nature of 'unregulated' markets. It is about the illusion of fairness in an unfair system. It's not a critque of modernity itself.
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