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Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction
Yea, I’ll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing
For all eternity
Fell it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling
Consider me an abscess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission
Feel it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling
Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel It rising
High above I’ll break the law,
If it’s illegal to be in love,
Leave the hatred, on the cross
Yea I’ll be hanging upside down and here I will swing
For all eternity
Feel it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose with no fear of falling
Feel it rising, yea, next stop falling
Feel it rising
Something never thought you’d be part of...
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction
Yea, I’ll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing
For all eternity
Fell it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling
Consider me an abscess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission
Feel it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling
Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel It rising
High above I’ll break the law,
If it’s illegal to be in love,
Leave the hatred, on the cross
Yea I’ll be hanging upside down and here I will swing
For all eternity
Feel it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose with no fear of falling
Feel it rising, yea, next stop falling
Feel it rising
Something never thought you’d be part of...
Lyrics submitted by N0 C0DE 79
Track duration: 02:20
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Much like Red Mosquito, this song is about vampires. I'm not sure if he's conjuring the image of an emotional vampire or a literal vampire, though.
Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction
The undead really aren't people so much (devoid of soul and life) as they are things, so he can be considered an object. Stuck in a vacuum, as nothing can touch him to end his eternal torment. This train of thought follows into the final two lines.
Yea, I'll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing
For all eternity
...Obviously the bat image of vampires.
Fell it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling
On this one, I'm torn between the images of the vampire's hunger and his rage towards the humanity that he can no longer be a part of. Another, more literal interpretation that I considered is that it may be a reference towards the sun that could be the bittersweet end to his wretched existence but he somehow still instinctively avoids.
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission
He really just wants to be left alone to feed his hunger and keep his motor running with the blood of the (in his eyes) wretched humans. It's what keeps him moving.
High above I'll break the law,
If it's illegal to be in love,
Leave the hatred, on the cross
As he swoops in upon his victims from the sky, he has no concern for mankind's laws. All of his concern and passion is directed towards the lust for the feeding. Forget about the horrible goriness of it all, revel in the beauty and leave the hatred behind. ...And well, crosses... Crosses BAD!!!
Something never thought you'd be part of...
The final message for his victims before their own turning.
Bwhaaahahahahaaa!!!!! Not really. I think that Eddie just wanted to throw a fast, fun little punk rock song in with some obscure lyrics to make people ponder and over-analyze them. ...More like Bugs or Stupid Mop.
...Although, I did think the gay marriage thing was a good catch but I agree that it's probably a little too literal for this song. ... But I also agree that "With Vedder, you never know..." :-D
while those three lines could be interpreted as pertaining to gay marriage, its too specific. if the song was about gay marriage, we would see lyrics relating to it earlier in the song, and there would be more than three lines devoted to it.
in a sentence: this song is about the freedom to rebel and freedom of ideas and actions; we are not the tools of society, but individuals.
The opening songs are all rockers for 4/5 tracks.
Random "rocker" in the middle (Unemployable /Corduroy)
Ballads- (Gone/ Betterman, Come back/ Immortality, Parachutes, Nothingman)
Weird sort of poppy sing along (Big Wave/ Satans bed)
Intresting.
Not the best song on the album but my favorite.
Makes me wanna jump off the walls and that cannot be underestimated in Music. Sometimes its good to just listen ignorantly and rock out. LMAO.
I do agree with the gay marriage and other concepts though.
“Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction”
This symbolizes separating himself from the rest of the society, from all the restricting conditions (friction) it imposes on us. Eddie wants to be seen as an independent individual, capable of doing whatever he wants to do.
“Yea, I’ll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing
For all eternity”
Separating himself from the rest of the society is not seen as a bad thing, rather he is finally free and allowed to do what he wants, limitless.
“Fell it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling”
This part is pure energy. Just listen to the way Eddie performs it! It’s bloody awesome! It is an incredible roller coaster ride full of energy and action not limited by reason or thinking – just impulsive, fearless, rebellious experience, not quite considering the consequences, just enjoying the feeling!
“Consider me an abscess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission”
Here he clearly says he doesn’t give a f*** what the rest of the society thinks about his actions. His actions seem very rebellious to the society, but that is exactly what gives him power and purpose. So if they want to make him an outcast, he encourages them to do so because he simply can’t be bothered to be part of the restricting conservative system.
“High above I’ll break the law,
If it’s illegal to be in love,
Leave the hatred, on the cross”
I think here is stated once again that in his little own world he will do whatever he believes in his heart is right. No matter what the rules say. Also, we are reminded that we are all Christians, regardless if protestant, catholic, orthodox or whatever you like, we are supposed to love each other and be tolerant to other peoples’ actions, not to judge them by what WE believe is right.
“Something never thought you’d be part of... “
This last line could be a hint that everybody’s beliefs are something very private, he does not ask the society to understand him, just to tolerate it.
For me a great great song, I just love it, I think the overall message is to live your life how YOU want and not how the society wants you to. Also a message to tolerate other people doing the same. OMG, world would be such a nice place to live if people would listen more to what some guys have to say ;)
Once again, what brilliance by pearl jam! These guys rock hard! :)
anyway, i think it's about space-travelling:-)
"Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction
Yea, I’ll be hanging upside down.
And there I will swing"
I'm sorry if you took it the wrong way,...
I wasn't fingering methodism in general, I typed out what I thought the name of the church was,...
I think it was the northgate free methodist church or something like that,
I am a protestant too,... and believe me, I don't support that kind of bullshit,...
On a note of this song,.... They didn't play it last night :-/
Based on the title and all the lyrics, I took it as sort of a political activism song:
"Consider me an object / Put me in a vacuum / free of all conditions / free of air and friction"
I think he's saying politicians will treat us like objects if we never bother to question them or participate in elections. I took the air and friction to mean criticism and questioning of leaders. Ideally, these politicians would want to be in a situation where they make decisions and no one ever questions them, like how Bush supporters said John Kerry was insulting our troops for being critical of the war in Iraq. (the vacuum is not the hoover kind but the kind in phyics describing a situation where there's no atmospher like in space)
"Yea I'll be hanging upside down/ and there I will swing/ for all eternity"
I think this is just saying if you don't spend the time to consider whats going on, you won't know where you stand because you're not educated...you won't know whats right or wrong, whats rightside up and whats upside down.
"Blood on all the pistions/running my transmission"
I thought this compared us to objects again in the eyes' of a leader. Our lives aren't valued and our blood is used to run the "engine" or society they want to create.
"High above I’ll break the law,
If it’s illegal to be in love,
Leave the hatred, on the cross"
Everything interprets this as gay marriage. I'm not saying they're wrong but I didn't see it as this.
I thought "by fall in love" Vedder is just referring to being passionate about something/anything. If these super conservative groups criticize anyone who disagrees with mainstream decisions, they are in a sense making it illegal to be passionate about your beliefs, and Vedder's saying if its a law to blindly follow, its not a law worth following and he'll break it.
This was poorly written but I just wanted to express my opinion and I hope those who read it could understand it.
Again, I'm not saying I'm write and everyone else on this forum is wrong, it's just what I got from the song which I really liked.