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Talk of circles, and punching out.
Looking in, drawing circles down.
Falling up, then south, marking ground.
Talking out of turn, drawing circles down.
Like Pilate I have a dog. (x2)
Walks me out of town. Still one's a crowd.
Making angels in the dirt.
Looking up, looking all around.
Like Pilate I have a dog. Obeys, listens, kisses, loves. (x2)
Stunned by my own reflection.
It's looking back, sees me too clearly, and I swore I'd never go there again.
Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down.
You down... (x3)
Like Pilate I have a dog. Obeys, listens, kisses, loves. (x3)
Like Pilate I have a dog.
Looking in, drawing circles down.
Falling up, then south, marking ground.
Talking out of turn, drawing circles down.
Like Pilate I have a dog. (x2)
Walks me out of town. Still one's a crowd.
Making angels in the dirt.
Looking up, looking all around.
Like Pilate I have a dog. Obeys, listens, kisses, loves. (x2)
Stunned by my own reflection.
It's looking back, sees me too clearly, and I swore I'd never go there again.
Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down.
You down... (x3)
Like Pilate I have a dog. Obeys, listens, kisses, loves. (x3)
Like Pilate I have a dog.
Lyrics submitted by Trent
Track duration: 03:01
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*The person that the song is about has a dog like Pilate. It obeys, listens, kisses, loves, you could say its a metaphor about a needy partner.
He/she later sees the reflection and once again realises how shit this is.
*The awesome way to see it
[Stunned by my own reflection
It's looking back, sees me too clearly
And I swore I'd never go there again
Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down]
Realises she/he is the dog and it's back where it didn't want to be, it swore it wouldn't be her/his bitch ever again, but oops. Assuming everything else said in the song is what the owner thinks.
*Another one is that the person is talking about itself. What made me think this was [Walks me out of town/Still, one's a crowd] me and myself, she/he defaults to a way of being that they don't like, even when they are on their own that way of being is frustrating and annoying and the realisation is not unlike a friend that politely brings you down. Time to change stop being a dog to other people and yourself.
Not so long ago I told a friend that to me she was like the human version of pearl jam's lyrics, neither here or there, implies alot so it is hard to figure out and understand and if you think you clocked into it a few minutes later... you go "huh? so, what? and which?" :)I like pearl jam
“ I think "Pilate" was the question I was asking myself, and "Low Light " was the answer, the realization. Have you ever read The Master and Margarita [by Mikhail Bulgakov]? I just read that book, and at the end they talk about Pontius Pilate being all alone on a mountain with his dog. He couldn't sleep and he couldn't function. It really struck me hard, because at that point I was feeling very alone. I've always had this recurring dream about being old and just me and my dog sitting on the porch. It wasn't necessarily a sad dream or a premonition, but it did get me to thinking about why Pilate was so alone and freaked out. Then I realized he didn't get to finish his conversation with Jesus—that's why he can't function, because he didn't tie up the loose ends in his life. Later, I was playing the guitar, and I was hit so hard by this amazing, emotion. In that moment the words "low light" came out, and somehow those were the only words to explain what I was feeling. It was a kind of gratefulness at finding that place of calm and peace at my center and getting a glimpse of the person I could choose to be. It was the purest happiness that I've experienced in a long time, that particular emotion. God, I thought I was going to explode. I feel very lucky to have been able to put it down on tape that morning and work through it until it became a song
The chorus is him admitting he's similar to Pilate in the story, in that at this point in his life; he's lonely, but still has his dog.
I'm not exactly sure what "Walks me out of town. Still one's a crowd." means, but I gather it's just about his loneliness and his inability to find someone else. "Making angels..." is him dreaming about what his lover would be like. Next line is him searching more furiously for someone.
The chorus, which is a bit more intense this time, is him desperately trying to cope with his loneliness, using his dog's love as a substitute for a person's.
In the final verse, he's grown older and is shocked to find how much of his life he's wasted without a lover. He realizes his dog is no substitute for an actual person, and falls back into the same loneliness as before. I'm pretty sure he's comparing his dog to "a friend that politely drags you down."
The last chorus, by far the most frustrated-sounding, is him nearly losing his mind over the fact that he's come to the end of his life and his dog is still his only companion.
The question Jeff was asking himself is whether he's going to let his life end up like this or not.
I'm probably over-analyzing this a bit, but that's just my interpretation.
The chorus (after alot of thought) ive decided that its the character day dreaming about Pontius Pilate, and associated the only thing that he had in common with Pilate, having a dog.
The 2nd verse I think has to do with jesus getting hung, and the "Stunned by my own reflection" is the character realizing that its all a dream, and being dragged back into the real world.
Input please
Frankly, I'm kind of disappointed that it's just about some dude sitting with his dog on a cliff. Oh well.
"Talk of circles, and punching out.
Looking in, drawing circles down." pictures some guy at work bored killing time by doodling and drawing circles, can't wait till its time to leave.
The rest of the lyrics also support this. "Like Pilate I have a dog". Pilate is eerily close to "Pilot". So its like a Pilot who needs a sog to lead him walk the streets and through the regular walks of life.
Maybe its just me. What do u guys think ?
I don't know if that has anything to do with this song, but at least you now have your story straight.