Lyrics for All Those Yesterdays as interpreted by Trent

All Those Yesterdays Lyrics
Don't you think you oughtta rest?
Don't you think you oughtta lay you head down?
Don't you think you want to sleep?
Don't you think you oughtta lay your head down, tonight.
Don't you think you've done enough?
Oh, don't you think you've got enough? Well, maybe yea.
You don't think there's time to stop.
There's time enough for you to lay your head down, tonight.
Tonight.

Maybe it'll wash away all those yesterdays.

What are you running from?
Taking pills to get along.
Creating walls to call your own.
So no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things that we all do.

Oh, let it wash away all those yesterdays.

All those yesterdays. (All those yesterdays. All those yesterdays.)
All those paper plates. (All those yesterdays. All those yesterdays.)
You've got time. You've got time to escape.
There's still time. It's no crime to escape.
It's no crime to escape. (x2)
There's still time so escape. It's no crime, crime...
All those yesterdays. (x9)

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claires_advocate
04-23-2002

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pearl jam rules wonder why they havnt gotten a new album yet

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ladybug
04-29-2002

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man this song reminds me of a friend of mine!!

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dimitri
06-10-2002

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i thought it was paper planes....who knows

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corporatehell
03-18-2003

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Sleep and winding down from the day, got to love sleep.

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danny_Horney
04-23-2004

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after living all of the pressures and anxieties of the world every day. Take a break. rest. We all go through these feelings.

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SoBeR
04-25-2004

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All those yesterdays talks about human beings and how they build walls around them selves by the life style they choose, and the situations they`ve been through, who`ve been stupid for a couple of times always beleive that he`s stupid, its never too late to change, forget what made u what u are and start changing ur self to something better, let ur mind relax, remove the walls of thoughts u live in...

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planetearth
05-02-2004

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Relates to how people need to let go and escape after the day is over. It isn't a crime to want to dream and forget everything for awhile.

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joaovbs
11-22-2004

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I agree that the feeling of the song has to do with sleep, rest and escape, but I relate more with SoBeR's ideas of the walls we build and the difficulties we have in changing.
We often feel it's wrong (a "crime" even) to change our ideas and admit that we've been wrong in our atitudes for some time ("all those yesterdays"). So the song's saying: give up your struggle, cause it's only doing you harm and it's ok to admit you were wrong or off track.
Coupled with this comes the seductiveness of rest as an escape and it feels to me that the resting is sort of the acknowledgement of defeat (that you were wrong in something and are giving up). The rest and escape is something a person might have been fighting against, but should give in to and admit their mistakes.

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electric_shama
01-10-2005

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this song epitomises pearl jam and eddie vedders lyrical mastery...

i think "all those yesterday " has something to do with hangin around with the wrong crowd...doin drugs just to be "in"...

--->What are you running from?
Taking pills to get along.
Creating walls to call your own.
So no one catches you drifting off and doing all the things that we all do

you creat walls of your own...but later on you realize that no ones there for you...your freaking alone and desolate...

but the last line still stumps me...it seems that vedder thinks its no crime ...

listen to it when you're high...youll get the meaning...

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Bengal Tiger
02-10-2005

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i think its about old people .... and how they try to run away from the inevitable fact that they are slowly and surely nearing the end, by sometimes trying to work harder than their ageing body would allow, just so as to give the impression that they are young and active yet.... " what are you running from, taking pills to get along, ...so no one catches you drifting off"

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i love JF
06-09-2005

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hey eletric shama there's still time to escape its no crime i think means that when the walls are around you (your own) you may still feel like wanting to go back to all the other worlds that have yor name put on them but you know its wrong. its part of the cold turkey process and everyone gets it.

for more info on the meaning of this song listen to pink floyd the wall it'll help you understand it a hell of a lot more

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i love JF
07-25-2005

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i just looked at the title of this song and thought is it not just about if ya take drugs heavily youre goin to die short and simple although i know that it has a big meaning

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Unknown Ledgend
10-30-2005

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I've heard this is a tribute to the Beatles

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tami4
01-07-2006

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There's one thing I gotta know:
In the "Yield" albom cover, next to the lyrics of this song-
is that Awschwitz?!?

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i love JF
01-27-2006

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i was thinkig the same thing tami4
it has all the signs pointing to it aswell. i thought i was weird cuz i thought that but im glad im not.

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Regina
02-28-2006

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I have a friend who I think about every time I hear this song. She's an insomniac, and has an addiction to her various prescriptions, which she frequently takes too much of. Sometimes I play this song when she's around, hoping that she'll really listen to it, really listen to the message of the song "it's no crime to escape" and just let go of all those pills, and all those yesterdays.

I sometimes write songs about various people and situations in my life, just to vent...but I can't write a song for her, because Eddie Vedder already did, and I could never put it better.

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nobuttyuno
03-11-2006

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"this song epitomises pearl jam and eddie vedders lyrical mastery..."

Actually, that's Stone's lyrical mastery, not Eddie's.

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Given-To-Fly
06-20-2006

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amazing song...

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CCDevlin
04-19-2007

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they way he sings the word "yesterday" is like the beatles song. So maybe thats a hint? Meaning its about regrets in life which ppl are trying to run away from. In their work, in their abuse, in all sorts of things. Always in a hurry and without looking back because then they would have to face 'all those yesterday ay ay ays" ?

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Poo_Town
09-09-2007

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The song could be about a number of things, perhaps Eddie Vedder was feeling sleepy at the time, so he wrote about noddy land where you can forget "all those yesterdays..."

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Steve_Bureau
03-18-2008

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its like dreaming is the real reality. dreaming is almost the true waking life. doing drugs and altering your mind may be a a good idea at the time, but adds up to long term problems. this song reminds me of being hungover and laying in bed all day, listening to yield.

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seba88arg
10-04-2008

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stone wrote this one, not eddie

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Hrd2Imagin
07-22-2009

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This song is really about stopping to think about where you want to be in your life and what you want to get out of it.

Often times people find themselves in a rut, grinding out a work life day after day, accumulating stuff because we think it's necessary, all the while dreaming of a place we'd rather be, or something we'd rather be doing. They take pills to cope with life stress and come up with excuses (creating walls) to why they can't do what they really want to be doing in life.

Eddie is reminding us that it's not too late to escape this situation we put ourselves in. And it's not a crime, it won't hurt anybody if we go and find that happiness, whatever it is and wherever it is.

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