Yellow Ledbetter lyrics

Jan 7th 2012 11:33 am

This is the most reductive tool i've ever seen. The best lyrics are open to interpretation and should not succumb to such a test. To write the definitive 'meaning' in a box big enough for a few hundred words is like trying to ask someone to write the meaning of a sunset on a sheet of toilet paper.

ThePsyco · Nov 16th 2010 11:11 am

This sone is about their friends brother. His brother died in a war and thats why they wrote this song.

mbsimpson1 · Mar 15th 2010 3:40 pm

The actual lyrics are " i don't know if my brother is coming home in a box or a bag" you need to read his interview-it explains alot-and why people can never get the song lyrics right.

mbsimpson1 · Mar 15th 2010 3:38 pm

Was written around the time of the gulf war, and added that "it's an anti-patriotic song, actually. "[10] on august 7, 2008, at a solo performance in newark, new jersey at the new jersey performing arts center, vedder took a question from the audience requesting that he explain the meaning of "yellow ledbetter". At first, vedder joked, saying, "wait... You mean there's lyrics? " he went on to talk about how the song took as its subject a friend of his from seattle whose brother served in the first gulf war. His friend received a "yellow letter" in the mail informing him that his brother had died in the war. Vedder and his friend then went for a walk. On this walk, the friend, whom vedder described as "alternative-looking," happened by a house with an american flag flying, and people on the porch. He stopped and gestured to the flag, as if to salute it, however the people on the porch glared at him disapprovingly due to his appearance. [11]

soundchaser · Feb 26th 2010 1:08 am

Yellow ledbetter is about a couple ,who at one time were very happy, but love lost, he seems to hold on to a false sense of hope,only to find his world shattered
she 's been unfaithful,which he could have handle but she been unfaithful with people close to him.. "can you see them ,out on the porch, but they don't wave" now that he's knows the extent of her deviant ways, and the betrayal of ones once trusted. He feels empty and alone,a broken man. So much so that death is preferable. "i don't want to stay,at all. " he does kill himself,he didn't anything wrong,instead he turned to music,wrote yellow ledbetter,and told his story. Well that's my spin on it anyway.

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