Itโs a song about first relationships and letting go. Itโs very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earthโs gravitational pull and where itโs going to take people and how theyโre going to grow. Iโve heard it said that you canโt really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. Itโs a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you canโt have forever.
Eddie VedderNo matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
Eddie VedderIf people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.
Eddie VedderThe interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .
Eddie Vedder