Oh, with this, your young long lost son, and his never had dear old dad Pearl Jam – My Father's Son
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We all be thinkin' with our different brains
Get yours off of my plate, it's alright
I got my own way to believe Pearl Jam – Getaway
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The refutation of religion is a theme on Lightning Bolt, specifically the idea of Christians shoving their beliefs down the throats of secularists like Eddie Vedder. The first single released from the album, Mind Your Manners, shows similar lyrical content:
Go to Heaven, that’s swell
How do you like it, Living in Hell?
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Every boat is leakin' in this town
Everybody's thinking that they'll all be delivered
Sittin' in a box like lost and found Pearl Jam – Getaway
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Everyone’s entitled to their opinion – and they know it. Pearl Jam has gotten a lot of flack for not living up to the standards the set for themselves in the 90’s, specifically with their groundbreaking debut album, Ten.
There’s also some definite biblical imagery here, with a specific reference to the story of baby Moses' journey down the Nile:
*And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. *
- Exodus
Perhaps Vedder is portraying himself as a Moses figure?
Yeah, too bad he was a psychopath and now I'm the next in line Pearl Jam – My Father's Son
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As if the two are mutually exclusive.
Also, should we be worried that there are clubs that apparently let 12 year old girls inside of them? That is unless she’s talking about Club Penguin
Cheap shots and low blows
Your friends will, will hurt you
Just to let you know Holy Ghost! – Cheap Shots
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Sometimes your friends are going to do things you don’t particularly like, because it’s in your best interests. Whether it’s some very honest advice or literally a hit below the belt.
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Bieber’s on-again-off-again lover has conditioned him to tread lightly when it comes to her feelings. Strangely enough, this line closely resembles one by Bon Iver in “Skinny Love”:
And I told you to be patient
And I told you to be fine
Who says it’s impossible for Bieber to get some bearded inspirado?
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Over a century of research (most famously Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species) has supported the notion that all living things are descendent and inherit traits from previous generations, dating back to the very first group of progenitors.
To try to refute this evidence would be defying years of systematic data collection and analysis. And of course, the Church does just that. Vedder compares them to a leader in the game of Simon Says, dictating the beliefs to their followers.
Very interesting how he says how profound fossils are because this opens door to “ intelligent design”. Without 100’s of millions of years of dinosaurs our civilization would still be in 19th century. Fossil Fuels changed world.