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An incredibly catchy and enjoyable song with great lyrics that quickly became my favorite Pearl Jam song.
Likes + comments →In the 9th track off Pearl Jam’s iconic debut, Ten, lyricist and lead singer Eddie Vedder paints dark images with the metaphor of a wilted garden decorated with stone. Themes such as existentialism, war, and, perhaps, a failing relationship, could be applied to his haunting words. A sorrowful protagonist—likely a soldier—who questions his place in the world, and the material needs of modern society, resigns to his inevitable fate: that he will walk into an unnamed antagonist’s cold garden of stone, to certain doom. Despite the narrator’s seeming willingness to give in and accept his demise, he also seems to be spiteful, resisting his fate even while his hands are bound. Eddie Vedder has indeed confirmed that the song was originally written about the then-contemporary Gulf War, and the greed involved therein. The “garden of stone” refers to a military cemetery, likely taking inspiratio…
In the 9th track off Pearl Jam’s iconic debut, Ten, lyricist and lead singer Eddie Vedder paints dark images with the metaphor of a wilted garden decorated with stone. Themes such as existentialism, war, and, perhaps, a failing relationship, could be applied to his haunting words. A sorrowful protagonist—likely a soldier—who questions his place in the world, and the material needs of modern society, resigns to his inevitable fate: that he will walk into an unnamed antagonist’s cold garden of stone, to certain doom. Despite the narrator’s seeming willingness to give in and accept his demise, he also seems to be spiteful, resisting his fate even while his hands are bound. Eddie Vedder has indeed confirmed that the song was originally written about the then-contemporary Gulf War, and the greed involved therein. The “garden of stone” refers to a military cemetery, likely taking inspiratio…