


Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn Were laid spread out before me as her body once didĪll five horizons revolved around her soul Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay General Commentthis song is about a bad breakup and him wanting her back no matter what, even tough he knows that she will be a "star" in someone elses sky. Best to you and all the others that have posted. I hope all is well with you and yours to this moment. Crossbone, I'm completely taken by your story and I know it's the truth. And oh yeah, I started an account too just to reply. and I get on here and many of you are saying twenty years. I have a good life that I've made, I'm a happy person. I love him still, and I am happy to just be happy to have known him. I've done everything imaginable to make peace with it, and I have. My story is just like all of yours and it was exactly 20 years ago that I saw him. So I knew when I got home I needed to look it up and it brought me to this site. I turned it up loud and listened and didn't really understand it. I had never listened to the lyrics but I knew tonight that I needed to because something was telling me to listen closely. The last three nights I've left work at different times and all three nights when I've got in the car, Black was on the radio. Or I go somewhere and on a sign it's his name or I see 11:11 every day and all the time. and every time I turn on the radio it's his song. Remodeled seven homes, couldn't wear myself out enough to forget. Moved around the country, nothing changed. I have a very instinctual feeling about him and it won't leave me. I lost a relationship years ago because it was the wrong timing and the wrong logistics. I had the "be all to end all" (his terminology) and that is literally what happened. And for some time I've wanted it to stop, but it follows me everywhere I go. Over and over things like this happen to me. How can my interpretation be wrong, even if only one other person knows what that can't believe this.

I live in a different universe with the only person I was ever meant to be with, in large part because of an impromptu performance of this song. Sometimes they also have meanings, equally valid, that only resonate with one or two people. Many songs have clear, intended meanings. The confidence we have found within each other has benefited everyone around us. The world has shifted on it's axis and turns only for us and her boys now. She still sees the man in me I never thought I could be. We will continue this until her youngest finishes school. She runs her business out of my office, we split time between her house in the city and my ranch in the foothills of the rocky mountains. We have literally never been apart since that night. We spent that night in a long list of unremarkable settings, saying very little to each other. She had always thought of us when she had heard this song and used to fantasize about me "growing up' and realizing what I had thrown away. She was across the street, sitting on the kerb, smoking her first cigarette in twenty years. I closed the set early and hit the streets looking for her. We sang Black and I noticed "she" left in a hurry during the song. During a break they asked me to come up a sing a set.

We were out with friends for dinner, listening to a great local band. Twenty years we have reconciled as friends. The later realization that "she was the one and only" had made her loss unbearable for years. MemoryThis song had become my anthem to a relationship that I ruined. While it's understandable that Vedder would've felt he was intruding had he asked for more details or permission to use their child's name, he probably should have considered reaching out to Jeremy's family before using his name.Īfter all, his loved ones were upset, even "angry," that the band, which was up-and-coming at the time, had depicted Jeremy's death incorrectly.I know someday you'll have a beautiful life RELATED: Gen Z Critiques Eminem, Rapper Responds With Song Titled 'Tone Deaf' - Who's Right? I was in the hallway and I remember hearing it." Vedder admits that even though the song is called 'Jeremy', the character of Jeremy in the song was created by combining a few different stories. It was geography class and shot up a 1000 gallon fish tank or something. And I totally related because I had a very similar experience with a kid who I grew with He kind of freaked out and brought a gun into class one day. "hen I went to write about it, I thought of actually getting a hold of what the actual person it was written about, but then I thought that would be intruding.
