![]() I said I don’t know whether I’m the boxer or the bag Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sandĪnd on the sand I wanna leave it again, yeahĪnd they called and I said that I want what I saidĪnd the reason oughtta leave her calm, I know And then he waves to them like ‘my brother,’ and the people look at him like ‘you fucking scumbag,’ like ‘who are you.’ They don’t know. And so he’s walking and walking and he sees a couple on a porch with an American flag. ![]() He feels like he can’t take a step without falling into some deep abyss. ![]() He’s walking it off and his mind is racing and he doesn’t know what to do. So he tries to walk this off in this little suburban neighborhood. So it’s a story about his brother being killed over there, and then he gets a yellow letter in the mail. He was kind of an alternative-looking kid, like we were with our shorts and tights and long hair, whatever we have going on… activists and artists like many of the young people in Seattle, and smart people. “It was written around the Gulf War-this was “Papa Bush,” and it’s about a guy whose brother went to fight in the Gulf War. He went on to explain the initial story behind the lyrics of “Yellow Ledbetter”: There’s something about ‘they don’t wave… they’re sitting on the front porch, and they don’t wave.” “After all this time are you telling me there are words to that song,” joked Vedder during the show about the indistinguishable lyrics to the track. ![]() Vedder has admitted that the lyrics and meaning of “Yellow Ledbetter” changed for him over time, but when it was written-during the Gulf War and the presidency of George H.W Bush-there was one story he had in mind, which he shared in full during a Pearl Jam concert in Newark, NJ Aug. The Initial Meaning Behind “Yellow Ledbetter” ![]()
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