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Where do you go with that? That's where you came from.' 'But I'm still alive. And because I'm saying, 'The look, the look' everyone thinks it goes with 'on her face.' It's not on her face. the look.' And I don't say anything else. 'Now the second verse is 'Oh she walks slowly into a young man's room. All he knows is 'I'm still alive' - those three words, that's totally out of burden.' Elvis' 'Suspicious Minds' blasts on the jukebox as Vedder continues. He's still dealing with love, he's still dealing with the death of his father. He's still dealing, he's still growing up. He doesn't know what the fuck is going on. How could you ever get him back? But the son. You know how it is, first loves and stuff. His father's dead, and now this confusion, his mother, his love, how does he love her, how does she love him? In fact, the mother, even though she marries somebody else, there's no one she's ever loved more than the father. The son grows up to be the father, the person that she lost. It's an intense thing because the son looks just like the father. it's too much.' Vedder continues: 'The story of the song is that a mother is with a father and the father dies.

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Why I should probably learn how to sing another way.

'Everybody writes about it like it's a life-affirmation, thing - I'm really glad about that,' he says with a rueful laugh 'It's a great interpretation. In an early Los Angeles Times review, writer Chris William had even compared the song to the Who's 'My Generation.' Today, 'Alive' is a Gen X rallying cry, but tonight, sitting in the Nightlite, Vedder reveals the true meaning of the song. It was clearly Vedder's creative breakthrough, and the band's initial video celebrated a cathartic live performance of the song. The first song on Ten was also the first song to bring attention to the band. 'Alive' set the tone for everything that would follow. General CommentTaken from 'Five Against the World'