Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam
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Woo..
I’m ahead I’m a man
I’m the first mammal to wear pants yeah
I’m at peace with my lust
I can kill ’cause in God I trust yeah
It’s evolution baby
I’m at piece I’m the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
On the loose I’m a truck
All the rolling hills I’ll flatten’ em out yeah
It’s herd behavior uh huh
It’s evolution baby
Admire me admire my home
Admire my song here’s my coat
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I’ll do what I want but irresponsibly
It’s evolution, baby
I’m a thief, I’m a liar
There’s my church, I sing in the choir:
{Hallelujah? Hallelujah?}
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my song, admire my clothes
Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothin’ on me
Nothin’, why?
Because, it’s evolution, baby!
I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the earth, but now I’m higher
Twenty-ten, watch it go to fire
It’s evolution, baby {2X}
Do the evolution
Come on, come on, come on
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CREDITS:
The Song ~ Do the Evolution ~ Wikipedia
The Album ~ Yield [1998] ~ Wikipedia
The Phenom ~ Eddie Vedder ~ Wikipedia ~ Facebook
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FROM THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE
When speaking about “Do the Evolution”, Vedder stated, “That song is all about someone who’s drunk with technology, who thinks they’re the controlling living being on this planet. It’s another one I’m not singing as myself.” Pearl Jam has stated that the novel Ishmael influenced the writing of Yield, and according to the novel’s writer, Daniel Quinn, this song comes the closest to expressing the ideas of the book.
Vedder stated:
This Daniel Quinn book, Ishmael…I’ve never recommended a book before, but I would actually, in an interview, recommend it to everyone….But this book, it’s kind of the book of my … My whole year has been kind of with these thoughts in mind. And on an evolutionary level, that man has been on this planet for 3 million years, so that you have this number line that goes like this [hands wide apart]. And that we’re about to celebrate the year 2000, which is this [holds hands less than one inch apart]. So here’s this number line; here’s what we know and celebrate. This book is a conversation with a man and an ape. And the ape really has it all together. He kinda knows the differences between him and the man, and points out how slight they are, and it creates an easy analogy for what man has done, thinking that they were the end-all. That man is the end-all thing on this earth. That the earth was around even so much longer before the 3 million years. Fifty million years of sharks and all these living things. Then man comes out of the muck, and 3 million years later he’s standing, and now he’s controlling everything and killing it. Just in the last hundred! Which is just a speck on this line. So what are we doin’ here? This is just a good reminder…And I’m anxious to see what happens. You know, I’ve got a good seat for whatever happens next. It’ll be interesting.
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NOTES:
I remember distinctly hearing this song for the first time back in 2005. It struck a chord in mi somewhere but I dismissed it, there are other gems in that album you know, rather overpowering ones (Given To Fly & Wishlist). Anyway it finally hit mi properly in late November last year, when I was going through the entire catalog of Pearl Jam’s after I heard their latest album… Lightning Bolt. I will get into Lightning Bolt later, lets just say it came at a very strange time in my life 😛
Ishmael, I never could gather the courage to read. I know what the book is about. I know because I have heard multiple interviews of the author, Daniel Quinn and have received multiple recommendations from people I have been reading since 2008. Finally I am going to read it and I have put it in my summer reading list, fingers crossed.
What really boggles my mind, is to go back in time to 2005-06, there were so many signs that life gave mi back then. Signs of the things to come and I managed to completely ignore them. Sometimes I wonder how different things could have been, but Life is a chain reaction of colliding universes creating shared realities in thoughts and deeds, alternates to which can always be imagined, though, never to be realized. We continue to try and give meaning to everything in words, words whose meanings are unique, unique to each universe, and like snowflakes these universes of meaning, they come and go. Only sometimes, by purpose, fate or simple chance I know not for sure (still), but sometimes, as these universes collide a little light shines through.
Don’t get mi wrong, I hold no regrets, in fact I am quite incapable of holding regrets and in any case they were some of my best years.
Well except my one exceptional regret, that I started listening to Rock & Roll pretty late in life. Much gratitude to those who introduced mi to the good stuff and got the stone rolling, primarily Kailash, Rana, RJ, Appu, The Dude, thanks guys.
Hmm… As I hear Eddie scream in my head, I feel his angst…
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TITLE:
Yield ~ Wiki
From the Wikipedia page:
In finance, the term yield describes the amount in cash (in percent terms) that returns to the owners of a security. Normally, it does not include the price variations, at the difference of the total return. Yield applies to various stated rates of return on stocks (common and preferred, and convertible), fixed income instruments (bonds, notes, bills, strips, zero coupon), and some other investment type insurance products (e.g. annuities).
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