;c....As explained by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder

One of Pearl Jam's first singles, the
song was inspired by a newspaper
article about a 16-year-old boy named
Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson,
Texas who shot himself in front of his
English class in Richardson High
School on the morning of January 8,
1991. Delle was described by
schoolmates as "real quiet" and known
for "acting sad". After coming in late
to class that morning, Delle was told
to get an admittance slip from the
school office. He left the classroom,
and returned with a .357 Magnum
revolver. Delle walked to the front of
the classroom, announced "Miss, I got
what I really went for", put the
barrel of the firearm in his mouth,
and pulled the trigger before his
teacher or classmates could react.

When asked about the song, Pearl Jam
frontman Eddie Vedder explained:

It came from a small paragraph in a
paper which means you kill yourself
and you make a big old sacrifice and
try to get your revenge. That all
you're gonna end up with is a
paragraph in a newspaper...it does
nothing...nothing changes. The world
goes on and you're gone. The best
revenge is to live on and prove
yourself. Be stronger than those
people. And then you can come back


Thanks Sir Lising for your response:
yup...dat was during our heydays when we were in HS. It was the era of grunge, and their fellow acts were nirvana, red hot chili peppers, stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins and (believe it or not) rage against the machine...That's just a few in the list...Pearl Jam was different, however, they were sending a positive message amidst the anger and angst in their songs...Hay, nice to remember the good old days na wala kang iniicp kundi ang mag-sound trip, kasama ang barkada, at mag-jamming...but cant help to react at that article kc panahon namin yan eh...

Thanks for posting the article...U brought back a lot of memories...

SiR LiSiNG

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