Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins (lyrics on screen)

Disarm by Smashing Pumkins (lyrics on screen)
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[@gwendolynstacy6911]

Oh god, the strings, the chimes, his voice, everything takes me to a different place.

[@philiptaylor2567]

Probably the most emotionally heavy song ever recorded. You can hear and feel his pain in his voice

[@calvinfujii5921]

Agreed.

[@fmartello]

Listening in 2020. Among the most beautiful arrangements I've heard in my life

[@elizabethkasboske7707]

Listening to it too!

[@MarkJones-qd6kq]

Lem

[@ceeceeeee]

Indeed

[@ceeceeeee]

I really looked forward to seeing them perform this year...a fan since the early 90s

[@rainydayzodiac5017]

Agreed

[@RuyLopezCUH]

I listen to this on my birthday every year. Happy birthday to me!

[@ashtonpatterson28]

I haven’t heard this song in such a long time and by the end of it I felt extremely emotional. It reminds me of my dad who was abused as a child. He wanted something good for himself when he was older, but broke his back working. Things quickly went downhill with a pain pill addiction, alcoholism, and becoming a wife beater. He died just over a month ago from a severe heart attack. We hadn’t had a good relationship since I was little (I’m 18 now). Growing up I could see pieces of his true personality shine through....At his memorial I heard his old high school best friends (my godfathers), old work buddies, and cousins tell stories of before he became an alcoholic and it really made me understand why people always said I was just like him. It just really makes me wish I would have gotten to know who he would have been if he hadn’t have chosen to be who he was instead. I hope anyone who reads this comment has a good day. Things get rough sometimes, but it’s all gonna be okay in the end. I believe anyone can make it

[@miadecorrevont9457]

You are a brave and amazing soul. To be 18 and have gone through all of that and still come up with your positivity is a great thing. Keep that with you alway

[@ashtonpatterson28]

Christine Boov Thank you so much. The kindness of a stranger means a lot. I hope you’re having a good day

[@williammager5325]

Remember that he didn't destroy himself to get away from you, but the internal pain that he carried with him. It overtook the man he was and changed him. It was not your fault, but you probably forced him to stay longer. I am in the same boat as him and I have a 16 year old daughter. She keeps me here, whether I want to or not. I'm trying to stay strong and I imagine he did too. Hugs for you I know that you will be with him again.

[@NASkeywest]

Ashton Patterson i was on heroin for 12 years. Its really hard an most people who get addicted to a substance end up dying from it.

[@bwoods1987]

Ashton Patterson im sorry. That you lost your father and he didn’t treat you well

[@allegrot438]

I just heard this for the first time randomly... fucking hell.

[@RaxuRangerkingsChannel]

Part of growing up is perfectly understanding songs like this, which seemed so random in your youth.

[@joeyxl3456]

Wow. That's awesome.

[@arturoramosbmoviesseriesan4452]

RaxuRangerking yup

[@00Tathagata]

holy shit you said it, i used to think (for 10 to 15 years) that the lyric was 'o no he is burned,' and then recently reflecting upon my life and all the pain i have seen and felt, learned it is 'oh the years burn,' and o my god do they ever.....

[@JDela-le2kp]

arisenApocalypse O_O emo wasn't even a term when this came out lol I know I was there haha

[@gamma21285]

cobain/ vedder emo is a genre of music that had been around since the 80s.

[@lucidtim]

they left me here, to wither in denial, The bitterness of one who's left alone.

[@happigoth]

Great poem/quote. It is really beautiful.

[@lukbialas6650]

💙 never alone ;)

[@angeloflight8714]

Me

[@evomike5708]

This is when music truly meant something. Pouring your heart out onto a piece of paper that can be felt by the listeners. That certain tone of voice, when you hear it, you know they truly mean every word coming out of their mouth. Music that's so real it'd give you the chills. It's a shame these days are gone forever. Miss it

[@AJPrice-cg5ip]

It's still out there. (Thinking the cover of "Zombie" by Bad Wolves)

[@billyray5232]

This song grabs on to your emotions like hooks and rips them out... Beautiful, I'm about to tear up..

[@lmom9304]

This song is FUCKIN beautiful. A cult classic. Aka immortal

[@theonlyvon5978]

my brother introduced me to this song a few years ago he passed away December 21st 2016 the memories I have of us driving and this use to come on the radio all the time I miss him so much

[@zeldafan734]

Such a powerful song.

[@lionelprophete8820]

Inside of me I'm such a part of you wow just forgive and forget

[@mzcherry2u]

Actually, this song is about Billy's relationship with his parents growing up. Hinting at an abusive one but songs are so fluid that anyone can find meaning in songs, especially like this one.

[@theescapistpoet]

I wish this song could go on forever it's such a work of art

[@TheRageCommenter]

Amazing song

[@jenwelles3030]

I know what you mean. Exactly why it's the length it is. Perfect.

[@evakorpa]

Exactly

[@jssgopman]

Taylor Gebert Same

[@jacobsegal2843]

Truly. I wish someone could paint it.

[@markbrazis5444]

Loved this song when I was a teenager. But only when you're older can you really understand.

[@nanasitapena7215]

February 2019, still gets me in my feelings.

[@mikelawson5103]

Song's not about wanting to kill his parents or about child abuse. It's about wanting to kill himself. After agonizing over it, he realized he couldn't do. At that point he was "disarmed," and that's when he told himself, Ok, if I am going to live my life, then I am going to do it by being my true self: "What I choose is my voice." It's a sad, painful song but ultimately it's an affirmation of life.

[@LouisWritingSomethingCrazy]

What he said in interviews with MTV at the time is that it was about his abusive childhood and deciding to let that pain go essentially. The song "Today" is about suicide and the moment he decides to live on instead of killing himself. It's why "its the greatest day I've ever known"

[@Daxter5150]

Billy Corgan is a man of talent. Such a great musician!

[@jacki7490]

*was

[@colin6246]

+Jack I * and still is

[@momentarytruce]

This gives me chills...

[@TheWorldTeacher]

Yes, it's a special song. The arrangement is first-rate too.

[@tayagsuqyegsuwueiw4676]

Probably the most emotionally heavy song ever recorded. You can hear and feel his pain in his voice This gives me chills...

[@raypenn904]

2019: Doing some reminiscing before I turn myself in. Felt like transporting back to simpler days.

[@jrwilcox7508]

I feel you bro be easy man

[@O5FS]

hope you do your time well read and exercise keep your mind right

[@chicagocousins]

Go to Mexico fuck the system

[@crystal7205]

Prayers for easy time and for comfort

[@billtommpson1630]

Do the crime be willing to do the time bruz do it fast and learn something

[@KyleGavinMom]

To my adored son; Losing you took the roar out of my lion heart, the sun out of my sky...I am not capable of understanding why you were taken away so young, I cannot express to the universe enough how meaningful, amazing and good you were, now everyday is cruel...it’s brutal, your absence is like an elephant on my chest...I miss you, Oh god, I miss you so much! I have accepted life gets no better than the 20 amazing years, I was blessed with you. I promise to honor your life and one day sweet boy, I will hold you again...I know you are with me because I wouldn’t still be here if you weren’t. Lifetimes of Love...Mom💔 •Kyle David StrIckland• 6/17/97~1/21/18 ...it’s so hard to not take my life to be with you, son...bitterness is someone who’s left alone💔my heart, my spirit-Broken! I have to stay, I have to keep moving, I know you want me too, I know you miss me as I miss you. Life is so fucking cruel. Love is more powerful than Death, I know this much...on the other side beautiful boy, one sweet day...

[@matthewshelby6761]

I hope things are getting a little easier

[@williamroberts2096]

I'm sorry for your loss and condolences to you and your family. One day you will be reunited with your beautiful son.

[@rommelartavia]

Tho I know is not the same, I can feel almost the same as you feel, she left us alone my sons and I that same date but for this year, the girl of my dreams, the mother of my children and my partner in crime been 3 months now and still like it was yesterday. It's hard to live knowing someone so loved won't be with you again. At least she left me two of the better gifts I had, my boys. Hope we can find us again in eternity. Loved you always and still. *Yensy Cortes Duran* -7/4/85~1/21/20- As for you, Jenè, I hope you can find peace and please don't take your life, it sounds like the better way to go with our beloved ones but perhaps that would send us to a chasm or limbo where we can never got out. Don't take me wrong, the idea has gone through my mind often, even I don¿t know what do I do if I lose my boys, but I know that I have to take care of them now and I need to meet my (our) grandchildren to tell her about them. We must let our dead go but never forget all the gifts they made to us when alive and wait for our time to be with them. A BIG hug!

[@beaubrotzman3141]

Good Lord. I'm listening to a tear jerker song and now I'm reading a tear jerker of lost loved ones. 😥 I am SO VERY SORRY ta learn of your lost Loved ones. This is sad to hear. I've been to a few of my friends funerals as well. No older than I. Horrible to learn of lost Loved ones. Especially young lost Loved ones. Whatever the causes. Sounds like this song helps you cope some. May your heart and endurance never give up here on earth. Reunite again. 😇

[@jacksonpierre3535]

🙏

[@senschic1]

Been giving me goosebumps for over 20 years

[@serinaquesinberry3438]

This is when music had purpose. Oh god, the strings, the chimes, his voice, everything takes me to a different place.

[@k1234e5678]

"Disarm you with a smile" Brilliant(;

[@jikofi31]

For me this song is about severe child abuse: Disarm you with a smile - an abused child needing to constantly feign happiness in order to cheer up his dangerous parents Cut me like you want me to - an abused child must lie to himself in order to be complicit in his parents lie The years burn - the deep pain in the soul of an unloved child Cut that little child inside of me and such a part of you - abused children grow to become abusive parents I used to be a little boy so old in my shoes - children who are abused have no choice but to developmentally skip childhood completely and become adults immediately What I choose is my voice what's a boy supposed to do - an abused child has an uphill battle to climb in order to claim his true and once lost identity The killer in me is the killer in you - an abused child's self destructiveness and self hatred is rooted in his parents self destructiveness and self hatred Leave you like they left me here to wither in denial - an abused child learns to abandon his true self in the same way his own family abandoned him. He needs to be in denial in order to survive, to maintain the lie that he is safe and loved. He dies inside and withers like a rose that never feels sunlight. My deepest love goes out to all those in the world who suffered abuse as children. There are good people out there, you just need to look.

[@Jigsawtwig]

This is the meaning behind it. Corgan was abused as a child.

[@ravynpowers3394]

This is why I like my type of music... It has deep (hidden) meaning

[@billarcand4128]

+Justin Kang that's just fucking heart breaking dude

[@coolcanine8780]

+Justin Kang Sad but can be true, my dad was an abusive father figure, i accidentally chopped off a part of my little toe and he told me to walk it off, but im not like that and never will be, but this song can pierce even the blackest hearts

[@janesmith6056]

wow! fantastic insight. Thank you

[@shnoogums1]

the most unorthodox and brilliant vocalist ever

[@nathanaelswenson8751]

Well... Serji is good too

[@kindacringesav]

SOAD, nice

[@HorkPorkler]

Nah, pixies

[@dom318]

Bowie but close

[@alicetango6725]

you have never heard deftones have you

[@nikolaidimitrovich2102]

My fifteen years old personal soundtrack

[@joeyxl3456]

great song man

[@damiansmyth8150]

I remember "beaking" of skool, listenin ta this in Botanic gardens.. great times

[@Sessalady]

Yes!

[@antoniowells3584]

"Disarm you with a smile" I like that.

[@rustyjames719]

A good song is one that creates empathy across every variant of human. This one does that.

[@danielainsworth4092]

THE KILLER IN ME IS THE KILLER IN YOU

[@simonkristiansen5818]

My love.

[@TheRageCommenter]

I send this smile

[@TheRageCommenter]

Disarm you with a smile

[@ladyalfhildrforestofvioletmist]

leave you like they left me here

[@kashmirevans5572]

Lady Alfhildr of the Forest of Violet Mists to wither in denial..

[@hawkarock75]

I had been home from the army about 15 years or more. I remember this song from the mid to late 90's. I kept a lot of shit bottled up inside of me that i never talked about. Then one day at work I heard this song on the radio, and I broke down crying. Yes, the killer in me is the killer in you. I didn't talk about what wrong with me that day to anyone, but I was finally able to let go of a lot of negative shit that was wrong with me. Now when I'm silent all is still. This was all before 9/11, I pray that those men and women learn to be still when silent. Time can heal, some times with the help of a song.

[@elizabethrowan5089]

deep man but beautiful

[@franklange7692]

You stay strong.

[@e-rock-e.3440]

Damn. Such an amazing comment that mostly went overlooked. Thanks for sharing a deeply personal story at the most appropriate and most relevant moment possible (instead of say, unnecessarily bringing it up at every opportunity for pity/attention).

[@alexescobedo4301]

Take care brother.

[@jeffreythomas5138]

The depth of the song is is even more sad when you know its his recolation of his abusive childhood.

[@bandy267]

Unforgettable

[@comradehermit9320]

RIP Lem.

[@JaimeYeyoquin]

Just saw the episode, I'm so sad and angry at the same time!

[@carbinehighlights5396]

He didn't deserve to die. I hate Shane smh

[@chedonte474]

"Who cries for the little boy inside of me..." - Antwone Fischer

[@6speedss680]

Who’s listening in 2019

[@armstrong718able]

Im listening

[@tarapruess7503]

Me

[@allencooke9408]

It is good music not like the trash now days

[@shawnneal9297]

Classic also when music actually came from the heart and not what makes money.

[@luckyjm6_mom748]

Me

[@arlenem.6469]

"Disarm you with a smile." Clever.

[@domongquynh9766]

they left me here, to wither in denial, The bitterness of one who's left alone. I wish this song could go on forever it's such a work of art

[@amytilden7927]

I remember listening to this song on loop, grieving the loss of my bio mom and how she abandoned me as infant and ultimately put me up for adoption. Twenty years later it still hurts even though she clearly was selfish and unfit. Not every adoption story is a lifetime family moment.

[@kongstrong1938]

This song is too beautiful! I'm cryin man!

[@hulljustus7716]

Oh god, the strings, the chimes, his voice, everything takes me to a different place. Probably the most emotionally heavy song ever recorded. You can hear and feel his pain in his voice

[@henrywilson5641]

I was a missing person for a while during high school many years ago. This song is one of many that bring me right back to those days. Ohh, the years burn.

[@thegoonz9772]

Still here and it is now 2020. Timeless.

[@timtheman2981]

This song breaks my heart, it reminds me of when the realization that my best friend (who committed suicide months prior) was gone forever and that I was never going to see him again finally sunk in.

[@ClutchboyzHQ]

sorry for your loss

[@mommyslilstinker]

Hang in there buddy

[@luissalvadorangulolira9759]

Man, that's terrible.

[@brianmitchell719]

i now how that is my best friend died the same way back in jun 2016 my crazy ex wife never liked him and did not tell me i found out weeks later and let the rest of our friends know and that women went as far as stopping me from going to his wake im happy im not married and plan on getting some ink done in his memory it never gets easy but you do learn how to live with it sorry for your loss.

[@billhiggin2202]

Feel ya bud. Lost so many to suicide.

[@dustynathan6442]

Saw the SP in Camden, NJ in August. First show of the tour. Beyond excellent. Reliving that night tonight (tonight).

[@jameshood1928]

A great song with a powerful message. Corgan sings it with passion. Music is wonderful. A classic.

[@joshuasantiago788]

I always come back to this song

[@marcusleath8417]

This gives me chills... My fifteen years old personal soundtrack

[@edithmcgrail6977]

Such an unique and totally awesome voice just love

[@beaubrotzman3141]

Beautiful tear jerker.

[@AbbyLOL87]

This song makes me cry every time...

[@hollylove3597]

This song reminds me of a quote I found in a book on amazon tilted: "Midnight Writings by a Distant Mind Lost in Time " "From the wounded soul, comes poetry & music. In return, music & poetry heals the soul." If you like the Smashing Pumpkins you should check this book out.

[@maccliff2115]

I was 17 in 2002 when I first heard this song. Deep and meaningful. Now I’m 35 and this song is still just as deep now as it was then. For me its it’s about being abandoned, and having to grow up still being a child, and make your way in life.

[@amriktheshev]

My favorite by them. It really speaks to me on a psychological and physical level. I've always felt this song, from the second I heard it all those years ago and it's like it hasn't left my side. Makes me mourn my childhood (or lack thereof) but also makes me look forward and "disarm" it so it isn't held over my head for the rest of my life like I used to think it would be. It's beautiful and I'm so thankful for it.

[@chrispafrieddreamaster4085]

Rightiousness D! I hear of hint of grew up to fast here, we had no choice. I hope u do everything u can to heal from that, including forgiveness.. I figured it out so late..

[@amriktheshev]

@@chrispafrieddreamaster4085 It's okay, though. As long is it's figured out, who cares how long it takes? Some never do. Some live in it every day for the rest of their lives. We're still the lucky ones. And healing is a long process. The wound is gone but the scar will always be fresh...but it should be seen as the blessing of strength, not the burden of pain. Shout-out to all of our battle wounds- they tell the best stories Aesop's fables ain't got nothin on these 😆

[@chrispafrieddreamaster4085]

@@amriktheshev Sure thing, I was just sitting here thinking how my life story and Spiritual journey is unexplainable. By experiencing covert narcissistic abuse again, made me dig down deep to find out the reason I was tolerating it, I learned who I really am, cuz it ain't that, the cycle stops here! Stronger now..I like quotes, movies, songs, I was reading " Broken" - Lifehouse lyrics, such healing words, he's been through a lot too. But the quote that comes to mind is; " It is far better to persue a goal that has an uncertain outcome than to face the fear that arises from living a life without purpose." Life is full of struggle, for some more than others, but its still worth it! Battle on.. Blessings..🙏

[@amriktheshev]

@@chrispafrieddreamaster4085 I don't know if you remember Hanson (or if you're old enough to) but they have 2 songs called "Broken Angel" and "Strong enough to break" Pretty relatable, if you get the metaphors. Mad respect to you. You're a survivor.

[@chrispafrieddreamaster4085]

@@amriktheshev niiice! Great lyrics. People will put u down and walk all over u if u let them! Don't.. Try; Broken Wings- Mister mister. Heal first, create &keep ur boundries, Learn to fly again.. Be blessed

[@63dbennett]

This is when music had purpose.

[@assass4447]

It still does

[@assass4447]

Listen to citizen

[@jakestarr4718]

There's no purpose found in socialistic standards......

[@noxiouscreations4913]

Hell yes

[@SuicideRedemption]

It still does in rock and metal.

[@erichbeckers]

The whole album Siamese Dream is brilliant

[@tobiasmurray8641]

Was at the concert in SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA 2019.. ONE OF THE BEST CONCERTS IVE BEEN TO THE STILL KILL IT!! 🔥❤️

[@malcolm4556]

reb & vodka, i'll love you forever.

[@brandonandkieran9931]

+malcolm Didn't expect a Columbine reference on this video, was more expecting it on KMFDM or Rammstein

[@brandonandkieran9931]

+Brandon and Kieran I know Klebold especially liked TSP, very warming to see your comment

[@youcanttriplestampadoubles5525]

malcolm Nerd out

[@elijahmercado4664]

Shut yo dumbass up

[@Melina-hq3rj]

[@paulhansen5522]

so nice in the shield :)

[@blackbird426]

You've been on my playlist since I can't remember what year.

[@crazymusicjunkiechristinaw8408]

Best song ever! Whoever wrote this song is a genius!

[@crazymusicjunkiechristinaw8408]

Victor Suazo thanks

[@dannydukes1505]

Beautifully timeless

[@RATTlovergurl]

Probly my favorite song...

[@AnthonyCRS.mak_]

Listening in 2020 and always!

[@dananderson5611]

Truly one of my favorite songs of all time !!!

[@richardwoolery1435]

Seen them last feb in indianapolis with my daughter. She had to put up with dad jammin those pumkins records as a lil girl. Now shes foerver a pumpkin fan. Best concert ive ever seen,hands down! Great show excellent sound perfect. I cant say enough 2019

[@brede133]

have to fight tears everytime i hear this song :-)

[@seanmichaelboudreau8507]

the bitterness of one whos left alone

[@johnworley6712]

Absolutely love smashing pumpkins still listening in 2019 and so on and so in

[@foxjteel]

I love this song always makes my day better

[@threevisionsgodpark]

Some of us are destined to suffer...

[@cocoparadise2401]

I feel ur pain Plan Tonto! U be strong and the rest will fall in place! I'm going thru the same thing and my mom is still with the monster! Laughed in my face when I did tell her! So be strong!

[@benjaminwilliams187]

Thank you.

[@allencooke9408]

Love these guys made so good music

[@rubenguerrerogarcia9921]

song of the shield that memories

[@TwanDeezy]

I think the line, "The killer in me is the killer in you" relates to a desire of Corgan at one point to kill his parents. He said in an interview once, "I never had the guts to kill my parents so I wrote a song about it." So I think the line relates to his parents being at fault for wanting to kill them because while they figuratively killed him, he was going to kill them. Also, he was spawned from them, so he shares their blood.

[@Yaowza1227]

Think it's more along the lines of child abuse.. A parent (killer) abuses their child (killer in him) physically or sexually and the likelihood of that child one day growing up and doing that to their children is high. Which incites a vicious cycle. Or maybe that's how I interpreted it.

[@jacki7490]

Billy needs serious help

[@skyofthelivingdead]

+Jack I they abused him so..it's pretty much their own fault

[@trashcanangie2278]

Anthony Boyle it means his rage and anger is rooted from his parents

[@oe6571]

He never said in his interviews it was about killing his parents, he said it’s about child abuse.

[@m-bronte]

thx for posting with lyrics

[@pfpf402]

Beautiful.....

[@JOSHUAloves1]

Through all the pain, stress, and hardship, I look for others to get it. I look for honor from those i honor. I love as i want to be loved, knowing I sometimes fail in loving. I look for people to understand but first I look for change in MYSELF. It's like the levels of caring with certain things just stop, it's so overlooked this genuine love that I need. May the Lord rebuke the people who trample on about their ways, as real love is being stepped on, talked over, Ignored for lack of concern, disrespected, left hanging, and so much more. May He humble the things we choose to love over the source of love at work in which we take and never give back. The love where we extend our arms to other's and it's seen as owed and dishonored. May the Lord rebuke the things we say and do over His love in us desperately trying to function loving other's. The love that is giving out from, pain, integrity, sincerity, honor, the love that we all need but don't often feel we can find truly. May the Lord rebuke the ones who take it for granted, who call it what they want when they know what it is and still ignore the attention and acknowledgement needed. The love people want selfishly but don't respond to outside of their own agenda. In Jesus name...... Dont take for granted Love that is being handed from the heart to you.

[@jabsluna]

Not a Christian, but that was beautiful.

[@JOSHUAloves1]

Leila bless your heart.

[@jabsluna]

[@sharleneedwards3739]

Jesuslover Warrior

[@goffdroid]

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️🚶🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

[@brentcrosby7109]

Corgan's masterpiece!

[@xXShaddowKittyXx]

Such beauty in this song. :)

[@TheAnarchyIsReal]

Still one of my favorites to this day it puts me in a trance

[@dropbearkellyevehammond4446]

my fave song evet

[@ScreamingBanchie]

This song just made me cry. Wtf man!

[@user-od8fg1gw1d]

The years burn. Truest statement ive heard in awhile. Life hurts.

[@MrBlue-km8qv]

Thanks for uploading the lyrics. 'The bitterness of one left behind.' Good choice of lyrics. it captures the heart of the song. *Disarms you with smile and CQC hugs them metal gear 4 style*

[@DarkSpine49]

This song makes me think of a pirate ship in a storm.

[@rabooey]

Well yer weird.

[@DarkSpine49]

rabooey HEY!!

[@victoriaparedes606]

Saint Jimmy Sort of does xP it reminds me of a little boy running through fields. (For my imaginitative version xD) {Also made up a new word as you see there.}

[@DarkSpine49]

Mildred Paredes Like I said.

[@marcusanton95]

I know this is an old thread but I wanted to tell you Sonic I love the imagery of you posting. "A pirate ship in a storm".

[@thanahatchet3329]

This song is so sad, and it makes me think of how my ex left me when I needed him most, not even thinking twice about it.

[@lukbialas6650]

💙

[@jakesmithsonian388]

maybe he just needed to twerk on some dudez

[@julietapaolaparra4962]

Same especially when I needed him the most after I relapsed he left me and his 2 year daughter high and dry 😭😭😭

[@rexcaruana5800]

Sounds like a loser anyway, your better off without him

[@rynoman3688]

QTee I agree man but everyone takes it differently, even tho that’s what this song is about, I see it differently then y’all do. To me it’s about looking back at myself as a kid and how peaceful everything was, now as an adult I’ve been thru hell and back. Everyone interprets it differently. But just my opinion! Peace and love yall✌🏻 see you in another life brotha

[@Michelle3489]

never was a fan , but i can't get enough of this song!!!

[@jesselyon521]

Thank You

[@believebruins63]

Something about this song.. I just don't know but I love it so much(:

[@Vedder1992]

I think the song is about his stepfather. I think he was abused by him. he couldn't stop him or them maybe. the only way he could defend himself or defeat them was by smiling. trying to keep a positive attitude as best he could. Good song.

[@theradicalreviewer6053]

Vedder 1992 sad but very true

[@t.d7842]

That's the best way to servive!

[@arlenem.6469]

He was neglected by his parents and physically and verbally abused by his stepmother.

[@lucyelberg1424]

Love this

[@thebipolarbear2639]

Still an AWESOME classic!

[@mrjimmyboy16]

"The Killer In Me Is The Killer In You" love it

[@Zoharargov]

Amazing song! They don't make em like this anymore :(

[@VicereineKillbride]

Lmao, you've listened to every single song every released since this song was made? Highly doubt it

[@nicelady8165]

Thank you jeff

[@ROCKETS13131313]

Love this song