Love this song. So hard to hear the lyrics the way Eddie Vedder holds syllables and carries a note (The Man holds some air in his lungs). It's a masterpiece of music. The lyrics are mysteries and relative to losing someone, IMO. The Performance, sung by Eddie Vedder says it all.
The lyrics are speaking two perspectives. One is the life after the death of, as I see it, a Soldier. A Letter bearing News arrives and the Wife or Mother does not want to read the letter. The other is someone saying goodbye to either his Wife or Mother, then his Family.
Unsealed, it came in an envelope and someone read it but it's still laying on the Porch? Maybe a Mother speaking to a Father, she wants to leave it again.
We just got to wave goodbye. I appreciate this song! It's in a new light now.
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Unsealed
On a porch a letter sat
Then you said i wanna leave it again
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave it again... yeah
On a weekend I wanna wish it all away yeah...
And they called and I said that I want what I said
And then I call out again
And the reason oughta leave her calm I know
I said i don't know whether
I'm the boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they don't wave
But I see them round the front way yeah
And I know that I know I don't want to stay...
Make me cry
(Guitar Solo)
Ooooh I see
I don't know there's something else
I wanna drum it all away
Oh I said I don't, I dont know whether Im a boxer or the bag
Ah yeah ehh....
Can you see them
Out on the porch
But they don't wave
I see them round the front way yeah
And I know I dont want to stay
I don't wanna stay
I don't wanna stay
Don't
Don't wanna
Oh... yeah... oooh...
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