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I DONT KNOW WHETHER IM THE BOXER OR THE BAG

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. ------------------------- 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 w...