Random Thoughts

Here are some of the lines of the song "I am mine" by Pearl Jam --

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The ocean is full 'cause everyone is crying...
The full moon is looking for friends at hightide...
The sorrow grows bigger when sorrow's denied.....

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And the meaning, slowly gets left behind....
And all the innocence is broken with lies....
For we're all different behind the eyes...

There are very few bands in the 90s which write songs with these intense lyrics (This song was written in 1991). Coldplay("yellow", "You only live twice") and Radiohead ("No surprises", "And true love waits") are the two that come to mind most prominently. U2 did have this intensity in its songs in the 80s ("with or without you", "Red hill mining town"), but slowly it has learnt to compromise in order to survive in the pop-&-rap era. Eminem definitely is raw, in the sense that it portrays emotions without altering them, but is too bold. there is no subtlety involved in Rap.