Opera Singer Tries To Analyze This... and FAILS! Pearl Jam's "Yellow Ledbetter" stumps Elizabeth

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Eddie Vedder is probably tied with Chris Cornell for my favorite grunge singer so far, and diving in deep into Pearl Jam's catalogue is the best way. Not prepping for this song by reading any lyrics, I figured I'd have an easy time analyzing "Yellow Ledbetter". I was dead wrong. Wizards, right?
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Pearl Jam performing "Yellow Ledbetter" for the first time.
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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@Pinche_Adrian 4 месяца назад

When Eddie Vedder said "On a weelan Ona wissitonawayeaa Ani cownanasaya Nannawowasay ani gollah agaiii"... I felt that shit...

@rotten87 4 месяца назад

I don't know how someone can make this any more cleareeree-eer.

@lowden87 4 месяца назад

Its true when u think about it tho, vedder does have a point

@kandrabee 4 месяца назад

I'm dying laughing over here.

@TroyHawkins1 4 месяца назад

😭😭😭 yeah dawg

@dribblywildman7744 4 месяца назад

This comment deserves way more respect

@justintime343 4 месяца назад

I've loved this song for 30 years and have never known a single word of it.

@justins3810 4 месяца назад

Same here! This is the first time I looked up the lyrics to this song.

@MeNtaL_kAse428 4 месяца назад

Did this karaoke last nite b/c of the post.... Georgous song

@bunhelsingslegacy3549 4 месяца назад

Same, I just looked up the lyrics now and they really don't make any more sense!

@alanela6761 4 месяца назад

Ty, Justin. Now i don't have to comment. You said what i was going to say. And i will never, ever look up these lyrics. I don't even want to know

@justins3810 4 месяца назад

@@alanela6761 You should definitely read the lyrics and the meaning of the song. Its pretty deep. Its a very emotional song

@mlyness100 3 месяца назад

“The most beautiful song you can’t understand”

@williamkramer9731 3 месяца назад

Best that way….. once you actually see the lyrics and get the meaning it’s gut wrenching and a hard listen

@AshleyStern-wq5dl 3 месяца назад

It gets you in the feels

@jasonlaviolette2964 2 месяца назад

Absolutely! "make me cry..." and into one of Mike McCready's best guitar solos. Listening to that always brings a tear to my eye.

@laurabarr2464 2 месяца назад

You want to hear BEAUTIFUL music you can't understand listen to Cocteau Twins........ ❤❤❤❤

@kleeklee4572 2 месяца назад

@@williamkramer9731it’s about war from the perspective of military families.

@rdspam 4 месяца назад

I once saw an audience member ask Eddie about the lyrics. His response- “wait, there’s lyrics?”.

@FeelItRising 4 месяца назад

yet people still try to pretend there are. so dumb

@pcproffy 4 месяца назад

When asked why this song wasn't on TEN, he said it was because he never finished the lyrics.

@padensmith4354 4 месяца назад

He said in concert that the song was about a guy who’s brother died in the gulf war and he goes on a walk after getting the letter and can’t handle the news and on the walk he sees a couple on their front porch with an American flag and he waves but bc he looks like a 90s grunge guy they judge and don’t wave back not knowing he just lost his brother for the country. From Eddie’s mouth on stage.

@Qpoueoor 4 месяца назад

Marbles. Hey.. I love it but…. Marbles.

@49erfevah 4 месяца назад

There's lyrics. He just hadn't finished when they recorded. It's about a neighborhood kid who lost his life in the first gulf war. More specifically him seeing the parents being visited by military officials with "the letter".

@blaineferguson7699 4 месяца назад

Pearl Jam's "Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town" is a fantastic song!

@madsquishy3410 4 месяца назад

Yes!! My favorite song by them!!!!

@johnc7512 4 месяца назад

Agree

@belebih 4 месяца назад

I agree. It's a song that has taken on different meanings at different points in my life, most recently with the passing of both my mom and grandma. It really is a beautiful song.

@920WASHBURN 4 месяца назад

"My god it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return". Hurts

@Tristana.Keauna 4 месяца назад

yes!!!

@MichaelMullane 4 месяца назад

"I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag" is my favorite lyric from this song. (sometimes you're the hammer, sometimes you're the nail)

@mikehanken2485 3 месяца назад

I think he was referring to the way soldiers came home from Vietnam whether it was in a bag or a box

@jasonallen7993 3 месяца назад

Sometimes you are the bug and sometimes you are the windshield

@maxflier Месяц назад

It’s box or a bag. Howard Stern thought it was boxer or the bag too and Eddie corrected him.

@pwnzer33 3 дня назад

its definitely boxer or the bag as in a punching bag.

@OblivionAviator 4 месяца назад

"Eddie Vedder sounds like he’s singing in reverse." - David Spade, Weekend Update, 1990s. Best description I've heard, so far.

@skarlottt 4 месяца назад

Lol I remember that!

@neil2444 4 месяца назад

Lyrics don't have to be sensible or make sense. I realized this after hearing and enjoying many songs from R.E.M. Apparently the lyrics were made to fit the music rather than the other way around.

@rickc661 4 месяца назад

@@neil2444 being a geezer - Beatles tunes, especially Lennons were oft like this

@ericapelt4591 4 месяца назад

If you play pearl jam backwards it says "this sucks".

@memyselfundeye 4 месяца назад

@@ericapelt4591hardly.

@spud69g 4 месяца назад

"There must be a Wizard in here" needs to be a T-shirt.

@skarlottt 4 месяца назад

Agreed

@elizaconroy2737 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@riverkirsch8508 4 месяца назад

Eddie is the wizard

@Antti79 4 месяца назад

I'll take a size L in black, please.

@eloerch7 4 месяца назад

Hahaha, there must be a Wizard. I love it.

@robertredmon5409 Месяц назад

Pearl jam is by far the best live act i have ever seen in person

@29micka 16 дней назад

Managed to score tickets for the yield tour in Brisbane, Australia and was like 15 feet away from eddie best night of my life

@LithiumProductions 4 месяца назад

*_ACTUAL LYRICS!:_* Unsealed On a porch a letter sat Then you said I want to leave it again Once I saw him On a beach of weathered sand And on the sand I want to leave it again On a weekend want to wish it all away 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 Oh yeah, can you see them? Out on the porch Ah, but they don't wave I see them 'Round the front way, yeah And I know and I know I don't want to stay Make me cry I see Oh, I don't know, there's something else I want to drum it all away And I said "I don't, I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag" Oh yeah, can you see them? Out on the porch Yeah, but they don't wave I see them 'Round the front way, yeah And I know and I know I don't want to stay at all I don't want to stay I don't want to stay I don't want to stay I don't, oh-ooh, yeah Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh-oh oh oh

@kwharrison6668 4 месяца назад

These aren’t the actual lyrics, they someone’s interpretation of the lyrics. The “Box or the bag” reference is almost certainly talking about whether “he’s coming home in a box or a bag”…

@gerardmichael8523 4 месяца назад

@@kwharrison6668it's boxer or bag as it are you throwing the punches or the one getting hit

@bohacekml 4 месяца назад

@@kwharrison6668 It makes sense if you think about being a soldier. Are you the one still standing, fighting, or the one who unfortunately dies and comes home in a "bag" (even though it's actually a flag-draped casket)?

@Oleoay 4 месяца назад

@@bohacekmlbox or bag is the soldier coming home dead either way but has to do with the condition of the body

@Durandal1707 3 месяца назад

@@kwharrison6668 I remember hearing that this was based on Eddie's conversation with a friend who lost his brother in the first Gulf War. Wiki seems to endorse this interpretation - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Ledbetter

@rom65536 4 месяца назад

10 years ago, I was working as an aerospace engineer, and one part of my job was to entertain three Japanese engineers who were working with us. So - I took them out for drinks and karaoke. The Karaoke bar I took them to had "theme nights" and the first night was 90s themed. After an insane amounts of alcohol, they got up on stage and all together sang "Would" by Alice in Chains. Then they pressured me to go sing. Now - at the time, I was literally falling down drunk. So, figuring that I couldn't carry a tune anyway, I selected this song and completely nailed it.

@pop9095 4 месяца назад

This is a blues song about heroine, so nah-yeah naturally. Were the Japanese impressed?

@ellasieradzki5398 4 месяца назад

Please tell me there's a video of them singing Would. Please. I beg of you.

@rom65536 4 месяца назад

@@ellasieradzki5398 I wish - it was funny.

@renecuellar3078 4 месяца назад

Bahahahahaha!!!!!!

@mrksts1 4 месяца назад

“Drunk karaoke” perfectly describes what I’m hearing 😂

@neur0nix 2 месяца назад

That intro is such a great tribute to Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing. Both of them being from Seattle.

@BertZedic 4 месяца назад

Eddie Vedder when asked about the lyrics from the song : “the song took as its subject a friend of mine from Seattle whose brother served in the first Gulf War. My friend received a "yellow letter" in the mail informing him that his brother had died in the war”. Vedder and his friend then went for a walk. On this walk, the friend, whom Vedder described as "alternative looking", happened by a house with an American flag flying and people on the porch. He stopped and gestured to the flag, as if to salute it, but the people on the porch glared at him disapprovingly due to his appearance. The reference of a “box or a bag” also refers to how a soldier might come home. I always loved this song, but it took on a much deeper meaning for me when I found this out…

@kieranobrien7342 4 месяца назад

Great explanation 👌

@OEFVet0405 4 месяца назад

Exactly what I had read about the meaning to the lyric!

@daveb8823 4 месяца назад

I know in the early 00's he was using "I want to wish this war away" referring to the 2nd Iraq war so it kind of cemented my interpretation of this as an anti-war song. Beyond that it is just an amazing guitar driven song.

@aniketkulkarni8414 4 месяца назад

Yeah this needs to be pinned

@Brieve 4 месяца назад

Except the lyric is ""I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag"

@saytensMoshPit 4 месяца назад

It's hard to understand the words to "Smells like Teen Spirit" Eddie: "Hold my beer."

@johntruxal432 4 месяца назад

🤣🍻

@danholmesfilm 4 месяца назад

More like: “Ooolllmaahhbeeeaaah”

@thaddeusbohn9516 4 месяца назад

Kurt: "hold my beer. Here's a song called 'tourettes.'"

@shannalewis8875 4 месяца назад

😂

@chrisdankel4508 4 месяца назад

😂

@joshb23 28 дней назад

One of the best Hendrix tributes in that opening, just perfectly beautiful.

@lloyd0006 2 дня назад

Exactly! Very Little Wing

@verkpunk 4 месяца назад

This is my favorite song about wizard dating.

@laurieemme1534 4 месяца назад

😂

@JonH611 4 месяца назад

Wizards NOT dating, that is

@BeansBrown22 4 месяца назад

😂😂

@Ian-lm5ep 4 месяца назад

So many to chose from

@DonTrump-sv1si Месяц назад

Speaking of, does anyone know of any good online wizard dating sites?

@AviatorLuber 4 месяца назад

Sitting on the porch drinking a beer with a wizard you don't want to date, talking about a box and a bag. Makes sense to me.

@sarkastro 4 месяца назад

It's "I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag", and that makes perfect sense.

@jimmccoys5778 4 месяца назад

Don’t know why or how a song with lyrics you can’t ever understand is so good!! It’s the emotion and the music! I guess, who can really say?! It is what it is, or whatever you want it to be!!

@danduntz2539 4 месяца назад

@@jimmccoys5778 Music in general is massively emotive, which is what resonates with people. I’ll give you an example: I love the Gypsy Kings, who speak a combination of Spanish and French and their native tongue. The Spanish words I understand but the rest I don’t know, and yet it’s highly enjoyable and emotionally connecting.

@nickmcp7191 4 месяца назад

@@Whispererinthenoise Then there's Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano...

@ems7448 4 месяца назад

@@Whispererinthenoise I was just thinking, Yellow Ledbetter was the song in my teens that prepared me today for listening to (and loving) things like Alcest's Sapphire or Dèlivrance. Can't understand a single word? Who cares?! Wait, there are no real words? It's all good.

@carina-uy9nt Месяц назад

As a huge Pearl jam fan the whole point of Eddie Vedder... it's all feeling and emotion. It's not about right key or correct technic, it's that his voice and all tunes plays on your inner string. When he glides through and between scales (or what it's called). Pure fantastic

@kurtwashere 4 месяца назад

I've been singing along to this for almost 30 years now, and I've never looked up the lyrics. No idea what I even say when I do it...stuff just comes out and it feels right. Strange how that works.

@tom8357qld 4 месяца назад

Perfect lyrics every time I bet..

@alutious 4 месяца назад

Maybe that was his design. Write your own words, here are the sounds. Brilliant.

@ricky6foot 4 месяца назад

Same! 30 years of whatever needed to be expressed. This is a go to when I need to figure stuff out, have a cry, whatever. The lyrics flow and then... something is ok again.

@dmitryowens 4 месяца назад

I never knew the lyrics either, but I just looked them up - I had a few correct 😎

@ltomolo 4 месяца назад

This very much made my day lol thanks for sharing my own shared experience with this song!

@dmoore0079 4 месяца назад

As big Hendrix fan, I always loved this song. That intro is so Hendrix flavored that you could almost imagine him playing it.

@Firedog-ny3cq 4 месяца назад

He absolutely did.

@mobhatter 4 месяца назад

McCready really channeled Hendrix here. Oh, and they played this with Little Wing.

@40ozkingwest9 4 месяца назад

First time I heard it I thought it could be an unreleased JH song. Then he sang.

@mattroxbury2691 4 месяца назад

It’s because it’s the lick from Little Wing

@Mephilis78 4 месяца назад

It helps that he's playing a stratocaster. That lovely chime.

@BallardMusicBank 4 месяца назад

i love the dogged determination by elizabeth to understand the lyrics , it shows her passion and reverence for the artist . i appreciate her soooo much !!

@joshbodenhamer8737 4 месяца назад

"Don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag" is one of my favorite lines

@ofsinope 4 месяца назад

"ano wadda wedda amma bossa oda back"

@georgeconradie4854 4 месяца назад

I don't want a whale in a box or a bag

@JB-un2iv 4 месяца назад

Is his brother coming back in a box or a bag

@EveryBodyHz 4 месяца назад

"Don't know whether I'm in the box or a bag" ? Wine. Definitely, definitely wine. Lots of wine!🤣

@jmhaces 4 месяца назад

@@EveryBodyHz Maybe milk if he's in Canada.

@tomfoolery342 4 месяца назад

He's singing in cursive!! When I first heard it, I thought I had eaten an edible but didn't realize it.

@spamwagon 4 месяца назад

"Singing in cursive"... that's f-in great! I gotta steal it.

@Skfishin 4 месяца назад

😂

@otakubancho6655 4 месяца назад

More like singing in Japanese calligraphy!

@alia_and_gotin3117 4 месяца назад

HAHAHA that is the best comment!

@PriestessOfNothing 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@LukaszPakiela 3 месяца назад

This is by far the funniest reaction I've seen from you. I can relate. I fell in love with this song before I looked up the lyrics , now I know them by heart and I love it even more

@saltydroog854 4 месяца назад

"There must be a wizard in here" -Elizabeth Zharoff This needs to be on a shirt, in the merch store.

@2001Bytes 4 месяца назад

And the Wizard is going wacka wacka.

@techiegirl1331 3 месяца назад

Wacka Wacka Wizard. 🧙‍♀️ because... alliteration encourages inspiration 🪄 🎶

@scottschneider5866 3 месяца назад

It’s about a grungish pinkish kid who loses his brother in the gulf war and the letter the government sends to inform you he died, and the pain he’s feeling inside even though he looks like an outcast on the outside 😢, Eddie is one of the best lyricists ever, he’s a modern day Hemingway 🐐

@coryoden629 3 месяца назад

Wrong

@EnZo7992 3 месяца назад

Talk about sucking all the fun out of trying to interpret the lyrics 😭

@justhays 3 месяца назад

@@coryoden629Nah, he’s correct

@jeremymcfarland5655 3 месяца назад

@@justhays He's very correct. And the lines of "Can you see them? Out on the porch....yeah...but they don't wave." references his friend waving to a couple out on the porch in the neighborhood they (Eddie and his friend) were walking in following the receipt of the letter. The friend saw an American flag waving off their porch rail and felt an unspoken connection to them.....being that he just had gotten that letter that he left on the porch and didn't want to open. Knowing it was the yellow color they send to notify of a military death. Knowing his brother likely died for our country and then feeling rejected as the people wouldn't wave back. Eddie said that his friend was very alternative looking and upon waving and the couple not waving back, he could only presume that it was judgement based on his look and surely not knowing the earth shattering anguish the friend was feeling at the time knowing what was in that yellow envelope. This was all according to an interview I read with Eddie some time ago. I used to listen to this song and just sing loudly and with glee. After finding the meaning, I can't help but tear up every time.

@FaqueGoogle-wo6ip 2 месяца назад

@@coryoden629 grow some hair

@SaiyanHeretic 4 месяца назад

"Yellow Ledbetter" was originally an outtake from 'Ten' and an impromptu jam that Vedder made up lyrics for on the spot. There is an official set of lyrics, but they've been known to change in live performances. According to interviews and audience Q&A Vedder has had about this song specifically, it's an "anti-patriotic" song about a friend whose brother served in the First Gulf War. This friend, Tim Ledbetter, received a "yellow letter" informing him that his brother died in the war, inspiring the verse about not knowing whether the brother will be "coming home in a box or a bag."

@waltciii3 4 месяца назад

Well that ties some of these lyrical strings together.

@Mephilis78 4 месяца назад

What about the wizard though? Was the brother the wizard?

@RustedSku11 4 месяца назад

I generally think this is the plot of the song, but I recently was told the line is "...I don't know if I am the boxer or the bag" and I have seen evidence of this line. So it ties into the conundrum of waving back at the flag displaying couple, even though he is mad his brother is dead. I used to think it was "box or bag" but both of those outcomes are death and that doesn't fit as well as having opposing outcomes. The best part of this masterpiece is it makes people think and wonder from their own perspective in life.

@ShaunHensley 4 месяца назад

Suddenly the entire song makes perfect sense

@JarredPearman 4 месяца назад

@@RustedSku11 When you look up lyrics in a search it shows the boxer or the bag like you mention here, but listening carefully it sounds more to me like he says "don't know whether it was a box or a bag", right in line with what the OP explains. My suspicion is that the lyrics page is simply wrong and is simply a "sugar-fried honey-butts" moment.

@benmason9755 4 месяца назад

I learned a long time ago with this one that the correct way to enjoy this is give up trying to work out what Eddie's actually saying and just BASK IN THE GENIUS of Mike McCready's INSANE guitarwork ...

@imsohygh 4 месяца назад

everytime i hear this song, ive never paid any attention to the lyrics, but that guitar though! A small part of me is in love with the idea that Jimi Hendrix' spirit had just one more thing to say and used Mike McCready as the vessel ......but yeah...go ahead RU-vid, do your thang ;)

@BeggarsOutpost4 4 месяца назад

@@imsohygh Of course of mean Stevie Ray Vaughn...🙂

@matthewparsons6496 4 месяца назад

@@BeggarsOutpost4 definitely channeling Stevie! Maybe that's the wizard reference...

@conehenge 4 месяца назад

Amen!!! PREACH!

@SingularlyNaked 3 месяца назад

@@BeggarsOutpost4 I think you mean Kenny Wayne Shepherd! Who was inspired by SRV, who of course was inspired by Jimi. It’s world-changing guitarists all the way down!!

@BourbonondaBayou 4 месяца назад

“I don’t want a whale on a box or a bag” is a lyric we can all relate to

@sharoncarlisle9453 4 месяца назад

Hahahahaha! "Tries to analyze and fails" You and the rest of us. Can't wait to see this! ETA: The lyrics change every time he does it too.

@TheCharismaticVoice 4 месяца назад

Wait, really?!

@tswdtx 4 месяца назад

Yep. He was asked one time what the lyrics are and his response was, "Does that song have lyrics?"

@sharoncarlisle9453 4 месяца назад

@@TheCharismaticVoice Yes, really. There is a very funny misheard lyrics video for this song. Those are the words I hear now, lol.

@MichaelBrown-me3bh 4 месяца назад

Do you know who Jimmy Hendrix is?

@sharoncarlisle9453 4 месяца назад

@@MichaelBrown-me3bh Elizabeth. or me? Yes, I do.

@kenleppek 4 месяца назад

"I don't wanna go, I don't wanna stay."... This is my favorite Pearl Jam song. It's very emotional especially once you find out the back story.

@A_Final_Hit 4 месяца назад

What's the backstory?

@kenleppek 4 месяца назад

@@A_Final_Hit apparently it's about a friend of Eddie's that was deployed during the Gulf war and receiving a letter informing them of his death. They didn't know if he's gonna come home in a box or a bag. He talks about walking down the street where there are folks on the front porch with a yellow ribbon around a tee, he waves but they don't wave back presumably because they are older folks and he's a grunge looking young man. Eddie also says when asked about what the song means that simply, it's about whatever it means to you. He slurs the words on purpose and is known to change the lyrics a little bit every time he performs it.

@Buckaroo_Banzai47 4 месяца назад

@@kenleppekI think people get to hung up on deep meaning when you can just feel the music when it's trying to tell you something that can't be described with words. Now that you shared the backstory of the song, though, it makes me like them even more.

@A_Final_Hit 4 месяца назад

@@kenleppek Thank you for the info. 👍🏽

@kimberlypeterson9234 3 месяца назад

I woke up my family watching this because I was laughing so hard - wizards, don't want to date, etc. This is so good! Gotta love Eddie for keeping us all on our toes!

@kimnicodemus9369 Месяц назад

Same!

@fgoogle5576 4 месяца назад

PJ always play this as their final encore. The words often change, but it's not gibberish. The mood instantly chills when the crowd hears the opening riff. We all know its at an end and folks get REALLY emotional. Alot of strangers hugging and crying together during this song.

@digdugsmug 4 месяца назад

They play it often but not every show. That's why their shows are so good, tons of variety.

@scottNNJ 4 месяца назад

I’m not being critical of you when I ask about your phrase “final encore”, but how many encores do they do? I know some performers have more than one, and I can see Pearl Jam being one of them.

@scapito 4 месяца назад

@@scottNNJ I've seen them live several times for each tour, and they will sometimes do an extra encore, but more often than not is usually just 1 long encore. They usually play mammoth length shows too. Their last show at MGM had an 8 song encore after playing 17 songs. Yellow Ledbetter was the second to last song. Very common for them to play it at the end of each show.

@fgoogle5576 4 месяца назад

@@scottNNJI've seen 9 PJ shows (all prior to 2010) and this song WAS the final song played at each. Maybe bc we were in Seattle, maybe because they stopped this tradition after 2010? To Scott's point, I have experienced 2 encores on multiple occasions. In Seattle, we knew that having not heard Ledbetter yet... all we had to do was keep cheering and they would come out. If you are a crappy crowd... I can see them NOT returning for a second encore and therefore NOT hearing this song. But YES, multiple encores.

@stevebruno7514 4 месяца назад

I have never laughed quite this much at one of your videos. The confusion is wonderful. "I don't want to date" nearly broke me. But my favorite was "I'm not just a vocal nerd. I'm a regular nerd too." This is why your videos are so much fun.

@TwoWrights 2 месяца назад

When Eddie says to Mike "Make me cry", it's the only thing Mike understood in the song, but he totally understood the assignment. He's been making crowds cry with that solo for 30 years.

@barrypennington6245 4 месяца назад

The greatest drunk karaoke song ever

@floyd6545 4 месяца назад

I know that's right!

@Tinus-pi3il 4 месяца назад

Hmm,when I'm drunk I can't sing like that but yeah, you're right. Come to think of it, I can't sing like that when I'm sober only when I'm drunk🤔

@tommydeamon7657 4 месяца назад

The intro on this is so jimi hendrix sounding its so buetiful like castles made of sand wind crys marry type of vibe

@jasoncarey2092 4 месяца назад

It is Little Wing

@eljison 4 месяца назад

... and Little Wing.

@A_Final_Hit 4 месяца назад

As a 14 year old when this song came out, I hated it (and Pearl Jam) because it sounded like a Little Wing ripoff. Now, nearing 50, I love this song and Pearl Jam.

@tommydeamon7657 4 месяца назад

@A_Final_Hit I've actually worked a bit on both tunes for various bands I've been in through out my life and strait up its not 100% little wing but yeah it uses alot of simular cord voicing moving motifs and other various jimi hendrix type stuff it Also probably not coincidentally bares some resemblance to Lenny by s.r.v

@jonlohrenz5446 4 месяца назад

It’s similar to little wing but they are certainly not identical.

@kleeklee4572 2 месяца назад

The comments are hilarious! But the songs about desert storm 1 and how everyone who had loved ones fighting felt. The lyrics talk about how he waves at an old couple sitting on a porch but they don’t wave back because he looks like a punk kid but they’re the same as they both have loved ones fighting in desert storm. He gets home and there’s a letter waiting for him which he doesn’t want to read because it could mean his brother is coming back in a box or a bag… from my memory…

@ztrada7 Месяц назад

I think the lyrics are from the perspective of a mother, who is reluctant to open a letter form the army cus probably bad news, then she asks a family member whos with her if she can see 2 men standing on the porch (cus hopefully she's hallucinating) and reply is "yes but they dont wave" (meaning they have bad news), talking about the 2 CNOs (Casualty Notifying Officer) that have come to deliver news about their loved one being killed in action.

@emerje0 4 месяца назад

My favorite fairly recent song from Pear Jam is "Just Breathe", it's acoustic and really highlights Eddies vocals.

@craigstrickland1572 4 месяца назад

Great tune. listen to it often along with this one!

@depbugg 4 месяца назад

YES!!

@sharonspiller7427 4 месяца назад

Really love Just Breathe. Just a beautiful song. It hits me that it’s a more mature song for those of us who were there from PJ’s beginning

@Craigpyrog 4 месяца назад

Another great PJ song to cry to!

@DenOrfield 4 месяца назад

I love that Song yes Liz do this song next

@timb1319 4 месяца назад

David Letterman said it best when he inducted PJ into the Hall of fame.. Pearl Jam had so much good music for their debut album, Ten that they left this as a b-side and that this song would make another bands whole career. This is one of the melodies that really got John Mayer into guitar. Epic concert closer letting Mike McCready go to another place with his closing solo

@jonastune624 3 месяца назад

There was an icy cold morning in upstate New York back in 1995 I will always remember. It was my junior year in college, there was a foot of fresh snow on the ground, and I was lying in bed just before dawn with my girlfriend at the time, who was graduating that spring. I awoke just as dawn was creeping into the sky, and the opening notes of this amazing song began to waft softly through my radio. I laid there quietly and listened to it fully for the first time, everything still and silent outside, a beautiful young woman nestled up against my side, and for those few minutes everything in the world was perfect in a way that I knew could not last.

@maryohara6192 4 месяца назад

His voice is so captivating. I think he was singing in a mix of French, Italian and Bob Dylan.

@SirHackwrench 4 месяца назад

Nah. Too much vocal rhythm to be Dylan 😝

@lennorris4544 4 месяца назад

'Dylan' had me rolling 🤣

@veddermn8 4 месяца назад

Bandsplain podcast has Eddie's quote explaining the meaning pretty well at the 2:50:20 mark, Basically Ed was walking with a friend of his who was "alternative looking" who had a brother die in the Gulf War and recieved a "yellow letter" as notification. As they were walking, his friend saw a flag on a house and waved at the people sitting there in solidarity, but because of his appearance, the people on the porch ignored him.

@giuliko 4 месяца назад

That's true!

@brianr9113 4 месяца назад

This!

@bo_wright 4 месяца назад

“Can you see them? Out on the porch, but they don’t waive…..And I see them, round the front way and I know that I know, I don’t want to stay…”

@tbmike23 3 месяца назад

This is correct.

@javyguzman9123 3 месяца назад

It's an old lead belly song Some of the other songs Lead Belly recorded have become standards, including "Rock Island Line", "Midnight Special", "Where Did You Sleep Last Night (In The Pines)", "Bring Me A Little Water, Silvy", "Pick A Bale Of Cotton", "Cottonfields", etc. His songs are included in books and folios, and most are published by The Richmond Organization, with whom he's been associated since the early 1940s.

@Cadinho93 4 месяца назад

In the liner notes for "Lost Dogs", Mike McCready said: "A riff loosely based on something...I had during the "Ten" sessions. I thought it was pretty. Eddie Vedder then started making up words on the spot and we kept them. I still don't know what it's about and I don't want to! I love it. Fans like it too!" The song is about Eddie Vedder's friend Tim Ledbetter who went off to war, "don't know if he'll come back in a box or a bag." Also, I can attest as an attendee of their live shows, Eddie Vedder intentionally changes the words to this song when he plays it live. You never know what he's going to sing and I love hearing what the audience comes up with on their own.

@scapito 4 месяца назад

Did you steal this comment from Brad and Lex's reaction? 😊 It's word for word the same one I wrote 2 years ago.

@kawrss31 4 месяца назад

Eddie was interviewed in Amsterdam, and stated, he wrote 'Yellow Ledbetter' when he was plastered. So he said the words change with each performance, since he dosen't actually remember the original lyrics. It all depends upon his mood. So according to Eddie, there's no actual "lyrics" to the song, either right or wrong. It's improvised for each performance. I've seen PJ in concert 14 times and each time, the lyrics are switched up. But, regardless of what comes out of Eddie's mouth, the song is absolutely amazing. '' ~ myinfinitestate1586 10 years ago

@jasonremy1627 4 месяца назад

The riff is totally cribbed from Little Wing.

@lorikislack1504 4 месяца назад

box or bag is so powerful. I also heard him sing, "why does he wear sand" meaning the sand camo....and he relates it to the beach lines.

@saltydroog854 4 месяца назад

As I understand it, it was Tim Ledbetter's brother that went off to war, and he received the news of his death in a yellow letter, and Eddie just cryptically combined "yellow letter" and "Ledbetter".

@thomasruck2264 4 месяца назад

The song "Release" is one of my favorite songs by Pearl Jam. It is a great example of singing aaaa's and oooo's like you were talking about. Its almost puts you in a trance. its beautiful

@BeansBrown22 4 месяца назад

Agreed 100%

@ryanr5319 4 месяца назад

Third that. Always loved track 11. Such a great closer. 😊

@xoch1717 4 месяца назад

it’s my favorite! and indifference❤

@oCaioFavero Месяц назад

I feel so validated right now. English, not being my first language, every now and then I hear a song or someone talking and think to myself "how do people understand that?". Turns out you also don't. And I love that

@vitorisfrozen 4 месяца назад

Elizabeth is closer to understanding the lyrics when analyzing the vibe, at 11:00, then she was when actively trying to understand the lyrics 😄

@Nick.Steven 4 месяца назад

Remember when she recently praised Eddy for his clear enunciation?

@AlmightyTod 3 месяца назад

Yo, how have I never seen this reaction?!? I love the way she started off the video. SO amazing

@Roostercox 4 месяца назад

“On a wizard on the way”….”I think there was actually nonsense in there.” I love this channel!!!!!

@TheBensMeister 3 месяца назад

I want the T-shirt: "wishen wizard wasa onaway" - Eddie Vedder (In star wars font) Silhouette image of Baggins and Gandolf and a deathly hallows emblem on the shoulder

@5burowz 4 месяца назад

"Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town" is probably my favorite song by Pearl Jam.

@ezy.doesit 13 дней назад

this reaction honestly made me tear! watching you listen for the first time is awesome!

@slothkng 4 месяца назад

my friends and i have this running joke that eddie's singing style at points is inspired by the swedish chef from the muppets

@WristwatchAddiction 4 месяца назад

“Fooost weee beee gooona cooook deeee chiiicken”

@otakubancho6655 4 месяца назад

More like the Finnish chef.

@otakubancho6655 4 месяца назад

@@WristwatchAddiction here moosey moosey moosey!🤣🤣🤣

@wilusa3113 4 месяца назад

This song still weighs on my chest and brings a tear to my eye.

@j.p.7708 4 месяца назад

…… every time dude, every time!!

@ricardocoloma-md 4 месяца назад

makes me cry every time too

@kingcosworth2643 4 месяца назад

Yep, that poor wizard, life is just not fair

@Alex77au 4 месяца назад

The music is emotional but the "Lyrics" sound like Eddie was singing in a foreign language...

@gjptmpmnp 4 месяца назад

Unsealed, on a porch a letter sat.

@davidharden7575 Месяц назад

This is my new fav channel. So delightful

@secessioncycles1357 4 месяца назад

Ready for the part 2 “reveal” video where you pull up the lyrics and re-listen 😁 I love to sing along in the car and this one was unintelligible but so easy to mimic the sounds. This song is truly about the emotions elicited from the music and then vocals. Mike McCready’s guitar with Eddie’s melody and vocal utterances just flow through you. I come close to tears when in listen to this in the headphones. It’s a beautiful song.

@myguykaikai9215 2 месяца назад

That wasn’t a failure. It was a glowing success. You nailed the essence of the song.

@zombieflowers 4 месяца назад

"make me fries" - Edward Louis Severson III, Yellow Ledbetter

@pastorofmuppets13 4 месяца назад

Liz, no worries, we have all been trying to figure out this song for years. I have heard numerous live versions and the lyrics are different each time. I have come to think of this as Eddie using his voice as an instrument for different tones. My son singing this song is hilarious! So this one has a special place in my heart.

@hippieslacker6466 11 дней назад

Your guessing the lyrics is pure comedic gold. I was smiling the whole reaction

@alexroman71647 4 месяца назад

4 theories about this song: Yellow Ledbetter” may very well be one of the most-debated songs in Pearl Jam’s repertoire. There are at least 4 prominent theories circulating as to the origin of the song title alone, including (but not limited to): It is derived from the name of an old friend of Vedder’s from Chicago named Tim Ledbetter. (This theory is strongly supported in Kim Neely’s definitive biography Five Against One.) It is derived from an old tongue twister in which you try to say “yellow better, red better” as fast as you can. According to an explanation on Songfacts, “Just a few times repeated, the words become jumbled and you get ‘yellow ledbetter.’ The reason they named the song this is because the lyrics are indistinguishable just like the tongue twister.” It is a tribute to Huddie Ledbetter, also known as Lead Belly. Lead Belly was a pioneering Blues musician in the 1930s and, later, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who recorded much of his music while in prison (at first, for carrying a pistol, then for killing one of his own relatives in a fight over a woman). It refers to someone receiving a letter and finding out their brother had died in the war (these types of communications were often sent in yellow envelopes). This theory is heavily supported by Eddie’s variation on the words during the Live at the Garden version of “Yellow Ledbetter,” in which he purportedly sang, “I don’t know whether my brother will be coming home in a box or a bag.” Title aside, the lyrics of “Yellow Ledbetter” are fairly difficult to understand when heard live and even on the recorded version. Pearl Jam’s fan organization, the Ten Club, would regularly receive letters from fans begging them to provide some hint as to what the “real” lyrics were. Thus, when Epic released “Yellow Ledbetter” on a Japanese CD-single of “Daughter” in 1993, fans were scrambling to get their hands on the lyric booklet included with it. However, as Kim Neely points out in Five Against One, “Even the purportedly official lyrics were nonsensical… In fact, there never were any real lyrics. Eddie had simply improvised them during the one-take session, singing whatever phrases happened to pop into his head.” Today, this ambiguity still leads to the creation of many ‘misheard lyrics’ videos, dedicated to humorously interpreting whatever Vedder is saying.

@CathyKeating 4 месяца назад

"Misheard lyrics" = mondegreens. Many opportunities for those here!

@clownzzz4837 4 месяца назад

'Coming home in a box or a bag' is what I thought the lyrics were for years, because in my mind, this song was about a father who lost a son in a war.

@bofdiggy1918 4 месяца назад

That Kim Neely explanation makes the most sense… this really does sound like Eddie is improvising, mapping out the melody. Which would also make sense as to why such a great song didn’t make it onto the Ten or Vs albums… in Ed’s mind, it wasn’t finished. But it sounded great so that they used it as a B-Side/outake/filler and when the radio DJs caught wind of it, they blew it up in rotation. Then the fans took it from there. The vibe was actually so refreshing against the stereotypical grunge sound. Pretty remarkable jam.

@Spectre-wd9dl 4 месяца назад

Eddie says it's about his friend and the letter.

@wiz3421 3 месяца назад

I've always subscribed to the fact it's just an improv song given the lyrics change with each performance.

@danholmesfilm 4 месяца назад

I remember my cousin and I driving down the highway with the windows rolled down screaming this song and it’s “lyrics” out the window with all the passion and rage on earth even though we didn’t have a clue what we were saying 😅😊

@JayPhonomancer 4 месяца назад

That's fantastic 😂

@mojobag01 4 месяца назад

THAT is how it is done.

@gregallen4272 4 месяца назад

How dare you to Dare to live life . Next big thing is to learn to dance like nobody is watching. Rock on

@bmerck 4 месяца назад

Eddie has said in interviews that the song is about walking around a neighborhood with his friend who just received a letter that his brother got killed in the Gulf War.

@ronaldsabourin8835 4 месяца назад

I always loved the Hendrix inspired guitar intro

@ButBigger42 4 месяца назад

I love this song but the misheard lyrics video is amazing. "Potato Wave" gets me every time.

@BadHammers1 4 месяца назад

“Make me fries!” 😂😂

@timfrank6183 4 месяца назад

Make me fries

@BourbonondaBayou 4 месяца назад

Can you see Dems

@ButBigger42 4 месяца назад

@@BourbonondaBayou unfortunately.

@FatherKenobie 4 месяца назад

I don't know why they sun tan nails.

@ThomTremblay 3 месяца назад

Ament is SO good. He doesn't just come up with emotive parts, he chooses the right version of a bass. The bowed double bass is perfect.

@theoldgoat3000 4 месяца назад

"There must be a wizard in there"

@AMGK 4 месяца назад

🧙🏻‍♂️😂😂😂😂😂

@mysticrhythms3348 21 день назад

These lyrics are so inspiring Drinking beer with a wizard who doesnt want to date LOL

@orbislame 4 месяца назад

I memorized the “sounds” of this song when I was a kid, instead of the words.

@aliwantizu 4 месяца назад

SAME! I remember the first time I read the "official" lyrics, and I was like...ok then. But I still "sing the sounds." It's kinda like a song in any language other than English. I may not know the words, but I damn straight will "sing the sounds."

@BeansBrown22 4 месяца назад

Same

@mikegobin3169 4 месяца назад

One of my favorite pearl jam songs.

@stevenfoltz3619 13 дней назад

"One bizzare hymn, On a beach, the little horses..." I felt that.

@aggrozen7467 4 месяца назад

Great song to put your own context to. Begins with a letter, then people on a porch, then a box or a bag. When it was released I immediately thought of a fallen soldier.

@MrTyler918273 4 месяца назад

Yea Vedder has said that was the initial idea when he wrote it (maybe "wrote" it is more accurate). It's about a kid whose brother died overseas and the people on the porch are military personnel there to inform the family, hence he doesn't want to stay there. Though that was just an initial idea and the lyrics and exact meaning change every time, but those few lines tend to stay in there somewhere.

@aggrozen7467 4 месяца назад

@@MrTyler918273 Thanks, I didn't know that before.

@1960rlv 4 месяца назад

That’s how I interpret the song as well. I imagine the lyric is mumbled because they are laden with grief.

@2015DMJG 4 месяца назад

The song is like a Monet. Beautiful music, beautiful melody, blurry lyrics. Beautiful song.

@MrCveedub Месяц назад

The first time I heard this song I was in a parked car, on mushrooms, while it was raining outside. Listening to Eddie sing "Can you see them?!" as I was watching the rain drops hit the windshield. "Make me cry" - Yes, I cried.

@danm2152 4 месяца назад

I'm so glad you did this song, it's one of my favorites. I've always called it the perfect "end of the party" song. When everyone is tired out and falling asleep on couches, this is the song that comes on and you just vibe out.

@simonbischoff7840 4 месяца назад

I feel the same. I saw them live in Nuremberg 2000 and this was the final song of the festival, all lights on. Good times...

@deadmanjack100 4 месяца назад

Sooo... I cheated and read the lyrics while you were doing your analysis, and I gotta say... I could not stop laughing! And you still got your own little nuggets of wisdom in there. One of my favorite episodes so far. Bravo!

@kwharrison6668 4 месяца назад

Read the lyrics? All of the ones online are wrong 🤣

@justins3810 4 месяца назад

I read the lyrics too! Haha!

@beestonsteve 4 месяца назад

The wonderful thing about this song is that it moves you despite you not knowing what the lyrics actually are. You can put your own interpretation on it, or not as you choose. Which is how a lot of people listen to a lot of music, including metal and opera.

@Nozferatu46 4 месяца назад

A song with a similar vibe, since Mike McCready is lead guitar on both... "River of Deceit" by Mad Season. Only instead of Eddie Vedder on vocals, you get Layne Staley...

@OtherTheDave 4 месяца назад

Oh, cool! Thanks, I hadn’t heard of them.

@Littlewing1977 4 месяца назад

@@OtherTheDaveMad Season only had one album but it is a masterpiece

@Littlewing1977 4 месяца назад

@@OtherTheDaveyou should watch some of the live shows they did

@DustyBleeker 4 месяца назад

Mad Season album Above is a work of art!

@maximovillarreal7205 4 месяца назад

don´t forget Mark Lanegan

@jefersonnatan9875 4 месяца назад

When you ask what it's like to feel a song with your soul, that song is the translation of perfection. Pearl Jam is way beyond... ♥️

@joannmcculley8253 4 месяца назад

Imagine hearing something so traumatic and painful...and you're trying to communicate with someone while your mind is racing and your heart is broken...the words come out like these do. It sounds like it may be words but they're blanketed under the emotion

@elledouai2145 4 месяца назад

My husband and I have this song in our playlist. Our adult son introduced us to it. When it plays- we don’t sing. We nod along. It’s pleasant and relaxing

@conehenge 4 месяца назад

Surely you do some mean air guitar during that solo though!

@elledouai2145 4 месяца назад

Shhhhhh. Of course

@anfool8774 4 месяца назад

WOOOO, this is one of my all time favorite pearl jam songs, so glad you decided to give this one a listen

@Annnazong 12 дней назад

This is usually the song to close concerts. Charming.

@rebobinandotuzze1604 4 месяца назад

suggestions: "all or none", "alive" (it is about eddie vedder's family problems), "daughter", "last kiss"

@emerje0 4 месяца назад

"Alive" and "Daughter" are pretty heavy songs since they're both about child sexual assault by parents. Alive is the first song in the "Mamasan Trilogy", the second song is "Once" where the boy grows up to become a serial killer, and the third is "Footsteps" where he's in prison listening to the footsteps as they come to take him away to his execution as he reflects on what he's done. On a brighter note, "Alive" was the first song that Eddie ever recorder lyrics for while working as a security guard. The first and last verse are actually about his real life and finding out his biological father was someone else who had already died. The incest in the middle was just made up for the song.

@johntruxal432 4 месяца назад

Guitar solo is constantly top 100 every few years.

@Oleoay 4 месяца назад

We used to sing “alive” during fire drills at school

@jmhaces 4 месяца назад

Song's basically about receiving a letter notifying you that a loved one died in action while serving in the military. He improvises most of the lyrics every time they play it live as an encore (which is every concert, since it's a classic), and he usually only keeps some of the lyrics such as the chorus, the initial part about an unsealed letter and the end of each verse about not knowing if he's/the relative is/something else is in a box or in a bag or sometimes the boxer or the bag. First time I heard it many years ago was live, and both the lyrics and the arrangement were somewhat different, so I was surprised when I heard the studio version for the first time shortly after. The guitar parts are Mike McCready's homage to Jimi Hendrix and they resemble classic Hendrix songs like "Little Wing."

@bglass616 22 дня назад

I love this song. I have also heard that Eddie thought of his voice as another instrument in the band. Even when you cannot understand him, his voice still adds to the song as music.

@andyschnell58 4 месяца назад

While growing up in the 60's and 70's, we rarely had access to the lyrics of a song. Each of us would have our own interpretation. Has been great fun to learn the actual lyrics, years later. This was a fun premiere with Elizabeth clueless to the actual lyrics. I have no idea either but it is a great song.

@cringedadvids 4 месяца назад

This guitar beginning is the final musical piece for the final episode of Friends.

@jm__8246 4 месяца назад

On a porch a letter sat Then you said I want to leave it again Once I saw him On a beach of weathered sand And on the sand I want to leave it again On a weekend want to wish it all away 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 Oh yeah, can you see them? Out on the porch Ah, but they don't wave I see them 'Round the front way, yeah And I know and I know I don't want to stay Make me cry I see Oh, I don't know, there's something else I want to drum it all away And I said "I don't, I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag" Oh yeah, can you see them? Out on the porch Yeah, but they don't wave I see them 'Round the front way, yeah And I know and I know I don't want to stay at all I don't want to stay I don't want to stay I don't want to stay I don't, oh-ooh, yeah Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh-oh oh oh

@mr.mertman5711 4 месяца назад

Just saw them in concert last week. Great show!!!

@TheCharismaticVoice 4 месяца назад

Awww nice!

@midkingsteve 4 месяца назад

I've loved this song since I heard it in like middle school. Even though it's the one people make fun of the most, who aren't big fans, it's SO evocative. I always got that there's people on a porch, not waving, and there was a letter on the porch. And just that scene alone, with the performance, creates such a sense of loss and longing. It allowed me several times, not on purpose for me, to connect to those feelings via my own life experience and begin to weep, and feel supported by this song. I think it's magical. I have read the lyrics several times, but I always forget them, no matter how hard I try, because it gets replaced by the original experience every time.

@zennenn 4 месяца назад

This is beautiful, thank you.

@fatfatviking 16 дней назад

I got to say the memes about what the lyrics could be that are on the internet are just hilarious

@jerseymetalmike5111 4 месяца назад

When you're in a bar, had way too many beers, and this song comes on the jukebox...fun interpretations!

@blankthoughttv 4 месяца назад

That opening always makes me think of Steve Ray Vaughn and Jimmi Hendrix. Straight out of their play book and so masterfully played too.

@anewvibration3586 4 месяца назад

The opening riff was actually written by Kenny Wanye Sheppard when he was 16,

@blankthoughttv 4 месяца назад

@@anewvibration3586 Now thats something I diddnt know! thats super cool. I got to see Kenny Wayne Sheppard back in like 2012. Some strange stuff going on with family so I diddnt get to stay for long.

@TheDevNull 3 месяца назад

Mike McCready wrote it, and has said that he was inspired by Jimi's "Little Wing". It makes sense when you realize they are both from Seattle.

@SingularlyNaked 3 месяца назад

@@anewvibration3586 And it appears in the song “While we Cry”, which Eddie references with “make me cry”. “While we Cry” appears on the album Ledbetter Heights. I saw somewhere that Pearl Jam acknowledged that this song was inspired by While we Cry, and I can’t imagine that’s not true.

@SeanEnginetechnology 3 месяца назад

McCready is such an underrated guitarist, the jamming with Mad Season at the Moore theater is so incredible, aside from that solo for Alive, gave me a whole new level of respect for his playing ❤❤

@Spirit-FilledMindset 3 месяца назад

A few years ago I was into online karaoke and wanted to learn this song with all it's inflections and nuances. He literally does not single a single line the same way throughout this song. It is soooooo hard. Such a great song too.

@markhennigar748 4 месяца назад

One of my favourite Pearl Jam tunes. Mike McCready’s Strat sounds on this are fabulous.

@Pabloghghgh 4 месяца назад

I will never forget the first time I saw these guys live here in Argentina. Probably the most magic concert of my life. The band and the crowd delivered a perfect night. This was the last one they played and damn we sang along the no lyrics.

@xrexc3179 3 месяца назад

Youre spot on with the vocalese as evidence by the fact that there are countless recordings of this song performed live where eddie sings completely different lyrics

@karinlindae-fregoso802 4 месяца назад

OMG!! I was laughing so hard!! I had forgotten how impossible it is to understand... someone did a parody of Shakespeare reciting the lyrics and it was just mumbling... so funny!!

@metalmark1214 4 месяца назад

Best quote for this song"What did he just say?" 😂