Hi Victim,
I was reading about Eddie and pearl jam as my distinction of "Daughter" was
always that it was to do with
a daughter who tried to please her mum but was never good enough. Hence she
says " Dont call me daughter, not fit to be". But when the song says
somethings wrong I figured perhaps a mental disability. After reading this
excerpt from the Biography I guess I wasn't far wrong..........
Here is an excerpt about Daughter from the Melody Maker's Pearl Jam
Biography by Allan Jones.
Eddie: "The child in that song obviously has a learning difficulty. And it's
only in the last few years that they've actually been able to diagnose these
learning disabilities that before were looked at as misbehaviour,as just
outright fucking rebelliousness. But no one knew what it was. And these
kids, because they seemed unable or reluctant to learn, they'd end up
getting the shit beaten outta them. The songs ends, you know, with this idea
of the shades going down- so that the nighbours can't see what happens next.
What hurts about shit like that is that it ends up defining peoples' lives.
They have to live with that abuse for the rest of thier lives. Good,
creative people are just fucking destroyed."
Trace