Push Me, Pull Me

Album: Yield (1998)
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Songfacts®:

  • This bass-driven oddity in the Pearl Jam catalog is the work of lead singer Eddie Vedder and bass player Jeff Ament.

    "That was almost like an uptempo Police song, and that got turned into a little bit more of an art project," Ament said in a Songfacts interview. "Everybody hears this stuff in a different way. The only way you can be happy with it is if you're open to everybody interpreting it and breaking it open and changing it. I've learned to do that over the years."
  • The ocean imagery is a hallmark of Eddie Vedder's lyrics:

    All just breaking like waves
    The oceans made me, but who came up with love?


    He's a surfer, and often looks to the water for answers to life's big questions.
  • The beginning part of this song is lifted from Pearl Jam's 1997 fan club single "Happy When I'm Crying."

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