[ Creed Discuss ] LOL! Who's Ripping off WHO?

From: "Joe Earles" <jearles@creedlisters.com>
To: "The New Improved Less Lame List" <creed-discuss@debbir.com>
Date: Thu
3 Oct 2002 17:41:14 -0400

Just heard Pearl Jam's new single, "I Am Mine". Not only is this flaming bag of poo a blatant rip-off of Stappy's writing style, it also features some interesting lines (emphasis and commentary inserted inline). Compare this song to "Hide" by Creed if you have ANY doubts, but this song borrows from the Creed library on a LOT of levels:
 
The selfish they’re all standing in line...
"I feel forces all around me..."
"the mouths of envious always find an open door"
Faith in their hope and to buy themselves time.
"take all this pride and leave it behind, 'cause one day it ends, one day we die..." 
Me, I figure as each breath goes by,
I only own my mind.
"whatever life brings, I've been through everything..."

The north is to south what the clock is to time.
(clock imagery runs rampant in Creed's artwork) 
There's east and there's west and there everywhere life.
(possible reference to the Human Clay cover and subsequent mysteries involving the crossroads in the artwork)
 
I know that I was born and I know that I’ll die.
'cause one day it ends, one day we die..."

The in between is mine. I am mine.
"for we have crossed many oceans and have labored inbetween / in life there are many quotients and I hope I find the mean..."

And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with time...
We're different behind the eyes, there’s no need to hide.
(need I even state the obvious here?)

We're safe tonight.
(...from the threat of originality. I'm spent. Read on if you wish. I have no further comment)

The ocean is full cause everyone's crying,
The full moon is looking for friends at high tide.
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrows denied.
I only know my mind. I am mine.

And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with time.
We're different between the lines, there’s no need to hide...
Cause we're safe tonight.

And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with time.
We're different behind the eyes, there’s no need to hide.

And the feeling it gets left behind...
Oh the innocence broken with lies.
We're different behind the eyes.
We're safe tonight.

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