Listen to this when
Alive
Still alive after the family plot twist 🎸
Who it's for
Eddie Vedder wrote it from a fictionalized version of learning the man he thought was his father wasn't.
Shaken and confused→Defiantly alive
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Alive" is a Pearl Jam song from their debut album Ten, with music by Stone Gossard and lyrics by Eddie Vedder. It is partly autobiographical, drawing on Vedder learning as a teenager that the man he thought was his father was his stepfather and that his biological father had died; parts are fictionalized.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: Heavy family themes.
Age: Suggested 13+
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 1 (tr. Constance Garnett)
