Chevelle: Jars Meaning

Song Released: 2009

Jars Lyrics

Hold onto chance
Lest we bleed ourselves
Then save for the pets
They're the loneliest,

Put into jars
We'll save this Earth
Put into jars
We'll save this Earth

We can't both become the same pawn
That's made to fall
Oil that taste...

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   ode2joy

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   Sep 25th 2012 !⃝

   Jars, to me, is an inescapable song dedicated to those who'd turn a blind eye away from the disastrous path the lifeforms on earth are speeding toward and still...
   "It never felt so good".
   We are obliviously watching tv and planning weddings or futures. The message I glean from Jars is that we'll have no future.
   "Oil that tastes like blood,
   Stole the summer scent".
   and as if on cue, I am singing this anthem to the unimaginable catastrophe that was happening in the beautiful (no more) Gulf of Mexico.
   "And feed from their hands,
   Confused by opposites".
   Well, it's scary but after something like 60 days? Maybe more, 24 hours a day, gallons and gallons were poisoning the Gulf. Sea critters were giving birth to defective, mutated offspring that washed up along the Gulf's beaches. But yet, I began seeing these cheerful ads, sponsored by B.P., the oil corp. who paid for the ads, calling us down to visit and have a nice vacation. Hey... oil spill? Never heard of it! I could pick lots of lines from Jars that prophetically foretold of this.
   "From me to you, you're stabbing me through you, you're stabbing you through him and betting most of this world..."
   Oh no, they were spreading clean sand trucked in from elsewhere to make the beaches look nice for the tourism.
   "We'll add enough of the world"
   Those poor residents needed to make a living. So they covered up the mess, stabbing me through you, stabbing you through him,
   And I think how, Jeez, we are all complicit, compliant or complacent. We're all involved, somehow.
   I love Pete's gifted voice, and I don't try to figure them all out. If the songs were sung in a foreign language, it would still have meaning. The guy puts so much emotion into the singing of the songs, one can feel the meaning to a large extent.
   Lastly, I am deeply touched with the feeling of pathos by the words,
   "And save for the pets,
   They're the lonliest"
   God, don't you feel so sad? I do. The poor little things, all the living things. Jars is a cautionary song that we all heard and I sang, and still do... while the worst oil spill ever was doing damage so far beyond what we know. Pete might have been composing Jars for a completely different reason. I met him a couple of months after they finally capped the well down in the poisoned Gulf. If I hadn't been out to lunch that night, I would have asked him if his song struck him in a certain way when, indeed Oil tasted like blood. The summer scent was stolen. The putrid stench of oil and dead sea animals would have been the summer stench. Pete is very thoughtful and wise.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 17th 2011 !⃝

   It is very deep with meaningful lyrics.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
3. bpsrepair

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   Feb 1st 2011 !⃝

   Jars is an effort to show how ridiculous the whole green movement can be. It's very sarcastic.
   
   He states the the "green" case in the first verse taking it so far as to show it's idiocy.
   
   "Hold onto chance lest we bleed ourselves" is what the green movement says. Better to preserve everything rather than not have something later.
   "Then save for the pets they're the loneliest"
   Here is the ridiculous being pointed out by overstating the case of the green movement. Who in their right mind believes that the lonliest of animals would be our pets? We give them everything including attention.
   
   The prechorus is sarcasm and satire. "Put into jars. We'll save this earth" Sure but what good is it if we don't live in it and enjoy it. If we put everything into jars, it's all wasted and dead.
   
   We can't both become the same pawn that's made to fall.
   One side of the green issue or the other, we're really all on one side of the chess board...we're human. If we both loose, it's not just one pawn that falls.
   
   Oil that tastes like blood stole the summer scent from me to you.
   fighting over oil both in wars (who gets it) and in protest (whether we use it or not) stole the pleasure of the earth from me and used it to advance your (the green) agenda.
   
   You're stabbing me through you. You're stabbing you through him and betting most of this world.
   In advancing this agenda, you're hurting me and you and everyone else and putting the very earth you say you want to protect on the line.
   
   We'll add enough of the world.
   This is sarcasm meaning, "you actually believe that we'll be able to put enough of this world into jars to make any difference at all?"
   
   Steal from yourselves it never felt so good.
   Now he's speaking to us as the general public.
   In accepting the green agenda, you steal from yourselves and love it because you think you're winning.
   
   Then feed from their hands confused by opposites.
   When in reality the green agenda isn't about the earth at all. It's only about power and they've confused you by saying the opposite...and you bought it.
   
   feeling manic for a day depends on the end depends on the surface if the sun never sets
   
   people are charged up for this green thing for a day, but not me..for me it depends on the end. for you it depends on the surface, only what you're being shown...but what if the end of that day never comes?
   
   Chorus...
   
   This world
   We'll add enough of this world
   this is the main thing you'll shout till the bitter end.
   
   You're blinded and will call for your destruction in this way until the time comes when your destruction is delivered to you. It will be bitter.
4. anonymous

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   Oct 21st 2009 !⃝

   The song is talking about saving planet earth by preserving it into jars.

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