Pearl Jam album Ten "The first time I listened to this I couldnt get over the energy in the music, in the lyrics and even the passion I could feel in Vedder's voice. I always like it when artists address real issues that plague current times. This is very much protrayed in Jeremy. A kid who shot himself in class. Teen shootings and suicide was starting to get attention and while people went o my god that kid must have been crazy what a loser, the song seems to go more in depth about what this kid was like at home as well as in school. He just needed someone to reach out to him, but it was too late....