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This rock song was written by Eddie Vedder with music by Jeff Ament and served as the third single from Pearl Jam's 1991 debut album. Released in August 1992, it achieved significant chart success, reaching number 5 on both the Album and Modern Rock Billboard charts. The song was not initially released as a commercial single in the US, so it didn't chart on the Hot 100, though a 1995 re-release eventually brought it to number 79.
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The song was inspired by a newspaper article about a high school student named Jeremy Wade Delle who fatally shot himself in front of his English class on January 8, 1991.
