Eddie Vedder mostly based "Jeremy" on a fifteen year old kid named Jeremy Delle who shot himself in front of his high school English class. "Jeremy" received four MTV music video awards including Best Video of the Year. The song also received Grammy nominations for best rock song and best hard rock performance. Jeremy was a boy who was ignored by his parents and picked on by his peers. His classmate feels guilty about what happened and wants some one to tell him that it's not his fault.
Throughout the music video, there are many images that make you question Jeremy's sanity. He is seen running through the woods half naked with nobody else around, yelling at his parents at the top of his lungs , and sitting in a class room full of students laughing and pointing at him. Jeremy has also been said to of drawn a picture with the dead laying in pools of maroon. Now even though one feels sorry for Jeremy because he was alone in the world, you can't deny that there is something wrong with the kid.
Jeremy's classmate can clearly remember pickin' on the boy. At first Jeremy's retaliation to this was typical of any high school boy; he got into a fight. So how were his classmates supposed to know that Jeremy would "speak in class." Of course the kids didn't know that Jeremy would shoot himself he could of done any number of things. Yet his classmates were covered with his blood.
Jeremy scared the kids in his class that day when he "spoke." His classmate feels guilty and is pleading with anyone that will listen to him. He wants everyone to believe that it wasn't his fault. He wants to erase what Jeremy did from the blackboard that is his mind.
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