Eddie Vedder told the Toronto Globe and Mail: "It's about the strength of one person in the relationship, when they can withstand some of the faults in another – maybe drug addiction, or straying off the path. The person in the song is the lighthouse for the other person caught in the storm." (Source Force of Nature Songfacts).

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