Alive by pearl jam?

Question

Some people told me that there is some type of relation to the Oedipus complex in this song im wonderin ghow and where in the song it comes up

Answer 1

Here are websites that discuss song meanings:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1410
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=41591

From which I just learned:
"This song was actually the first of a mini-opera that Eddie wrote known as the "Mamasan Trilogy". The song describes a boy who grows up believing that one man is his father but finds out that he is not. He grows up to look just like his biological father and his mother falls in love with the son and sexually abuses him. The song "Once" is part II of the story and describes the boy obviously mentally disturbed who is not able to control his rage and goes on a killing spree. The triology is concluded with "Footsteps" where the boy is siting in his cell on death row awaiting his execution."

Answer 2

The song has been revealed by singer Eddie Vedder to be part autobiographical and part fiction. When Eddie was a teenager, his mother revealed to him that the man he thought was his father was actually his step-father, and that his biological father was dead.