reels.grunge studio on Instagram: "On VH1's Storyteller's series, Eddie Vedder explained: "The original story being told in the song Alive is of a young man being made aware of some shocking truths. "And one was that the guy he believed to be his father while growing up was not, and number two was that his real father had passed away a few years before. As if adolescence wasn't tough enough..." He added: "The guy was me, but I barely knew me then. To be honest I was barely there to be known. So