Pearl Jam is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1993 album Vs. In a recent interview, the band was asked to explain the meaning of the album track Animal. While looking at the album lyric sheet, frontman Eddie Vedder noted that the song's lyrics were the one lyric that's not printed out," adding, I think that was for a reason." He went on to say, "I didn't explain it then, and I'm not going to explain it now."