
Maybe there's still time to escape the problems contained on all those yesterdays, or maybe, following the idea of MFC, of getting away from everything.

In the end, it is repeated that the directed person has time to escape. Once again the protagonist advises to let all those yesterdays to be washed away, and forever forgotten. The protagonist asks to the person what is he/she running from, because the person is blocking own behavior, even through medicine, and creating social and psychological barriers between him/her and the rest of the world, trying to hide and forget actions considered to be mistakes, that in fact, are normal, because we all do. On the chorus, it is also advised that the person let all those yesterdays, it means, all things that came in the past (probally bad), to be washed away, to be forgotten, to be gone. This is recommended under the questions if this person haven't done enough and got enough, so that's why it is time to yield and rest. A protagonist advises someone, who can be understood that have been under a lot of pressure, fighting something, exiled by some reason or tired of some struggle, to rest and sleep. This songs is typically the whole idea of yielding.

Its lyrics and music were written by Stone Gossard, being the one of the only two songs to be mainly written by the guitarist, alongside " No Way". All Those Yesterdays is the thirteenth song of Pearl Jam's fifth album, Yield.
