sheets of empty canvas over sheets of red, her legs spread out before me as her body lay dead,
I had misheard the first two lines and thought he killed her.
Then I thought he said:

And now my bitter hands lay beneath the glass of what was everyt

The story:

Well I decided to look up the song because we were all talking about misheard lyric songs and laughing and then someone mentioned another pearl jam song and I said-you know some of that grunge stuff was really sick especially Eddy Vedder I mean that song where he kills his girlfriend and tries to justify it and get our sympathy is really sick! I went off on a diatribe of how misogynistic he was and everyone was dying laughing when I said:
"The lyrics, her legs spread out before me while her body lay dead are so twisted. I dont think thats funny at all." Then they told me what the words were. And I said yeah but why was the canvas red and what about the glass and the tape=all the things serial killers use-he's creepy. He needs help."
So I looked up the song cuz I still didn't velieve them he was a creepy dude. Remember that Temple of the Dog Video- I'm goin hungry? He looked possessed like Rasputin. Nuff said.

The understandable thing is that he had just put out that bloody video Jeremy where a kid kills his classmates so it wasn't a stretch on my part to think he was a serial killer in his next song. Ha!