Just Breathe

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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    decides2dream wrote:
    while on the 'dark side of the moon' communications are cut off until they reach the other side.
    Now, i didn't even think of this. So the other side could be the ability to communicate again. If 2 people are in a disaster of some sort be it a natural disaster or man made, and they make it to the Other Side, then they are reunited. They have the ability to communicate again. It's like coming out of a tunnel.
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Ms. Haiku wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    while on the 'dark side of the moon' communications are cut off until they reach the other side.
    Now, i didn't even think of this. So the other side could be the ability to communicate again. If 2 people are in a disaster of some sort be it a natural disaster or man made, and they make it to the Other Side, then they are reunited. They have the ability to communicate again. It's like coming out of a tunnel.



    break on through to the other side
    8-)

    justam wrote:
    I think the other side could also be the collective consciousness. Or, maybe where people go when they sleep?


    justam....yes! the dream world! of course, there it is...no wonder i always think, *magical*.....! thus why i say, once again....like so many things, period, but most definitely ed's amazing lyrics, there are just OH so many ways to *see*....and i do think, especially depending on your own state of mind, positive ANd negative, can simultanously be present in a lot of the lyrics. and what can i say? i'm a dreamer, and so more often than not...i see the positive. :mrgreen:
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • marieke
    marieke Posts: 12
    Seattle1974 wrote:
    So my wife is a casual PJ fan (and that is a stretch), in truth she likes a few songs, but music is not one of her passions. In fact, I have always suspected that she doesn't "get" my love for music and more specifically my love PJ's music. Tonight, I am going through show withdrawal after the past 2 shows (amazing, esp. night 2) and was playing the new disc. When Just Breath came on, I handed my wife the liner notes. By the end of the song she was in tears and simply said "beautiful". I feel like there was a breakthrough. Just felt like sharing.

    The same here. My soon-to-be-husband isn't that passionat about PJ as I am (but saw almost as much concerts). When I heard Just Breathe for the first time, I really wanted the song at our wedding ceremony. But my boyfriend thought of it more as a funeral song. Don't agree. In my opinion it's a great love song.
  • Seattle1974
    Seattle1974 Posts: 81
    Marieke: It is a definitely a love song. Also, I think Unthought Known is an amazing love song. We played Fire and Ice (Ben Harper) at our wedding, getting my wife to have a PJ song in the wedding would have been a tough sell.
  • marieke
    marieke Posts: 12
    @Seattle1974: well, Just Breathe didn't make it. We agreed on Incubus (Are you in), Smashing Pumpkins (Today) and a Dutch singer :D
    To get Pearl Jam on that list wouldn't be the best start of our marriage ;)
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Seattle1974 wrote:
    Marieke: It is a definitely a love song. Also, I think Unthought Known is an amazing love song. We played Fire and Ice (Ben Harper) at our wedding, getting my wife to have a PJ song in the wedding would have been a tough sell.
    exactly,,i think the same about unthough known
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  • brgracio
    brgracio Posts: 4
    I see myself enjoying this song in a PJ concert 10 years from now with the same enthusiasm as for the likes of Betterman, Alive, etc. Brilliant :D
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    When Just Breathe hits the radio non PJ followers will think thats Pearl Jam ???
    It really doesn't even sound that much like ED the way he hits the lyrics
    was my favorite too at first
    its a beautiful song
  • brgracio
    brgracio Posts: 4
    Seattle1974 wrote:
    Marieke: It is a definitely a love song. Also, I think Unthought Known is an amazing love song. We played Fire and Ice (Ben Harper) at our wedding, getting my wife to have a PJ song in the wedding would have been a tough sell.

    I would also love to have played a PJ song in my wedding, but unfortunately to say that my wife isn't a big PJ fan is an euphemism... And for a wedding even the Last Kiss card couldn't win. We settled for Better Together (Jack Johnson) ;)
  • Backspacer_Backer
    Backspacer_Backer Posts: 1,023
    one of the greatest love songs ever written, especially coming from a man's perspective. ie, men are basically screw ups, and the line "practiced are my sins, never gonna let me win, aw huh" really hits home for me, a man with a wife and two kids whose spouse has tolerated my "sins" and stood by me at times when she had reason to bolt.

    and eddie said the song is about the quiet time you spend with the one you love after the kids go to bed. i can relate to that so much too. that time is so short and meaningful.
  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    ..as I come clean?

    He is confessing about something and what is it....?

    we shall never know.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    BhagavadGita wrote:
    ..as I come clean?

    He is confessing about something and what is it....?

    we shall never know.

    He ate the last Reese's peanut butter cup.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Backspacer_Backer
    Backspacer_Backer Posts: 1,023
    BhagavadGita wrote:
    ..as I come clean?

    He is confessing about something and what is it....?

    we shall never know.

    it wasn't the dog who farted after all.
  • Stove
    Stove Posts: 373
    Like all the rest, love this song too. At first I thought, it sounded recycled from Into the Wild but there's something more to it, alot of depth. The parachutes of this album methinks. Having said that when I first heard the titled I couldn't help but think of Lindsay Lohan who has a tattoo on her on that reads "breath". Don't know why I thought of that. :?
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    a beautiful song that has mad depth to it.... one of these days I'll be so lucky as ot have someone to sing it to. Until then it reminds me to appreciate the ones I have near that I love dearly and all they mean to me.And to Just Breathe the rest will work itself out. 8-)
  • giajammer278
    giajammer278 Posts: 2
    hi everybody...this is the very first time i post something...even when I'm a Pearl Jam fan for a long long while

    I must confess when i was listening to the Backspacer for the first time....this song instantly got me....I started to cry when i listened to it....the lyrics are so touching....so beatiful...
    It reminds me of Joshua....the love of my life....who was left behind in another country...

    god..how much i miss him
  • Grandma
    Grandma Posts: 259
    One of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard - such depth. And live it's absolutely AMAZING -- Eddie played it with a 4-person string section on LA nights 1&2 - hoping they come back for 3&4 and SD.
  • Loveboatkaren
    Loveboatkaren Posts: 123
    He has the most beautiful voice...it's like BUTTAA!!!
  • miammm
    miammm Posts: 7
    Sublime. This song still makes me cry every time I listen to it. I think it always will.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I need to go and listen to this NOW. It'll put me in a better mood. :geek:
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