Has PJ ever made you cry?

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  • water_boy
    water_boy Posts: 74
    Every time I hear release
    Jordan
  • supersonicyears
    supersonicyears Posts: 2,619
    yes
    "In the age of darkness
    want to be enlightened"
  • jopetto75
    jopetto75 Posts: 397
    YEA AGAIN YESTERDAY, I WAS DRIVING AT WORK AND WATCHING THE NYC DVD. THUMBING MY WAY CAME ON, GOT A LITTLE EMOTIONAL AND THEN TODAY IT WAS SLIGHT OF HAND LP VERSION. TO TEAR JERKERS I MUST ADMIT
    until next time......
  • cyndarious1
    cyndarious1 Posts: 430
    I'm from Chile and I saw PJ here in 2005, both shows. The first day I went with two friends. They kicked off with Release and it was a very emotional moment for us. However it was when they played Given to Fly that the strongest moment of the night happened. I couldn't help but crying.
    They had played Release, Corduroy, Last Exit, Hail Hail, and Evolution so far, so Given to Fly came as a wonderful piece to hear and in some way it changed the energetic pace of the concert to this somewhat more emotional tone. It was amazing.
    November 22nd, 2005.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    "Off He Goes" for sure- more than once- especially some of the live versions. Sometimes it's just the saddness of the song, sometimes my own pain, sometimes both.

    A number of times in my life I've broken into tears listening to various bands including Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Westerberg, Lou Reed and White Stripes purely for reasons of being blown away by how awesome and/or intense they are.
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  • Kat
    Kat Posts: 4,967
    Yes. There are a few lyrics that always hit me...namely, "My God, it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return."

    It just does.

    Please don't forget this forum is specifically about lyrics for discussion. Any other Pearl Jam topic should be on Porch. Thanks. :)

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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    Kat wrote:
    Yes. There are a few lyrics that always hit me...namely, "My God, it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return."

    It just does.
    x
    you are right...it just does ..like those lyrics the ones killing me every time...
    the beggining...

    "dont feel like home...he is a little out..."

    the end....

    "it's nothing as it seems, the little that you see, it's home... "

    i cant help it...tear me apart...
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  • twisted thoughts
    twisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    Things were different then. All is different now.
    I tried to explain. I hope this works somehow.
    Things were different then. All is different now.
    I tried to explain. Oh, somehow.

    This always seems to choke me up live. Cant seem to belt it out without getting a little misty.
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  • Valiant_23
    Valiant_23 Posts: 13
    Just Breathe has me in bits every time.

    Present Tense makes me sad and I find it uplifting at the same time.

    "My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd re-turn"
    After the song (Even Flow) Eddie Vedder said, “We have to play that song every night otherwise Mike McCready will f*cking kill somebody”
    :D

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  • Henah
    Henah Posts: 2
    The entire show at the Forum in Copenhagen. Extremely emotional since I was at the Roskilde show and almost lost one of my best friends. Actually did not listen to PJ for years but since that show they have again been a big part of my life...
  • Love Boat Capt.
    Love Boat Capt. Posts: 18
    Corduroy...not exactly the song i thought would bring me to tears but my first love had just shit canned me, I was on a wicked bender and the lyrics "can't let you roam inside my head", and "guess i'll lie alone just like before", hit me like a ton of bricks!
  • alliw719
    alliw719 Posts: 99
    On August 23, 2009 in concert in Chicago, they opened with Long Road and played Corduroy right after. As they played the two, I had a moment where I realized how much Pearl Jam's lyrics mean to me and have so much connection with my own life. I bawled right through Corduroy. Fortunately it was a loud concert so no one could hear :lol:
    "Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles."
  • St. John's Jeremy
    St. John's Jeremy Posts: 22
    edited May 2011
    "The End"

    When Backspacer came out, I bought the CD and premiered it (to myself) during a four hour drive. It was clear to hear the changes, not only in their style of rock, but also in the crispness of the instruments, as well as the way Ed pronounces words. But during this first, undisturbed listen, the lyrics, to me, became a real retrospect on the band, as well as an outline of their "next chapter". This feeling really comes from the lyrics of "The Fixer" "Just Breathe", and "Speed of Sound".

    But being as a fan since the beginning, when I heard the opening lyrics of "The End" for the first time (What were all those dreams we shared those many years ago?), images of the last 20yrs began to spin through my head. From the opening of the Evenflow video, to early rock posters I had of the band on my bedroom walls, to Jeff's famous line "Hey Cliff, while we're young?" and Ed's "A compliment for us, is a compliment for you!" in "Singles", to Vedder climbing the stage scaffolding at Lollapalooza, to shots from their Unplugged set, to their SNL appearance where we saw Ed first with a guitar opening up "Not For You", to the news stories of the fights with Ticketmaster, To the announcement of Matt re-joining the band as timekeeper, and much much more up to the announcement of the '05 Canadian tour, to the posters and ads put together for the Newfoundland Pearl Jam weekend, to meeting Jeff and Mike in '05, to promo pics for Backspacer and the video for "The Fixer". And then the track closes with: "The End, comes near, I’m here. But not much longer."


    When the song was over, I played it again, but went through the last 20yrs of my own life, with this music.
    Not all out crying... but yeah, there were tears.

    Here's to 20 more!!
    Post edited by St. John's Jeremy on
    "Hey Cliff... While We're young!"
  • amethgr8
    amethgr8 Posts: 766
    I wanna cry when I see them come on stage. sometimes I do, sometimes it turns into a smile.

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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    I got shit makes me wanting to cry all the time. I don't know why, but this song hits it home all the time ...


    And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me be right.
    I got memories. I got shit so much it don't show.


    I always start to sob when I hear this, and I everytime I listen to this song it makes me cry anyhow. OH MY these lyrics are killing me! ... I so manipulatible, if that word exists ...

    And I can play it over again and again and again and the feeling never fades ...
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  • 3rdEyeJedi
    3rdEyeJedi Madison, WI Posts: 7
    I can think of many times but the one that sticks out:
    Black from Live on Two Legs.
    What Mike does with his guitar conveys such raw emotion, even more so then the lyrics. So moving
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  • PJForceofNature
    PJForceofNature Posts: 3,087
    There are several that make me cry, and most recently "Light Years", as my son's best friend just died, and I think of him whenever I hear it.

    "Black" and "Just Breathe" made me cry when I saw PJ at Bridge last year. And whenever I watch "Come Back" from the Berlin 2010 concert I cry. I am getting tears in my eyes just thinking about these songs. I don't think I have ever gotten so emotional about any other band's music, and I've been listening to music for a long, long time!
    "A beacon on dry land"
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    the long road mists me every fucking time
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    Parachutes
  • JF276119
    JF276119 Posts: 1
    Yes, when my mom died, my family asked me to play a song at her funeral. I chose thumbing my way back to heaven. I kept it all together during the time in which she had passed away quietly on the morning of Decembere 20th, 2004 until that moment, when I realized that would be the last time I would lay my eyes my best friend. My mom loved to listen to me play my guitar, and so I turned my back to everyone in church. While I played, they closed her coffin lid, and the tears came. I barely made it through the rest of the song. When I finished, I gave her coffin a kiss, laid a red rose on top of it, and walked the twelve miles home in the snow, hoping that she undertood that I couldn't go see her put into the cold ground. Every now and then, when I hear that song, my mind drifts back to that moment, and I become more grateful for the gift of her.

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