Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

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  • vitalpj10vitalpj10 Posts: 142
    I thought the world; turns out the world thought me.
    ...I thought the world, turns out the word thought me
  • I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both
    i know i was born and i know that i'll die the inbetween is mine ---------------------------------------------------- FEB 11, 13, 14 Sydney 2003 NOV 7, 8, 18, 2006 Sydney NOV 20, 2009 Melbourne NOV 22, 2009 Sydney NOV 25, 2009 Brisbane MAR 18 & 19 2012 Sydney EV Solo JAN 26, 2014 Sydney FEB 12 & 14 2014 Sydney EV Solo
  • P23JP23J Posts: 103
    All or None

    It's a hopeless ... situation
    And I'm starting to believe
    That this hopeless ... situation
    Is what I'm trying to achieve

    Listen to this tune anytime I'm feeling complacent.
  • So many Great ones, thanks Ed!

    this one still gives me chills

    I can't remember anything to this very day,
    'cept the look, the look...
    Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare..."
    11/5/91: Troy NY "I Just Want to SCREAM... HELLO!"
    8/4/92:Saratoga NY 4/6/94:Mass 9/13/98:CT
    8/27/2000:Saratoga NY,10/04/2000:Montreal,Canada
    04/29/03:Albany, 5/12/06:Albany NY,10/31/09:Philly,5/15/10Hartford CT

  • DDtxDDtx Posts: 21
    I see the birds in the rain

    (I don't know why, but that line just floors me every time.)
  • petersm69petersm69 Posts: 43
    "said he'll see me on the flipside. Of this trip he's taking for a ride" - That line just sounds so cool an honest. Only eddie could deliver it the way he does.

    "Ill ride the wave! Where it takes meeeeeeeee!" - The line really isnt that great until you hear it in the song

    "More than friends i always pledged, coz friends they come and go"

    "i change by not changen at all"
  • No matter how cold the winter, theres a spring time ahead

    what are you running from? taking pills to get along, creating walls to call your own

    and sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky, a human being that was given to fly

    one day the symptoms fade, think ill throw these pills away and if hope could grow from dirt like me

    let the ocean swells dissolve away my past

    all hail the lucky ones, i refer to those in love

    up here so high leaves start to shake, up here so high the sky i scrape

    i changed by not changing at all

    etc.
    life can't get eddie vedder than this!
  • WaveRyderWaveRyder Posts: 1,128
    petersm69 wrote:

    "Ill ride the wave! Where it takes meeeeeeeee!" - The line really isnt that great until you hear it in the song

    "

    This is my all time favorite, mayber. Its so hard to choose. But i disagree with you that isnt that great without hearing it in the song.

    It the moto that I live by. Ride the wave, do new things and who cares what beach you wash up on. That's what it means to me.
    RC, SoDak 1998 - KC 2000 - Council Bluffs IA 2003 - Fargo ND 2003 - St. Paul MN 2003 - Alpine Valley 2003 - St Louis MO 2004 - Kissimmee FLA 2004 - Winnipeg 2005 - Thunder Bay 2005 - Chicago 2006 - Grand Rapids MI 2006 - Denver CO 2006 - Lollapalooza 2007 - Bonnaroo 2008 - Austin City Limits 2009 - Los Angeles 2009 - KC 2010 - St Louis MO 2010 - PJ20 Night 1 - PJ20 Night 2
  • petersm69petersm69 Posts: 43
    WaveRyder wrote:
    petersm69 wrote:

    "Ill ride the wave! Where it takes meeeeeeeee!" - The line really isnt that great until you hear it in the song

    "

    This is my all time favorite, mayber. Its so hard to choose. But i disagree with you that isnt that great without hearing it in the song.

    It the moto that I live by. Ride the wave, do new things and who cares what beach you wash up on. That's what it means to me.

    I didnt mean that its not great. I quote the lyric all the time coz i love it!. I just mean that, when you hear it in the song its mind blowing. It gives me goosebumps everrry time. Its the moto i live by too. Maybe just coz im shit at planning haha. So i just ride the wave
  • If you hate something, don't you do it too
  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    "Who's got the brain of J.F.K.?"
  • "I wonder 'bout his insides... Its like his thoughts are too big for his size"
    AUSTIN: 9/16/1995
    THE WOODLANDS: 10/14/2000
    THE WOODLANDS: 4/6/2003
    NEW YORK: 6/24/2008
    NEW ORLEANS: 5/1/2010
    EAST TROY: 9/3/2011 & 9/4/2011
    PENSACOLA: 9/21/2012
    HOUSTON: 11/12/2012 (ev)
    DALLAS: 11/15/2013
    AUSTIN: 10/5/2014
    TULSA: 10/8/2014
    FT. LAUDERDALE: 4/8/2016
    MIAMI: 4/9/2016
    TAMPA: 4/11/2016
    JACKSONVILLE: 4/13/2016
    NEW ORLEANS: 4/23/2016
    BOSTON: 8/5/2016
  • SEACIDESEACIDE Posts: 410
    "If I had known then what I know now......."
    Love is all you need.....
  • penny lane2penny lane2 Posts: 84
    I have so so many, but a few that always stick in my head are:

    "Have you seen the way the tree bends, does it inspire
    leaning out to catch the suns rays, a lesson to be applied
    are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip"

    "If i knew where it was I would take you there, there so much more than this"

    "see the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival"

    "I had a false believe, I thought we came here to stay,
    we're all just visiting
    all just breaking like waves
    the oceans made me, but who came up with love?"

    "three crooked hearts with swirls all around, I miss you all day"

    "I'll ride the wave where it takes me, I'll hold the pain, Release me"

    I should stop but I really could go on and on....
    "If I knew where it was I would take you there...."
  • Tora74Tora74 Posts: 107
    Well oddly enough yes but Just Breathe is still the best song hehe


    "He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree
    The wind rose up, set him down on his knee"

    Still want you guys to come see the Oaks :)_

    Well Frak :oops: I completely forgot about Nothingman oh damn there are too many to list!!!

    Thanks Guys :P


    once divided...nothing left to subtract...
    some words when spoken...can't be taken back...
    walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking...
    future's above...but in the past he's slow and sinking...
    caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...
    nothingman...
    nothingman...

    Can't forget this one either always sticks in my brain :geek:
    "We won the lottery... when you were born...Big Hand Slapped the White Man America"



    PEACE
    Things were different then. All is different now.
    3.29.94 St. Pete, FL
    9.21.12 Pensacola, FL
    11.1.13 New Orleans, LA
    10.14.14 Memphis, TN
    4.13.16 Jacksonville, FL
    EV 11.21.12 Memphis, TN
    EV 11.28.12 Orlando, FL
  • L20L20 Posts: 9
    I put this line on a poster and display it on my wall. It means EVERYTHING.
    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die; the in-between is mine."
  • theseedtheseed Posts: 3
    "All the rusty signs we ignore throughout our life, choosing the shiny ones instead."


    I have wished for so long...
    How I wish for you today
    Will I walk the long road?
    We all walk the long road
    Wondering why I grow.
  • leekstokieleekstokie Posts: 905
    Release
    ''Oh dear dad
    Can you see me now
    I am myself
    Like you somehow
    I'll ride the wave
    Where it takes me
    I'll hold the pain
    Release me"

    Black
    "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
    I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
    But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?"
    PJ
    2012 - Manchester 1 - 20/6 
    2014 - Amsterdam 1 - 16/6, Amsterdam 2 - 17/6, Milan - 20/6, Leeds - 08/07, Milton Keynes - 11/07
    2015 - Bogota - 25/11
    2016 - Philly 1 - 28/04, Philly 2 - 29/04, NYC 1 - 01/05, NYC 2 - 02/05
    2018 - LDN 1 - 18/06, Krakow - 03/07, Berlin - 05/07, Madrid - 12/07, LDN 2 - 17/07, Missoula 13/08
    2022 - LA 1 - 06/05, LA2 - 07/05, Berlin - 21/06, Frankfurt 28/07, London 1 - 08/07, London 2 - 09/07, Budapest - 12/07, Krakow 14/07, Amsterdam 2 - 25/07, NYC Apollo - 10/09, NYC MSG - 11/09, OKC - 20/09, Denver - 22/09.
    2023 - St Paul 2 - 03/09, Chicago 1 - 05/09, Chicago 2 - 07/09

    EV
    2012 - Manchester - 28/07/12, 2017 - Amsterdam - 29/05/17, 2019 -Amsterdam - 09/06/2019, Madrid - 22/06/2019
  • "Let's say knowledge is a tree. It's growing up just like me." Oh man.. There's so many
  • its egg rolling thick and heavy

    Can you tell me what that means exactly.
    I do have a feeling, but I'm not sure.

    I guess it's hard rolling an egg as it's not quite round.
    Is it an actual saying or does it revere to a saying?

    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • It's hard to choose, but the last few months I have had the line

    Life has nothing to do with killing time!

    pop up in my mind very often.
    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • GratefulJamGratefulJam Posts: 1,803
    What a different life had I not found this love with you.....................
    "thru extensive negotiations we managed to get the curfew moved back..... we still don't have any time to fu&k around...."

    LA II 06, SB 06, SF III 06, Kokua 07 Ed and Jack, Grant Park 07, EV Berk1 & LA 1 (nice job 10c), 08 DC, MSG1 &2, VH1 rocks, EV Bos II, EV NYC I & II, Milwaukee, EV Maui, EV Hono I & II, Chicago 09 I & II, LA 09 I & II & IV, SD 09 (my girlfriend hit the lottery, best concert of my life 10C rocks)KC 2010, STL 2010, Hartford. Boston, and MSG I & II "who goes around skinning cats anyway", PJ 20 2011 , Portland, Spokane, Seattle LA 2013, Home Shows + Missoula (fatal 👌)
  • "Trading magic for fact, no trade backs"
  • In his dreams he's
    Choking tea leaves
  • freshymadfreshymad Posts: 54
    edited May 2014
    I only own my mind
    Post edited by freshymad on
  • It's like his thoughts are too big for his size.
    Another habit says it's in love with you
    Another habit says its long overdue
    Another habit like an unwanted friend
    I'm so happy with my righteous self
  • Versus13Versus13 Posts: 193
    edited May 2014
    So many of them!!!
    But here are some pulled out of my favourite song:
    "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star. In somebody else's sky but why can't it be mine?!"
    Pittsburgh, PA 10/11/13
    Detroit, MI 10/16/14
    Tampa, FL 4/11/16
    Jacksonville, FL 4/13/16
    Toronto, ON 5/12/16
    Chicago, IL 8/22/16
    Chicago, IL 8/18/18
    Chicago, IL 8/20/18
    Boston, MA 9/4/18
    Ottawa, ON 9/3/22
    Hamilton, ON 9/6/22
    Toronto, ON 9/8/22
  • scurtisscurtis Posts: 2,460
    Well my signature kind of gives it away, but "born on third, thinks he got a triple" is my favourite lyric. My Dad wrote a book and we discussed that concept of people born with entitlement and I referenced that lyric.

    He used it in his book.
    "Born on third, thinks he got a triple."
  • mandm621mandm621 Posts: 93
    I didn't care, before you were here. I danced in laughter with the ever after.
  • mandm621mandm621 Posts: 93
    mandm621 said:

    I didn't care, before you were here. I danced in laughter with the ever after.

    sirens.
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