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pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,331
edited March 2010 in The Porch
What a great song. One of my favourites

"And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done."

One of my all time favourite Pearl Jam lines. One of those lines where (for me) I'm like, fuck yeah, I hear ya.

A few years ago I was stuck in a dead-end, going nowhere fast, now I'm a third of the way to being a teacher. After realising I was better than the cyclical bullshit I was in.
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EV Sydney 20/03/2011
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  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    Amen brother
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  • Sprunkn7Sprunkn7 Posts: 5,286
    A fave....
    Thank you fellow 10 clubber for saving my ass....again!!!
  • KloddzKloddz Posts: 2,573
    pjfan31 wrote:
    "And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done."

    One of my all time favourite Pearl Jam lines. One of those lines where (for me) I'm like, fuck yeah, I hear ya.
    Yes, great line that I think everybody can connect to. I love Down!
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,331
    Last year before Sydney, I was hoping they played this. When they did, simply awesome,

    Seen it played twice live and for a B-side, simply astonishing
    Sydney 11/02/2003
    Sydney 14/02/2003
    Sydney 07/11/2006
    Sydney 18/11/2006
    Sydney 22/11/2009
    EV Sydney 18/03/2011
    EV Sydney 19/03/2011
    EV Sydney 20/03/2011
    Melbourne 24/01/2014
    Sydney 26/01/2014
    EV Sydney 13/02/2014
  • Diggy381Diggy381 Posts: 165
    I have loved this song from the first time I ever heard it. . . actually probably my favorite of the Riot Act sessions period.

    My girlfriend has actually been a bit addicted to this song lately and played it during an open mic night a few weeks ago 8-)
  • LoveBoatAdmiralLoveBoatAdmiral Posts: 1,191
    Which makes me ask... Where the hell are the b sides from the last two albums!!???!!!
    2006- Boston I
    2008- Boston I+II
    2009- Toronto, Philly III+IV
    2010- Bristow, Hartford, Boston, Newark
  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Posts: 4,154
    Down...one of my all time favorites!

    PBM
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  • southernmanfansouthernmanfan Posts: 1,019
    I absolutely love Down, always have. When they started to play it in Sydney, I was beaming from ear to ear, especially having travelled all the way from South Africa to see the best band in the world!

    PS: I also really like Sad from Lost
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  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    a mccready gem.
    i still remember the smile i had when they cracked it out in Sydney in 2003 8-)
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

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  • weenieweenie Posts: 1,623
    I feel you brother. You see my tag line right? Story of my life.
    Truly underrated - this song.

    And thanks again Vedder_soup for ACL :D

    Shit, I guess you don't see my tag line. WTF?
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau
  • Catwoman1Catwoman1 Posts: 482
    I just wrote a letter to my congressman about the health care reform bill, and in it I said that one of my favorite songs has a lyric that says "You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

    Love this song!
    You can't be neutral on a moving train.
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