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  • InHiding19InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    awesome songs.......................
    Out of the Blue and Into the Black................Uncle Neil Philly 08 here I come!!!!
  • CrazyMollyCrazyMolly Posts: 24
    TrixieCat wrote:
    The beauty of music is that anyone can have their own personal interpretation.
    I use Light Years to get me through something I am going through right now but in a postive way. It doesn't make me sad anymore. It gives me hope.


    That is why I love every song created by these gods.... the lyrics and even music may be interpreted so differently by the individual.
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  • NewJPageNewJPage Posts: 3,311
    jesse wrote:
    this is probably wrong cause parting ways was played at soundcheck back in 96

    that's true (and that was the most amazing soundcheck ever, which i sadly have never heard...). but have you heard that version?? just wondering if the lyrics are the same. i'd guess that they changed at least somewhat over the course of four years.
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  • SpencerSpencer Posts: 867
    NewJPage wrote:
    that's true (and that was the most amazing soundcheck ever, which i sadly have never heard...). but have you heard that version?? just wondering if the lyrics are the same. i'd guess that they changed at least somewhat over the course of four years.

    Yes, they did. From what I recall the '96 version is largely instrumental and certainly didn't have the 2000-era lyrics yet.

    Music was old(ish) but the lyrics were new when it went on Binaural.
  • Perennial TearsPerennial Tears Posts: 133
    Parting Ways
    ...........MemorieslikestatuesthroughthemIdriveliketreesonthesidesidewalksmoretreesevenstopsignS
  • pearljamgirl07pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    muiren77 wrote:
    light years is really an emotional song...it somehow speaks about losing someone and acknowledging his impact to one's life...

    yeah I love ligth years too and I agree with you about the meaning
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • pearljamgirl07pearljamgirl07 Posts: 792
    muiren77 wrote:
    light years is really an emotional song...it somehow speaks about losing someone and acknowledging his impact to one's life...

    yeah I love ligth years too and I agree with you about the meaning
    "You're the eve of my destruction in the garden of fears"
  • jessejesse Posts: 170
    NewJPage wrote:
    that's true (and that was the most amazing soundcheck ever, which i sadly have never heard...). but have you heard that version?? just wondering if the lyrics are the same. i'd guess that they changed at least somewhat over the course of four years.


    yeah ive heard the 96 version is pretty much the same as binaural except the lyrics are kinda mumbled for most of the song.

    light years is one of my favourite songs but ive always preffered puzzles and games it reminds me a lot of given to fly
  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    jesse wrote:
    this is probably wrong cause parting ways was played at soundcheck back in 96

    just the music. I'm sure the lyrics were totally different, if the soundchecked version even had lyrics at all.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • CrazyMollyCrazyMolly Posts: 24
    my favorite line is: we were stones, but your light made us stars.
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    Eddie Vedder (Santa Cruz) 4/5/08
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    parting ways. even better live
  • hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,899
    This song is amazing-minus writers block portion of course.

    I have loved this song since the infamous Barcelona Soundcheck circa 96

    from 5H
    Parting Ways, ? (instrumental), Around the Bend, In My Tree, In My Tree, Hard to Imagine (16m version), Garden, Leaving Here, I'm Open (10m version) [70m = entire soundcheck]

    the show was an amazing set too
  • pkh43pkh43 Posts: 253
    "parting ways" is awesome on Neil Finn's 7 WORLD'S COLLIDE. Phill from radiohead lends his drumming and Ed from Radiohead helps on guitar. Binaural version is great also, but you should check the whole 7 WORLD'S COLLIDE show/cd.
  • CrazyMollyCrazyMolly Posts: 24
    pkh43 wrote:
    "parting ways" is awesome on Neil Finn's 7 WORLD'S COLLIDE. Phill from radiohead lends his drumming and Ed from Radiohead helps on guitar. Binaural version is great also, but you should check the whole 7 WORLD'S COLLIDE show/cd.


    Found it on itunes. Deff PW sounds so much prettier live.
    Eddie Vedder (Berkeley1) 4/7/08
    Eddie Vedder (Santa Cruz) 4/5/08
    Bridge School 10/21/06
    SF3 07/18/06
    SF2 07/16/06
    LA2 07/10/06
  • Low_Light03Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    Parting Ways. Heard it live once in 2000 and have loved it since then.


    There's A Fear They'll Soon Be Parting Ways
    If You Give, You Begin To Live

    But You Might Die Trying
  • basbas Posts: 16
    doesn't answer your question... but both songs are great, although light years is the one that hits me harder.... a few days after binaural was released my uncle (who was like a brother) died in a car accident, and prior to that he was away for a long time, so light years was my song for a long time, and each time it brought tears to my eyes, now i just appreciate the beauty of the song
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