Light Years
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This is such an underrated song live. In more recent years, PJ tends to "butcher" it because they barely play it. But in 2000 they killed it. Such a great chorus and the middle guitar part where STone and Mike play similiar "licks" is awesome.
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They played this puppy after Tim Russert died and its the best version yet (esp the Outro)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T-lzxeuaVA
That was my first show!
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Yes sir! Might even be top 3. Just a beautiful song
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2010: Boston, MSG I
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"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
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"If you love someone set them free ... if someone loves you don´t fuck up" - EV
I've used hammers made out of wood
I have played games with pieces and rules..
I've deciphered tricks at the bar...
But now you're gone,... I haven't figured out why...
I've come up with riddles... and jokes about war...
I've figured out numbers and what they're for...
I've understood feelings.. and I've understood words...
But how could you be taken away?...
And wherever you've gone...and wherever we might go...
It don't seem fair...today just disappeared...
Your light's reflected now,... reflected from afar...
We were but stones,... your light made us stars
With heavy breath,... awakened regrets...
Back pages and days alone that could have been spent,
Together... but we were... miles apar...t
Every inch between us becomes light years now...
No need to be void,... or save up on life...
You got to spend it all.....
And wherever you've gone... and wherever we might go...
It don't seem fair...you seemed to like it here...
Your light's reflected now,... reflected from afar
We were but stones,... your light made us stars
And wherever you've gone... and wherever we might go...
It don't seem fair...today just disappeared...
Your light's reflected now,... reflected from afar...
We were but stones,... your light made us stars
+1. I was hoping for this in Hartford.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
+1
I absolutely LOVE this song!!! I wish they would play it more!!
Couldn't agree with you more!! I love the original version of this song - love the way the song was structured in that demo that floats around online. I listen to it often! I'm really hoping that a Binaural reissue (if that comes to be) will include a better quality demo of this early version of the song.
As for the final version of the song, I also love that but disagree a bit with folks who think it wasn't played that well back in 2000. I think the band nailed it when I saw them back then, plus on all the boots I've heard from that time. I always remember at the Saratoga show Ed dedicated it to the inventor of the Lava Lamp, who'd passed away around that time. He said it was "Lamp Years" that night, ha!
I'm sorry, I gotta say this:
I've thought a little more about this since seeing this thread today.
This little verse by Ed on Light Years is the essence of why I love Pearl Jam. Are there any more perfect lyrics than this? Beautiful. I'm getting emotional writing this.
I know what you're feeling. One of their best, easily. When my friend died a couple years ago the day before graduation, I had this song on heavy repeat for a couple days. This is why I love Pearl Jam; you can connect with the lyrics easily.
Eddie is hands down the best lyricist the last 20 years.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
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Barclays 2, Seattle 2013
MSG 1 & 2 2010
Boston 1 & 2 2006
Boston 1 2004
Augusta 1996
I know! There is no other band out there that moves me (or gets me rockin') like Pearl Jam. The voice, the music, the lyrics......ahh, it's just a complete package for me!! LOVE THEM!
"If you love someone set them free ... if someone loves you don´t fuck up" - EV
This isn't rearviewmirror, or Wish List, Faithful, MFC, Thumbing My Way, nor THin Air, Just Breathe, Come Back, Parachutes or Black even. Always hard to place the "you're gone..." motif, unless it's clear, the other party could have jet for someone else!
In the vein of love lost, relationships grieved for, Black set a pretty high bar for them to follow, and they kinda stayed away from that bar for quite a few albums. Rearviewmirror, Better Man are of a slightly different sort of expired relationship. Something deeper happens when that expiration is death, even if it's all bouncy like Last Kiss! Heck, even Black doesn't have the finality of Light Years, and The End only intimates that the final chapter is coming....
So with Last Kiss, a cover, is Light Years the only song explicity about a loved one's death? Certainly other's can be interpretted as such, but Light Years says it outright in my mind.
And I love the allusion to Black as well ... being a star in someone's sky. The confusion, the grief, the regrets, but heck, the beauty of it all. What a testatemnt to a beautiful relationship just in the melody of the tune itself, yet alone the words . . . and the longing.
Folks these days just don't do nothing simple for the love of it
Agree with all of that, however I view Sad as song about loved ones death as well. Funny my top 3 songs are Black, Light Years & Sad - I must be pretty dark!!
Folks these days just don't do nothing simple for the love of it
thats how I feel when I am there with them in the music.
Without PJ I'd just be a stone, the music awakened me and helps me to shine
and be who I am.
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2004 10.8
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2009 9.21 9.22 9.25 10.4
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Shazam! Good one, had totally forgotten Sad. I scanned the studio albums but skipped Lost Dogs, my mind went "nope, nothing SAD on there...." Ha! That may take the cake from Light Years on sheer bummer of a tale. But Light Years overpowers in its elegance to me ... a masterpiece!
But all of these songs are among my favorites ... Black, Light Years, Sad, Last Kiss, Rearviewmirror, Come Back, Parachutes, The End, oh Parting Ways, sure. ANd their opposites like Wishlist, Thin Air, Faithful and Just Breath...
Yeah, we are a curious sort, those of us in this thread. These "slow" songs of love lost/relationships gone just bring a bunch of emotions bubbling up.
Why do that to yourself? Because the people we've lost (or are losing) meant that much to us, that we're willing to pull the scab off again, and again, experience the pain, watch the blood drip and continue whatever type of healing we can get. Because with pain and regret also comes the memories of all the happiness we've had. The intensity of the pain simply indicates the prior passion lived....
Not that I dwell on all that ... much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cdLSYjKpzA
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
+1, I'm pretty sure eds crying in the london o2 version from aug 18 09