This may be old news, but when did they put lyrics in the song section!!??

vedderoffdead

This is crazy. I went looking to see how many times Leash had been played, and lo and behold the lyrics came up, and I checked a bunch of other songs too. FINALLY!!

Evolution6579

It's been like that that since the website redesign which was sometime in April 2006, I believe. Some of the lyrics for Lost Dogs aren't up there, though.

I_Got_Shit

Are these lyrics taken from any "official" source? I mean for B-sides that didn't have liner notes, like, for example, Black Red Yellow. That was the first song I looked at, and it includes this lyric from the first verse:

"Black magic painted traits. Makes me sing"

I never knew what the hell Ed was singing there, just that the song was inspired by Dennis Rodman. But there's an article on Two Feet Thick (http://www.twofeetthick.com/tft/readArticle.action?id=29 -- it's always the second google result for "two feet thick") that has a different lyric than what's written.

"The lyric is actually "Black magic viente y tres" - "viente y tres" translates to "23" in Spanish. This is not Rodman's number, but the number of the one and only Michael Jordan - the untattooed yin to Rodman, the officially flamboyant yang. Now the pieces fall into place. "Freud walking the sidelines, clipboard, score on the brain," is then-Bulls philisophical coach Phil Jackson pacing the sidelines. "Black magic viente y tres makes me sane" a reference to Jordan. Consider this cold-case lyric question solved."

I have to say, that makes a lot more sense than "Black magic painted traits." So I'm guessing the lyrics on pearljam.com aren't official in any way, and I wonder where they came from?

Also, Ledbetter doesn't have any lyrics posted. Would be weird if it did.

Flagg

Beware, many of the lyrics on that song page are wrong.

Spencer

Here's another wrong'un from the official site:

NO WAY

All the static in my attic-a
Shoots down my side nerve

That should read "sciatic nerve"...