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Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited October 2008 in The Porch
Is an awesome slow balad song.
Up there with Black.

What do you guys/girls think?
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  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Is an awesome slow balad song.
    Up there with Black.

    What do you guys/girls think?

    I love this song.

    "And I'm the night, as I'm waiting on
    The real possibility I may meet you in my dream
    I go to sleep"

    Pulls on the heart strings. But for me, Black is still a more emotional song, cause I have lived Black, This line in particular

    "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?"
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Yes!

    And...

    "I take a walk outside
    I'm surrounded by some kids at play
    I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
    Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
    I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning"
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Great Song. Definately my fave off S/T. I was fortunate to see them perform it live at Mansfield I 08. Awesome.
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  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,087
    one of my very favourites
  • pretextpretext Posts: 1,294
    Never much grew on me. I'm trying to think of another "ballad" a la Black that really hits me. Maybe it's my definition of ballad, which has to be both slow in tempo but also about longing and desire. Or it's not something I really look for from PJ.
  • phillyfanphillyfan Posts: 831
    I like black better but come back is a good one
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  • Worldwidesuicide08Worldwidesuicide08 Posts: 79
    Love this song,by far the best song on pearl jam u/t.
    Cant touch the bottom...


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  • pj.uw.laurapj.uw.laura Posts: 553
    100% agreed. I LOVE Come Back. Ed sings it with so much passion, too! "IIIII'lllllll be heeeeere, come baaaaack, come baack!!!!"

    Love it!
  • GivenToJam88GivenToJam88 NJ Posts: 1,187
    Come Back is freakin awesome
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  • FatalFatal Posts: 821
    I like it, but its not up there with Black...
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  • southerngardensoutherngarden Posts: 461
    my woman and i love this tune...i really wanted to hear it live...no luck....

    there was already a thread comparing these two songs, it turned into arguing about what each song meant. anyways...i think "come back" is right up there with "black." The emotion from eds voice is comparable in both songs and (to me) they both are refering to love lost in some form or another.

    they both have potential to jerk tears from anyone who has experienced similar situations....and that takes a damn good song!
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  • RicsardRicsard Posts: 1,943
    what a fantastic song!

    I wish they had played it more often!
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  • In My DreamsIn My Dreams Posts: 299
    edited January 2009
    Not bad! ;) (read name and sig)

    I love the song, it hits close to me.

    Black is classic, love that one too. Used to hit close to me, enough time has passed.
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    A real possibility I may meet you in my dreams ~ I go to sleep
  • azwyldcatsazwyldcats Posts: 710
    balad, lol
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  • sagapo1sagapo1 Posts: 186
    I love it.
    Surprising to me, actually. Such an open journal. It's brave of him.
    He wanted it to be heard.
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  • suns rivalsuns rival Posts: 15,926
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Is an awesome slow balad song.
    Up there with Black.

    What do you guys/girls think?

    i agree that it's an awesome song....

    i disagree that it's up there with black. :)
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  • Big EdBig Ed Posts: 331
    I think it's highly underrated.
    Some say it is one of the weaker songs on pearl jam, but I think it it heads & shoulders better than anything I have heard on the radio in the last few years. It is 99% as good as Black.
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  • frank_blackfrank_black Posts: 156
    This song could have been one of my all time favorites...the lyrics are amazing, the combination of the simple guitar and Ed's voice in the verses are wonderful, and the outro is simply killer with Mike and Ed shinning. But i just can't get use to Ed's part where he sings "the real possibilityyyyyyyyyyy" It just doen't sound good to my ears. I keep trying...but for now i'll say that it's a song that i like, not love :)
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Is an awesome slow balad song.
    Up there with Black.

    What do you guys/girls think?

    i think when they play the song live, the boys need to be wearing shark skin suits and spinning in order just like the 4 tops or something. :D
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  • Indifference71Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,872
    Come Back is beautiful. Hearing it live in DC was prob the highlight of the show for me....
  • suns rivalsuns rival Posts: 15,926
    come back's version in IIC is also awesome.
    scratching my butt...
    kinakamot ang aking puwit...
    me rascando pompis...
    krap mijn reet...
    boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
    bahrosh teezy...
  • SongburstSongburst Posts: 1,195
    SENROCK! wrote:
    i think when they play the song live, the boys need to be wearing shark skin suits and spinning in order just like the 4 tops or something. :D
    Even that wouldn't save this dreadful song. There are a couple of somewhat annoying songs in PJ's repetoir but this is the only song that makes me want to stuff dirty sweat socks in Eddie's mouth before it's too late.
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  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 10,000
    I thought this song should have been released as a single, lots of other people would dig it.


    I'm gonna try to play it tomorrow 9/30, cause that date has significance to me...might not be easy cause its a heavy song
  • PJSEMPREPJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    IMO "Black" is million times better.
    "Come Back" is the song that I skip every time I listen "Avocado".
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  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    I think it's the lamest piece of cheese in Pearl Jam's catalog, and the fact that there is a new thread about it every week proves that most Pearl Jam fans have bad taste in music.
  • Left PorchLeft Porch Posts: 846
    Good, not great song. As far as PJ slower songs go it's on the list, but towards the bottom, with of course Black being at the top.
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  • LineOneMightyFineLineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    I guess I'm in the minority here, but I think this is a very average song. Yeah, I don't doubt that there's a valid sentiment in it, but it just comes across to me as really cheesy and contrived. It really does nothing for me.
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    suns rival wrote:
    come back's version in IIC is also awesome.

    it wasn't until then that I started to appreciate this song!
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    Sir Mike McCready is....THE MASTER!!! WAHHH!!!
    EVENFLOW PSYCHOS H.N.I.C~FEEL THE FLOW!!!

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  • suns rivalsuns rival Posts: 15,926
    SENROCK! wrote:
    it wasn't until then that I started to appreciate this song!

    ditto. IIC made me love "come back".
    scratching my butt...
    kinakamot ang aking puwit...
    me rascando pompis...
    krap mijn reet...
    boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
    bahrosh teezy...
  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    suns rival wrote:
    ditto. IIC made me love "come back".
    same again
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