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In My Tree

beachbellebeachbelle Posts: 95
edited March 2012 in Words and Music...Communication
Just because...it's amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orCIt7y1QZI

eddie-vedder-picture-3-100px.jpg

Up here in my tree, yeah
Newspapers matter not to me, yeah
No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah

Wave to all my friends, yeah
They don't seem to notice me, no
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh
Sidewalk cigarettes and scenes, (tem-pted)
Up here so high I start to shake
Up here so high the sky I scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath here within my chest
Just like innocence

(Eddie's down in his home)
(Oh, the blue sky it's his home)
(Eddie's blue sky home)
(Oh, the blue sky it's his home)

I remember when, yeah
I swore I knew everything, oh yeah
Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah
It's growing up just like me, yeah
I'm so light the wind he shakes
I'm so high the sky I scrape
I'm so light I hold just one breath and go back to my nest
Sleep with innocence...

Up here so high the boughs they break
Up here so high the sky I scrape
Had my eyes peeled both wide open, and I got a glimpse
Of my innocence... got back my inner sense...
Baby got it, still got it
"Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere..."


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  • all.five.horizonsall.five.horizons Posts: 35
    great song!
    i actually prefer live versions of this song, rather than the one from No Code :)
  • dan46erdan46er Posts: 157
    Trading stories with the leaves... love that line!
    Buffalo 05/10/10, Buffalo 10/12/13, Brooklyn 10/19/13

    "I seem to recognize your face, haunting, familiar yet, I can't seem to place it..."
  • morgannspicermorgannspicer Posts: 266
    I actually love the picture...HAHA.
    05/19/06 Grand Rapids, MI
    05/07/10 Noblesville, IN
    09/03/11 Alpine Valley, WI
    09/04/11 Alpine Valley, WI
  • beachbellebeachbelle Posts: 95
    all.five.horizons wrote:
    great song!
    i actually prefer live versions of this song, rather than the one from No Code :)

    Me, too.
    "Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere..."


  • beachbellebeachbelle Posts: 95
    morgannspicer wrote:
    I actually love the picture...HAHA.
    Yeah, short-haired Eddie. A friend of mine made a terrible remark once about 2003 Eddie having a "Fantastic Sam's" haircut, and about how rock stars should have long, crazy hair and not look like accountants. Blah, blah. Between you and me, he looks like no accountant I've ever met! ;)
    "Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere..."


  • beachbellebeachbelle Posts: 95
    dan46er wrote:
    Trading stories with the leaves... love that line!
    It's a good one.
    "Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere..."


  • Meg8686Meg8686 Posts: 1,234
    I say knowledge is a tree, it's growing up just like me :)
    Sometimes I speak of nothing at all.
  • mikalinamikalina Posts: 7,206
    Great song :thumbup:

    I was just talking to someone about treehouses :)
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  • BhagavadGitaBhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    I'm gonna live in a house someday with a tree in the middle..you will enter from a rounded door at the trunk of the tree. there will be a honeymoon sweet where the ceiling is the tree itself rounded into a dome to do laser shows for the couple in the bed of velvet below.

    Can you tell this song has inspired the interior decorator in me. lol

    :mrgreen::mrgreen:
  • BrainOfMABrainOfMA Posts: 553
    love this song, one of my favorites
    2013 : London, Buffalo
    _____________________________
    It makes much more sense, to live
    In the present tense
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    viewtopic.php?f=4&t=174049&hilit=in+my+tree

    awesome version.. :D
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • BrainOfMABrainOfMA Posts: 553
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=174049&hilit=in+my+tree

    awesome version.. :D
    That is an awesome version, love Ed's improv lyrics
    2013 : London, Buffalo
    _____________________________
    It makes much more sense, to live
    In the present tense
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    BrainOfMA wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=174049&hilit=in+my+tree

    awesome version.. :D
    That is an awesome version, love Ed's improv lyrics
    :D
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Last-12-ExitLast-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    No more crowbars to my head.....

    Enough said
  • Last-12-ExitLast-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    I've never been involved in the drummer controversy cuz they all had their strong points but, Jack played the fuck out of this song. Matt does a good job with it, but nothing like Jack.

    Im not intentionally starting a drummer argument......I like them all!
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    No more crowbars to my head.....

    Enough said
    :clap::clap:
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • karmadefectkarmadefect Posts: 806
    Last-12-Exit said:

    I've never been involved in the drummer controversy cuz they all had their strong points but, Jack played the fuck out of this song. Matt does a good job with it, but nothing like Jack.

    Im not intentionally starting a drummer argument......I like them all!

    I do get what you say thow.
    This song would not have been possible without Jack.
    He really had something special.
    And In my tree is one of the songs that show his style best I believe.

    I was so excited when they played In my tree at my forth show.
    I am bias off corse, but I do feel this is the best version I have heard with Jeff opening.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQoJcNcOMA
    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • jmuscatellojmuscatello Colorado Posts: 332
    Last-12-Exit said:

    No more crowbars to my head.....

    Enough said

    love this song a lot
    and that's my migraine recovery line
  • karmadefectkarmadefect Posts: 806
    :))
    Right you are.
    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • LastStopOnTheWestCoastLineLastStopOnTheWestCoastLine Posts: 328
    Thinking about the lyrics to this song in view of Eddie revealing (at one of the Seattle shows) that Even Flow was inspired by a homeless person who was also named Eddie.

    Could the Eddie in this song be the same guy? Or are we sure it's PJ Eddie?
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