~~~~> Parting Ways

VEDHEAD27 · October 2003

I just wanted to take a moment to voice my complete love and respect for this song. I have always thought it to be one the most beautiful yet highly underrated songs in the entire PJ catalogue. After hearing the version of it from Neil Finn's 7 Worlds Collide cd it just makes you fall in love with it in a whole new way. It's a gorgeous song and really sometimes it just hits me like a ton of bricks. It's peaceful and soothing but very intense and very moving. It's yet another powerful piece of beauty brought to us by the way of Ed. Not the longest song, not a lot of lyrics, not a lot of complex things going on....but it really doesn't need all that stuff to have an affect and to get it's point across. I think it's beautiful just the way it is and makes for a perfect closer too. I just wanted to give it some appreciation as I think it's well deserved.

~~Parting Ways~~

Behind her eyes there's curtains and they've been closed to hide the flames. Remains.
She knows their futures burning but she can smile just the same. Same.
And though her mood is fine today there's a fear they'll soon be parting ways.

Standing like a statue. A chin of stone a heart of clay. Hey.
And thought he's too big a man to say there's a fear they'll soon be parting ways.

Drifting away. Drifting away. Drifting away.

Away. Away.

Drifting away. Drifting away. Drifting away.

Away. Away..........

MeddleDeal · October 2003

I told ya girl. It is one HELL of a POWERFUL song!! It gives me chills even thinking about it.

The DVD one, OMG, it literally gave me chills the first time I watched it!! OMG!!:D HIGHLY recommend getting it, I should get it for myself now. haha.:p

{[Pearl_Jam}] · October 2003

second best of Binaural... played just two times this tour :(

fun_and_sun · October 2003

It is perfect, I love the guitar and the ending of it. Two people walking on the shore and before they know it, they've drifted apart from one another. I read that somewhere, it was cool to see someone really see the beauty in the song.

thisismylastexit · October 2003

this song makes me want to sigh
*sigh*
beautiful

drifting...

pjsal · October 2003

Perfect song...

VEDHEAD27 · October 2003

BUMP because this song is beautiful and someone posted about the Boston 3 version in the PORCH section and all I gotta say is HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That version is just beyond words.

Excuse me while I drift awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay......

Really though, the way the music and Ed's voice just carry that last part... it does feel like you are going somewhere, drifting. It's awesome!

leatherman_8 · October 2003

absolutely beautiful song...I love the strings on Binaural and on Seattle 2 '00

VEDHEAD27 · October 2003

YES!! It really is.

I'm watching the TB2K version right now!! Ooooh man!

This song also sounds really pretty with some backing female vocals too. It totally works.

Hey Eddie

VEDHEAD27 · December 2003

"Behind her eyes there's curtains and they've been closed to hide the flames. Remains."

Right from the start, powerful, poetic beauty! This song is gorgeous! Again, Neil Finn's 7 Worlds Collide?!?! :eek: That version is extra blessed.

Much love for this song.

*drifts away as a result of all it's glory*

||Release_Me|| · December 2003

I just replied to the other thread, so i might as well write something here as well! I fuckin' love this song!! And the TB2K version?WOW!!!! Not to mention Boston 3's acoustic version!!

I'm in love with this song!!

Squirrel · December 2003

oh it's sooooo beautiful!!!!! gets me drifting.......awaaaaaaaayyyyyy

SoLATisA · December 2003

this is such a sad song to me...

at first i thought it was eddie's song to the band.... and that scared the fuck out of me

now i believe it was written to eddie's wife..... hmmmm.... thumbing sequal???? it is to me......

theskyiscrape · December 2003

best ending song ever

edvedder913 · December 2003

"chin of stone, heart of clay"
one of my all-time favorite PJ lyrics!

Jaidra · January 2004

what about the sound that plays a few minutes after the end of Parting Ways on the album?

it always jars me when i hear it after so perfectly forgetting that I had even been listening to music.

VEDHEAD27 · January 2004

Yeah I know Jaidra. I agree. The typewriter. It's so eery. Parting Ways in itself sends you drifting away....drifting away......and then you are just brought back abruptly by loud, forceful, haunting sound. I find it easy to get lost in it but in a totally different way. It's definitely trippy.

Well yeah, I just wanna add that I love this song more than ever now. The last time I went through a break-up was when Yield was out...and we all know how that album saves. Going through this kind of experience now though, it makes songs like this one totally re-born. I've become more attached to every sound, every word, every feel of this song. It really is a beauiful piece of art. It's so fuckin simple too which I love. I love how little goes such a long way here. One of Ed's best without a doubt. This song is definitely sad. It's such a beautiful sad though. Everything just fits together so harmoniously. And yeah, what a way to end an album! It's perfect!!! Send you on your way. Tells it like it is. This song sends me places and traps me all at once. Sooo incredibly moving.

Anyway...extra, extra love for this song. EVERYTHING about it is a true comfort.

MeddleDeal · February 2004

I need to get the Neil Finn 7 World's Collide cd b/c this version ROCKS as well

I love the way Neil adds towards the end of that song. Man I NEED to see it now.

3sheets · February 2004

Sorry Black. You are not the saddest, most forlorn song in the PJ catalogue. Parting Ways is the winner. 2nd goes to Porch. Then you. Parting Ways just tugs at your heart. The sense of losing, not of loss is utterly horrifying. To know that something is being extinguished/ending is more painful than of it coming from out of nowhere. There was obviously an abrupt ending to the relationships in Porch and Black, but in this one, the couple both know the relationship is fading and there's nothing they can do about it. In this sense it shares much w/ Insignificance. It is just an incredibly beautiful, sad song. And I have to agree that the 2 Seattle '00 versions w/ April Cameron and Justine Foy were absolutely breathtaking.

On a side note: I've always thought that a Parting Ways directly into Go (a la Lukin into Not For You) would sound incredible, especially w/ how they end the song now w/ those few hard drum rolls (they could easily start Go w/ that sound, but I guess they'd have to change out guitars). Also, the theme of don't go on me found in Go would be perfect after the theme of Parting Ways. You know how sometimes you know you're not right w/ a particular person but you still don't want them to go even though you should split ("should've pulled the alarm"). Oh well just my 2 cents.

VEDHEAD27 · August 2004

3sheets, that is absolutely gorgeous! I hear ya.

This song DOES tug at your heart. Such an impact. It demands to be felt. Really, you can feel every word, every sound. Everything about it is intense and beautiful. It does always hit me like a fist to the jaw.

I just watched to TB2K version again.

I love how right before the song starts Ed says---->>>

"This is how the new record ends, it's a song called Parting Ways....

(then he pauses, throws his hand up intensely and says)

...It's a lot of things...."

That it is!

heave · August 2004

fucking beautiful song!!!

I love it!!!

Squirrel · August 2004

omg...dug up this old thread...SoLaTisA and the nut posting....awww..the old times...*sigh*

and hell yeah...beautiful song!!!!! driftin.....

Fabes · August 2004

I love this song. It's so peaceful and soothing... I love how the guitar picks up during the end and then the violins.... Awesome.

PJJC6203 · August 2004

One of the saddest songs ever.It's the type that gives you chills.

MeddleDeal · October 2005

<~~~~listening to the 7 World's Collide verison of Parting Ways

I can't believe this thread has NOT been BUMPED in a long ass time!!! :eek:

To me, everytime I hear this verison of this song, it gives me CHILLS!! By far, this is the BEST verison of this song live!!! Neil and Eddie's voice complements each other, and at the end, Neil adds lyrics to an already classic song. Having Ed O' Brien and Phil from Radiohead, Lisa Germano, Johnny Marr and Sebastian from Soul Coughing, and Neil makes it even MORE special and intense. Eddie's raw emotions are shown in this song, and the crowd LOVES it!!

Anduril · November 2005

way too much love for this song. next time i break up with a guy, i'm sending him a cd of parting ways and when i get dumped, i'm sending him i'm still here.

darthvedder88 · November 2005

I love those power chords at the end of the song, they're so great!!!

VEDHEAD27 · September 2006

MeddleDeal wrote:

<~~~~listening to the 7 World's Collide verison of Parting Ways

ME TOO and I was forced to come and BUMP this up! I couldn't agree with you more Nadi about every single thing you said in response to this version. It honestly shimmers in a universe all it's own. You just can't compare it to anything else. I mean these voices together?

ALL of these muscians together...total all-star band. *sigh* And this extended jam!!!!!! OMG!! Makes me 'drift away' even more! This one for sure has some extra, extra magic going on. Just when you thought this song couldn't possibly get anymore more amazing.....

I always get stuck ON this song and always get stuck FROM this song .
Always.

<~~ going back for some more

gvn2fly12 · September 2006

VEDHEAD27 wrote:

ME TOO and I was forced to come and BUMP this up! I couldn't agree with you more Nadi about every single thing you said in response to this version. It honestly shimmers in a universe all it's own. You just can't compare it to anything else. I mean these voices together? ALL of these muscians together...total all-star band. *sigh* And this extended jam!!!!!! OMG!! Makes me 'drift away' even more! This one for sure has some extra, extra magic going on. Just when you thought this song couldn't possibly get anymore more amazing.....

I always get stuck ON this song and always get stuck FROM this song .
Always.

<~~ going back for some more

Off to watch the DVD now as reading these were given me goosebumps from the memories.

VEDHEAD27 · September 2006

gvn2fly12 wrote:

Off to watch the DVD now as reading these were given me goosebumps from the memories.

AWWWW yay!

That just gave me goosebumps!
Glad I could help inspire.

Enjoy! I knoooow you will.

I think I'm due for a viewing myself when I get home. This version just completely SOARS!

Still listening as I type this...

MeddleDeal · September 2006

for those who don't have the DVD, here is the BEST verison of Parting Ways EVER done!!

Eddie, Neil and the rest of the 7 World's Collide supergroup totally OWN this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJpl4MtJcNo

~~~~> Parting Ways

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