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  • Jam-fan
    Jam-fan Posts: 70
    to those of you who heard this song live, i am so so so jealous!

    can't wait to hear it, this song gets better and better with each listen. and the words are just beautiful
  • Swanton
    Swanton Posts: 77
    They performed Parachutes during the first Encore at Camden II, and I was fortunate enough to be there with my wife, who also loves the song. We went absolutely crazy as it's one of "our" songs now.

    Then, they played Alive a few songs later, which is my favorite song of all time, and I was literally crying while they played it.

    Amazing night all around!!
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  • Ulalume
    Ulalume Posts: 48
    Oh, I'm so jealous of everyone who has seen this song live! I hope they come back to Chicago soon and play it. But maybe it was better if they didn't play it here this time around. I was going through some pretty depressing things at the time, and I don't think I could've handled the crying for both "Come Back," and "Parachutes."
    How dark a woe! yet how sublime a hope!
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    How daring an ambition! yet how deep--
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVr6eq8b6GA&search=pearl%20jam

    just sublime :)
  • Nami
    Nami Newfoundland Posts: 5,999
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVr6eq8b6GA&search=pearl%20jam

    just sublime :)

    Thank you for this link. Awesome. Did you watch the man of the hour video? Dang man tear jerker.
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    Nami wrote:
    Thank you for this link. Awesome. Did you watch the man of the hour video? Dang man tear jerker.
    oh yes i saw that, definitely emotional for sure.

    here's hoping to hear parachutes next weekend! :)
  • hellbent1
    hellbent1 Posts: 44
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    yup, ATY was stone. i was surprised when i read ed wrote the lyrics, for some reason they felt like stone to me? maybe because of how it reminded me of ATY with that beatles vibe going.

    jam i'm with you on all counts....adore is a good way to describe how i feel about this song :)

    I also had the feel that Vedder wrote the lyrics.
    Like Stone started some of 'em and Ed put his twist into it.
    Stone is keeping The Beatles vibe alive!!
    "The money flew down and stole my cracker!"

    "Every time I go to the doctors I get a jacket, a straight one. It makes me feel special because I get to hug myself."

    I am myself like you somehow.
    I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me.
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    soooooo hoping to hear this gem live!
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i got it.

    cried like a little girl with a big smile :)
  • MeddleDeal
    MeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    OMG B!! we FINALLY got this song together!! first NIGHT in SF and they played it!!

    I am SO glad that my man was with me during this song and I wanted to cry, but didn't. It was beautiful. Eddie was dead on with the lyrics and the way he sang it, gave me chills!! :)
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  • not4u
    not4u Posts: 512
    i just heard it live!! it sounded ok, ed forgot the lyrics. Wouldn't it be kewl if there were some back up vocals in there? i think it would make the song sound thicker to compinsate for ed's vocal layering in the studio version..
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  • Nothingman54
    Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I hate that song. I dont care for the new album.
    I'll be back
  • christmas clean
    christmas clean Posts: 60
    I adore this song. The first time I heard , We were all travelling in the car. After making a detour to stop off and buy the album on its general release date. Any way the kids were messing around and the speakers were playing up.
    I heard the first line and couldnt wait to get home and take it all in properly.
    I had the words in my hand and just had to sing along.Like many i was blown away by how the song is constructed, I love the way the lyrics flow and sentences continue into the next line "And died" being just one example. Any way so Im crying like a baby but determined to sing. My voice is so out of tune and the lump in my throat was killing me, I eventually succumbed and had to stop. I ran for tissues and sobbed my heart out in to my pillow.
    Now thats what I call music!!!
    Thank you PJ so much...for inspiring my life, and always making me see whats really important in my life.
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  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    christmas clean wrote:
    I adore this song. The first time I heard , We were all travelling in the car. After making a detour to stop off and buy the album on its general release date. Any way the kids were messing around and the speakers were playing up.
    I heard the first line and couldnt wait to get home and take it all in properly.
    I had the words in my hand and just had to sing along.Like many i was blown away by how the song is constructed, I love the way the lyrics flow and sentences continue into the next line "And died" being just one example. Any way so Im crying like a baby but determined to sing. My voice is so out of tune and the lump in my throat was killing me, I eventually succumbed and had to stop. I ran for tissues and sobbed my heart out in to my pillow.
    Now thats what I call music!!!
    Thank you PJ so much...for inspiring my life, and always making me see whats really important in my life.

    It's even more touching when Ed sings it live, puts his hand over his heart and points toward the family section when he gets to the part about "difference in my life now I've found this love with you" - (sorry I don't know the exact words). I'm right there with you on the tears. Several of their songs are so poignant and beautiful, not to mention relevant to situations many people have been/are going thru. Thanks for relating how you felt, I feel the same - especially hearing songs live in concert. What a dolt I can be! crying at a concert!
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  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVr6eq8b6GA&search=pearl%20jam

    just sublime :)

    What a sweet video! Ed on his knees....awwwww...
    I hope I get to hear this song live someday.
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  • christmas clean
    christmas clean Posts: 60
    thanks for the link you just made my day!
    "i dont want to know your past, but together share the dawn"
    *tingles*
    And we're all allowed to dream of the next time we touch.
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,373
    It definitely grows on you, doesn't it? I've been listening to Avocado Blue recently, and I like it more and more.
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  • kinetic
    kinetic Posts: 148
    this one is just goosebump city.
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJFIWzQIJ4

    heart melted all over again.....i am SO grateful i got this song live :)
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 1,623
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJFIWzQIJ4

    heart melted all over again.....i am SO grateful i got this song live :)

    Me too!
    ~I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.~
    Mohandas K. Gandhi

    ~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
    Henry David Thoreau

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