Light Years...this song is beautiful.

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  • maryannisinajam
    maryannisinajam Posts: 33
    maybe i am one in more ways then one...............smile
  • Moonchild
    Moonchild Posts: 46
    Light Years is a beautiful song. Sadness, loss, regret and the realization of not being able to change the outcome, circumstances beyond your control. Could be about a broken relationship or loss through death.
    Either way it's one of my favorites from Binaural. I think I'll go plug it in now!
    You can't know what it's like, to bleed from here,
    The blackened world goes white, it goes nowhere...
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
  • maryannisinajam
    maryannisinajam Posts: 33
    "your light made us stars "
    refers to the two men who loved her
    whom both incidently and quite coincidently wrote songs about her
  • maryannisinajam
    maryannisinajam Posts: 33
    trying to get next to you
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    :(
    this thread...this song...just so needed a *bump* today.
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • jentarr
    jentarr Posts: 79
    It makes a difference to see all the lyrics typed out like that... it makes me think of it as a beautiful poem from a great author along with a brilliant song... I lost my fiance very suddenly in a car accident a little over a year ago, and I agree that it touches me very deeply in a spot that not a lot of people can know about...
    PJ fan since 1991 (I was 14); Ten Club member since '95.
  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    One of the best fucking songs EVER!! OMG I love it so much!!!! And you all are right, there is so much beauty and mystery to this song, it makes me wanna cry!!
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • KELLYS LEASH
    KELLYS LEASH Posts: 184
    when I saw them perform this song live it brought a tear to my eye and now everytime I hear it without fail it brings a tear to my eye :'( Totally Amazing!
    29/05/00 -Wembley
    20/04/06 - The Astoria alley crew + got to shake Ed's hand
    25/04/06 -Jools Show + got Mike's autograph
    ***********************************
    27/08/06- 07/09/06- 09/09/06-13/09/06-17/09/06-13/06/07-18/06/07
    ...Three crooked hearts and swirls all around...
  • whatever
    whatever Posts: 11
    The lyrics for the Light Years demo mention
    "Puddle in a parking lot"
    "Fuck off an wait"
    "We cannot pass again, at the end of the day, when we come back here."

    I thought the song was about someone close to PJ's camp being killed. And Ed was so right about Light Years starting out as one song but completely turning into another.
  • Anduril
    Anduril Posts: 56
    to me this song fits two scenarios, (kinda like long road) - either death or you simply miss someone you love for whatever reason other than death (miles apart etc.)

    another great song.
    I am the end of all your dreams...
  • 7forest7
    7forest7 Posts: 11
    This song came out two days after my best friend commited suicide, and did give me some comfort. The message everyone should take home from this is that for everyone you love, let them know NOW! Most of us have problems letting people know this and regrets are nothing you should live with. 7forest7
  • anarchist_grunger
    anarchist_grunger Posts: 161
    i know...it's such a beautiful song...but it makes me sad all the time...:(
    "It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
    Push me pull me. See ya later

    <present tense inhabiter #0003 & Even Flow psycho #0036>
  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Wish there was more love this song!!! Everyone show your Light Years love!!!
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • DarkStar
    DarkStar Posts: 734
    whatever wrote:
    The lyrics for the Light Years demo mention
    "Puddle in a parking lot"
    "Fuck off an wait"
    "We cannot pass again, at the end of the day, when we come back here."

    I thought the song was about someone close to PJ's camp being killed. And Ed was so right about Light Years starting out as one song but completely turning into another.

    my ears hear this as the final chorus:

    "Oh, you are never more beautiful than at the end of the day;
    Fuck-off and play…
    Oh, we can all run away;
    Ah, we can all disappear…by the end of the day.
    And come back here…back here.
    Come back here... "

    ds
    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
  • marc34
    marc34 Boston MA Posts: 221
    This song is top 5 for me.....Incredible lyrics and just great musically
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  • Cropduster49
    Cropduster49 Posts: 102
    Yes, I probably already said it.....But this song is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo amazing.
    YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN.
  • UpHereInMyTree500
    UpHereInMyTree500 Posts: 1,772
    This song is as good as a hot day on the beach with heaps of hot gals caressing the sands.
    Wave came crashing...
  • lanners
    lanners Posts: 458
    i adore this song! it has the power to make me cry or lift my spirits. i like it when a song can do that...they are few and far between.

    it is currently the ringtone on my phone--too bad more people don't call me so i can hear it more often!
    i. am. mine.
  • lovelyrita
    lovelyrita Posts: 72
    I love that people are still posting on this thread. This song deserves all the praise.
  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    Light Years is a boring song..... it sucks!



















    Just kidding, it's the song that made me buy the Binaural CD back when I was 17, or ..... 16??
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