Greatest Line Eddie Ever Wrote

karmadefect

23scidoo said:

tivolo said:

23scidoo said:

Once I stood to lose her,
When I saw what I had done..
Bowed down and threw away the hours,
Of her garden and her sun..

So I tried to warn her,
I turned to see her weep..
Forty days and forty nights,
And it's still coming down on me..

Hard Sun is a great song, but the credit goes to Gordon Peterson for the lyrics. When I saw EV in concert a couple years ago, he made a comment to the effect of "sadly, the best songs on the album are ones I didn't write" (he was referring also to "Society").

really??..i didn't knew it..thanks..

Yup they both are written by someone else.
I didn't know Eddie said so himself, but I agree.
Especially concering Society.
I probable like Gauranteed better than Hard sun, but Hard sun definately is one of the best.

23scidoo

karmadefect said:

23scidoo said:

tivolo said:

23scidoo said:

Once I stood to lose her,
When I saw what I had done..
Bowed down and threw away the hours,
Of her garden and her sun..

So I tried to warn her,
I turned to see her weep..
Forty days and forty nights,
And it's still coming down on me..

Hard Sun is a great song, but the credit goes to Gordon Peterson for the lyrics. When I saw EV in concert a couple years ago, he made a comment to the effect of "sadly, the best songs on the album are ones I didn't write" (he was referring also to "Society").

really??..i didn't knew it..thanks..

Yup they both are written by someone else.
I didn't know Eddie said so himself, but I agree.
Especially concering Society.
I probable like Gauranteed better than Hard sun, but Hard sun definately is one of the best.

i still feel same 5 days now..lol

karmadefect

There is a sickness,...... a sickness coming over me.
Like watching freedom, being sucked straight out to sea.
And the solution?......... Well, from me far would it be.
But the delusion,.......... is feeling dangerous to me.

I like this part from Marker in the sand.

23scidoo

Counts his money every morning,
The only thing that keeps him horny,
Locked in a giant house, that's alarming,
The townsfolk,... they all laugh..

Evnflo

Sorry is the fool who trades his LOVE

HesCalledDyer

We were but stones; your light made us stars

iimagine

I figured I'll be damned, all alone like I began...

23scidoo

An empty shell seems so easy to crack..
Got all these questions, I don't know who the fuck I could even ask..
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me..

23scidoo

And i listen..from both sides of the bed..

Ten Backspaced Riot Actors

Hard too pick one....for now "for every tool they lend us, a loss of independence"

Annafalk

I have fallen in love with Eddie Vedders album Ukulele songs.

Caught-A-Bolt-Of-Lightning

"Turns the bow back, tows and...drops the line...
Puts his faith in love and Tremor Christ..."

InHiding80

No matter how cold the Winter, there's a Spring time ahead.

HughFreakingDillon

born on third, thinks he got a triple

I know that one was a collab between Stone and Ed, but it's one of the cleverest lines to me.

Sarah

DPrecisionist05 said:

I am a huge Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder fan.

I think he is an amazing writer. What his words mean to us is ussually a personal interpretation which is the beauty behind art, music etc. However, I feel there are some often some genius of brevity that comes out of his pen, meanings that are universally understood, some more ambiguous..anyone have any favorites?

Feel free to share !



My personal favorites:

"Clouds roll by, reeling is what they say,

or is it just my way?" -Lowlight

I'll be the asshole who mentions those "Low Light" lyrics are by Jeff.

Also, it's not Ed's best line ever, but since I first heard it, I've been partial to the lyric "...Time to plant seeds of reconstruction..." from "Evacuation".

Sarah

Mr Pyjama said:

hmmm....i can't think of a favourite just yet, but i will think hard about it and put it here as soon as i find it out I think that it could be a toss up between a line from I got Shit, or a line from Light Years, or maybe Sad? Hmm...i dunno yet...



btw, i don't think Eddie wrote the lyrics to Nothingman, im sure Jeff wrote all that, and at the time it was written, apparantly Eddie was shocked at how beautiful the lyrics were when Jeff first gave them too him.

Was always of the understanding that Ed wrote the lyrics to "Nothingman" (per the liner notes) while Jeff wrote the music.

Sarah

andy_lopez said:

"i pulled the covers over him, shoulda' pulled the alarm





"it's been about three days now since i've been aground

no longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now

it's funny when things change so much

it's all a state of mind"



"i sometimes realize i could only be as good as you'll let me"

Parsing some of your choices here. Love those lines!

23scidoo

I wonder about his insides...
Its like his thoughts are too big for his size..

23scidoo

Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

InHiding80

Best chorus he's ever written is Present Tense.