i like the lines of Indifference where he says " i'll hold the candle..."
"i'll swallow poison...", then "i'll stare teh sun down..."... the whole "I WILL" sequence from this song.
but the best "i will" in all pearl jam is " i'll ride the wave where it takes me/ i'll hold the pain release me".
i also like the entire spoken lines of "i'm open".
i like " pledge my greivance to the flag / cos you dont give blood and take it back again / we are all deserved something more" from Greivance.
i think he is most Eliot-ish in "cannot find the candle of thought to light your name" . this one, though nothing profound, is very poetic.
i think one of his most lyrical songs is Wishlist. thats more of a poem than a song.
there are many more..... pearl jam/vedder dishes out the best lyrics i know this side of Dylan.
I have faced it, A life wasted...
Take my hand, my child of love
Come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean,
I've been crying all these years
i'd pick almost anything off of No Code, but in particular from In My Tree
"Knowledge is a tree, growin up just like me" and hte other one is from Driftin
"Driftin, Driftin, Driftin along, i feel like going back there, but never for long, I sometimes wonder if they notice im gone, im driftin, driftin along..."
Oh man, my head is going to esplode there are so many....
this isnt gonna be brief.....
here goes...
1-The defection of the soul, nauseously quick
I don't question, our existence
I just question, our modern needs
2-I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me
I'll open up...Release me
3-Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
4-Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired.......Hey, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind.....I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
5-Ransom paid the Devil...He whispers pleasing words...
Triumphant are the angels if they can...a get there first.....Puts his faith and love in Tremor Christ...
6-Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...
7-...vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...
8-I get the words and then I get to thinkin'
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
How do I feel?
9-No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm tradin' stories with the leaves instead, yeah..It's up here so high I start to mistake
Up here so high in the sky, i scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
A deep breath in my chest
Just like innocence....And my eyes peeled both wide open
And I got a glimpse of my innocence
Got back my innocence... Really got it... Still got it
10-I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting..If I had known then, what I know now
11-After spending half his life searching
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he?
When he was six, he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs
So this is what it's like to be an adult?
If he only knew now what he knew then
...Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream...Dream up a new self...For himself
12-All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea ...So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I'm not ugly and your lookin' at me ....If just once I could feel love ....I paid the price never held you in real life
13-He floated back down cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere ,,,,And he still gives his love, he just gives it away...
The love he recieves is the love that is saved
14-So if there were no angels, would there be no sin?....Like a cloud dropping rain
I'm discarding all thought
15-It's like she lost her invitation to the party on earth and she's standing outside hating everyone here.
Yeah, she's her own disease, crying to her doll.
But only love can break her fall.
16-I pledge my grievance to the flag.
Cause you don't give blood then take it back again.
17-He was okay but wondering about wandering....A time to dream to himself. He waves goodbye to his self.
I'll see you on the other side.
Another man moved by slight of hand.
18-I can't be free with what's locked inside of me.
If there was a key you took it in your hands.
There's no wrong or right but I'm sure there's good and bad.
The questions linger overhead. .....I let go of a rope. Thinking that's what held me back.
And in time I've realized it's now wrapped around my neck.
19-Love is a tower and you're the key.....Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun with no one knowing.
But you're keeping me strong. Moving along with you.
You are a tower of strength to me.
The darkening hour sees light again.
20-Wide awake and he shakes in a panic. Never woke up alone ever before.
...Out of bed and he dreams in the shower. She's standing naked and apologizing...On the streets he's walking wounded. Doesn't smile for the child at play.
Thoughts of suicide and alleviation. Anything to get his heart off of the coals.
21-Don't even think about reaching me. I won't be home.
Don't even think about stopping by. Don't think of me at all.
don't even think about getting inside. Voices in my head. Ooh, voices.
I got scratches all over my arms. One for each day since I fell apart.
22-This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Sin for sale. Buying just a need. Just who planted all the devils seeds?
Lost in the moonlight,
Heather
"...Like an angel, I live alone
I'm not livin' what was promised
I am close but can't enjoy
Oh, I'm not dyin'
Oh, I'm so tortured, 'cause I see all
Tortured, and all I cannot do
Tortured, all I should have done....
I am far from glorified...."
"i'm not dying, i'm not alone....mind is not a celestial state w/idle hymns of praise, time is short, i have an appt at noon - at noon in Hell"
"Oh please please think of me, cause i'm-i'm by your side"
"if just once i could feel love stare back at me"
"i walked in line when you held me close at night, i paid the price...never held you in real life"
"take me for a ride before we leave....circumstance - clapping hands, a drivin' winds - happenstance, off the track - in the mud, thats the moss - in the aforementioned verse"
"enmity gaged, united by fear, sposed to endure, what i could not forgive"
"i've understood feelings and i've understood words, but how could you be taken away?"
of course, all of parting ways - i think b/t this and betterman - who needs other break-up songs...these two hit home!!
Most meaningful to me:
It makes much more sense to live in the Present Tense
Other greats:
No matter how cold a winter, there's a springtime ahead
Up here so high the boughs they break/ up here so high the sky I scrape/ and my eyes feel both wide open/ and I got a glimpse/ of my inner sense/ got back my innocence/ still got it/ still got it
Even flow... thoughts arrive like butterflies
All of "All or None"
Makes much more sense to live in the Present Tense.
Shows: 05/30/03, 09/02/05, 09/04/05, 09/05/05, 09/24/05, 09/25/05, 07/22/06, 04/02/08 (EV solo), 08/08/09, 08/23/09, 08/24/09, 09/25/09, 09/21/11, 09/23/11, /9/30/12, 12/02/13... many more to come!
" once you hold the hand of love, it's all surmountable"
" are you woman enough to be my man?"
" all the rusted signs, we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead"
" how to be happy and true, is a quest we're taking on together"
"
"Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land"
- Man of the Hour
"Can you see them...... Out on the porch......Yeah but they don't wave"
-Yellow Ledbetter
"I'm at peace, with my lust........ I can kill cause in god i trust"
-Do the Evolution
"Ok... if I smoke a joint Pittsburgh will soon be my favorite place on the planet. Somebody throw up a lighter come on. Ok we got the lighter. And this is a Marlboro Light, what kind of fucker..."
-EV
"everything has chains
absolutely nothing's changed
take my hand, not my picture
spilled my tincture"
- Corduroy
"i know someday you'll have a beautiful life
i know you'll be a star
in somebody else's sky
but why, why, WHY
why can't it be, why can't it be mine?"
-Black
"let the ocean dissolve way my past
four days and not much longer
let my spirit pass
this is, this is, this is my last exit"
-Last Exit
"I seem to recognize your face
Haunting familiar yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name"
-Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
"We can scream,.. out our doors
Behind the wall a fat man snores
In his dreams he's,...
Choking on leaves"
-Green Disease
"Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's gettin' harder
To find an approach and a way to live...
Are we gettin' something out of this all-encompassing trip?"
-Present Tense
"cannot stop the thought
of running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign
all good truants must decide"
-Immortality
there's more but that's what jumps to mind right now
everything has chains
absolutely nothing's changed
take my hand, not my picture
spilled my tincture...
So, I posted on this awhile ago [2004 to be more exact]...and my tastes have changed somewhat...or matured, grown, evolved, or whatever you like. I'm gonna give it another go-round, since I'm definitely in another place, and almost certainly in another state of mind. Also, it's such a great thread that hasn't been posted on since before the "avocado"...and I'm curious to know if anyone else has new favorites too?
'The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here, and I'm a mess.' -- Corduroy
'Just you and me and nothing more...if not for love I would be drowning...I've seen it work both ways, but I am up riding high amongst the waves...I can feel like I have a soul that has been saved...I can feel like I put away my early grave.' -- Amongst The Waves
'All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead...' -- Thumbing My Way
'You're warm with negativity, but comfort is an energy, so why let the sad song play? [fuck it]' -- Life Wasted
'I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in-between is mine.' -- I Am Mine
'I gather speed from you fuckin' with me...' -- Rear View Mirror
'And I listen for the voice inside my head...nothing...I'll do this one myself...and the barrel waits...trigger shakes...aimed at my [fuckin'] head...won't you help me...help me from myself' -- State of Love & Trust
'Caught a bolt of lightning...cursed the day he let it go.' -- Nothingman
'See the path cut by the moon for you to walk on... See the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival...'
&
'Dream the dreams other men, you'll be no-one's rival...dream the dreams of others then, you will be no-one's rival...' -- Unthought Known
'She said to me, over the phone...she wanted to see other people... I thought: "Well then, look around. They're everywhere." Said that she was confused... I thought: "Darlin', join the club." 24 years old, mid-life crisis...nowadays hits you when you're young...' -- I'm Still Here
'I did what I had to do, and if there was a reason...it was you.' -- Footsteps
And, like everyone else, there's about a gazillion others...so I'll leave my favorite:
Comments
gives me chills everytime I hear it
I'll probably have a new one tomorrow tho
-Nietzsche
EMPATHY
" Indian summer and I hate the heat. I got a back street lover on the passenger seat......... "
"Will myself to find a home. A home within myself "
"I shit and I stink. I'm real join the club.I'd stop and talk but I'm already in love"
"And the sun is set. The sun will rise another day"
"All five horizons revolved around her soul. As the earth to the sun"
Guess this could go on for ever
Montreal 06/03
Calgary 09/05
Edmonton 09/05
i like the lines of Indifference where he says " i'll hold the candle..."
"i'll swallow poison...", then "i'll stare teh sun down..."... the whole "I WILL" sequence from this song.
but the best "i will" in all pearl jam is " i'll ride the wave where it takes me/ i'll hold the pain release me".
i also like the entire spoken lines of "i'm open".
i like " pledge my greivance to the flag / cos you dont give blood and take it back again / we are all deserved something more" from Greivance.
i think he is most Eliot-ish in "cannot find the candle of thought to light your name" . this one, though nothing profound, is very poetic.
i think one of his most lyrical songs is Wishlist. thats more of a poem than a song.
there are many more..... pearl jam/vedder dishes out the best lyrics i know this side of Dylan.
Take my hand, my child of love
Come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean,
I've been crying all these years
Amazing line.. Ed is the man
Dublin 06
London 07
of my innocence
got back my innocence
STILL GOT IT... STILL GOT IT...
"everything has chains..absolutely nothings changed"
"ive got scratches all over my arms..one for each day since i fell apart...i did what i had to do..if there was a reason it was you"
"paint a picture..forty shades of grey..light your pillow, lay back, watch the flames..i tell a story..no-one listens that long"
"cannot stop the thought...running in the dark...coming up a which way sign..all good truants must decide"
"oh dear dad...can you see me now..i am myself..like you somehow"
NEARLY EVERY SONG HAS AMAZING LINES IN IT SOMEWHERE!!--'cept tunes like arc and such..
i'm gonna have to go with...
"red man's your neighbor, call it behavior, while you're climbing up slippery hills.."
"are we going to the same place?--if so can i come?" [all of HailHail deserves to be HailHailed]
"do you see the way that tree bends?--does it inspire?"
"My will is crashing. Synapses flashing slow. Ah, days like frame by frame. Where do they go?"
see Ed's church?--he's breathing fire.....
"Knowledge is a tree, growin up just like me" and hte other one is from Driftin
"Driftin, Driftin, Driftin along, i feel like going back there, but never for long, I sometimes wonder if they notice im gone, im driftin, driftin along..."
"All that's sacred comes from youth, dedications naive and true..."
"Ransom paid the devil, he whispers pleasing words, triumphant are the angels if they can get there first..."
"I'm so high, the sky I scrape..."
"So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream, where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me..."
and many many more!!!
-Eddie Vedder
6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
this isnt gonna be brief.....
here goes...
1-The defection of the soul, nauseously quick
I don't question, our existence
I just question, our modern needs
2-I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me
I'll open up...Release me
3-Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
4-Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired.......Hey, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind.....I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
5-Ransom paid the Devil...He whispers pleasing words...
Triumphant are the angels if they can...a get there first.....Puts his faith and love in Tremor Christ...
6-Caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go...Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...
7-...vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...
8-I get the words and then I get to thinkin'
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel
How do I feel?
9-No more crowbars to my head, yeah
I'm tradin' stories with the leaves instead, yeah..It's up here so high I start to mistake
Up here so high in the sky, i scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath
A deep breath in my chest
Just like innocence....And my eyes peeled both wide open
And I got a glimpse of my innocence
Got back my innocence... Really got it... Still got it
10-I was bitten
Must have been the devil
He was just payin' me a little visit
Oh, reminding me of his presence
Lettin' me know he's waiting..If I had known then, what I know now
11-After spending half his life searching
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing, so is he?
When he was six, he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine, he deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact, no trade-backs
So this is what it's like to be an adult?
If he only knew now what he knew then
...Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream...Dream up a new self...For himself
12-All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea ...So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I'm not ugly and your lookin' at me ....If just once I could feel love ....I paid the price never held you in real life
13-He floated back down cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere ,,,,And he still gives his love, he just gives it away...
The love he recieves is the love that is saved
14-So if there were no angels, would there be no sin?....Like a cloud dropping rain
I'm discarding all thought
15-It's like she lost her invitation to the party on earth and she's standing outside hating everyone here.
Yeah, she's her own disease, crying to her doll.
But only love can break her fall.
16-I pledge my grievance to the flag.
Cause you don't give blood then take it back again.
17-He was okay but wondering about wandering....A time to dream to himself. He waves goodbye to his self.
I'll see you on the other side.
Another man moved by slight of hand.
18-I can't be free with what's locked inside of me.
If there was a key you took it in your hands.
There's no wrong or right but I'm sure there's good and bad.
The questions linger overhead. .....I let go of a rope. Thinking that's what held me back.
And in time I've realized it's now wrapped around my neck.
19-Love is a tower and you're the key.....Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun with no one knowing.
But you're keeping me strong. Moving along with you.
You are a tower of strength to me.
The darkening hour sees light again.
20-Wide awake and he shakes in a panic. Never woke up alone ever before.
...Out of bed and he dreams in the shower. She's standing naked and apologizing...On the streets he's walking wounded. Doesn't smile for the child at play.
Thoughts of suicide and alleviation. Anything to get his heart off of the coals.
21-Don't even think about reaching me. I won't be home.
Don't even think about stopping by. Don't think of me at all.
don't even think about getting inside. Voices in my head. Ooh, voices.
I got scratches all over my arms. One for each day since I fell apart.
22-This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Sin for sale. Buying just a need. Just who planted all the devils seeds?
Heather
"...Like an angel, I live alone
I'm not livin' what was promised
I am close but can't enjoy
Oh, I'm not dyin'
Oh, I'm so tortured, 'cause I see all
Tortured, and all I cannot do
Tortured, all I should have done....
I am far from glorified...."
I just find the comparison of the two amazing. Something only a genius would imagine.
"i'm not dying, i'm not alone....mind is not a celestial state w/idle hymns of praise, time is short, i have an appt at noon - at noon in Hell"
"Oh please please think of me, cause i'm-i'm by your side"
"if just once i could feel love stare back at me"
"i walked in line when you held me close at night, i paid the price...never held you in real life"
"take me for a ride before we leave....circumstance - clapping hands, a drivin' winds - happenstance, off the track - in the mud, thats the moss - in the aforementioned verse"
"enmity gaged, united by fear, sposed to endure, what i could not forgive"
"i've understood feelings and i've understood words, but how could you be taken away?"
of course, all of parting ways - i think b/t this and betterman - who needs other break-up songs...these two hit home!!
Which song?
Anyway, it's in B Girl. A song Ed and Jeff played on a radio show I believe.
he just gives it away,
the love he recieves is the love that is saved"
"I Change by not changing at all"
elderly woman
"Cant buy what I wanyt because its free"
Courdroy
The in between is mine
I am mine
Best line of all times!!!
It makes much more sense to live in the Present Tense
Other greats:
No matter how cold a winter, there's a springtime ahead
Up here so high the boughs they break/ up here so high the sky I scrape/ and my eyes feel both wide open/ and I got a glimpse/ of my inner sense/ got back my innocence/ still got it/ still got it
Even flow... thoughts arrive like butterflies
All of "All or None"
Shows: 05/30/03, 09/02/05, 09/04/05, 09/05/05, 09/24/05, 09/25/05, 07/22/06, 04/02/08 (EV solo), 08/08/09, 08/23/09, 08/24/09, 09/25/09, 09/21/11, 09/23/11, /9/30/12, 12/02/13... many more to come!
Champagne breakfast for everyone
6/23/06 Pittsburgh
6/19/08 Camden
6/20/08 Camden
6/22/08 DC
6/25/08 MSG
8/4/08 EV NYC
8/5/08 EV NYC
8/7/08 EV Newark
" are you woman enough to be my man?"
" all the rusted signs, we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead"
" how to be happy and true, is a quest we're taking on together"
"
- Man of the Hour
"Can you see them...... Out on the porch......Yeah but they don't wave"
-Yellow Ledbetter
"I'm at peace, with my lust........ I can kill cause in god i trust"
-Do the Evolution
-EV
http://www.petitiononline.com/keeppens/petition.html
HELP KEEP THE PENS IN PITTSBURGH
"everything has chains
absolutely nothing's changed
take my hand, not my picture
spilled my tincture"
- Corduroy
"i know someday you'll have a beautiful life
i know you'll be a star
in somebody else's sky
but why, why, WHY
why can't it be, why can't it be mine?"
-Black
"let the ocean dissolve way my past
four days and not much longer
let my spirit pass
this is, this is, this is my last exit"
-Last Exit
"I seem to recognize your face
Haunting familiar yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name"
-Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
"We can scream,.. out our doors
Behind the wall a fat man snores
In his dreams he's,...
Choking on leaves"
-Green Disease
"Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's gettin' harder
To find an approach and a way to live...
Are we gettin' something out of this all-encompassing trip?"
-Present Tense
"cannot stop the thought
of running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign
all good truants must decide"
-Immortality
there's more but that's what jumps to mind right now
absolutely nothing's changed
take my hand, not my picture
spilled my tincture...
"Clouds roll by, reeling is what they say,
or is it just my way?" -Lowlight
Maybe I'm wrong--but didn't Jeff write this song?
My fav line--all time is offa Breathe, "If I knew where it was, I would take you there, there's much more than this!"
Chills bro, wrote that to a girl in a love letter in high school, and she was mine.
"Small town predicts my faith" from elderly woman behind a counter in a small town (acoustic) no idea why I like it, but I do.
And "Lemon Yellow Sun" from jeremy of course I think I like it so much because its so decriptive of how people draw suns.
there you are.
- brain of c
In my mind theirs a clearing black clouds blow through grey steel skies, the birds don't even whisper...
Feel the resonance of distance, in the blood the iron lies...
I've felt like this... I think PJ's catalogue so extense and of such quality that somehow it get's to us all deeply on various emotions.
"Once divided...nothing left to subtract..."[...]"Walks on his own...with thoughts he can't help thinking..." - Nothingman
Me turned into the rambling upset freaky monster that resourfaces with every heartbreak...
EDIT: to quote Mohab's "Feel the resonance of distance, in the blood the iron lies.." - Insignificance
'The waiting drove me mad...you're finally here, and I'm a mess.' -- Corduroy
'Just you and me and nothing more...if not for love I would be drowning...I've seen it work both ways, but I am up riding high amongst the waves...I can feel like I have a soul that has been saved...I can feel like I put away my early grave.' -- Amongst The Waves
'All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead...' -- Thumbing My Way
'You're warm with negativity, but comfort is an energy, so why let the sad song play? [fuck it]' -- Life Wasted
'I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in-between is mine.' -- I Am Mine
'I gather speed from you fuckin' with me...' -- Rear View Mirror
'And I listen for the voice inside my head...nothing...I'll do this one myself...and the barrel waits...trigger shakes...aimed at my [fuckin'] head...won't you help me...help me from myself' -- State of Love & Trust
'Caught a bolt of lightning...cursed the day he let it go.' -- Nothingman
'See the path cut by the moon for you to walk on... See the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival...'
&
'Dream the dreams other men, you'll be no-one's rival...dream the dreams of others then, you will be no-one's rival...' -- Unthought Known
'She said to me, over the phone...she wanted to see other people... I thought: "Well then, look around. They're everywhere." Said that she was confused... I thought: "Darlin', join the club." 24 years old, mid-life crisis...nowadays hits you when you're young...' -- I'm Still Here
'I did what I had to do, and if there was a reason...it was you.' -- Footsteps
And, like everyone else, there's about a gazillion others...so I'll leave my favorite:
'Be Sound.' -- I'm Still Here
EV: Honolulu-4/21 & 4/22/07 [Kokua]. Detroit-6/26/11.