Name a Pj song that applied to your life

RVM86

Rearview Mirror

jmcconville

present tense

Expression

Drifting
Can't Keep
Down

Of course, there are many others (most of them!), but those three are significant.

Rusted Sign

PJ keep churning out songs by the bucket load that touch us all on a deeply personal level that I could type a very long list here. The songs that immediately spring to mind though are: -

Thumbing My Way
Light Years
Indifference
I Am Mine

deadpearlgarden

all of them really, but most prominently :
I Got Shit
Rearviewmirror
Hail, Hail
Love Boat Captain
Betterman
Soon Forget, sadly
Down
In Hiding

CNTFNDABETTERMAN

gopakrz wrote:

That song could mean many things, but it is very powerful and very intense for me. I can seriously relate to that song on several levels. Sources say that the song is written about Neil Young, and that makes a lot of sense as it fits him to a tee. down deep I feel it fits me as well.

On a website i visit frequently, they say the song is about Ed himself. There's actually explanations of a lot of songs, and then there's a section for "interpretations", where fans put in their input.

OceansDeep

PJfanaaron wrote:

dissident #2/atlanta concert for that vocal 'we belong together' at the end of the song.

really what year cause I've heard similar versions of it but not the same? I heard this version years ago. It gives me chills. Thank you though.

clo

I've just experienced "Betterman"...
This song has always moved me but I never thought it could happen to me, well it did, but I've left my man

Coming back to life

time to dream wrote:

I guess for me, It has been a fifferent song , as I grow up, and as new Pearl Jam has come out. So, when I was 13, It was oceans, and Jeremy, but then when Vs. came out, it was Rearvie Mirror, and Indifference, then tremor christ, and corduroy, and than in 1996, It was Off he goes, and In my tree, Then it was the whole Yield Vibe, and Binaural, I was all about Light years, and of the girl, and insignificance, Riot Act, LBC, GD, All or None, you name, it's like Pearl Jam is the soundtrac to life.

I know exactly what you mean! For me, by chance Riot Act came out around a time of my life when I was beginning to realise what was what, what kind of friend you're better off without, and half full struck a chord.

BoBliness

Corduroy, for the lyrics in my signature

It was a massive coincidence, i finally worked out those lyrics and where eddie said them exactly in that part of the song, about a day before i found out my best friend had slept with my girlfriend/ex-girlfriend (things were a bit confused at the time)

I still get chills when i hear that part of the song and have to crank it up, the final minute or so of that song is absolutely awesome once you know those words and where they fit, suddenly the guitar sounds (to me anyway lol) like a protest against the injustice of whats been done, a scream of pain and liberation.

maybe thats just me

HJGhoops

Black definately applied to me after a break up with my girlfriend after a year and a half together

xaviermcdaniel

i don't know if i can say it applied to me directly but i definitely felt emotional realizing that "i am mine" is about september 11 and the aftermath

Fabio Biazetti

First of all, it´s hard to imagine other band that means a lot to me in lyrics than Pearl Jam.....the only other band it´s a Brazilian band( my country) that calls Los Hermanos...but this is another story.
In my humble opinion the music that´s says everything it´s Corduroy.....
I heard it for the first time when I was passing some kind of sentimental troubles......with some girl....and you know that....rock it´s all ´bout loves and stuff...of course you got all the political and phylosophical things...but love is love.
And when I heard " I don´t wanna take what you can give...I´d be rather starved than eat your bread....." it´s was like a hurricane........to me.
Well I guess tha´s it.

pedwin

RELEASE:
Oh, dear dad, can you see me now
I am myself, like you somehow -- for my dad who died when I was 3.

DAUGHTER:
She holds the hand that holds her down -- clinging to people, things, substances and overcoming

OFF HE GOES:
the whole song -- at one time in my life it was like me singing it to my best freind, then later, the roles were reversed

Anduril

parting ways - we both knew it was over but neither of us wanted a divorce. love was there but that was it

release - my mom passed in a horrible way when i was 17 and i have not greived and want it to go away

yellow ledbetter - it keeps me in check with reality, people are gone, i'm not

present tense - it makes me realize that in order to be happy i have to stop looking at the past and go for whats happening now - quit dwelling on things that are done and over

given to fly - i wanna be that free inside...this is my goal

dirty frank - laughter is a great cure

drifting - i save the small things that are important

smile -

gregwheeler

HABIT,sad to say.. not all bad ones though

EarthroundSun

I'm a music lover of all kinds of stuff: Elvis Costello to Kate Bush to Talking Heads, to Rick James to Donna Summer--all over the place. I first heard Black, Alive, Jeremy, Small Town, Dissident way back when on the radio and bought 'em back then. Now, 14+ years later....I dusted off the tapes and actually looked up the lyrics and was blown away.

BLACK is the quintessential heartache song....

I was so in love with this guy (during college) way back in the late 80's and he strung me along for a year. He's the one who got away...You know....We all have one.... Long story...short....I used to sing BLACK at the top of my lungs in the car. It made me feel so much better......

I love....

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can hear their laughter,
why do I sear

(now, as a mom with 3 kids and I really love this because it's so true...kids are so innocent and happy and in this song he's so miserable he can't get back that pure innocent happiness)

and of course
I hope someday you'll be a star
in somebody else's sky
but why can't it be in mine.

awesome....... when you're heartbroken that just about sums it up..

Life goes on...Thank God.

Anemic Royalty

Well, for me it was Rearviewmirror... I can't say it applies right now, because my dad and I have definitely worked our relationship out, but when I was a little girl, he used to beat the shit out of me and especially my brother. Well, thanks God that's history

Omarama

WHY GO?:because i associate it with my hometown where i grew up.when i go and stay down there it's like my life is perfect because i'm surrounded with people who i have a never-ending love and respect for and i feel that feeling is returned.

INDIFFERENCE:because i think it represents growing up and being different and not giving a shit.

W.M.A:it speaks the truth about some of american societys' downfalls.

ONCE:it represents moving on from a relationship.

Rorocks

Wish list, In hiding, I am mine: those songs are myself.....

Corduroy: me and the world..

Daugther; it makes me cry





Ror0cks

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