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Light Years!!!

eclecticeclectic Posts: 244
edited September 2006 in Words and Music...Communication
I don't see this song mentioned that much.I think it is a truly beautifully constructed song.Any other LY lovers out there??
'All the rusted signs,we ignore throughout our lives,
Choosing the shiny ones instead'

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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Yeah man, count me in.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Mystere4Mystere4 Posts: 74
    most definately, reminds me of my mom.
    "I'm like an ocean in disguise"
  • charlotte28charlotte28 Posts: 56
    Love It!!!
    walk the bridges before you burn them down...
  • darthvedder88darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    Best song off of Binaural!!! Definately in my top 10!!!! HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THIS SONG?!!!
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • DCGARDENDCGARDEN Posts: 515
    Binaural is not my favorite album from them, but Light Years is a great song
    I'll keep taking punches
    Untill their will grows tired
  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    This song is indeed so, so beautiful. I can honestly say it's the PJ song that has helped me the most. The comfort this one gives is unsurpassed. This song takes tears of sadness and turns them into tears of joy, smiles..... makes you extremely grateful for every little tiny thing. It breaks my heart because of how close to home it hits but it heals it at the same time, ya know? I've never clung to a song so much. :( These lyrics are beyond powerful. Having them carried out by this gorgeous, sincere voice just pushes the comfort to an extreme. The music is also so gorgeous and perfectly written. It's very uplifting & heartfelt. This is definitely a song that is reborn after you loose someone. It helped me through/and continues to help me through a humongous loss more than anything or anyone. It just UNDERSTANDS like no one/nothing else. It SAVES!


    ::we were but stones, your light made us stars::

    ::no time to be void or save up on life
    you got to spend it all::

    *sigh*

    Words that are with me all the time.

    If I ever get to experience this one live I already know it's going to be beyond emotional...and just beyond... period. :o


    I can't possibly express how much I love this song and how grateful I am for this therapy, this strength that it gives us all. Fuel for the soul right here. A song to live by...a song that gives life.
    **THANK YOU SO MUCH PEARL JAM**
    :):):)
    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

    "Lo√e, you know the word
    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
    ...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
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  • SpatialSpatial Posts: 4
    count me in, good tune.
  • 3manstack3manstack Posts: 205
    I have the

    "we were but stones, your light made us stars" lyrics on my arm above nine different coloured stars for the friends we lost at Roskilde.

    Gives me a kick in the bum to live each day as it comes.

    Pity they didnt play it at the astoria.......
  • Mtg Ppl Iz EZMtg Ppl Iz EZ Posts: 5
    When "Binaural" first came out, I could not listen to this track without repeating it at least three or more times in a row. I felt like it was a new direction for Pearl Jam with a softer, mature sound (they would prove me wrong with "Pearl Jam," their latest, which kicks ass in its own right).

    The meaning has always escaped me though. I've tried to read it as a "lost love" song, or even about grieving over a close friend's death. I'm always thrown off by the first verse w/ "tricks at the bar" and "...riddles, jokes about war," etc. Is Ed trying to say despite experiencing everything under the sun, nothing's prepared him for losing whoever the "you" is in the song? All interpretations are welcome...
  • RatRat Posts: 38
    the first time i really paid attention to the song the first verses made me think it was about the evolution of men and the earth!!!!!
    "Every time I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes."
  • gvn2fly12gvn2fly12 Posts: 793
    I love light years. just a beutiful song.
    Arms wide open with the sea as my floor.
  • thesheffthesheff Posts: 59
    this song really got me into pearl jam. i liked their radio songs before, then heard this song on the radio, and decided to buy binaural as well as ten ... the rest is history
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me
  • Jam-fanJam-fan Posts: 70
    VEDHEAD27 wrote:
    This song is indeed so, so beautiful. I can honestly say it's the PJ song that has helped me the most. The comfort this one gives is unsurpassed. This song takes tears of sadness and turns them into tears of joy, smiles..... makes you extremely grateful for every little tiny thing. It breaks my heart because of how close to home it hits but it heals it at the same time, ya know? I've never clung to a song so much. :( These lyrics are beyond powerful. Having them carried out by this gorgeous, sincere voice just pushes the comfort to an extreme. The music is also so gorgeous and perfectly written. It's very uplifting & heartfelt. This is definitely a song that is reborn after you loose someone. It helped me through/and continues to help me through a humongous loss more than anything or anyone. It just UNDERSTANDS like no one/nothing else. It SAVES!


    ::we were but stones, your light made us stars::

    ::no time to be void or save up on life
    you got to spend it all::

    *sigh*

    Words that are with me all the time.

    If I ever get to experience this one live I already know it's going to be beyond emotional...and just beyond... period. :o


    I can't possibly express how much I love this song and how grateful I am for this therapy, this strength that it gives us all. Fuel for the soul right here. A song to live by...a song that gives life.
    **THANK YOU SO MUCH PEARL JAM**
    :):):)
    you just wrote pretty much exactly what i was gonna say.

    What a powerful song!
  • obiwon76obiwon76 Posts: 568
    Light Years does get love on this board, but seems like it doesn't get any love on stage, not lately. Can I just say, "Man Of The Hour" deserves the same love, what a great song, especially the first two lines...

    "Tidal waves don't beg forgiveness,
    Crash, then on their way".....
    San Fran 92, San Fran 93, Berkeley 93, Indio 93, Fairfax 94, DC 95, San Fran 95, DC 95, Va Beach 98, Columbia 98, Dc 98, Va Beach 00, Columbia 00, Philly 03, Bristow 03, Chicago 06, Chicago 06, Dc 06, DC 08
  • gazgaz Posts: 233
    eclectic wrote:
    I don't see this song mentioned that much.I think it is a truly beautifully constructed song.Any other LY lovers out there??

    yeah,beautiful.I love it!
    23/8/06.
    18/6/07.
    22/6/10.
    23/6/10.
    20/6/12
    21/6/12
  • lannerslanners Posts: 458
    i haven't been able to listen to LY all the way through since my dad passed away almost 2 months ago.

    the strangest thing is that it was my ringtone for MONTHS! and i changed it (to the the theme from Degrassi Jr. High!) just three days before he died. i can't even imagine what would have happened it i had left it turned on and heard the song after i received the news. i think i would have been destroyed.

    i think that i might try to listen to it tomorrow. i need to do it soon.

    it is a beautiful song. very insightful, wise, sad, and uplifting.
    i. am. mine.
  • fran9480fran9480 Posts: 53
    I often find myself talking about the demo version as well...

    Anyone else love this?
  • kikigirlkikigirl Posts: 17
    I cry whenever I hear this song.
    are we going to the same place? if so, can i come?
  • JamalJamal Posts: 2,115
    I never knew he used hammers made out of wood :o

    Truly one of the better PJ-songs
    think almost anyone can relate to it
    Surf little waves big... Charge big waves hard

    - Antwerp '06, Nijmegen '07, Werchter '07
  • RatRat Posts: 38
    fran9480 wrote:
    I often find myself talking about the demo version as well...

    Anyone else love this?


    where can i find that demo version???
    "Every time I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes."
  • 3inputchick3inputchick Posts: 845
    I wish Eddie would take Evenflow out for a while and add Light Years.....

    it's my fav song that they sing!
    A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
  • LuthienTinuvielLuthienTinuviel Posts: 125
    it's the song that got me into pearl jam,too...it's so beautiful...i hope to see it live soon...
    "now i've got room to spread my wings and my messages of love...yeah love was my drug but that's not what i died of"

    "I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"

    "Go then, there are other worlds than these!" - Jake Chambers

    09/02/2005 Vancouver
    09/23/2006 Berlin
    06/21/2007 Düsseldorf
  • MoonchildMoonchild Posts: 46
    Light Years truly is a beautiful gem. I think it's definately about missing someone who has passed on and trying to understand where we go and what happens when we die.
    Always reminds me if my father, brings tears to my eyes. :)
    You can't know what it's like, to bleed from here,
    The blackened world goes white, it goes nowhere...
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
  • BlankiBlanki Posts: 315
    It's my fav. song! Makes me wanna cry every time i listen to it. I have no words to explain what happens to me when i hear this song... it's really special for me.
    23 Nov 05 - Santiago, Chile
    Come back to SA!!!!
  • Righteous JammerRighteous Jammer Posts: 509
    Always been one of my favorites!
    It doesnt hurt.... when I bleed
    but memories...they eat me
    I've seen it all before,...
    bring it on cause I'm no victim.
    -Ghost
  • BlankiBlanki Posts: 315
    fran9480 wrote:
    I often find myself talking about the demo version as well...

    Anyone else love this?

    WHERE IS IT! WHERE DO I FIND IT! I WANT IT! AAAAAAHHH!!!!
    Please?
    23 Nov 05 - Santiago, Chile
    Come back to SA!!!!
  • stuckinlinestuckinline Posts: 3,367
    Moonchild wrote:
    Light Years truly is a beautiful gem. I think it's definately about missing someone who has passed on and trying to understand where we go and what happens when we die.
    this is how i intrepret light years also.

    is there an unplugged or acoustic version?
  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    *****LIGHT YEARS******

    I've used hammers made out of wood.
    I have played games with pieces and rules.
    I undeciphered tricks at the bar.
    But now you're gone. I haven't figured out why.
    I've come up with riddles and jokes about war.
    I figured out numbers and what they're for.
    I've understood feelings and I've understood words but
    how could you be taken away?

    And wherever you've gone and wherever we might go.
    It don't seem fair. Today just disappeared.
    Your lights reflected now. Reflected from afar.
    We were but stones. Your light made us stars.

    With heavy breath awakened regrets.
    Back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart.
    Every inch between us becomes light years now.
    No time to be void or save up on life.
    Oh, you got to spend it all.

    And wherever you've gone and wherever we might go.
    It don't seem fair. You seam to like it here.
    Your lights reflected now. Reflected from afar.
    We were but stones. Your light made us stars.

    And wherever you've gone and wherever we might go.
    It don't seem fair. Today just disappeared.
    Your lights reflected now. Reflected from afar.
    We were by stones. Your light made us stars.


    :( :( :) :( :(
    Love & miss you always.


    THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SONG PJ!
    THANK YOU!
    THANK YOU!!
    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

    "Lo√e, you know the word
    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
    ...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
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  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    *sigh*

    It never stops hurting. :( Ever.
    Been having a really hard time lately PJ...and this therapy ALWAYS helps so much. I seriously can't THANK YOU enough!

    I'll never stop praying for this one live either. Now would be an extra perfect time too. :o
    ~anniverary right around the bend~

    LEG 2?
    :)

    ::Your light made us stars::

    Sooooo beautiful and soooooo true!
    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

    "Lo√e, you know the word
    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
    ...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
    ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    Little Rock '03 people!


    "We need you....we fuckin NEED you. Miss you. Miss you. Need you. Need you."


    Damn!! *tears&chills*
    :o :(
    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

    "Lo√e, you know the word
    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
    ...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
    ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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