Ed, Play 'Down' for the M.T

Byrnzie
Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited June 2008 in A Moving Train
Down. Fall by the wayside... no getting out...
Down. Cry me a river... dried up and dammed.
The names can be changed... but the place is still the same.
I am loaded. Told that all's for naught. Holds me down.

Rise. Life is in motion. I'm stuck in line.
Oh rise. You can't be neutral on a moving train.
One day... the symptoms fade. Think I'll throw these pills away.
And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done.

Won't let the light escape from me.
Won't let the darkness swallow me.
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    I heard the band doesn't play requests posted on their message board.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I heard the band doesn't play requests posted on their message board.

    Ah well.
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I heard the band doesn't play requests posted on their message board.



    sometimes they do.
    it has happened....although alternate modes of putting the request out there have been made simultaneously, so who knows? i don't think there is a *set* way pj chooses to address these things, i think they simply follow their own desires about it at the time, at the show.




    byrnzie....got to hear down at my very first pearl jam show, uniondale 2003! :) very cool!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I heard the band doesn't play requests posted on their message board.

    Where did you hear that? It's not official policy, as far as I know.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    reborncareerist wrote:
    Where did you hear that? It's not official policy, as far as I know.


    Sorry, I didn't expect a response. I was being a poor sport over the whole play 'Smile' for hippiemom at Bonnaroo thing. Since the 20 plus page thread "request" was not fulfilled.
    Walking can be a real trip
    ***********************
    "We've laid the groundwork. It's like planting the seeds. And next year, it's spring." - Nader
    ***********************
    Prepare for tending to your garden, America.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    decides2dream wrote:
    byrnzie....got to hear down at my very first pearl jam show, uniondale 2003! :) very cool!


    me too la2 2006!! :D
  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Sorry, I didn't expect a response. I was being a poor sport over the whole play 'Smile' for hippiemom at Bonnaroo thing. Since the 20 plus page thread "request" was not fulfilled.


    maybe you need a sign request? at columbia someone had a sign for WMA and he said they'd play that request

    maybe they don't look at the board much
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    El_Kabong wrote:
    maybe you need a sign request? at columbia someone had a sign for WMA and he said they'd play that request

    maybe they don't look at the board much

    I read about the WMA request. How fitting - he won the lottery...

    Just about a couple of decades ago I brought signs to a couple of Motley Crue shows to profess my love for Nikki Sixx. :p I was ecstatic each time they got his attention. Teenagers. :rolleyes:

    I think if I were to hold up a sign requesting a song this tour it would be Insignificance for all of the little places our next president will bomb the shit out of.
    Walking can be a real trip
    ***********************
    "We've laid the groundwork. It's like planting the seeds. And next year, it's spring." - Nader
    ***********************
    Prepare for tending to your garden, America.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    cutback wrote:
    me too la2 2006!! :D


    Me 3 at my first show!!

    Charlotte 4/16/03

    :D
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Me 3 at my first show!!

    Charlotte 4/16/03

    :D


    well then, you really got to hear it FIRST out of the 'me threes'....as uniondale was april 30th? i believe.......haha. :)


    it is a damn good song, and sooooooo uplifting!
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    decides2dream wrote:
    well then, you really got to hear it FIRST out of the 'me threes'....as uniondale was april 30th? i believe.......haha. :)


    it is a damn good song, and sooooooo uplifting!

    Yep, it's been one of my favs since the very first listen...fell immediately in love. :)
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    saw Down at Tampa 8 days ago... it was awesome.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    I'm really glad their website shows where they have played songs. I was having a hard time remembering for sure where I've seen it, which is sad, 'cause I've seen it three times.

    Seattle,
    Vancouver,
    &
    The Gorge

    I also play the State College boot to death and I love the bonus feature with it in the 'Live at the Garden' DVD.

    Still, it would be a fun twist to hear Ed say, "This is for the MT." :p
    Walking can be a real trip
    ***********************
    "We've laid the groundwork. It's like planting the seeds. And next year, it's spring." - Nader
    ***********************
    Prepare for tending to your garden, America.
  • SundaySilence
    SundaySilence Posts: 537
    decides2dream wrote:
    well then, you really got to hear it FIRST out of the 'me threes'....as uniondale was april 30th? i believe.......haha. :)


    it is a damn good song, and sooooooo uplifting!

    You all beat me...6/13/2006 at Council Bluffs, Iowa is when I first heard it live. And I second that it is a damn good song and sooo uplifting. ...most recently saw it at Bonnaroo.
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Down. Fall by the wayside... no getting out...
    Down. Cry me a river... dried up and dammed.
    The names can be changed... but the place is still the same.
    I am loaded. Told that all's for naught. Holds me down.

    Rise. Life is in motion. I'm stuck in line.
    Oh rise. You can't be neutral on a moving train.
    One day... the symptoms fade. Think I'll throw these pills away.
    And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done.

    Won't let the light escape from me.
    Won't let the darkness swallow me.
    yes please
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I heard the band doesn't play requests posted on their message board.

    Please play Sweet Lew! And Whale Song! And other songs I don't really want to hear ...
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Well, they played it last night. :)

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