which pearl jam lyric is most powerful for you? and why?

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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,812
    mfc2006 wrote:
    "dear dad..can you see me now? i am myself..like you somehow"

    can't even begin to tell you how much these words mean to me. when i was growing up, Dad & I weren't super close at all. typical father/son head butting, etc...
    then i moved away to school & they took on a new meaning. i saw him in a much different light once i realized that he wasn't trying to ruin my life growing up, but rather he was trying to raise me the right way & build my morals & values.
    cut to a few years later when my Dad lost his grueling battle with ALS, and the meaning changed for me yet again. this song has helped me more than i can even begin to explain.
    Hell of a post....

    Thats all I have to say.....

    Hell of a post....
    Take me piece by piece.....
    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,724
    I KNOW SOMEDAY....
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • didntknow
    didntknow Posts: 67
    if anyone ever underestimates the power of music, they need only read the posts here.

    those that dont believe it can 'save' someone, have never sat and listened and listened and listened to the same song over and over and over again and finally ..slowly, through the music, found the will, desire or just 'felt something' enough to get up again..

    humbled by what everyone has shared. powerful stuff.
    I am mine
  • Stonerlady
    Stonerlady Posts: 240
    I just saw something Ed once said. I read this before, but never really thought about it. But now, thinking about it, he's so right!! "If you ever feel like getting the fuck outta here, just remember: Living is the best revenge".
  • iamdirtyfrank
    iamdirtyfrank Posts: 207
    Tell the captain 'This boats not safe And we're drowning.' Turns out he's the one making waves.

    great lyric, for me it's my heart telling my brain (the captain) to get a grip of my relationship before i lose the greatest girl in the world. i did, we're now engaged and have a 3 year old son.

    i know the song (green disease) has got nothing to do with what i'm talking about but that was my take on the lyric that got me seeing straight
    Caleb Benjamin Higgs-16th December 2006
    Max Lennon Higgs-22nd October 2010
    My two boys are the light of my life.

    check my band/project out at www.soundclick.com/nineyardsleft
  • Paradiso
    Paradiso Posts: 5
    ``Makes much more sense to love in the present tense'' - simple concept but incredible lyric nonetheless.

    ``All the rusted signs, we ignore throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead'' - another powerful lyric in which to live by
  • Jo
    Jo Posts: 2,098
    All of the above lyrics....

    And these " And F#*K me if I say something you don't want to hear, F#*K me "

    and probably all those lyrics to be posted below.....
  • guypjfreak
    guypjfreak Posts: 2,281
    i will stand arms outstretched
    pretend im free to roam
    I will make my way through
    one more day in HELL

    every time every day 8-)
  • pkh43
    pkh43 Posts: 253
    "I can't close my eyes cause I see the sound. In waves. In waves. Let's me...stay calm...."
  • PearlJamPatriotGirl
    PearlJamPatriotGirl Posts: 52
    "A human being that was given to fly"

    "If once I could feel loved, oh stare back at me"

    "I know you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why, can't it be mine"
  • bunny
    bunny Posts: 270
    "son, she said have i got a little story for you...."

    thought-provoking lyric for me...deeply


    and,
    "gonna save you facker, not gonna lose you...."
    ed is cool & powerful !!
    :mrgreen:
  • Fahka
    Fahka Posts: 3,187
    "Things were different then. All is different now.
    I tried to explain. Somehow...."     This lyric is probably one that will always hit my soul button. Always has, always will.. I think the best pearl jam lyrics are straight up descriptions of the state of the writers soul that particular moment.

    ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OOOOOOOOOOOOOHaaaa OHHHHHHHHHHHH..
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    "I wish i was the Messenger and all the news was good", cause i'm a Messenger, and having to deliver bad news is not fun. :mrgreen:
  • Louied825
    Louied825 Posts: 132
    I change by not changing at all

    absolute ironic poetry beautiful
    Louie
  • Diggy381
    Diggy381 Posts: 165
    . . . and the young, they can lose hope 'cuz they can't see beyond today. . . the wisdom that the old can't give away.
  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    I KNOW SOMEDAY....
    You took it, i was hoping no one had taken it!
    Eastern Creek 95,Syd 1 98,Bris 2 98, Syd 1&2 03, Reading Fest 06, Bris 1 06, London 09, Hyde Park 10, Gold Coast BDO 14 Budapest 22 Krakow 22 Amsterdam 22 St Paul 1&2 23 Chicago 1&2 23 Chicago 1&2 24 New York 1 24 Philly 1&2 24 Boston 1&2 24 Gold Coast 24 Melbourne 1 24 Sydney 1&2 24
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
    the love he receives is the love that is saved.
    why?
    I believe in love and
    I have come to believe all we leave this world with is love
  • Up Here In My Tree
    Up Here In My Tree Posts: 541
    He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share his key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
    Burt first he was stripped and then he was stabbed by faceless men, well, fuckers
    He still stands

    And he still gives his love, he just gives it awas
    The love he receives is the love that is saved

    - Just a super powerful lyric, to me, about someone who gives of him/her self regardless of the consequences because they just beleive it's right.

    I know someday you'll have a beautiful live, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be mine?

    This lyric may be their most powerful ever and hit's me right now because of a recent break up.
  • insertpjreference
    insertpjreference Posts: 32
    Small town predicts my fate... perhaps that's what no-one wants to see
  • spearhead
    spearhead Posts: 600
    I was alone and far away,
    When I heard the band start playing...
    I was alone and far away when I heard the band start playing!

    ...I was always a DeadHead, but when I first heard Winston Rodney, aka the Burning Spear, sing, I became a SpearHead too!

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