Has PJ ever made you cry?

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  • embrace
    embrace Posts: 849
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Berlin 30-6-2010........During comeback........and i wasnt alone on this one.......

    Come Back made me cry today...
    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
    I want to go but I want to go with you.

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    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.
  • annette0328
    annette0328 Posts: 2
    Release. It was the first song they sang the first time I saw them. Too choked up and cried through the whole song, and damn it, tears me up thinking back as i write this.
    Ferri
  • PeArLgOoNeR
    PeArLgOoNeR Posts: 1,250
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Berlin 30-6-2010........During comeback........and i wasnt alone on this one.......

    I cried all the way through this too.. all the way into Alive actually!

    Also during Long Road, Light Years and LBC in Copenhagen 07

    and the first time I really "got" Black after some girl dumped me :)

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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    PeArLgOoNeR wrote:
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Berlin 30-6-2010........During comeback........and i wasnt alone on this one.......

    I cried all the way through this too.. all the way into Alive actually!

    Also during Long Road, Light Years and LBC in Copenhagen 07

    and the first time I really "got" Black after some girl dumped me :)
    all the way for me too...and this last one about Black...this is the reason im saying is the best song ever in the history of music..we all been,be,will be there.....
    "...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.....”
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    When I was going through a breakup with my first love in the winter of 2000, I heard the songs "Hard to Imagine" and "Strangest Tribe" for the first time. There was just something haunting yet beautiful about both songs. The chorus to Hard to Imagine sort of defined the circumstances and the first lines in Strangest Tribe defined the setting. I remember literally driving around at night, in the winter chill with the windows down, listening to those two songs over and over and letting the cold, biting wind dry my eyes.
    On a lighter note, Vedder's solo "Someday We'll Go All The Way" brings tears to my eyes every time. If you're a Cubs fan, you understand!
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  • blenderman69
    blenderman69 philly Posts: 2,104
    the end makes me cry.....
  • DangDang
    DangDang Posts: 1,551
    blenderman69 wrote:
    the end makes me cry.....

    "The End" is, by far, the most profound sad song I've ever heard.
  • blenderman69
    blenderman69 philly Posts: 2,104
    DangDang wrote:
    blenderman69 wrote:
    the end makes me cry.....

    "The End" is, by far, the most profound sad song I've ever heard.
    it made me cry today, yesterday and everytime i hear it....been lucky enough to cry to it live two or three times.
  • lizzie johnson
    lizzie johnson Posts: 1
    many years of cathartic tears...recently openly wept for the roskilde victims at show in berlin. tears from eddie, moment of silence, bandmates hugging... then come back and alive. much more than a few songs - an ode to the frailty and beauty of life. we are all still alive.
  • allydc
    allydc Posts: 5
    lizzie johnson wrote:
    many years of cathartic tears...recently openly wept for the roskilde victims at show in berlin. tears from eddie, moment of silence, bandmates hugging... then come back and alive. much more than a few songs - an ode to the frailty and beauty of life. we are all still alive.

    Couldn't have said it better! I was overwhelmed at the Berlin '10 show during Ed's speech before Come Back/Stone's moment of silence... and during the song- it was so beautiful- Eddies emotions made it so much more poignant and I find it hard to hear that song now... But when I first heard the chords to Alive- I wept- like Eddie says in Storytellers- the fans have changed the meaning of Alive over the years and made it positive- well PJ changed it for me in Berlin...

    it was an amazingly emotional night and a truly profound experience- one I will never forget!
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    allydc wrote:
    lizzie johnson wrote:
    many years of cathartic tears...recently openly wept for the roskilde victims at show in berlin. tears from eddie, moment of silence, bandmates hugging... then come back and alive. much more than a few songs - an ode to the frailty and beauty of life. we are all still alive.

    Couldn't have said it better! I was overwhelmed at the Berlin '10 show during Ed's speech before Come Back/Stone's moment of silence... and during the song- it was so beautiful- Eddies emotions made it so much more poignant and I find it hard to hear that song now... But when I first heard the chords to Alive- I wept- like Eddie says in Storytellers- the fans have changed the meaning of Alive over the years and made it positive- well PJ changed it for me in Berlin...

    it was an amazingly emotional night and a truly profound experience- one I will never forget!
    thats the spirit..congrats both of u.. :) ..
    p.s. really,ed give his soul to come back,and he didnt have any energy left during alive...
    "...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.....”
  • Tradeback
    Tradeback Posts: 4
    KF283313 wrote:
    "When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
    By nine he had 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..."

    Every single time, even when I think "I don't think I'll cry this time", I do! I just love it, the magic of childhood!

    Thanks for the post KF. Me too (hence the username).
  • Tradeback
    Tradeback Posts: 4
    Some others:

    Man of the Hour. It makes me love my father even more and makes me cherish every minute I have left with him (he's 81).
    Release, but not because I've lost my father -- I hear it as a prayer, and the need to be forgiven. Wash makes me cry for the same reasons. "I can't get it off."
    Nothingman, as soon as I hear "caught a bolt of lightning, cursed the day he let it go". Everyone has regrets, but some are deeper than others.
    Elderly Woman, at the moment of recognition.
    Dissident, at the moment of betrayal.
    YL -- just for the sheer beauty of the guitar solo.

    And until fireladie's post a few posts back, I thought I was the only PJ fan that cries at Leash. I first heard it when I was working for a really, really horrible boss. Now I just think of it as freedom from oppression, whatever the form. I cried listening to it earlier today.
  • maradil
    maradil Posts: 1
    It's not only a matter of crying...
    With their music my soul experiences the kind of freedom that comes from the sudden breaking of symmetries... it breaths such as newborn and when back it receives a new taste in ordered life. In those moments my body is the shape that their music gives to my feelings.
    thanks PJ :)
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    seven hours from now...will happen...again....here comes the pain again,here comes the rain again,here comes the Black again...and i sing...tururutu tururu...
    "...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.....”
  • Gibson
    Gibson Chicago Posts: 2,671
    Sleight of Hand around 2001. Going through a bad time. I would have eventually cried anyway, but when the course came on, I was sold.
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  • Sarah74
    Sarah74 Posts: 7
    Just Breathe...
    Man of the Hour...
    Unthought Known...
  • luanis
    luanis Posts: 159
    They made me cry a few times, mostly in live concerts.
    The first time I heard Black live was in 2000 at Restelo and it really hit me in 2006 when they did the whole "we belong together" thing. But I broke down in tears at this year's concert at the Alive Festival when they did my 3 all time favorites that night. Release, Nothingman and Black.

    Oh and I have to say that I didn't listen to Backspacer up until the concert. I was completly off on the new songs and Just Breathe made me cry... gosh it's amazing how a song I didn't know made me feel like that. It was amazing to listen to it for the first time and in a live concert and it really hit me.

    I'm a crybaby, I admit it :)
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    Sudoeste Festival, Zambujeira do Mar - Aug 3rd 2012 ; Super Bock Super Rock, Meco - Jul 18th 2014
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  • MotoDC
    MotoDC Posts: 947
    pandora wrote:
    no not really but when I cry I want PJ to listen to
    cause it feels right
    This.

    And goosebumps
    and chills
    and teaching me what it is to truely feel something without thought and analysis
    and thereby helping me understand both limitless passion and limitless depression
  • MotoDC
    MotoDC Posts: 947
    luanis wrote:
    They made me cry a few times, mostly in live concerts.
    The first time I heard Black live was in 2000 at Restelo and it really hit me in 2006 when they did the whole "we belong together" thing. But I broke down in tears at this year's concert at the Alive Festival when they did my 3 all time favorites that night. Release, Nothingman and Black.

    Oh and I have to say that I didn't listen to Backspacer up until the concert. I was completly off on the new songs and Just Breathe made me cry... gosh it's amazing how a song I didn't know made me feel like that. It was amazing to listen to it for the first time and in a live concert and it really hit me.

    I'm a crybaby, I admit it :)
    Totally get this, luanis. You can never judge a pearl jam song until you hear it live. Takes on a life of its own.

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