Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

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  • bigmattk11
    bigmattk11 Posts: 284
    All the rusted signs we ignored throughout our lives, choosing the shiny ones instead.

    Really take that one to the heart
    I got some if you need it.

    5/20/06 Cleveland 6/24/06 Cincinnati 5/6/10 Columbus 5/7/10 Indiana 5/9/10 Cleveland 5/10/10 Buffalo 6/26/11 EV Detroit 9/3-4/11 Alpine Valley WI 9/11-12/11 Toronto 2011 Atlanta 2012
  • Mshill21
    Mshill21 Posts: 43
    "And he who forgets, will be destined to remember."

    Nothingman
  • LifeWasted.
    LifeWasted. Posts: 33
    All five horizons revolved around her soul, as the earth to the sun.
    All five horizons revolved around her soul.
    As the earth to the sun.
  • jmurray
    jmurray Stratham, NH Posts: 3,538
    I escaped it,... A life wasted,..
    I'm never going back again.
  • mzbossyboots
    mzbossyboots Posts: 13
    Pearl Jam's lyrics are the first thing that made me love them.

    Starting with

    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down

    See the waves on distant shores,... Awaiting your arrival,...

    If there’s no love
    
I’m gonna try to love again

    I miss you already... I miss you always
    I miss you already... I miss you all day
    This is how I feel...
    I miss you already... I miss you always
    Three crooked hearts and swirls all around... I miss you all day

    So if there were no angels, would there be no sin?
    I'm like an opening band for the sun

    All that's sacred, comes from youth

    Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight

    Did I say that I need you?

    Oh, Did I say that I want you?

    Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,..

    No one know this more than me.


    I will hold the candle, till it burns up my arm
    I'll keep takin' punches, until their will grows tired
    Oh I will stare the sun down, until my eyes go blind
    Hey I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind

    I'm so high the sky I scrape

    He decides to dream...
    Dream up a new self... for himself

    If you're the only one, will I never be enough?
    Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love

    Just be darling and I will be too
    Faithful to you

    And sometimes you're there
    And you're talking back to me
    Come the morning I could swear you're next to me

    Is that the question
    And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...
    MzBossyBoots
  • amywink
    amywink Posts: 1
    freshymad wrote:
    Wishlist: "I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood."

    God I love that line for the beautiful image it evokes. The guitar part afterwards is sublime and gives me the feeling that I'm floating away!

    He wishes he is not the moon but the moon's ethereal reflection. I picture the car parked in the woods. His eye catches that reflection. Maybe it's his lover's car. He's like the moon. He leaves and comes back, leaves and comes back ...

    ... which brings me back to the beginning of the song. This riff is like something I would have hummed as a kid on a swing. Back and forth, higher and higher.


    Damn I agree! That line brought me to tears the first time I heard it, not because it's so "beautiful," necessarily, but because of the history it evokes for me, of being a young woman and free, just loving the night out in the country laying on the hood of a car, needing nothing but the moment...the full moon shining off a camaro's hood.


    Honestly, it's made all the more beautiful when Ed compares it in short order to being "the grounds, the evidence for 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky." The enormous and utterly public validation of millions of other humans, compared to the singular and ever so private validation of the moon shining on your car. Of being a small plastic object, "the chain you kept your housekeys on," and being a universal truth, "the verb 'to trust', and never let you down." I mean, shit. Thanks Ed.
  • TBibby
    TBibby Posts: 393
    All that's sacred, comes from youth
    Dedication, naive and true
    With no power, and fuckin' nothing to do
    I still remember, why don't you...don't you...
  • Gibson72
    Gibson72 Posts: 1,245
    thesewordselope wrote:
    MD7886 wrote:
    CanadasPearl,

    So, as I always ask when I run into a Canadian PJ fan - are you also a big Our Lady Peace fan? (sometimes referred to as Canadian Pearl Jam)?


    I would consider the tragically hip more of a "Canadian pearl jam" than our lady peace.


    Just curious.

    Mike


    Not really, I haven't listened to them in years. They do have have a few good ones out there though, but not enough for me to refer to them as the Canadian Pearl Jam :)
    Gibson1972
  • AnotherTourPlease
    AnotherTourPlease Posts: 487
    "If I knew where it was I would take you there" <sigh>
  • lovelyrita
    lovelyrita Posts: 72
    oh, i could be new... you underestimate me
    if you're the only one, will i never be enough?
    hail, hail the lucky ones, i refer to those in love
    i sometimes realize i could only be as good as you'll let me
    are you woman enough to be my man?
    bandaged hand in hand
  • WaveRyder
    WaveRyder Posts: 1,128
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me
    RC, SoDak 1998 - KC 2000 - Council Bluffs IA 2003 - Fargo ND 2003 - St. Paul MN 2003 - Alpine Valley 2003 - St Louis MO 2004 - Kissimmee FLA 2004 - Winnipeg 2005 - Thunder Bay 2005 - Chicago 2006 - Grand Rapids MI 2006 - Denver CO 2006 - Lollapalooza 2007 - Bonnaroo 2008 - Austin City Limits 2009 - Los Angeles 2009 - KC 2010 - St Louis MO 2010 - PJ20 Night 1 - PJ20 Night 2
  • Gerald Richey
    Gerald Richey Posts: 56
    N more crowbars to my head
    i dont wanna take what you can give I would rather starve than eat your bread
    sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic
    no more crowbars to my head
  • goingape
    goingape Posts: 2
    I'll Ride the wave Where it takes Me


    "You're still alive" she said.
    Oh and do I deserve to be?
    Is that the Question
    and if so... if so... who answers... who answers
  • WaveRyder
    WaveRyder Posts: 1,128
    goingape wrote:
    I'll Ride the wave Where it takes Me


    "You're still alive" she said.
    Oh and do I deserve to be?
    Is that the Question
    and if so... if so... who answers... who answers


    oh dear dad, can you see me now. i am myself. like you somehow.
    RC, SoDak 1998 - KC 2000 - Council Bluffs IA 2003 - Fargo ND 2003 - St. Paul MN 2003 - Alpine Valley 2003 - St Louis MO 2004 - Kissimmee FLA 2004 - Winnipeg 2005 - Thunder Bay 2005 - Chicago 2006 - Grand Rapids MI 2006 - Denver CO 2006 - Lollapalooza 2007 - Bonnaroo 2008 - Austin City Limits 2009 - Los Angeles 2009 - KC 2010 - St Louis MO 2010 - PJ20 Night 1 - PJ20 Night 2
  • AzWicker
    AzWicker Posts: 1,162
    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine. I am mine"
    Ed: 2011-07-09 2012-11-04
    PJ: 2011-09-03 2011-09-04
  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    "Whatever the notion we laced in our prayers, the man upstairs is used to all of this noise."

    Incredibly well-written and poetic. And I love it when Ed puts in the F word when he sings it live; it actually has more meaning.
  • matt2383
    matt2383 Posts: 1
    I'll swallow poison til I grow immune...
    I will scream my lungs out til it fills this room....
  • jodiem
    jodiem Posts: 133
    amywink wrote:
    freshymad wrote:
    Wishlist: "I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood."

    God I love that line for the beautiful image it evokes. The guitar part afterwards is sublime and gives me the feeling that I'm floating away!

    He wishes he is not the moon but the moon's ethereal reflection. I picture the car parked in the woods. His eye catches that reflection. Maybe it's his lover's car. He's like the moon. He leaves and comes back, leaves and comes back ...

    ... which brings me back to the beginning of the song. This riff is like something I would have hummed as a kid on a swing. Back and forth, higher and higher.


    Damn I agree! That line brought me to tears the first time I heard it, not because it's so "beautiful," necessarily, but because of the history it evokes for me, of being a young woman and free, just loving the night out in the country laying on the hood of a car, needing nothing but the moment...the full moon shining off a camaro's hood.


    Honestly, it's made all the more beautiful when Ed compares it in short order to being "the grounds, the evidence for 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky." The enormous and utterly public validation of millions of other humans, compared to the singular and ever so private validation of the moon shining on your car. Of being a small plastic object, "the chain you kept your housekeys on," and being a universal truth, "the verb 'to trust', and never let you down." I mean, shit. Thanks Ed.

    Totally agree! The entire words of this song are just so haunting and beautiful.. the constant wishing of wanting to be something more on so many scales..

    I am getting "I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down" tattooed on myself, but am relating it back to never letting wanting to let myself down
    1995: Perth
    2006: Sydney x 2
    2009: Philly, Sydney
    2013: San Diego, LA1 & 2, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Vancouver, Seattle

    EV Solo - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney x 2
  • jodiem
    jodiem Posts: 133
    mzbossyboots wrote:
    Pearl Jam's lyrics are the first thing that made me love them.

    Starting with

    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    I miss you already... I miss you always
    I miss you already... I miss you all day
    This is how I feel...
    I miss you already... I miss you always
    Three crooked hearts and swirls all around... I miss you all day

    Did I say that I need you?

    Oh, Did I say that I want you?

    Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,..

    No one know this more than me.


    I love these too... some lyrics take my breath away...
    1995: Perth
    2006: Sydney x 2
    2009: Philly, Sydney
    2013: San Diego, LA1 & 2, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Vancouver, Seattle

    EV Solo - Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney x 2
  • ShimmyMommy
    ShimmyMommy Posts: 7,505
    are you woman enough to be my man?
    Lots of love, light and hugs to you all!

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