Has PJ ever made you cry?

Lately, whenever I hear "Chloe/Crown of Thorns" and "Nothingman" I start to cry. This has also happened with "Release", "Light Years", and "Man of the Hour", especially the EV solo version.

This is all 100% true and from the heart.

I find it really difficult to cry. Just the way I was brought up (raised) probably. Even now. I just bottle shit up and implode after a while.

My Dad died in September 2009, following heart surgery, then my Mum, utterly heartbroken, committed suicide in April 2010. Words can never express....nothing in life can ever prepare you something like that. I'm not looking for sympathy I'm definitely over the worst now. I just want to share with like-minded fans how this wonderful band helped me get through the worst time of my life.

I'll always associate certain Pearl Jam songs with that horrible period in my life. Backspacer came out a few days after my Dad died. But...I wouldn't change a thing. Those songs helped me to express my grief - helped me to cry and really helped me through the grieving process. I used to have a few drinks, wait until everyone went to bed, put on my ipod (I'd a playlist made of the songs which I knew 'worked'), look at old photos and cry my eyes out. It was the only way I could get any kind of release. But it worked and was incredibly therapuetic.

The likes of ''Off he goes' (I was listening to that this morning and was nearly welling up driving to work),the lyrics don't even have to be about loss and grief, but when I hear that now I just see my Dad in his perfectully unkempt clothes, it's just so melancholy and beautiful. 'Nothingman' too...my Dad was nothing to the world...it didn't even bat an eyelid when he died but he was the world to me. 'The End', 'Yellow Ledbetter', 'Just Breathe', and of course 'Release' to name a few others...but the one that was written just for me at that time was of course 'Come Back'. I love that song beyond anything I could ever express here. I so hope they play it when they do Manchester next June. I've never seen them before live and I'm so excited!

Mike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GroDErHIM_0#t=3m16s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdiCLZOxB3Q

About six years ago, while I was a senior in high school, i was working late and was held up at knifepoint. The man who committed the crime was a fellow co-worker. A few days later, while I was in school, the detective told me that the robbery had to do with a drug ring that my manager and district manager were running. The news that people I trusted had done such a horrible thing to me tore me apart. I left school that afternoon in bad shape but I was holding myself together. When I got in my truck to leave school I turned on the radio just as Yellow Ledbetter was beginning to play. I cried my eyes out as I was trying to decipher the lyrics and think about what I had just learned. Although the lyrics of that song are up for debate, I clearly heard Mr. Vedder sing the line, "I want to leave it again." This made me think about how bad I wanted to leave everything behind. I though about how all I wanted was to leave these bad people behind. I have never cried that hard in my life and everytime I hear that song the tears start to flow...

a lot of times...
Recently "Come back" creates me big emotions...
A couple of months ago one of my best friends went into a deep coma and every single nights, when I arrived at home, I loked at the PJ20 video version of Come Back... and started crying.
But it was good. It helped me to work off my pain...
Now my friend is good...

every time i hear Release at a show and sometimes just listening to it non- concert related... also Indifference usually gives me a lump in my throat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x4ko-dD-U#t=2m19s

she lies and says she still loves him. wow

PJ has made me cry many times.

Cried at Alpine Valley last year actually when Cornell and PJ sang "Say Hello 2 Heaven" and that's the only song on this earth that makes me think of my only brother who I lost in a car accident when he was 22 years old. Got wrapped up in the entire moment and experience - just totally lost it.

Also cried the very first time I heard "Release" during the last verse - you can just hear Eddie crying out in that song and chokes me up all the time.

Recently, "Given To Fly" has made me cry because it makes me think of my boyfriend. There are lines in the song that just speak to me and make me think of him (also a huge PJ freak like me) and it hits home.

My mom died 5 months ago and since then, I´ve been crying to Release. Also when Eddie sings "I´m open" and "Man of the hour" on the Water on the Road dvd... And when I heard Come back from the San Fransisco concert in 2006.

This summer I´ll see PJ for the first time, and I´m thinking I might have to bring some Kleenex. :roll: