Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

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  • karmadefect
    karmadefect Posts: 806
    It's hard to choose, but the last few months I have had the line

    Life has nothing to do with killing time!

    pop up in my mind very often.
    It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

    2006 Arnhem 2007 Werchter 2009 Rotterdam 2010 Nijmegen 2010 Werchter
    2012 Amsterdam 1 2012 Amsterdam 2 2014 Amsterdam 1 2014 Amsterdam 2
    2014 Berlijn
  • GratefulJam
    GratefulJam Posts: 1,803
    What a different life had I not found this love with you.....................
    "thru extensive negotiations we managed to get the curfew moved back..... we still don't have any time to fu&k around...."

    LA II 06, SB 06, SF III 06, Kokua 07 Ed and Jack, Grant Park 07, EV Berk1 & LA 1 (nice job 10c), 08 DC, MSG1 &2, VH1 rocks, EV Bos II, EV NYC I & II, Milwaukee, EV Maui, EV Hono I & II, Chicago 09 I & II, LA 09 I & II & IV, SD 09 (my girlfriend hit the lottery, best concert of my life 10C rocks)KC 2010, STL 2010, Hartford. Boston, and MSG I & II "who goes around skinning cats anyway", PJ 20 2011 , Portland, Spokane, Seattle LA 2013, Home Shows + Missoula (fatal 👌)
  • i am given to fly
    i am given to fly Perth, australia Posts: 1
    "Trading magic for fact, no trade backs"
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    In his dreams he's
    Choking tea leaves
  • freshymad
    freshymad Posts: 54
    edited May 2014
    I only own my mind
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    It's like his thoughts are too big for his size.
    Another habit says it's in love with you
    Another habit says its long overdue
    Another habit like an unwanted friend
    I'm so happy with my righteous self
  • Versus13
    Versus13 Vancouver, BC Posts: 197
    edited May 2014
    So many of them!!!
    But here are some pulled out of my favourite song:
    "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star. In somebody else's sky but why can't it be mine?!"
    Pittsburgh, PA 10/11/13
    Detroit, MI 10/16/14
    Tampa, FL 4/11/16
    Jacksonville, FL 4/13/16
    Toronto, ON 5/12/16
    Chicago, IL 8/22/16
    Chicago, IL 8/18/18
    Chicago, IL 8/20/18
    Boston, MA 9/4/18
    Ottawa, ON 9/3/22
    Hamilton, ON 9/6/22
    Toronto, ON 9/8/22
    Vancouver, BC 5/4/24
    Vancouver, BC 5/6/24
    Portland, OR 5/10/24
  • scurtis
    scurtis Posts: 2,477
    Well my signature kind of gives it away, but "born on third, thinks he got a triple" is my favourite lyric. My Dad wrote a book and we discussed that concept of people born with entitlement and I referenced that lyric.

    He used it in his book.
    "Born on third, thinks he got a triple."
  • mandm621
    mandm621 moran, mi Posts: 93
    I didn't care, before you were here. I danced in laughter with the ever after.
  • mandm621
    mandm621 moran, mi Posts: 93
    mandm621 said:

    I didn't care, before you were here. I danced in laughter with the ever after.

    sirens.
  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    Some place nice
    Make it nice
    Where the land meets high tide
  • Evnflo
    Evnflo Johns Island SC Posts: 33
    Victims in demand for public show, swept into the cracks beneath the door.
    Remember back, the early days, When you were young, and thus amazed, suddenly the channel changed the first time you saw blood.
  • SweetAndLow
    SweetAndLow Posts: 178
    current favorite is all the lyrics in Getaway.
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    2011: East Troy (PJ20), both
    2013: Wrigley Field
    2014: Detroit
  • marilor
    marilor St Etienne, France Posts: 618
    I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on
    I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on
    I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down

    I study your face, the fear goes away

    Romantic mood today ...
    "We were but stones, ...Your light made us stars"
  • joseph33
    joseph33 Washington DC Posts: 1,341
    Dont you think you ought to rest? Don't you ought of lay your head down...tonight?
  • Drifter88
    Drifter88 Posts: 7
    hard to name just one, but it would be push me pull me.

    "I had a false belief, I thought I came here to stay... (we're all just visiting).."
  • OilersRmylife
    OilersRmylife Posts: 249
    Society, you're a crazy breed..
  • oskeebooks
    oskeebooks Posts: 1
    I've really grown to love the line "he's off again." It's so sad. It starts out sad and gets somewhat happy and that line just brings it back down to despair in just 3 words.
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Hmm so
    Many of them.. Probably the one that makes my heart hurt the most, is from Evenflow..
    He can't help when he's happy he looks insane.. Reminds me of living in the homeless camp under the 10 Freeway in L.A. And the auditorium in Echo Park. Only I chose to be there.. And it just reminds me of one particular guy.. I've never seen anyone so happy to see a can of stew!

    And also the lyric gorgeous was his savior, sees her drowning in his wake.. But I'm not going THERE! Still makes me cry..
  • vickisomoya
    vickisomoya Seattle, WA Posts: 184
    I know its already been sung, can't be said enough
    Love...
    Love...
    Love...
    take the reigns and
    steer us towards the clear here
    I know it's already been sung
    but it can't be said enough
    ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

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