All time fav Pearl Jam Lyric

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  • Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank Seattle, WA Posts: 8,639
    edited November 2014
    the one I have been digging lately, it rings so prophetic, simple and amazing simultaneously

    Gotta say it now, better loud than too late
  • ckravitz
    ckravitz NJ Posts: 1,668
    goldrush said:

    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?

    This one is the all timer for me as well ^^

    On a more up beat side I'd go with:

    I am fuel, you are friends
    We got the means to make amends
    I'm lost, I'm no guide
    But I'm by your side
    Right by your side

    And because everyone loves Backspacer so much...

    See the waves on distant shores
    Awaiting your arrival
    Dream the dreams of other men
    You'll be no one's rival
    Dream the dreams of others then
    You will be no one's rival
  • bigguybigeye
    bigguybigeye Posts: 205
    So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me
    1994: ANN ARBOR
    2011: DETROIT (EV), HAMILTON
    2012: OSLO, COPENHAGEN, MEMPHIS (EV)
    2013: LONDON, CHICAGO, VANCOUVER, SEATTLE
    2014: ST. LOUIS, DETROIT
    2015: CHICAGO (EV & TOWNSHEND), NEW YORK
    2016: QUEBEC CITY, OTTAWA, TORONTO 1, BOSTON 1 & 2
    2018: LONDON 1, CHICAGO 1
    2022: HAMILTON

  • pureoc
    pureoc Posts: 2,383
    I wish I was the verb to trust and never let you down.

    So true on so many levels!!!
    Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Alpine Valley 10/8/00, Champaign 4/23/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Grand Rapids 10/3/04
    Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
    Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
    Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
    Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
  • pureoc
    pureoc Posts: 2,383
    And he who forgets, will be destined to remember.
    Alpine Valley 6/26/98, Alpine Valley 10/8/00, Champaign 4/23/03, Chicago 6/18/03, Alpine Valley 6/21/03, Grand Rapids 10/3/04
    Chicago 5/16/06, Chicago 5/17/06, Grand Rapids 5/19/06
    Milwaukee 6/29/06, Milwaukee 6/30/06, Lollapalooza 8/5/07
    Eddie Solo Milwaukee 8/19/08, Toronto 8/21/09, Chicago 8/23/09
    Chicago 8/24/09, Indianapolis 5/7/10, Ed Chicago 6/29/11, Alpine Valley 9/3/11 and 9/4/11, Wrigley 7/19/13, Moline 10/18/14, Milwaukee 10/20/14
  • javis el errante
    javis el errante Buenos Aires Posts: 6,144
    edited November 2014
    The chorus from inside job...

    How I choose to feel is who I am... ?

    Does it go like that?

    If he can't sleep hoe will he ever dream?

    I've been too long unemployed...
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    ... I am not in the business of being liked anymore ...

  • WhatYouTaughtMe
    WhatYouTaughtMe Posts: 4,957
    edited November 2014
    dot30 said:

    2. Just be a darling and I will be too
    Faithful to you

    I think the whole last verse of that song might be my favorite lyrics from the band.
  • MB58788
    MB58788 Posts: 198
    caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,317
    MB58788 said:

    caught a bolt 'a lightnin'...cursed the day he let it go

    ^Nice!

    Models, role models? Roll some models in blood
    Get some flesh to stick, so they look like us
  • dot30
    dot30 The Great Midwest Posts: 83
    I shit and I stink, I'm real, join the club
    I'd stop and talk, but I'm already in love
    :x
    Once you hold the hand of love, it's all surmountable.
  • cacarr1
    cacarr1 Posts: 350
    Only lyrics I've considered getting tattooed:

    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in-between is mine."

    Such simple and unambiguous prose. But so meaningful (at least to me) in letting us know that we all only live once and we're all captain of our own ships (so to speak).
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  • KV4053
    KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,510
    cacarr1 said:

    Only lyrics I've considered getting tattooed:

    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in-between is mine."

    Such simple and unambiguous prose. But so meaningful (at least to me) in letting us know that we all only live once and we're all captain of our own ships (so to speak).

    +1 on the lyric choice and the consideration as an tattoo
    I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.
  • PP193448
    PP193448 Here Posts: 4,282
    edited November 2014
    Grunt, grunt...mmmmmmm...yeah, yeah.....grunt, grunt....wow!!!
    Post edited by PP193448 on
    2006 Clev,Pitt; 2008 NY MSGx2; 2010 Columbus; 2012 Missoula; 2013 Phoenix,Vancouver,Seattle; 2014 Cincy; 2016 Lex, Wrigley 1&2; 2018 Wrigley 1&2; 2022 Louisville
  • giventofly69
    giventofly69 Vancouver Posts: 850
    So many to choose from ... here is my choice today.

    First he was stripped, then he was stabbed ... by faceless men, well fuckers ... he still stands ... and still gives his love, he just gives it away and the love he receives is the love that is saved.

    Great thread, by the way.
    "Your light's reflected now, reflected from afar. We were but stones, your light made us stars."
  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    cacarr1 said:

    Only lyrics I've considered getting tattooed:

    "I know I was born and I know that I'll die, the in-between is mine."

    Such simple and unambiguous prose. But so meaningful (at least to me) in letting us know that we all only live once and we're all captain of our own ships (so to speak).

    probably the only lyrics I don't like it's like your going to miss out on the future for living a life of sin...that's how the lyrics speak to me...
  • tominzinga
    tominzinga Posts: 113
    I know someday 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, can't it be mine?

    and
    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

    tied i love them both equal
    Wrigley 2013 Cinci 2014
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    too hard to pick. of course the LBC and Black ones already mentioned are two of my favs. here are a few more.

    "ill keep taking punches until there will grows tired"

    "now the man of the hour is taking his final bow, as the curtain comes down i feel that this is just goodbye for now..."

    "pay disasters no mind, didn't get you this time, no prints left at the crime"

    "if nothing is everything, I would have it all":

    "all the advantage this life's got on me, picture a cup in the middle of the sea"

  • jopetto75
    jopetto75 Posts: 397

    "and now I rub my eye's, for he has returned

    seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned

    for he still smiles; and he's still strong

    Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit; that has gown"
    until next time......
  • ShanKathy
    ShanKathy Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 314
    "I've lived all this life like an ocean in disguise"
  • Caught-A-Bolt-Of-Lightning
    Caught-A-Bolt-Of-Lightning Posts: 1,336
    "Caught a bolt of lightning...cursed the day he let it go..."
    And...
    "Hold onto the thread the currents will shift...guide me toward you.."
    Raleigh, NC., 8/31/98, Charlotte, NC., 8/4/00, Greensboro, NC., 8/6/00, Mountain View, CA., 10/31/00, Raleigh, NC., 4/15/03, Charlotte, NC., 4/16/03, Mountain View, CA., 10/25/03, Asheville, NC., 10/6/04, Philadelphia, PA., 10/3/05, Washington D.C, 5/30/06, Virginia Beach, VA., 6/17/07, Philadelphia, PA., 10/28/09, Charlottesville, VA., 10/29/13, Charlotte, NC., 10/30/13, Memphis, TN., 10/14/14, Greenville, SC., 4/16/16, Hampton, VA., 4/19/16, Raleigh, NC., 4/20/16, Columbia, SC., 4/21/16, Boston, MA., 8/5/16, Boston 9/2/18 & 9/4/18., Nashville, TN., 4/2/20., Nashville, TN., 9/16/22.

    EV Solo - Washington, D.C., 8/17/08, Atlanta, GA., 6/24/09, Orlando, FL., 11/27/12.

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