Immortality Lyrics change

fotd
fotd Posts: 514
edited November 2009 in The Porch
When the lyrics to Immortality change from this:
I could take the sun
I could call the couple anyone
I won't tell the comfort in the world
I can't take it off
I won't say, "Enough, it's not my fault"
I won't care, there's something in the wind

Take me as I am
I don't need this
I die just to live
Immortality...

I could paint the moon
I could reflect light into a room
If I could, the fortune all be there (?)
I could paint it all
I won't say, "Enough, it's not my fault"
I won't call the altar in the air

Take me as is
I don't need this
I die just to live
Immortality...

I can't take a walk
I won't fight this world
I won't save it all
It is not my fault

Take me as is
I don't need this
I die just to live
I won't stay long
I'll be long gone
I die just to live...

To what appeared on Vitalogy:
Vacate is the word...vengeance has no place on me or her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear...vessel stabbed...next up, volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere...
A truant finds home...and a wish to hold on...
But there's a trapdoor in the sun...

Immortality...

As privileged as a whore...victims in demand for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered...executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor...
A truant finds home...and a wish to hold on too...
He saw the trapdoor in the sun...

I cannot stop the thought...I'm running in the dark...
Coming up a which way sign...all good truants must decide...
Oh, stripped and sold, mom...auctioned forearm...
And whiskers in the sink...
Truants move on...cannot stay long
Some die just to live...
Ohh...

Just curious.
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  • OceansMagnet
    OceansMagnet Posts: 1,044
    He'd probably never admit it, but it changed when Kurt died..
  • Fastrichie
    Fastrichie Sandy Hook, CT Posts: 922
    Think the lyrics are different than both these on 4/11/94.
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  • Fastrichie
    Fastrichie Sandy Hook, CT Posts: 922
    Also to answer your ? it looks like 10/2/94 is the first time they played w/ the vitalogy lyrics w/ 4/11 & 4/12 in Boston having different lyrics. Wish I had an studio outtake w/ the different lyrics.
    04/06/94 Springfield, 04/17/94 NYC, 10/02/96 Hartford, 11/14/97 Oakland, 09/08/98 NJ, 09/10/98 MSG, 09/11/98 MSG, 09/13/98 Hartford, 08/24/00 Jones Beach, 08/25/00 Jones Beach 04/30/03 Uniondale, 07/08/03 MSG, 07/09/03 MSG, 09/28/04 Boston, 10/01/05 Borgata, 10/03/05 Philly, 05/13/06 Hartford 05/25/06 Boston, 06/01/06 NJ, 06/03/06 NJ, 08/05/07 Chicago, 06/24/08 MSG, 06/25/08 MSG, 06/27/08 Hartford, 06/30/08 Mansfield, 07/01/08 The Beacon, 08/21/09 Toronto, 10/27/09 Philly, 10/28/09 Philly, 10/30/09 Philly, 10/31/09 Philly, 05/15/2010 Hartford, 05/17/2010 Boston, 05/20/2010 MSG, 05/21/2010 MSG, Montreal 09/07/2011, Philly 09/01/2012, Wrigley 07/19-20,2013, Worcester 10/16/13, Brooklyn 10/18, Brooklyn 10/19/13, Hartford 10/25/13, Ed Sullivan 09/23/2015, Central Park 09/26/2015 Philly 04/29/2016. MSG 05/01/2016, MSG 05/02/2016, Fenway 08/05/2016, Fenway 08/07/2016, Brooklyn 04/07/2017, Seattle 08/08/2018, Seattle 08/10/2018, Chicago 08/20/2018, Fenway 09/02/2018, Fenway 09/04/2018, Asbury Park 09/18/2021, Apollo Theater 09/10/2022, MSG 09/11/2022, Camden 09/14/2022, St. Paul 8/31/2023, St. Paul 9/2/2023, Seattle 05/30/2024, Missoula 08/22/2024, MSG 09/03/2024, 09/04/2024, Philly 09/07/2024, Fenway 09/15/2024, Fenway 09/17/2024, Hollywood 04/26/2025, Pittsburgh 05/16/2025, Pittsburgh 05/18/2025


  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    in every form.. it was about Kurt's death..

    I don't care that Ed denies it publically..

    AND the final version includes the lyrics "scrawled" (The suicide letter) "disolved"( the suicide) "cigar box on the floor" (the cigar box with Kurt's drug stuff found on the floor next to his body)

    simple as that..
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  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    Fastrichie wrote:
    Also to answer your ? it looks like 10/2/94 is the first time they played w/ the vitalogy lyrics w/ 4/11 & 4/12 in Boston having different lyrics. Wish I had an studio outtake w/ the different lyrics.

    Yes, 4/11 and 4/12 are different from each other too.
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  • PillowPants
    PillowPants Posts: 4,877
    Please do this version at fenway ❤️
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    Whatever the version, I adore this song - especially live.
  • Not For You
    Not For You Posts: 360
    edited September 2018
    This version at fenway 1 would absolutely KILL ME but its never happening lol 
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  • jimed14
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    How about Fenway 2?   ;)
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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,249
    jimed14 said:
    How about Fenway 2?   ;)
    :lol: 
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  • BALLBOY
    BALLBOY Australia Posts: 1,035
    Beautiful no matter which version & so happy i can play it on guitar
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  • PB11041
    PB11041 Earth Posts: 2,845
    There are definitely at least rough studio versions where they kicked around lyrics similar to what was played on 4.11 and 4.12, they must not have felt great about them to leave the off the Vs/Vitalogy deluxe, or just felt that the Orpheum live version did it the most justice.

    I am pretty sure the final version that ended up on Vitalogy, if I have my memory (always suspect) and timeline correct was the penultimate track completed after Mike got out of rehab.  The other track being Ed, Jeff and Jack doing the work on Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me. 

    My guess would say they tracked this song in some form down in Atlanta, in April 1994. Then the album version was cut in multiple stages in April & May in Seattle and Mike doing additional guitar work in June or July.   This is all patchworkmoosefunk from memory of old websites and articles that used to have some of this information including an interview with Mike in late 1994 or early 1995.

    The best source of information for this would be a Brendan O'Brien producers compendium to the Pearl Jam records, which obviously would need an assist from Adam Kaspar and Tchad Blake among others.  But I'd buy, it so would you if you are reading this...

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