Light Years...this song is beautiful.

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  • bossman3188
    bossman3188 Posts: 263
    dez higher wrote:
    This is a wonderful song, there's a version from one of the '03 boots that tears me to pieces.


    find out what version it is. i havnt heard many live versions i would love to hear the one your talking about.
    there'll be time for laughin'
    there's no time to cry
    soon i will be leavin'
    look me in the eye
    no matter what's in front of me
    it's your face that i'll see
  • Nevermind
    Nevermind Posts: 1,006
    One of my favorite songs, its just so well written.
  • Champagne Breakfast
    Champagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    Beautiful, Beautiful song. We were but stones your light made us stars ...... is the most powerful line ed has ever written in my opinion. Love that line and that song,...wish they'd play it more.
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  • LightYear
    LightYear Posts: 41
    bossman3188 wrote:
    find out what version it is. i havnt heard many live versions i would love to hear the one your talking about.

    I'm not a student of boots, but I mentioned above that I like the St. Louis, 2003 boot version of this song.
    "No time to be void or save up on life...
    You got to spend it all."
  • MineAmI
    MineAmI Posts: 114
    one of my favorite pj songs. possibly eddie's best lyrics. great stuff.

    pinkpop 2000 is unbelievable
    we were but stones....your light made us stars
  • Righteous Jammer
    Righteous Jammer Posts: 509
    This song gives me chills everytime I hear it!
    It doesnt hurt.... when I bleed
    but memories...they eat me
    I've seen it all before,...
    bring it on cause I'm no victim.
    -Ghost
  • Rue D'Awakening
    Rue D'Awakening Posts: 143
    i wish they had played this more on the riot act tour. i hope they bring it back for the next one. binaural was the album that made me a fanatical pearl jam fan and every song on that album speaks to me, but none like 'light years'.
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  • IndianSummer
    IndianSummer Posts: 854
    i like this song very much... probably the best song of Binnaural... and i believe the song about which the whole album is woven.
    I have faced it, A life wasted...

    Take my hand, my child of love
    Come step inside my tears
    Swim the magic ocean,
    I've been crying all these years
  • i forget
    i forget Posts: 281
    bossman3188 wrote:
    find out what version it is. i havnt heard many live versions i would love to hear the one your talking about.
    10 June, Little Rock, Arkansas, it's a good one.
  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    this song will forever hold a special place in my heart
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
  • STXLAX
    STXLAX Posts: 46
    This is one of my favorite PJ songs. It really describes some of my past relationships. BTW anyone who the binaural version should check out the Light Years Demo- pretty nifty.
    "And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
    -Nietzsche

    EMPATHY
  • LuthienTinuviel
    LuthienTinuviel Posts: 125
    listening to light years right now...i love it...i think its one of the most beautiful pj songs ever and it is also a (not the only) reason why i became a pj fan because there was a radio station (R.I.P.) which used to play it two times an hour (really) when binaural came out but i did not know by which band (does not look like correct english) it was and also not the title...then i found out that it was a pj song somehow and i only rememberd one single text line so i read all pj lyrics (chronological, of course) i was able to find on the internet...but you see this story had an happy ending
    "now i've got room to spread my wings and my messages of love...yeah love was my drug but that's not what i died of"

    "I don't wanna think, I wanna feel"

    "Go then, there are other worlds than these!" - Jake Chambers

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  • Fetus Jr.
    Fetus Jr. Posts: 26
    Right after I first bough Binaural and was listening to the cd for the 1st time, it was in my car after work late one night on the way home, and it came on. I've never cried like that from a song. I was dealing with my sick grandmother at the time, (still am because she's a fighter), but at the time we were told it would probably only be a couple of days and I lost it on the way home from work....For that, this song holds a big spot in my heart.
    I traded magic for fact...then I traded back.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    i love this song in more ways than i could ever describe.
    They played a great version in Sydney during the 03 tour. It has a little tag at the end. I cant remember it though - even though i was there. Im going to have to go home and listen to it now!
  • hard_to_imagine
    hard_to_imagine Posts: 34
    It's one of a few songs which bring a lump to the back of my throat.

    We were but stones, your light made us stars

    Possibly my favourite lyric ever
    "All i want is for you to make love to me...that's just in the song, i don't mean it" Eddie (14-7-93)
  • greg6906
    greg6906 Posts: 41
    hard_to_imagine wrote:
    It's one of a few songs which bring a lump to the back of my throat.

    We were but stones, your light made us stars

    Possibly my favourite lyric ever

    yeah that line has been in my hotmail signature since I first heard it....definitely amazing lyrics. I really can't agree with you guys more on the Light Years opinions, and it also means a lot to me because of my grandmother.
  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Nashville 2003 - 'I need you, don't know if you know but i needed you'. The way he sings that line, his voice drops at 'needed' and it just breaks my heart.

    Only played a few times on the '03 tour, each version is beautiful.
    "This town deserves a better class of criminal... and I'm gonna give it to them."

  • Kovo
    Kovo Posts: 255
    I just bought Binaural (Spelling?) and saw this thread so I put the song on, and it's a great song.
    And Luthien Tinuviel, your name sounds familiar, Silmarillion?
    I shouldn't have to fight a battle I'll never win, just to lose those I've never had.
  • maryannisinajam
    maryannisinajam Posts: 33
    a sweet love song, adoration beautifully expressed, beyond what she ever felt she really deserved. put on a petestal... she felt so good and so bad all at the same time.
    ".. days alone could have been spent together.. miles apart..."
    yes it's about being in love with someone you can't have or be with.
    there was her situation and there was his too..... she just couldn't overlook

    " ... waking up heavy breathed "( kinda like a wet dream if you know what i mean, desire is what that's about ) yes he was in love with a secret love
    maybe one day he will tell, maybe when he writes his autobiogrphy and that might be awhiles away ..smile

    could you look at this song also in regards or sentiment as to loseing a loved one in death ?( as expressed earlier )
    yeah songs can glean different
    or more than one meaning to an individual
  • maryannisinajam
    maryannisinajam Posts: 33
    so i just came back from listening to the live bootlegs of this song
    light years
    and i always cry... but then i also like to dance some too to this song
    the music is very good too !


    breakherfall
    save you
    parting ways
    and even a throw back from when they first met
    the song-- corduroy
    all about the very same woman, and it ain't beth or jill.

    see, this ones for you - x

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