Name a Pj song that applied to your life

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  • Lukincin
    Lukincin Posts: 1
    This song so applied to my life in my 20s. I was figuring out that my childhood although I grew up in a "Christian" home was crap--because my dad was an alcoholic and my mom enabled him.
    ...empty gaze...but not if I feel...
    When Ed screams--want you, want you in my rearview mirror--I feel my pain being lifted and feel that at that moment--he had been in my head because I would go driving to release the anger and tension I felt toward my dad.
    The cool thing that happened in just the last year is my dad realized his mistakes and has been a loving and nice person since. We actually had a couple of civil conversations when I went to vist last May.
  • Pappas
    Pappas Posts: 809
    at the moment it would def have to be hard to imagine.

    things we're different then, all is different now, its kinda hard to explain


    definately
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  • Killoran
    Killoran Posts: 27
    Presently:

    Present Tense (it's eerie says my friend)
    Indifference
    Man of the Hour
    Light Years
    Wishlist
    Long Road
    Rearview Mirror
    Last Exit
    Of the Girl
    Sad
    Black
    Untitled
    Thumbing My Way

    .. lots.
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  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    "Given To Fly"
    "All I Ever Knew" available now in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.
  • guildenstern
    guildenstern Posts: 92
    Ocean Soul wrote:
    A few years ago my girlfriend and I left everything behind to move to another country for work. It had been a tense few weeks before we left because our relationship was still comparitively new to what we each had with our own friends and family and we knew this would be the ultimate test of how well we could function together being in a strange place with no friends, family, or money. I was listening to "Ten" as the plane crossed the Caribbean Sea and "Oceans" began to play on my headphones as I felt her head on my shoulder. I looked from the window of the plane to her and realized that it was the first time in so long that she was actually at ease. Every time I hear "Oceans" I think of how I wouldn't have been able to survive without her. The complete lyrics deserve to be posted...

    "Oceans"

    hold on to the thread
    the currents will shift
    guide me towards you
    know something's left
    and we're all allowed to dream
    of the next time we touch..........

    you don't have to stray
    two oceans away
    waves roll in my thoughts
    hold tight the ring...
    the sea will rise...
    please stand by the shore...
    I will be...
    I will be...
    there once more.........


    great, man.
    ThisIsNotAnExit
  • presenttense70
    presenttense70 Posts: 15
    I've been away from my wife and daughters for the last almost 11 months, and so the songs that apply to me now, may change a couple of months after I'm home and re-adjusted, but for right NOW:

    You Are--Even though I have my bad days, my wife keeps me strong, I may be the shoreline, but she is the sea!

    Oceans--This is more my wife's song to me, this is our "coming home" song. I'll make sure she has it in the CD player when she picks me up to bring me home.

    Present Tense-- Over here I have sat and thought on how I could have done things different, better, whatever, and Eddie just tells me don't look back, deal with TODAY.

    I Am Mine-- tells me that no matter what is going around me, I have myself, nobody can take away my individuality, my thoughts, myself, I AM MINE

    Long Road-- Anyone in the military that is over here, or soon to come over here, this song really hits.
    Makes much more sense to live....in the present tense

    I know I was born and I'll know that I'll die
    The inbetween is mine, I am mine

    Why go home??

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  • gaetperi
    gaetperi Posts: 8
    Throughout My Short Yet Not Unusually Eventful Life, I Have Experienced Many Loves And Many Losses. Through It All, Only One Thing Has Always Remained Constant In My Life. That Constant Is The Belief In Love. Love Of Life, Love Of The Afterlife, Love Of Oneself, And Love Of Others. "loveboat Captain, Take The Reigns And Steer Us Towards The Clear." Metaphorically Beautiful...
    Its Passionate, Its Real, Its Everything I Want To Believe In, Its Everything I Want To Be. Thank You Pj For Your Music.
    Thumbing My Way Is My Way Of Dealing With Life Ands The Difficulties I Battle Each Day With Depression. I Lost My Cousin And Dear Friend To An Auto Accident. I Have Not Been The Same. I Have Been Greatly Humbled, Frightend, And Yet Greatful Looking Retrospectfully At The Incident. It Has Changed Me For The Better. I Know How Fragile Life Truly Is And How Special And Powerful Love Can Be.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    i would say release. i dont have problems with my dad or anything but just the basic message of the song came at the right time for me. the stress and pressure of exams and tryin to live up to expectations got pent up in side of me but then this song came along begging for a release which was how i felt at the time.

    incidentally and obviously not a PJ song, i first heard chloe dancer/crown of thorns when i started to really like this girl called chloe and it kinda got interlinked. nothing happened and im over that now but the song always reminds me of her. god i hope to hell she aint a pearl jam fan cos if she read this id die of embaressment
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Coming back to life
    Coming back to life Posts: 401
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    i would say release. i dont have problems with my dad or anything but just the basic message of the song came at the right time for me. the stress and pressure of exams and tryin to live up to expectations got pent up in side of me but then this song came along begging for a release which was how i felt at the time.

    incidentally and obviously not a PJ song, i first heard chloe dancer/crown of thorns when i started to really like this girl called chloe and it kinda got interlinked. nothing happened and im over that now but the song always reminds me of her. god i hope to hell she aint a pearl jam fan cos if she read this id die of embaressment

    Oh my God I never knew!

    ;)
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Coming back to life wrote:
    Oh my God I never knew!

    ;)
    ha ha ha very funny :P
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • tachepiranha
    tachepiranha Posts: 399
    I got shit

    Definitely, nothing but crap in my life for the past 3 months, i wish i could understand wtf is going on, but got to keep on.
    I feel very close to you all now; so close I could almost... loan you money. Really. it goes that deep.
    -Tom Waits-

    Everybody should believe in something...I believe i'll have another drink - anonymous -

    Ah that's just drunk talk, sweet beautiful drunk talk.
    -Barney Gumble-
  • I_Got_Id
    I_Got_Id Posts: 10
    I Got Id.

    It's unfortunately constant with me... always end up "the nice guy" or "the friend"... so it wreches in me when I hear it & think of things... but I adore & love it so... as the lyrics make so much sense, and as someone else far earlier in this thread said, it's like someone else understands, but can express it... and the music fits perfectly for the feeling it's trying to express... pure beauty to my ears.

    ...and why... oh why... does everyone call it "I Got Shit"? yes that is said in the song, but the track name is "I Got Id". If the Merkinball album/single said otherwise, fine. But it doesn't... and that makes me sad.
  • babz
    babz Posts: 18
    Smile Because It Applies In My Life Everyday, I Realise Im Alive And Well So I See No Reason Not Too! I've Had My Fair Amount Of Regular Shit As We All Do, But Plenty Of People Have It Way Worse So To Me A Smile Goes A Long Way! And Every Time I Hear " Don't It Make You Smile" It Actually Makes Me Smile I Just Think Of Reasons To Smile!!! A Smile Never Broke Ones Mouth!!!!!!!!!!! ;~)
    IF YOU CAN KEEP COOL AROUND HERE.... AMONG THE CONFUSION.......YOU REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION!!!
  • lanners
    lanners Posts: 458
    god, where to begin on this one...these are some of my favourite lines

    first and foremost:

    BLACK- the line "i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky..."

    FOOTSTEPS- "I've got scratches all over my arms one for each day since i fell apart"

    REARVIEWMIRROR- "I gather speed from you fucking with me"

    BETTERMAN- this song was a beacon in an otherwise dark and dismal ocean for me

    CORDUROY-"i thought you were a friend, but i guess i, i guess i hate you" (powerful words!)

    SMALL TOWN- "I just want to scream HELLO!!!"

    CRAZY MARY- "That what you fear the most could meet you halfway"

    DOWN- "Won't let the light escape from me. Won't let the darkness swallow me."

    LOVE BOAT CAPTAIN- "Hold me, and make it the truth,
    That when all is lost there will be you, Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing, And there's just one word I still believe"

    I AM MINE- "I know I was born and I know that I'll die
    The in between is mine. I am mine"

    OK, i could go on forever but i won't. I think there's something in every song that touches me, otherwise i wouldn't be such a huge fan.
    i. am. mine.
  • thunder_balls
    thunder_balls Posts: 117
    Well, I wrote a real long reply to this earlier, but now I'm lazy. Mostly, Jeremy can describe me, other than the fact I'm not going to kill myself (well try not to anyways). But, Given To Fly is the song that has actually affected me. It makes me just wanna go out...and well, become something that I want to be. My dreams are probably way beyond reach, but "GTF" can still encourage me. I dream of becoming a professional Foot Model...LOL just kidding. Erm, I just wanna be a good drummer and good musician, and make some good music, with, and for, some good people. Unfortunately, I have nobody to do so with. Oh well. GTF is helpful. It makes me feel very up. It's enlightening,invigorating,inspiring, and spine-tingling. It helps me become better than myself.
    7/10/06
  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    Long Road - First song at my wedding
    Around the Bend - Gave me courage to pop the question

    And Vs. Came out when I was in the hospital for a week with a fractured leg. That CD got me through some long nights. That and Demeral.....
  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    I_Got_Id wrote:
    I Got Id.

    It's unfortunately constant with me... always end up "the nice guy" or "the friend"... so it wreches in me when I hear it & think of things... but I adore & love it so... as the lyrics make so much sense, and as someone else far earlier in this thread said, it's like someone else understands, but can express it... and the music fits perfectly for the feeling it's trying to express... pure beauty to my ears.

    ...and why... oh why... does everyone call it "I Got Shit"? yes that is said in the song, but the track name is "I Got Id". If the Merkinball album/single said otherwise, fine. But it doesn't... and that makes me sad.

    I think the title is actually I Got Shit. It was written "Id" on the cover for the sensors. Ed Writes "I Got Shit" on the setlists........
  • sonquaii
    sonquaii Posts: 11
    Right now in relation to the current state of my life -Sleight of Hand
  • plinn
    plinn Posts: 30
    darthvedder88 wrote:
    Well, first off I want to say that one of the things I love about Pearl Jam is they leave the interpretations of songs up to the listener and not ruin the experience of album listening.

    Well, "Light Years" takes me back to a part of my life when I met my first true love. I was in 8th grade she was in 9th. She lived 30 min. away, and it was hard at the time and I hardly got to see her. We learned so much from eachother while we were together, but she had so many problems at the time that she drifted away from me, and then she moved. It seemed like as time went on, our distance became a length measuring in light years. But one day, it occured to me that I couldn't be stuck on here, that I had to live and go on without her, and I eventually did. I hope noone laughs at this interpretation, bc Light Years has made me cry before.

    IT is brave of you to admit it and anyone who would laugh would really be running from their own fear, I've been there too, more than once... I think alot of what the lyrics say are about closure and being better for having felt someone's love, even if it might not have lasted...as long as you grow and heal and learn and most importantly, go on to love again...

    now onto:
    when I was 21 and Ten came out it was Wash and Release...and of course...Black..obviously, then as each album came out RVM and Indifference, then Nothingman, sadly, Given to Fly...but now at 36 Its Lowlight, Sometimes, Hail Hail, Cant Keep and of course Dirty Frank
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    I'm trying to get the right mindset to write a poem inspired by Immortality. Yesterday, I kindof figured out that sometimes we just know when it's time to leave. It's not forced like suicide, but things are the same for a very long time, as if what the purpose is in life must have been done already. I feel that we are given some opportunities to choose to live or die as if we are reviewing a script we wrote. I was a little scared yesterday thinking in these terms, why so much is the same, as if it were a karmic message. Now, this is not to be disrespectful to those who have lost people, as I can only look at it in theory, and I hope that to be the case for a very long time. I just know there were times when I chose to live, and I have a strong reason to continue, but immortality could start at any moment, and I wonder if it's the easier choice.
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