The neverending love for Sad thread!

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  • MellowMind
    MellowMind Posts: 61
    ACCBootlegGoddess wrote:

    It was Ed who gave me the best gift though. They went straight into Sad, and Ed likes to change the lyrics


    Ed does not like to change the lyrics, ed sucks at remembering lyrics so he makes em up as he goes along..
    Given To Fly

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  • darthvedder88
    darthvedder88 Posts: 1,023
    I'm hoping that they play this bad boy all throughout the '06 tour. That will so kick ass!!!
    "Darth Vader would say 'Impressive'."

    -Eddie Vedder

    6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
    6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
  • oktacoma
    oktacoma Posts: 335
    TouringFan2000 wrote:
    sad ... absolutely one of the best songs in the pj catalog.

    and someone else mentioned (in another thread, i think) that the band hasn't even perfected it live yet. i agree with that. just the way they hadn't perfected green disease live until the canada tour. i think this song is only getting stronger in concert the more they play it.

    Well said, all of this.
  • s.k.e
    s.k.e Posts: 17
    just spoke to ex for first time since split
    6 months
    sad on repeat holdin me together
    thank you eddie
    thanks
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,681
    Why couldn't they have put it on Binaural and released it as a single. This is a song you wish everyone could hear. At least I think so.
    I miss igotid88
  • sesame
    sesame Posts: 22
    Man, to me, I never really gave this one a chance until I read this thread. Then I was driving and the tears just started flowing, pretty much everytime he says sad. Thing is, no one in my life died or left, but i's the compassion. So amazing how much they feel and can transmit through music.

    I don't think Ed forgets lyrics. Occasionally he stuffs up, but I don't think he does it on purpose. I love how he sings Glorified G about a Pelican :)

    Dean.
  • VEDHEAD27
    VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    "IF JUST OOOONE WISH COULD BRING HER BAAAAAACK"
     :(

    Jesus! Hits like a ton of bricks!
    So much power, passion & overwhelming emotion! Gets me every damn time.

    What a song!
    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤

    "Lo√e, you know the word
    ...YOU invented it!" ~ E√

    ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤
    ...::STONE--YOU--OWN!::...
    ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    Inspired by Pearl Jam's, "Sad" and Tina Modotti's "Workers, Mexico."

    He walks up a plank weighed down by concrete
    formed for a, "livable community."
    New welts surface where he once was caressed.
    Sweat rivulets flow from under his hat,
    but is this revealed in the photograph?

    Where concrete blocks are dropped is not his choice.
    His scraped knuckles leave indelible marks.
    Real estate brokers will hide what life costs.

    The foreman throws disparaging remarks,
    and drinks water too expensive to share.
    This worker is deluged by acerbic air.

    If only we lived dry-eyed as concrete,
    and not be bothered with caress or choice,
    and not be bothered with a human thirst.



    Tina Modotti's photograph is of two Mexican workers carrying a block of concrete up a plank to a ship. I can't find it on the internet or else I would post the link here. It's incredible. I was looking at it, and listening to "Sad" at the same time, and they seem to fit a bit.
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  • imspinnin
    imspinnin Posts: 933
    **One of my fondest memories**:o

    "OMG...:eek:It's SAD...."
    (jumping up and down):D
    If I could be anything in the world I would be your teardrop...I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
  • robis726
    robis726 Posts: 132
    Great Top 10 PJ Song. PLEASE PLAY IN SANTA BARBARA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Oh, if I knew where it was I would take you there...

    Austin, Texas 09-16-1995
    Columbia, Maryland 09-04-2000
    San Antonio, Texas 04-05-2003
    Santa Barbara, California 07-13-2006
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    Dallas, Texas 11-15-2013
    Mexico City, Mexico 11-28-2015
    Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 04-08-2016
    Miami, Florida 04-09-2016
    Chicago, Illinois I 08-20-2016
    Chicago, Illinois II 08-22-2016
    Seattle, Washington I 08-08-2018
    Seattle, Washington II 08-10-2018
    Boston, Massachusets I 09-02-2018
    Austin, Texas 09-18-2023
  • ACCBootlegGoddess
    ACCBootlegGoddess Posts: 4,318
    Ok I was watching the AOL sessions today and I had the lyrics in front of me. Yes, shame on me, I don't know them by heart. Trying to change that.
    Anyways that song hit me like a TON of bricks again today. WOW.
    I got all misty eyed.

    What a beautiful song.

    I think my fave lyric is "if just one wish could bring her back...its sad"
    Cause its something any of us who have lost someone really close to us has thought at one time or another.
    "Rock and roll is something that can't be quantified, sometimes it's not even something you hear, but FEEL!" - Bob Lefsetz
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    Playing Sad in Portland this summer is what really got me into the song. Always liked it but never loved it some much. Ed said he was thinking of Sleater-Kinney when he wrote it and thats why its good.
    #FHP
  • seanw1010
    seanw1010 Posts: 1,205
    bump
    they call them fingers, but i never see them fing. oh, there they go
  • Yukiko
    Yukiko Posts: 109
    Sad is just awesome... the more i listen the more i love it...
    ...jamas fue pensado llegar a esto...

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