Favorite Non-Iconic/Underrated Pearl Jam Lyrics...

[stip]

yeah, sad is a great song, but for the music and the atmosphere. There's little in sad I'd point to as an exercise in fantastic lyric writing

Really? I think the "An undertow of futures laid to waste" line is fantastic.

actually that is a really good line, but it gets buried in the lines that surround it

[harmless]

The entirety of Johnny Guitar.

[stip]

yeah that's a really clever song

[stip]

and fuck everyone, but I will go to my grave really liking the lyrics to the fixer. pretty much the whole song

[harmless]

Actually, the other day I found myself thinking it would be enjoyable to listen to The Fixer again sometime.

[stip]

the verses of amongst the waves are also highly underrated

[stip]

somewhere there's a siren singing a song only he hears

[Farmer John]

Actually, the other day I found myself thinking it would be enjoyable to listen to The Fixer again sometime.

Should we do a "Let's Actually Listen to The Fixer" thread?

[harmless]

somewhere there's a siren singing a song only he hears

Yeah that's a good line well delivered.

[stip]

Actually, the other day I found myself thinking it would be enjoyable to listen to The Fixer again sometime.

Should we do a "Let's Actually Listen to The Fixer" thread?

[nyquillyn]

light your pillow... lay back... watch the flames

[philpritchard]

somewhere there's a siren singing a song only he hears

There's some great imagery in that song.

[harmless]

Actually, the other day I found myself thinking it would be enjoyable to listen to The Fixer again sometime.

Should we do a "Let's Actually Listen to The Fixer" thread?

Let's do it. But I can't find my CD and I don't have any clean MP3s of it.

[BurtReynolds]

When somethings broke, I wanna put a bit of fixin on it
When somethings bored, I wanna put a little exciting on it

then I shoot myself.

[harmless]

When somethings broke, I wanna put a bit of fixin on it
When somethings bored, I wanna put a little exciting on it

then I shoot myself.

When something's bland
I wanna put a bit of Tabasco on it.

[iceagecoming]

The wording in this is clumsy, but I love the sentiment of someone being so great that it's impossible to love them enough:

'I just want to hold on and know I'm worth your love,
Enough, I don't think there's such a thing'.

[LooseGroove927]

Medals on a wooden mantle
Next to a handsome face.
That the president took for granted
Writing checks, that others pay.

Maybe it's just because I was sent to Iraq as a reservist in 2003, but those have always been some of my favorite lines.

[stonefury]

I always liked this line bc of the purpose and scenario of what was happening at the time:

"Paint Ed big...turn Ed into...one of his enemies..."

I find it too weird that he's refering to himself in third person He does it on a different song too, In My Tree maybe? Though that bridge in mostly undecipherable.

I'm certain he doesn't do it on In My Tree. That's just fans taking an undecipherable bit and making up really stupid words.

According to PJ's website...

(Eddie's down in his home)
(Oh, the blue sky it's his home)
(Eddie's blue sky home)
(Oh, the blue sky it's his home)

[Jorge]

PJ's website takes its lyrics straight from fansites. Those are riddled with mistakes.

[stip]

PJ's website takes its lyrics straight from fansites. Those are riddled with mistakes.

that's always been one of the lamest things about their website