Top Ten Pearl Jam lyrics

[Jaeti]

I'd love to play this game but fear how much time I'd actually spend compiling my list. TBD.

[epilogue]

"two birds is what they'll see, getting lost upon their way"

That's another one for me.

[warehouse]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

[Brett]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Same. I not only like the words and what they mean, be I also like how they sound together. It's very pleasing to the ear.

[warehouse]

"It's like a tear in a we know "

"I can kill cause in god i trust"

"Whatever the notions we laced in our prayers
The man upstairs is used to all of this noise
I'm through with screaming
And echoes nobody hears it goes it goes it goes"

"How's our father supposed to be told?"

"Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith
Mine is mine and yours won't take its place
Now, make your getaway"

"All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture empty cup in the middle of the sea"

"He let himself scream, he let himself cry
let himself reach the other side
there was on christ, there was no cross
just forgiveness, allowed himself
accepted the past, then set it free"

"Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool's drownin' me"

"What the fuck is this world runnin' to?"

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

[wease]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

I thought that was Long Road.

[warehouse]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

I thought that was Long Road.

i think you are right, long road was about his teacher. i'm not sure if he's ever said who 'light years' is about.

[Brett]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

I thought that was Long Road.

i think you are right, long road was about his teacher. i'm not sure if he's ever said who 'light years' is about.

At the 2000 Pinkpop performance, Ed says it was written for a Sony employee that he had befriended, Diane Mucus, who died in 1997.

[elliseamos]

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why?
Why can't it be mine?

Oh Dear Dad, can you see me now?
I am myself, like you somehow

I'll swallow poison until I grow immune
I'll scream my lungs out till it fills this room

Vacate is the word
Vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world

Caught a bolt of lightning
Cursed the day he let it go

Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire?

I miss you already... I miss you always.
I miss you already... I miss you all day.

One uninvited chromosome
A blanket like the ozone

Half his life, a hand me down, wasted away
He fills it up with the love of a girl

No matter how cold the winter
There's a springtime ahead

These are just the first 10 to come to mind as I think of each album and I've run out of slots... and I just realized I skipped Yield... I'm not going to think about this too much more because it would be never ending. Fuck You, Stip!

[wease]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

I thought that was Long Road.

i think you are right, long road was about his teacher. i'm not sure if he's ever said who 'light years' is about.

At the 2000 Pinkpop performance, Ed says it was written for a Sony employee that he had befriended, Diane Mucus, who died in 1997.

Ah. Thanks

[stip]

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why?
Why can't it be mine?

Oh Dear Dad, can you see me now?
I am myself, like you somehow

I'll swallow poison until I grow immune
I'll scream my lungs out till it fills this room

Vacate is the word
Vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world

Caught a bolt of lightning
Cursed the day he let it go

Do you see the way that tree bends? Does it inspire?

I miss you already... I miss you always.
I miss you already... I miss you all day.

One uninvited chromosome
A blanket like the ozone

Half his life, a hand me down, wasted away
He fills it up with the love of a girl

No matter how cold the winter
There's a springtime ahead

These are just the first 10 to come to mind as I think of each album and I've run out of slots... and I just realized I skipped Yield... I'm not going to think about this too much more because it would be never ending. Fuck You, Stip!

I do love that sequence in Indifference

[Brett]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

I thought that was Long Road.

i think you are right, long road was about his teacher. i'm not sure if he's ever said who 'light years' is about.

At the 2000 Pinkpop performance, Ed says it was written for a Sony employee that he had befriended, Diane Mucus, who died in 1997.

Ah. Thanks

Should be Diane Muus, not Mucus. Typing too fast on the phone...

[wease]

"with heavy breath, awakened regrets, back pages and days alone that could have been spent together but we were miles apart"

Goddamn, I love that line. It was that second verse that really made it click for me and propel it to top Pearl Jam for me.

Has it ever been stated who the song is about? I remember Ed being kinda vague about it before but it seems like he actually identified the person somewhere.

im pretty sure it was one of his teachers from HS

I thought that was Long Road.

i think you are right, long road was about his teacher. i'm not sure if he's ever said who 'light years' is about.

At the 2000 Pinkpop performance, Ed says it was written for a Sony employee that he had befriended, Diane Mucus, who died in 1997.

Ah. Thanks

Should be Diane Muus, not Mucus. Typing too fast on the phone...

I did think that was kind of an unfortunate name.

[Kevin Davis]

"two birds is what they'll see, getting lost upon their way"

That's another one for me.

Excellent choice, I like this one a lot too. I love the "clouds parting after the flood to reveal the heavens" feel of that moment in the song, with the drums dropping out and that organ droning in the background. Such a great song.

"A night bird is following you all the time" is another one I love.

This band should switch to letting the other band members write lyrics about birds, instead of Eddie writing lyrics about waves.

[Kevin Davis]

"Anxious is the present; unwrap your gifts, take your time."
"Always home, but so far away -- like a word misplaced."

[knee tunes]

" What you fear the most
might meet you halfway"

"All those paper plates"

"See the waves on distant shores
awaiting your arrival"

"How warm are his eyes?"

"If I knew where it was, I would take you there
there's much more than this"

"And whatever you replied, she took as yes"

"Every grain of sand equals
all the stars and everyone"

"All the rusted signs we ignore throughout our lives
choosing the shiny ones instead"

[Gigatron1983]

I want for to lay down

[stip]

"All that's sacred comes from youth
Dedications, naive and true
With no power, nothing to do
I still remember, why don't you?"


I really like that distant shores lyric, too, KT

[knee tunes]

"all the lines we could've had
distant loves floating above"

[epilogue]

she can remember a time denied,
stood by the side of the road, spilled like wine
now she's out in her own and line high