i like the way you movetommymtcom wrote:Present TenseAlex wrote:which three?tommymtcom wrote:I'm not sure. At least 3 of those would be in it, though.Alex wrote:present tensetommymtcom wrote:What's your top 5, Alex?
sleight of hand
immortality
release
no way
what's yours?
Sleight of Hand
Immortality
Maybe No Way as well, but I'd have to give it some more thought. No Way used to be my number 1 Pearl Jam song.
Song of the Moment: Present Tense
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This is a 5 star song
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I bumped it down to 4 for some pretty shitty lyrics.
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Shut the hell up.
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It's about life, man.
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He's only saying that because I tweeted it the other day
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I still gave it 5 stars, the music is that good.
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these lyrics show pearl jam at their most jonathan richman-esque
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The lyrics aren't that bad, guys.
There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.
There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.
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can you see the way he tweeted? does it inspire?
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for sureBirds in Hell wrote:There's plenty of Pearl Jam songs with worse lyrics than Present Tense.
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I'm just saying in high school I thought they were really deep.
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yeah, there's no line in present tense like "that's the moss in the aforementioned verse" that makes me want to shoot my speakers with a flame-thrower
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They are so deep you sonuvabitch. I want you out of here. No. Scratch that. Stay here and take your beating like a man.
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Exactly.Alex wrote:yeah, there's no line in present tense like "that's the moss in the aforementioned verse" that makes me want to shoot my speakers with a flame-thrower
Or these regrettably firebrand couplets from the Riot Act era:
Can't wait for election day
Witness the occupation
Corporations rule the day
Can you feel this world with your heart and not your brain?
A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a Columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
"What's the ruckus?"
The haves have not accrued
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onionskin plausibility of life,
And a keyboard reaffirmation
I'll take Present Tense any day.
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"Present Tense" is also just a better song than all of those. The fact that its lyrics are vapid hokey awkwardly metered garbage doesn't take away from that.
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Yeah, that too.
(I saw your now-deleted post Jorge and, yes, I might be an idiot but you can shut up.)
(I saw your now-deleted post Jorge and, yes, I might be an idiot but you can shut up.)
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It felt mean... you didn't have to say anything.
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the chorus lyrics are great though.