Song of the Moment: Present Tense

[Sgt. Crackpot]

It's "all mum fucking tour" guys.

[Alex]

[E.H. Ruddock]

[mikejasond]

This song is very cool but I have problems with the lyrics in the chorus...sometimes Ed tries too hard to be poetic, other times not hard enough. "You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets. Or you can come to terms and realize, you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself" is somehow embarrassingly literal. Like its just dumb lyrics, its too straightforward. I wish there was some different line here...to really make the song perfect. Because the melody and guitar is awesome

[mikejasond]

Also Id really like them to re-record this one somehow if only Ed could sing well still.

Live this song is a WHOLE different beast, one of the only songs much better live, especially the ending. I would love to hear a more updated take on the epic ending of the song, which is underwhelming on the record after you hear it live

[EJ]

jeezus

[wease]

This song is very cool but I have problems with the lyrics in the chorus...sometimes Ed tries too hard to be poetic, other times not hard enough. "You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets. Or you can come to terms and realize, you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself" is somehow embarrassingly literal. Like its just dumb lyrics, its too straightforward. I wish there was some different line here...to really make the song perfect. Because the melody and guitar is awesome

Ok, let's hear YOUR lyrics to it. You don't like what the creator of the song has written, you do better.

[wease]

And for the record, this isn't one of my favorites, but I like it ok. It just gets my goat when people say lyrics are stupid or dumb. Do the lyrics convey what the songwriter is trying to put out there? We're not the writers of the songs. If all they want to sing is "bunghole, bunghole, ass" throughout the song, who gives a shit? That's what they wrote. Unless you can do better, shut up.

[wease]

I seem to be very confrontational today.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[Norah]

This song is very cool but I have problems with the lyrics in the chorus...sometimes Ed tries too hard to be poetic, other times not hard enough. "You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets. Or you can come to terms and realize, you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself" is somehow embarrassingly literal. Like its just dumb lyrics, its too straightforward. I wish there was some different line here...to really make the song perfect. Because the melody and guitar is awesome

Ok, let's hear YOUR lyrics to it. You don't like what the creator of the song has written, you do better.

What a bullshit argument.

[tragabigzanda]

pearl jam sucks now

[LoathedVermin72]

The lyrics mjd quoted are probably my favorite lyrics in this song.

[dimejinky99]

They're kinda the whole point of the song.

[E.H. Ruddock]

The lyrics mjd quoted are probably my favorite lyrics in this song.

Same here. I like all the lyrics of this song. Except for when Ed has to curse when playing live

[digster]

I agree with him; those lyrics are fairly drippy. The strength and power of the song overall kinda negates whatever ill feelings I may have towards them. That song, for me, is primarily about the music, melody and sound of the studio recording.

[wease]

This song is very cool but I have problems with the lyrics in the chorus...sometimes Ed tries too hard to be poetic, other times not hard enough. "You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets. Or you can come to terms and realize, you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself" is somehow embarrassingly literal. Like its just dumb lyrics, its too straightforward. I wish there was some different line here...to really make the song perfect. Because the melody and guitar is awesome

Ok, let's hear YOUR lyrics to it. You don't like what the creator of the song has written, you do better.

What a bullshit argument.

Why is it bullshit? Just because you don't lyrics to a particular song, that doesn't automatically mean they are bad. If the lyricist wanted different words to be there, they would've written them. You don't have to like it, but to say they're bad is left only to the songwriter. We can only like them or not.

[wease]

The lyrics mjd quoted are probably my favorite lyrics in this song.

Same here. I like all the lyrics of this song. Except for when Ed has to curse when playing live

Yeah, what does "all-enfucking" even mean?

[Jorge]

This song is very cool but I have problems with the lyrics in the chorus...sometimes Ed tries too hard to be poetic, other times not hard enough. "You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets. Or you can come to terms and realize, you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself" is somehow embarrassingly literal. Like its just dumb lyrics, its too straightforward. I wish there was some different line here...to really make the song perfect. Because the melody and guitar is awesome

Ok, let's hear YOUR lyrics to it. You don't like what the creator of the song has written, you do better.

What a bullshit argument.

Why is it bullshit? Just because you don't lyrics to a particular song, that doesn't automatically mean they are bad. If the lyricist wanted different words to be there, they would've written them. You don't have to like it, but to say they're bad is left only to the songwriter. We can only like them or not.

Oh hi hello here we go again

[Norah]

This song is very cool but I have problems with the lyrics in the chorus...sometimes Ed tries too hard to be poetic, other times not hard enough. "You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets. Or you can come to terms and realize, you're the only one who cannot forgive yourself" is somehow embarrassingly literal. Like its just dumb lyrics, its too straightforward. I wish there was some different line here...to really make the song perfect. Because the melody and guitar is awesome

Ok, let's hear YOUR lyrics to it. You don't like what the creator of the song has written, you do better.

What a bullshit argument.

Ok, let's hear YOUR argument, Chud!

So just because you can't create better art you're not allowed to criticize art you find to be poor? So I should just keep watching shitty tv shows and shut my mouth because I couldn't produce a better one? Or I shouldn't care that a movie sucked because I'm not a director myself?