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Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby ShimmyMommy » Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:17 am

are you woman enough to be my man?
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To keep oneself from being polluted by the world.~James 1:27
Fall seven times, stand up eight.~Japanese Proverb
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby vitalpj10 » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:40 am

I thought the world; turns out the world thought me.
...I thought the world, turns out the word thought me
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby phunkymunky » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:00 am

I'll rise and fall, let me take credit for both
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby P23J » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:34 am

All or None

It's a hopeless ... situation
And I'm starting to believe
That this hopeless ... situation
Is what I'm trying to achieve

Listen to this tune anytime I'm feeling complacent.
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby keepnfaith44 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:05 pm

So many Great ones, thanks Ed!

this one still gives me chills

I can't remember anything to this very day,
'cept the look, the look...
Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare..."
11/5/91: Troy NY "I Just Want to SCREAM... HELLO!"
8/4/92:Saratoga NY 4/6/94:Mass 9/13/98:CT
8/27/2000:Saratoga NY,10/04/2000:Montreal,Canada
04/29/03:Albany, 5/12/06:Albany NY,10/31/09:Philly,5/15/10Hartford CT

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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby DDtx » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:11 pm

I see the birds in the rain

(I don't know why, but that line just floors me every time.)
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby petersm69 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:10 pm

"said he'll see me on the flipside. Of this trip he's taking for a ride" - That line just sounds so cool an honest. Only eddie could deliver it the way he does.

"Ill ride the wave! Where it takes meeeeeeeee!" - The line really isnt that great until you hear it in the song

"More than friends i always pledged, coz friends they come and go"

"i change by not changen at all"
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby The Oceans Made Me. » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:08 pm

No matter how cold the winter, theres a spring time ahead

what are you running from? taking pills to get along, creating walls to call your own

and sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky, a human being that was given to fly

one day the symptoms fade, think ill throw these pills away and if hope could grow from dirt like me

let the ocean swells dissolve away my past

all hail the lucky ones, i refer to those in love

up here so high leaves start to shake, up here so high the sky i scrape

i changed by not changing at all

etc.
life can't get eddie vedder than this!
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby WaveRyder » Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:45 pm

petersm69 wrote:
"Ill ride the wave! Where it takes meeeeeeeee!" - The line really isnt that great until you hear it in the song

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This is my all time favorite, mayber. Its so hard to choose. But i disagree with you that isnt that great without hearing it in the song.

It the moto that I live by. Ride the wave, do new things and who cares what beach you wash up on. That's what it means to me.
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby petersm69 » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:07 pm

WaveRyder wrote:
petersm69 wrote:
"Ill ride the wave! Where it takes meeeeeeeee!" - The line really isnt that great until you hear it in the song

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This is my all time favorite, mayber. Its so hard to choose. But i disagree with you that isnt that great without hearing it in the song.

It the moto that I live by. Ride the wave, do new things and who cares what beach you wash up on. That's what it means to me.


I didnt mean that its not great. I quote the lyric all the time coz i love it!. I just mean that, when you hear it in the song its mind blowing. It gives me goosebumps everrry time. Its the moto i live by too. Maybe just coz im shit at planning haha. So i just ride the wave
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby averee2moon » Sat Apr 02, 2011 4:29 pm

If you hate something, don't you do it too
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby peacefrompaul » Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:11 pm

"Who's got the brain of J.F.K.?"
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby Crystal the Pistol » Tue May 22, 2012 10:31 am

"I wonder 'bout his insides... Its like his thoughts are too big for his size"
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby SEACIDE » Wed May 23, 2012 11:23 am

"If I had known then what I know now......."
Love is all you need.....
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby penny lane2 » Wed May 23, 2012 7:17 pm

I have so so many, but a few that always stick in my head are:

"Have you seen the way the tree bends, does it inspire
leaning out to catch the suns rays, a lesson to be applied
are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip"

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

"see the waves on distant shores awaiting your arrival"

"I had a false believe, I thought we came here to stay,
we're all just visiting
all just breaking like waves
the oceans made me, but who came up with love?"

"three crooked hearts with swirls all around, I miss you all day"

"I'll ride the wave where it takes me, I'll hold the pain, Release me"

I should stop but I really could go on and on....
"If I knew where it was I would take you there...."
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