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Postby Hatriet » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:38 am

So guys, I know I love pearl jam lyrics and I think they can be pretty deep and meaningfull or completely awesome at the same time, I was just wondering what you think about them and do you have a favourite lyric by pearl jam or a really awesome one you'd love to share?? :D

Thanks, be sound, Harriet x :mrgreen:
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby mysticweed » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:04 am

Ill ride the wave where it takes me

and

Are you woman enough to be my man
Bandaged hand in hand
fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

"those who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe are as good as dead"
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby Hatriet » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:10 am

:) I love those too I like the bandgaged hand in hand bit- it's really beautiful if you get me :lol:
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby wnh1977 » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:46 pm

Very difficult, but a few jump out...

"... I got memories, I got shit
So much it don't show..."

"...I cannot stop the thought
of running in the dark
Comin' up a which-way sign
all good truents must decide..."

"...Progress laced with ramifications
Freedom's big plunge..."

"... For every tool they lend us
A loss of independence..."

"...Seems that needlessly it's getting harder
to find an approach and a way to live..."

"...Who's kidding? Rainy day, a one-way ticket headstone
Occupations overthrown, a whisper through a megaphone..."
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby morello » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:50 pm

".... Feel the sky blanket you,... w/gems & rhinestones........"

Oh & so many others I can't think of right now.....
PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012 & hopefully USA 2013!!
EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2(shook hands with Ed when he got to theatre) 2011
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby morello » Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:38 am

Ooh, remembered another favourite:

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine"
PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012 & hopefully USA 2013!!
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby dimitrispearljam » Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:48 am

morello wrote:Ooh, remembered the best of all:

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine"

fixed :D
ATHENS - 30-9-06 / VENICE - 15-6-07(CANCELED) / NEW YORK - 24-6-08 / NEW YORK - 25-6-08 / ROTTERDAM - 13-8-09 / BERLIN - 15-8-09 / MANCHESTER - 17-8-09 / LONDON - 18-8-09 / DUBLIN - 22-6-10 / BELFAST - 23-6-10 / LONDON - 25-6-10 / NIJMEGEN - 27-6-10 / BERLIN - 30-6-10 / ARRAS - 3-7-10 / WERCHTER - 4-7-10 / VENICE - 6-7-10 / BILBAO - 9-7-10 / LISBON - 10-7-10 /EAST TROY 3-9-11 / EAST TROY 4-9-11 / TORONTO 11-9-11 / TORONTO 12-9-11 / AMSTERDAM 26-6-12 / AMSTERDAM 27-6-12 / PRAGUE 2-7-12 / BERLIN 4-7-12 / BERLIN 5-7-12 / STOCKHOLM 7-7-12 / OSLO 9-7-12 / COPENHAGEN 10-7-12
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby Ms. Haiku » Fri Feb 26, 2010 1:42 pm

Dirty Frank isn't my favorite song, but I think these lyrics are very creative, and ironic. I'm impressed with the writing of these lyrics.

http://www.pearljam.com/song/dirty-frank
http://coffeecupcrossroads.tumblr.com/
I agree, cincybearcat, hippiemom = goodness.
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Now, more than ever, "Nothingman"

Postby MD7886 » Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:52 am

As a lifelong PJ fan (well since 1991 anyway) some of their songs have had different meanings to me over the years. "Nothingman" is probably the quintessential song in the PJ catalog that summarizes one of the worst times in my life. That being said, it's allowed me to heal understanding that I'm not the only one who's gone through it...

"She once believed...in every story he had to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...
Nothingman...
Nothingman...
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...
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Re: Now, more than ever, "Nothingman"

Postby thesewordselope » Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:00 pm

MD7886 wrote:As a lifelong PJ fan (well since 1991 anyway) some of their songs have had different meanings to me over the years. "Nothingman" is probably the quintessential song in the PJ catalog that summarizes one of the worst times in my life. That being said, it's allowed me to heal understanding that I'm not the only one who's gone through it...

"She once believed...in every story he had to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...one's left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...
Nothingman...
Nothingman...
Isn't it something?
Nothingman...



+1

I was just about to post this, and basically for the same reason
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby MD7886 » Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:18 am

CanadasPearl,

So, as I always ask when I run into a Canadian PJ fan - are you also a big Our Lady Peace fan? (sometimes referred to as Canadian Pearl Jam)?

Just curious.

Mike
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby thesewordselope » Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:03 am

MD7886 wrote:CanadasPearl,

So, as I always ask when I run into a Canadian PJ fan - are you also a big Our Lady Peace fan? (sometimes referred to as Canadian Pearl Jam)?

Just curious.

Mike



Not really, I haven't listened to them in years. They do have have a few good ones out there though, but not enough for me to refer to them as the Canadian Pearl Jam :)
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby Hatriet » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:48 am

Keep em comin guys :)
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby alivegirl » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:15 pm

I don't wanna think... I wanna feel...

Just one from a long list of many.
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Re: Your all-time favourite Pearl Jam lyrics!

Postby Hippie Engineer » Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:48 am

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

"Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Clearer
Clearer
Once you were in my rearview mirror"
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