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Originally Posted by Taymelo

Pearl Jam.

This was my favorite group of all time - 15 years ago.

I haven't even listened to their last album or two, because they seemed to lose their touch... until their latest self-titled disk.

I can't figure out whether I like the lyrics or the music more. Once you listen to this stuff, and dig the author's meaning, it makes it hard to enjoy rap music, and all the talk about killing, bling, bitches and hoes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearl Jam - Marker in the Sand

There is a marker,... No one sees it cause the sand
Has covered over,... All the messages it kept
Misunderstanding,... What original truth was
And out expanding,... In a faith, but not in love

What went wrong?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Falling up somehow
Do come down

With the living, Let,..... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet,.... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say?

Those undecided,........ Needn't have faith to be free
And those misguided, There was a plan for them to be
Now you got both sides Claiming killing in Gods name
But God is nowhere,..... To be found, conveniently

What goes on?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Walk the bridges before you burn them down
Do come round

With a living, let,...... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

There is a sickness,...... A sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom,. Being sucked straight out to sea
And the solution?,........ Well, from me far would it be
But the delusion,.......... Is feeling dangerous to me

What goes wrong?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Falling up somehow
Do come down

With a living, let,...... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

Calling out,......... Calling out.
Calling out,......... I'm calling you out.

This one rocks, too:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearl Jam - Big Wave

I used to be a crustacean
In an underwater nation
and I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.

I feel the need
Planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time
And tide
Arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride

I scream in affirmation
Of connecting dislocations
And exceeding limitations
Be achieving levitation

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.

Got me a ride.
I got me a ride.

As does this one, although it makes me sad for families of those who are serving in Iraq.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearl Jam - Army Reserve

How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
Stars on her pillow
Folding in darkness
Begging for slumber

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body

Her son's slanted
Always giving her
The sideways eye
An empty chair where dad sits
How loud can silence get?
And mom, she reassures
To contain him
But it's becoming a lie

She tells herself
And everyone else
Father is risking
His life for our freedoms

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my childs eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Darling you'll save me
If you save yourself

Pearl Jam's lyrics either make no sense or are just plain dull, but overall as a band they are great. Eddie Vedder has a great voice.

Man in the Box-Alice in Chains.

Alice in Chains>>>>>>>Pearl Jam

Quote:

Originally Posted by Artis Gilmore

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taymelo

Pearl Jam.

This was my favorite group of all time - 15 years ago.

I haven't even listened to their last album or two, because they seemed to lose their touch... until their latest self-titled disk.

I can't figure out whether I like the lyrics or the music more. Once you listen to this stuff, and dig the author's meaning, it makes it hard to enjoy rap music, and all the talk about killing, bling, bitches and hoes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearl Jam - Marker in the Sand

There is a marker,... No one sees it cause the sand
Has covered over,... All the messages it kept
Misunderstanding,... What original truth was
And out expanding,... In a faith, but not in love

What went wrong?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Falling up somehow
Do come down

With the living, Let,..... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet,.... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say?

Those undecided,........ Needn't have faith to be free
And those misguided, There was a plan for them to be
Now you got both sides Claiming killing in Gods name
But God is nowhere,..... To be found, conveniently

What goes on?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Walk the bridges before you burn them down
Do come round

With a living, let,...... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

There is a sickness,...... A sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom,. Being sucked straight out to sea
And the solution?,........ Well, from me far would it be
But the delusion,.......... Is feeling dangerous to me

What goes wrong?

Walking tightrope high,... Over moral ground
Seeing visions of,............. Falling up somehow
Do come down

With a living, let,...... What is living love
So unforgiving, yet... Needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

Calling out,......... Calling out.
Calling out,......... I'm calling you out.

This one rocks, too:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearl Jam - Big Wave

I used to be a crustacean
In an underwater nation
and I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.

I feel the need
Planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time
And tide
Arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride

I scream in affirmation
Of connecting dislocations
And exceeding limitations
Be achieving levitation

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave.

Got me a ride.
I got me a ride.

As does this one, although it makes me sad for families of those who are serving in Iraq.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pearl Jam - Army Reserve

How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
Stars on her pillow
Folding in darkness
Begging for slumber

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body

Her son's slanted
Always giving her
The sideways eye
An empty chair where dad sits
How loud can silence get?
And mom, she reassures
To contain him
But it's becoming a lie

She tells herself
And everyone else
Father is risking
His life for our freedoms

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my childs eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Darling you'll save me
If you save yourself

Pearl Jam's lyrics either make no sense or are just plain dull, but overall as a band they are great. Eddie Vedder has a great voice.

Steve:

The lyrics aren't that hard.

Marker in the Sand is about how the concept of religion has been twisted over time to forget about love, in favor of blind faith. It is also about the negative aspects of religion, such as moral self-righteousness, persecution, and war.

Big Wave is about how he really feels his connection to the world when he surfs, because human beings evolved from the sea, and its like returning to your roots.

Army Reserve is about a woman whose husband is in the army reserve, fighting in Iraq. She's stuck at home with the kids, struggling to keep the family intact, and lying to her kids that their daddy is fighting for our freedoms, when the war really has nothing to do with freedom. She's saying the way to save me is not to fight for my freedom in Iraq, but to stay alive long enough to make it home to make sure your kids don't have to grow up without a father.

Are those songs new? I don't listen to Pearl Jam's new stuff. They kinda sucked after Ten and No Code, except for a few songs. I can understand some of their old song lyrics, but still they arent that great. I watched the story tellers thing on VH1 and it made me understand some of the songs more. Like "World Wide Suicide" and "Better Man". And I knew Alive was about his father not really being his father but his step because I read it some where, but I would have never would have thought that any way. They make it hard to understand unless they are dull and simple like "Jeremy". Not that they suck, but they are wierd.

And you're a lawyer, you can undertsand things better than I can.

Now Jeremy was a good song, the only Pearl Jam song I know[smilie=sad3.gif]

Junkhead-Alice in Chains

Army Reserve-Pearl Jam

If Taymelo never told me what the song is about, I would have never figured it out.

But really who cares what the song is about, if it is a good song, I will just listen.

Better man-Pearl Jam

For those about to Rock (we salute you) - ACDC

Great fucking song.