Pearl Jam - React, Respond

I see you worried & hurried
As if addressing the jury
You are innocent
Til proven innocent
You are hurting
And it’s so magnificent

Don’t let the sky hook
Beat you to submission
Maybe it’s the price of
Price of our admission

Ain’t no fucking roses
To our condition
Turn this anger into
Nuclear fission
Yeah baby, baby

Don’t react, respond
Don’t react, respond
When what you get
Is what you don’t want
Don’t react, respond

Are we at war with each other?
Are you at war with yourself?
We could be fighting together
Instead of fighting ourselves

Start the rebuttal
All part of the game
What makes us different
And what makes us the same

The incandescence
That is your essence
The unexpected embrace
Embrace the unexpected

There’s no book on this life
There’s no use as directed
The best part I know
Was when we were connected

And the light gets brighter
As it grows
The darkness it recedes

It’s better to give
Give than to deceive
Questions dissolve
The more you believe

Don’t react, respond
Don’t react, respond
When what you get
Is what you don’t want
Don’t react, respond.