Pearl Jam - Never Destination

Blisters on my fingers,.. Blisters on my brain
Blisters on the voices,... Crazy makes insane

There’s an angry sea,.. An ocean in my eyes
The waves are rolling,.. I’m becoming blind

I won’t be taken,.. Won’t take myself
Kicking and screaming, have to knock me off the shelf

Feels like illusion,.. This taking place?
Disease of confusion,.. Stripped of our grace

Don’t wanna believe it,.. These endless miles
Never destination, Just MORE DENIAL

Some resolution,.. Some justice tied
To this collusion hiding in plain sight

Off in the distance,.. Leviathans
50 foot and breaking on our innocence

Don’t wanna believe it,.. These endless miles
Never destination, Just MORE DENIAL

I can’t believe it,.. These endless lies
Never destination, just MORE DENIAL

WHEN YOU MAKE THE DROP,.. THE GAPING MAW
Keeps us alive,.. Should we survive

Thank you Bob Honey,.. Thanks Paul Theroux
If I ever die, to this place let me go

Off in the distance,.. Leviathans
50 foot and breaking on my innocence

I won’t be taken,.. Won’t take myself
Kicking and screaming, have to knock me off the shelf

Say see-ya later,.. Never say goodbye
This is a little trick I play on my own mind

Don’t wanna believe it,.. These endless miles
Never destination, Just MORE DENIAL
She was a singer in a rock-n-roll band
Had command of all her voices

Turned herself into a hologram
It all came down to choices

So I say til then,.. Never say goodbye
A little trick I play,.. On my mind

Pearl Jam - MFC

Sliding... out of reverse into drive, this
Wheel will be turning right, then straight
Off in the sunset she'll ride
She can... remember a time denied, stood by
Side of the road, spilled like wine, now
She's out on her own and line high

There's no leaving here
Ask, I'm an ear
She's disappeared

They said... timing was everything, made him
Want to be everywhere, there's a
Lot to be said for nowhere

There's no leaving here
Ask, I'm an ear
We've disappeared
There's no leaving here
Ask, I'm an ear
Fuck it, we'll disappear

Pearl Jam - Lukin

Drive down the street, can't find the keys to my own fucking home
I take a walk, so I can curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches, stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I'm a dog

I'm goin' to Lukin's...
I got a spot at Lukin's...
I knock the door at Lukin's...
Open the fridge, now I know life is worth

I find the key, but I return to find an open door
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered, by rape, her own son
I find my wife, I call the cops, this day's work's never done
The last I heard the freak was purchasing a fucking gun

Pearl Jam - Alive [Brendan O'Brien Remix]

Son, she said, have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a...
While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin', sorry you didn't see him,
but I'm glad we talked...

Oh I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey...oh...

Oh, she walks slowly, across a young man's room
She said I'm ready...for you
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...

I, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Hey I, boy, I'm still alive
Hey I, I, I, I'm still alive, yeah
Ooh yeah...yeah yeah yeah...oh...oh...

Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
You're still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...

I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Yeah I, ooh, I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Pearl Jam - Education

I'm questioning my education
Is my education who I am now?
While you're deciding, I've been finding
Looking around in the here and now.
If I've been taught from the beginning
Would my fears now by winning?

I'm questioning my own equation
Is my own equation relevant somehow?
The flags are waving, the news is breaking
See the man who can't pick out his own tie
If I've been taught from the beginning
Would my fears now be winning?
A wild world, figuring out the answers
I'll be in my own dance and I, I, yeah, I, I....
I'm questioning my education
Rewind and what does it show?
Could be, the truth it becomes you
I'm a seed, wondering why it grows

Pearl Jam - Setting Sun

The cast was made
To reset broken bones
But there’s no such thing
To fix a love gone wrong

Keep knocking the door
Cause I know someone’s there
I wait on the porch
Hoping someday I’ll be let in

They say in the end
Everything will be okay
If it’s not okay
Well then, it ain't the end

Had dreams to you I would belong
Had the dream you would stay with
Me til
Kingdom come

Turns out forever has come and gone
Am I the only one hanging on?

Hand in hand
We took it on
You answered my prayers
Now from my knees I can’t get up

Lost patience with time, yeah
Hurry up your patience tonight
I’d like some of yours
In trade, can take all of mine

I dreamt to you I would belong
Held the dream you would stay with me
Til kingdom come
Turns out it was more like hit and run
Am I the only one hanging on?
Am I the only one hanging on?

If you could see what I see now
You’d find a way to stay somehow
If you could see what I see now
You’d make your way to stay somehow

May your days be long til kingdom come
May our days be long before kingdom come
May our days be long until kingdom come

We can become,... one last setting sun
Am I the only one hanging on
We could become,... one last setting sun
Or be the sun at the break of dawn

Let us not fade,...
Let us not fade.

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.

Pearl Jam - Dark Matter

Steal the light from your eyes
Drain the blood from our hearts
In all of this dark matter

Take the breath from our chest
Break the thoughts in our mind
We’re losing time, dark matter

Denounce the demigods
King diamond to discard
Deploy the dialogue
Your word against the law

It’s strange these days
When everybody else pays
For someone else’s mistake

This blame takes shape
Still everybody else pays
For someone else’s mistake

Eroding away
Pulling apart
In all of this dark matter

Once heard it said
And it stuck in my head
Arrested the press
No one knows what happened next

Renounce the demagogues
King diamond to discard
Deploy the dialogue
Your word against the law

No tolerance for
Intolerance or
No patience left for
Impatience no more
No love lost for
Lost loves

No sorrow for
The unaccountable

It’s strange these days
When everybody else pays
For someone else’s mistake

This blame takes shape
Still everybody else pays
For someone else’s mistake.

Pearl Jam - Running

Got me running, got me running
But the race it never ends
Got me running, or else I’m done in

You got me coming as you’re going
And the chase it never ends
I’ll be running, til the second coming

Dictator,... love hater
Lost in the tunnel and the
Tunnel ain't no fun
Now I’m lost in all the shit you’re
Flushing

Victrola,... controller
Lost in the tunnel and the tunnel’s
Getting funneled
Like the sewage in the plumbing
Cause we left the fucking water running

Got me diving, got me diving
Got me deep, I get the bends
When I’m summoned, or too late coming

You got me running, got me running
But the race it never ends
I’m feeling done in, it’s rather stunning

Was cleared for,... for lift off
Aborted my,... take off
Living in the shadows,...
Crossing my fingers
A date with the gallows,...
And a reprieve not looking likely

You got me running
You got me running.

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

At home
Drawing pictures
Of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Arms raised in a V
The dead lay in pools of maroon below

Daddy didn't give attention
To the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

Clearly I remember
Pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
Oh, but we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth
And bit the recess lady's breast
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurtin
Oh, dropped wide open
Just like the day
Like the day I heard

Daddy didn't give affection
And the boy was something mommy wouldn't wear
King Jeremy the wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

Try to forget this... (try to forget this)
Try to erase this... (try to erase this)
From the blackboard

Jeremy spoke in class today
Jeremy spoke in class today

Pearl Jam - Hold On [Acoustic Demo]

I was drawn...
Riding atop a black horse.
Whatever prize there was,...
I could only observe...
Where the trouble starts.
Where does it end?
How can I be cured?
How, before it ends?

I know... life would be different if I... held on. Held on.
I know... I could be something if I... held on.

Gave her life away,...
Put it in my pocket when it shoulda been framed.
Oh, I lost its shine.
Gotta get this outta my head,...
Out of my bed!
How could it end,...
End like this?
How could it end?

I know... life would be different had I... held on. Held on.
I know... I could be something had I... held on. Held on.
I know... I could be something if I... held on! Held on.
I know... life would be different if I... held on! Held on!

Held on. Held on. If I...
Held on. Held on. If I...
Held on. Held on. If I...
Held on. Held on.

Pearl Jam - Blood

Spin me round, roll me over, fuckin' circus
Stab it down, one-way needle, pulled so slowly

Drains and spills, soaks the pages, fills their sponges

It's my blood
It's my blood

Paint Ed big...turn Ed into...one of his enemies...

It's my blood
It's my blood
It's my blood

Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my fuckin' life out, man

Maker of my enemies...

Take...my...

Pearl Jam - Brother [With Vocals]

Hand over my face
I am related to my enemy
Our house on fire and big brother
Brother tried to put the blame on me

Oh, little sister, you and me can rise above
Oh, ain't no brother - back to back to back, oh better back on

You use the flag as a bandage
Oh my big brother's a pocket hypocrisy
In the closet, my pleasures 'cause big brother
Brother don't wanna just let me be

Oh, little sister, you and me can rise above
Oh, ain't no brother - back to back to back, oh better back on
Oh, little sister, you and me can rise above
Oh, ain't no brother - back to back to back, oh better back on

Hey now
Hey now
Hey now
Hey now

In my mind there's a clearing
Rose gardens open grey skies
Oh no one's hurting
And I'm joying
I'm flying, I'm flying

Oh, back to back to back, oh better back on
Back to back to back, back come on
Back to back to back to back to back, back

Hey now
Big brother, brother, brother
Hey now
Brother
Hey now

Pearl Jam - Superblood Wolfmoon

Superbloodwolfmoon,.. took her away too soon

I can hear ya,.. singing in the distance
I can see ya when I close my eyes

Once you were somewhere,.. and now you’re everywhere
I’m feeling selfish and I want what's right

Ask for forgiveness,.. I beg of myself
Feeling angry, knock it off the shelf

Right now I feel,.. A lack of innocence
Searching for reveal,.. hypnotonic resonance

But I feel,.. not much of anything
And the cause is life or death

Don’t allow for hopelessness, focus on your focusness
I’ve been hoping that our hope does last

I don’t know anything, I question everything
This life I love is going way too fast

Both my hands are swollen, my face is broken
And I'm hoping that I hurt your,.. Fist

She was a stunner and I am stunned
The first thought and second thought was could be the one

I was a prisoner, her keys and her cuffs
Yeh, I was feeling fortunate to be locked up

But the world kept a spinning, always felt like it was ending
And love notwithstanding, we are each of us fucked

I can hear ya,..

SuperbloodWolfmoon,.. took her away too soon

I can hear ya,.. singing in the distance
I can see ya when I close my eyes

Once you were somewhere,.. and now you're everywhere
I’m feeling selfish and I want what's right

Focus on your focusness, don't allow for hopelessness
I’ve been hoping that our hope does last

I don't know anything, I question everything
This life I love is going way too fast

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again
Oh, feelin' maybe he'll see a little better, set a days, ooh yeah
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar,
oh yeah
Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Life again, life again...

Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything
Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winter's on its way
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again
Whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away...
Yeah!
Woo...ah yeah...fuck it up...

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again, yeah
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead him away
Him away, him away...
Yeah!
Woo...uh huh...yeah, yeah, fuck em up again...

Pearl Jam - Garden

The direction of the eye
So misleading
The defection of the soul
Nauseously quick
I don't question
Our existence
I just question
Our modern needs

I will walk...with my hands bound
I will walk...with my face blood
I will walk...with my shadow flag
Into your garden
Garden of stone

After all is done
We're still alone
I won't be taken
Yet I'll go...with my hands bound
I will walk...with my face blood
I will walk...with my shadow flag
Into your garden
Garden of stone

I don't show...
I don't share...
I don't need
What you have to give...

Ooooh, I will walk...with my hands bound
I will walk...with my face blood
I will walk...with my shadow flag
Into your garden
Garden, oohhh
I will walk...with my hands bound
I will walk...into your garden-
Garden of stone

I don't know...
I don't care...
I don't need
You, for me to live

Pearl Jam - Sometimes

Large fingers pushing paint
You're god and you've got big hands
The colors blend... the challenges you give man

Seek my part... devote myself
My small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself, dear god

Pearl Jam - Better Man

Waitin', watchin' the clock, it's four o'clock, it's got to stop

Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech

As he opens the door, she rolls over...

Pretends to sleep, as he looks her over

She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better man...

She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better man...

Can't find a better man

Can't find a better man

Ohh...

Talkin' to herself, there's no one else who needs to know...

She tells herself, oh...

Memories back when she was bold and strong

And waiting for the world to come along...

Swears she knew it, now she swears he's gone

She lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better man...

She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better man...

She lies and says she still loves him, can't find a better man...

She dreams in color, she dreams in red, can't find a better man...

Can't find a better man

Can't find a better man

She loved him, yeah...she don't want to leave this way

She needs him, yeah...that's why she'll be back again

Can't find a better man (can't find a better man)

Can't find a better man (can't find a better man)

Can't find a better man (can't find a better man)

Can't find a better...man...

Pearl Jam - Severed Hand

Big man stands behind an open door

Said, "Leave your lady on the cement floor."

"Got some kicks, wanna take a ride?"

I said, "Yeh,..."

"Take your pick, leave yourself behind."

I Said, "Yeh,..."

I've no fear but for falling down

So look out below, I am falling now

Oh please understand, I just need my friend

A way home.

Tried to walk, found a severed hand

Recognized it from the wedding band

"It's okay, do you want some more?"

I said, "Yeh,..."

"You'll see dragons after 3 or 4...:

I said, "Yeh,..."

"Understand, I'm not falling down"

I said, "Look around, the room's taller now,.."

I can't close my eyes, cause i see the sound

In waves

In waves, lets me stay calm

If I don't lose control

Explore and not explode

A preternatural other plane

With the power to maintain.

Like a tear in all we know

Once dissolved, we are free to grow

"What is human?,... What is more?"

I'll answer this

When I get home.

Pearl Jam - Down

Down. Fall by the wayside... no getting out...
Down. Cry me a river... dried up and dammed.
The names can be changed... but the place is still the same.
I am loaded. Told that all's for naught. Holds me down.

Rise. Life is in motion. I'm stuck in line.
Oh rise. You can't be neutral on a moving train.
One day... the symptoms fade. Think I'll throw these pills away.
And if hope could grow from dirt like me. It can be done.

Won't let the light escape from me.
Won't let the darkness swallow me.

(So long)