Mike McCready - gitaar

Stone Gossard - gitaar

Ed Vedder - zang gitaar

Jeff Ament - bas

Jack Irons - drum

 

Geproduceerd door Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam

Gemixt door Brendan O'Brien (behalve voor Push Me, Pull Me gemixt door Nick DiDia

Opgenomen door Nick DiDia, Assistent techniek Matt Bayles

Opgenomen en gemixt in Studio Litho en Studio X (Seattle) en Southern Tracks Recording en

Doppler (Atlanta). Techniek Matt Bayles in Studio Litho; Sam Hofstedt in Studio X en

Ryan Williams in Southern Tracks Mastered in Rodney Mills' Masterhouse

BRAIN OF JFK

 

Who's got the brain of JFK?

What's it mean to us now?...yeah

Oh, it's sound insurance

But I can tell you, this is no lie

 

The whole world will be different soon

The whole world will be relieving

 

You, you've been taught

We'd been the same, now they got you in line

Stand behind the stripes

There will be order, so give it a good mind

 

The whole world will be different soon

The whole world will be relieving

 

And by name

The name they gave me

The name I'm letting go

 

The whole world will be different soon

The whole world will be relieving

The whole world will be different soon, soon

 

 

 

FAITHFULL

 

Plaque on the wall says that no one's slept here

It's rare to come upon a bridge that has not been around

Or been stepped on

Whatever the notions, we laced in our prayers

The man upstairs is used to all of this noise

I'm through with screaming

 

And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes

Like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes

We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it

 

And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes

We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it

So faithful, we all believe, we all believe it

 

M.Y.T.H. is...

Belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear

We never listen

Voice inside so drowned out

Drowned you are, you are, you are a furry thing

And everything is you

Me you, you me, it's all related

What's a boy to do?

Just be darling and I will be too

Faithful to you

 

 

 

NO WAY

 

Here's a token of my openness

Of my need to not disappear

How I'm feeling, so revealing to me

I found my mind too clear

I just need someone to be there for.. me

I just want someone to be there for.. me

 

All the static in my attic-a

Shoots down my side nerve

To the ocean of my platitudes

Longitudes, latitudes, it's so absurd

I just need someone to be there for

I just want someone to be there for

Someone to be there for..

 

'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference

I'm not trying to make a difference

I'll stop trying to make a difference

No way {2X}

 

Ooh, let's call in an angel {3X}

 

'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference

I'm not trying to make a difference

I'll stop trying to make a difference

No way

'Cause I'll stop trying to make a difference

I'm not trying to make a difference

I'm not trying to make a difference

No way

No way, no way

Let's call in an angel

Who's calling an angel?

 

 

 

GIVEN TO FLY

 

He could've tuned in, tuned in

But he tuned out

A bad time, nothing could save him

Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out

He got up outta there, ran for hundreds of miles

He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree

The wind rose up, set him down on his knee

 

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw

Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at me now"

Arms wide open with the sea as his floor

Oh, power, oh

 

He's.. flying

Whole...

High.. wide, oh

 

He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share

His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere

But first he was stripped and then he was stabbed

By faceless men, well, fuckers

He still stands

 

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away

The love he receives is the love that is saved

And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky

A human being that was given to fly

 

High.. flying

Oh, oh

High.. flying

Oh, oh

He's...flying

Oh, oh

 

 

 

WISHLIST

 

I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off

I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on

I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on

The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top

I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds

For 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky

 

I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me

I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me

I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good

I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood

 

I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun

I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on

I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down

 

I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up

I wish...I wish...I wish...I wish...

I guess it never stops

 

 

 

PILATE

 

Talk of circles and punching out

Looking in, drawing circles down

Falling up the south marking ground

Talking out of turn, drawing circles down

 

Like Pilate, I have a dog

{Obeys, listens, kisses, loves}

 

Walks me out of town

Still, one's a crowd

Making angels in the dirt

Looking up, looking all around

 

Like Pilate, I have a dog

{Obeys, listens, kisses, loves}

 

Stunned by my own reflection

It's looking back, sees me too clearly

And I swore I'd never go there again

Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down, you down, you down

 

Like Pilate, I have a dog

{Obeys, listens, kisses, loves}

 

 

 

DO THE EVOLUTION

 

Woo..

I'm ahead, I'm a man

I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah

I'm at peace with my lust

I can kill 'cause in God I trust, yeah

It's evolution, baby

 

I'm at piece, I'm the man

Buying stocks on the day of the crash

On the loose, I'm a truck

All the rolling hills, I'll flatten' em out, yeah

It's herd behavior, uh huh

It's evolution, baby

 

Admire me, admire my home

Admire my song, here's my coat

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

This land is mine, this land is free

I'll do what I want but irresponsibly

It's evolution, baby

 

I'm a thief, I'm a liar

There's my church, I sing in the choir:

{hallelujah...hallelujah...}

 

Admire me, admire my home

Admire my song, admire my clothes

'Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast

Those ignorant Indians got nothin' on me

Nothin', why?

Because, it's evolution, baby!

 

I am ahead, I am advanced

I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah

I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher

Twenty-ten, watch it go to fire

It's evolution, baby {2X}

Do the evolution

Come on, come on, come on

 

 

 

THE COLOR RED

 

War I'm crazy

War I'm crazy I'm war

 

 

 

MFC [Many Fast Cars]

 

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

 

 

 

LOW LIGHT

 

Clouds roll by

Reeling is what they say

Or is it just my way?

Wind blows by, low light

Side-tracked, low light

Can't see my tracks, your scent-way back

 

Can I be here all alone?

Clear a path to my home

Blood runs dry

Books and jealousy tell me wrong

All I feel, calm

Voice blows by, low light

Car crash, low light

Can't wear my mask, your first, my last

 

Voice goes by

Two birds is what they'll see

Getting lost upon their way

Wind rolls by, low light

Eye sight, low light

I need the light

I'll find my way from wrong, what's real?

The dream I see

 

 

 

IN HIDING

 

I shut and locked the front door

No way in or out

I turned and walked the hallway

And pulled the curtains down

I knelt and emptied the mouth of every club around

But nothing's sound, nothing's sound

 

I'd stay but my last cab left me

Ignored all my rounds

Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls

They were upside down

 

I swallow my words to keep from lying

I swallow my face just to keep from biting, I, I..

I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, diving

I surfaced when all of my pen wasn't writing

I'm in hiding {4X}

 

It's been about three days now

Since I've been aground

No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now

It's funny when things change so much

It's all state of mind

 

I swallowed my words to keep from lying

I swallowed my face just to keep from biting I, I...

I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving

I surfaced and all around me was enlightened

Now I'm in hiding {8X}

 

 

 

PUSH ME, PULL ME

 

I had a false belief

I thought I came here to stay

We're all just visiting

All just breaking like waves

The oceans made me, but who came up with love?

Push me, pull me, push me, or pull me out

Push me, pull me, or pull me out {2X}

 

So if there were no angels, would there be no sin?

You better stop me before I begin

But let me say: if I behave, can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground

Somewhere nice, make it nice

Where the land meets high tide

Push me, pull me, or pull me out

Push me, pull me

 

Like a cloud dropping rain

I'm discarding all thought

I'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground

I'm like an opening band for the sun

Push me, pull me

I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine, still in it

 

 

 

ALL THOSE YESTERDAYS

 

Don't you think you oughtta rest?

Don't you think you oughtta lay you head down?

Don't you think you want to sleep?

Don't you think you oughtta lay your head down tonight?

 

Don't you think you've done enough?

Oh, don't you think you've got enough, well maybe..

You don't think there's time to stop

There's time enough for you to lay your head down, tonight, tonight

 

Let it wash away

All those yesterdays

 

What are you running from?

Taking pills to get along

Creating walls to call your own

So no one catches you? drifting off and

Doing all the things that we all do

 

Let them wash away

All those yesterdays

All those yesterdays

All those paper plates

 

You've got time, you've got time to escape

There's still time, it's no crime to escape

It's no crime to escape, it's no crime to escape

There's still time, so escape

It's no crime, crime..

 

All those yesterdays