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Pearl Jam
19-
Dave Abbruzzese -
Jeff Ament -
Stone Gossard -
Mike McCready -
Eddie Vedder -
Geproduceerd door Brendan O'Brien and Pearl Jam
Assistenten Nick DiDia, Kevin Scott, Adam Kasper
Opgenomen in Potatohead, Seattle, Washington The Site in Nicasio, California
Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go out on me now
Never acted up before, don't go on me now
I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now
Suppose I abused you, just passing it on
Go...fuck
Once fastened, servile, now your getting sharp
Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm
I pulled the covers over him, shoulda' pulled the alarm
Turned to my nemesis, a fool, not a fucking god
No...time...suck...my...Please
Don't go on me Please...oh
Suck...blood...touch...please, tunnel vision...tuck...time...see
Please, please, please
Don't go on me
Please...Don't you want me...don't go on me...
Please...don't go on me..
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five, against one
Said one, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
Torture from you to me
Abducted from the street
I'd rather be...
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
Why would you wanna hurt me, oh
Oh, so frightened of your pain...yeah...ooh
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with...
I'd rather be with an animal
I'd rather be
I'd rather be with
I'd rather be with an animal
Said one, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
One, two, three, four, five against one
Five, five...five, five...five against one
You guys ready
Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl...violins...center of her own attention and
The mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, it's in her head
Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me
She holds the hand that holds her down
She will...rise above...ooh...oh
Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to me
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me
The shades go down
The shades go, go, go
Got a gun, fact I got two
That's O.K. man, cause I love god
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly, when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Double think, dumb is strength
Never shot at a living thing
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Feels so manly, when armed
Glorified version of a pellet gun
Glorified version of a...
Always keep it loaded
Kindred to be an American
Life comes...I can feel your heart...
Ooh...life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck
Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck
Like some...I can steal your heart from your neck
Glorified...glorified
She nursed him there, ooh, over a night
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay
What to say...what to say
But soon she was down, soon he was low
At a quarter past...a holy no
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold, oh...she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here
And to this day, she's glided on
Always home but so far away
Like a word misplaced
Nothing said, what a waste
When she had contact...with the conflict
There was meaning, but she sold him to the state
She had to turn around
When she couldn't hold...she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh...oh...oh
She gave him away when she couldn't hold...no...she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never, the safest path
Oh, a dissident, a dissident is here, oh.
Couldn't hold on...she couldn't hold...no...she folded
A dissident is here
Escape is never the safest place, oh
A dissident is here
He won the lottery when he was born
Took his mothers white breast to his tongue
Trained like dogs, color and smell
Walks by me to get to him
Police man
He won the lottery by being born
Big hand slapped a white male 'merican
Do no wrong, so clean cut
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
Jesus greets me...looks just like me
Do no wrong, so clean cut
Dirty his hands, it comes right off
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
Police stopped my brother again
Police man
All my pieces set me free
Human devices set me free
All my pieces set me free
Human devices set me free
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
Paint Ed big...Turn Ed into...One of his enemies
It's my blood
Stab it down, fill the pages, suck my life out
Maker of my enemies
Take...my
Fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck...fuck
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, pushed to the ground
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Forced to endure what I could not forgive
I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gaged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive
Saw things Clearer
Once you, were in my...Rearviewmirror
I gather speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey
Saw things so much clearer
Once you, once you
Rearview mirror
Saw things so much clearer
Once you...oh yeah...rearview mirror
They don't eat, don't sleep
They don't feed, they don't se ethe
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak
Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet
They don't push, don't crowd
Congregate until they're much too loud
Fuck to procreate till they are dead
Drink the blood of their so called best friend
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare
They don't scam, don't fight
Don't oppress an equals given rights
Starve the poor so they can be well fed
Line their holes with the dead ones bread
They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way
Don't pack themselves together and run as one
Don't shit where they're not supposed to
Don't take what's not theirs, they don't compare
Rats...They don't compare
Ben, the two of us need look no more
ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A SMALL TOWN
I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello
My god it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
Troubled souls unite, we got ourselves tonight, oh
I am fuel, you are friends, we got the means to make amends
I am lost, I'm no guide, but I'm by your side
I am right by your side, yeah
Young lover I stand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Take my fucking hand
It was their idea, I proved to be a man
Will myself to find a home, a home within myself
We will find a way, we will find our place
Drop the leash, drop the leash
Get outta' my fuckin' face
Drop the leash, we are young
Oh, get outta' my fuckin' face
Drop the leash, drop the leash
Get outta' my, my
Delight, delight, delight in our youth...oww
Get outta' my fuckin' face
I will light a match this mornin', so I won't be alone
Watch as she lies silent, for soon night will be gone
Oh, I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I'm free to roam
Oh, I will make my way, through, one more day in Hell
How much difference does it make
How much difference does it make, yeah
I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
Oh, I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired
Oh, I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind
Hey, I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind
How much difference does it make
Mmm, how much difference does it make...how much difference
I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room
How much difference
How much difference does it make