Garden, Oslo Telenor Arena 29/6 2014

Kärlek!! <3 <3 <3

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...

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

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

Strangest Tribe, Oslo Telenor Arena 29/6 2014

Live-debut för Strangest tribe från Lost Dogs-skivan: 

Setlist Telenor Arena, Oslo

Galet bra. GALET bra!!

Eddie Vedder i pärlhumör. Strangest tribe spelas live för första gången ever. Och de spelar Last Kiss. Och Garden - efter publikönskemål. Och jag svävar på moln!

Immortality

Jag hoppas på en odödlig konsert ikväll...
Spelad live 152 gånger sedan april 1994.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)

Vacate is the word, vengeance has no place so near to her
Cannot find the comfort in this world
Artificial tear, vessel stabbed next up volunteers
Vulnerable, wisdom can't adhere

A truant finds home and a wish to hold on
But there's a trapdoor in the sun, immortality

As privileged as a whore, victims in demand for public show
Swept out through the cracks beneath the door
Holier than thou, how?
Surrendered, executed anyhow
Scrawl dissolved, cigar box on the floor

A truant finds home and a wish to hold on to
But saw the trapdoor in the sun, immortality

I cannot stop the thought of runnin' in the dark
Comin' up a which way sign, all good truants must decide
Oh, stripped and sold, mom, auctioned forearm
And whispers in the sand
Truants move on, cannot stay long
Some die just to live

My father's son

Spelad live 5 gånger sedan oktober 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Jeff Ament

I come from genius and I am my father's son
Too bad he was a psychopath
And now I'm the next in line

Then there's dear mother, yeh shirley
She's a work of art
Never got top dollar, but she gave us all our start

Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool drowning me
Can I get a release?
I'm a volunteer amputee

From the moment I fail
I call on DNA
Why such betrayal?
Got me tooth and nail

Yeh, How's about one conversation
With nothing else left to be had?
With this your young long lost son
And his never had dear old dad

Forget the insemination
And for that, I'm supposed to be glad?
What a pity you left us so soon
To climb your mountain of regret

Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool dark and deep
Can I get a release?
Can I volunteer amputee

From the moment I fail
I call on DNA
Why such betrayal?
I gotta set sail

All the bright lights shining
As you're trying to breathe in thin air
Cannot forget your hiding
Collected wounds left unhealed

When every thought you're thinking
Sinks you darker than a new moon sky
Far away lights rising
In the whites of your eyes

Now father you're dead and gone
And I'm finally free to be me
Thanks for all your fucked-up gifts
For which I got no sympathy

Now I'm living in a war torn place
Hear the bombs, a 5th Symphony
Thanks for this and thanks for that
I gotta let go legacy

Can I get a reprieve?
This gene pool drowning me
Can I beg a release?
Can I volunteer amputee

From the moment I fail
I call on DNA
Why such betrayal?
I gotta set sail

You are

Spelad live 63 gånger sedan december 2002.

Text: Matt Cameron, Eddie Vedder
Musik: Matt Cameron

This broken wheel is coming undone
And the roads exploding
But you're keeping me strong
Rolling along with you,...

Love is a tower
And you're the key
Leading me higher
When you let me in

Keeping us close,... so close
On down the line

Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun
With no one knowing
But you're keeping me strong
Rolling along with you

You are a tower of
Strength to me
The darkening hour
Sees light again

Ooh wah, ooh wah, you are...

Love is a tower
Of strength to me
I am the shoreline
But you're the sea

You are.

The fixer

Spelad live 93 gånger sedan augusti 2009.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Matt Cameron, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard

Yeah, hey, hey
When somethings dark, let me shed a little light on it
When somethings cold, let me put a little fire on it
If somethings old, I wanna put a bit of shine on it
When somethings gone, I wanna fight to get it back again

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fight to get it back again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

When somethings broke, I wanna put a bit of fixin on it
When somethings bored, I wanna put a little exciting on it
If somethings low, I wanna put a little high on it
When somethings lost, I wanna fight to get it back again

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fight to get it back again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

When signals cross, I wanna put a little straight on it
If there's no love, I wanna try to love again

I’ll say your prayers, I’ll take your side
I'll find us a way to make light
I'll dig your grave, we'll dance and sing
What's saved could be one last lifetime

Hey, hey, hey
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fight to get it back again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Fight to get it back again, yeah, yeah, yeah
Fight to get it back again, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Sleeping by myself

Idag är det fredag. Imorgon är det lördag. På söndag är det PEARL JAM KONSERT!!!
Denna låten kommer från början från Eddie Vedders soloalbum "Ukulele songs", men är också med som en Pearl Jam låt på deras senaste album.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

I should have know there was someone else
Now I'm alone I always kept it to myself
Now I believe in nothing
Not today as I move myself out of your sight

Oh I'll be sleeping by myself tonight

I could never go to noone else
The hurt don't show but who knows, time will tell
Now I believe in nothing but the pain
That I can't see this turning out right

Oh I'll be sleeping by myself tonight

Forever be sad and lonely
Forever never be the same
Oh I close my eyes and wait for a sign
Am I just waiting in vain?

Oh I close my eyes and wait for a sign
Am I just waiting in vain?

Oh, I believe in love and disaster
Sometimes the two are just the same
I'm beginning to see
What's left of me is gonna have to be free to survive

Oh, I'll be sleeping by myself tonight

I believe in nothing but the pain
And I can't see this turning out right
I'll be sleeping by myself
I'll be sleeping by myself
I'll be sleeping by myself tonight

Swallowed whole

Spelad live 9 gånger sedan oktober 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

I can feel the dawn
I can feel the Earth
I can feel the living all around
Round round round
All around, round round round

I could choose a path
I could choose the word
I can start the healing
Bring it now, now now now
Bring it now, now now now

Whispered songs inside the wind
Breathing in forgiveness
Like vibrations with no end
Hear the planet humming
What is clear far from the noise
Get swallowed whole

I could feel the sun
I can see the sound
I could set myself right here and drown,
Drown drown drown
Drown drown drown

I can feel the rush
I could clear the clouds
I could set the needle, spin it loud
Loud loud loud loud
Loud loud loud loud

I can here the crash
I can fee the pound
I can feel the current pulling down
Down down down
Down down down down

Whispered songs inside the wind
Breathing in forgiveness
Like vibrations with no end
Feel the planet humming
What is clear far from the noise
Gets swallowed whole

With no quiet to be found
Spirit lifted off the ground
And what lies beyond the grave
Might be welcome change
Time will come, come what may
With now rest in peace
Until that day

I could choose a path
I could choose the word
I can start the healing, bring it now
Now now now
Now now now now

I could be the sun
I can be the sound
I could set myself right here and drown
Drown drown drown
Drown drown drown drown

Whispered songs inside the wind
Breathing in forgiveness
And the chapter I've not read
Turn the page...

Oceans

Åååååååhhh!!!!
Spelad live 314 gånger sedan oktober 1990.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Guide me towards you
Know something's left
And we're all allowed to dream
Of the next time we touch..........

You don't have to stray
The oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring...
The sea will rise...
Please stand by the shore...
I will be...
I will be...
There once more.........

Given to fly

Spelad live 402 gånger sedan november 1997. En favorit.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Mike McCready

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

In my tree

En annan önskelåt på konserten! Å andra sidan... om jag hade fått önska låtar så hade de aldrig fått sluta spela... :-D
Spelad live 83 gånger sedan september 1996.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard, Jack Irons, Eddie Vedder

up here in my tree, yeah
newspapers matter not to me, yeah
no more crowbars to my head, yeah
i'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah
wave to all my friends, yeah
they don't seem to notice me, no
all their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh
sidewalk cigarettes and scenes, (tem-pted)
up here so high i start to shake
up here so high the sky i scrape
i'm so high i hold just one breath here within my chest
just like innocence
(eddie's down in his home)
(oh, the blue sky it's his home)
(eddie's blue sky home)
(oh, the blue sky it's his home)
i remember when, yeah
i swore i knew everything, oh yeah
let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah
it's growing up just like me, yeah
i'm so light the wind he shakes
i'm so high the sky i scrape
i'm so light i hold just one breath and go back to my nest
sleep with innocence...
up here so high the boughs they break
up here so high the sky i scrape
had my eyes peeled both wide open, and i got a glimpse
of my innocence... got back my inner sense...
baby got it, still got it

Yellow Moon

Vackert. Hoppas att de spelar denna på konserten!
Bara spelad live 18 gånger sedan oktober 2013...

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Jeff Ament

Here far away
One could feel the earth vibrate
Moon changing shape and shade
as we all do under its gaze
Yellow moon on the rise
Yellow moon on the rise

Round we go, where we stop no one knows
So tonight the moon I go
Yellow moon on the rise

An echo that rings a bullet unchained
one life, one grave joins the parade

At night the sky grows dark with fallen stars
who comes so far a headstone and grave
the colors turns grey, the black and white fades

Yellow Moon on the rise
Yellow Moon on the rise

Yellow Moon on the rise
Yellow Moon on the rise

Unthought known

Spelad live 168 gånger sedan augusti 2008.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?

Feel the path of every day
Which road you taking?
Breathing hard, making hay
Yeah, this is living

Look for love in evidence
That you're worth keeping
Swallowed whole in negatives
It's so sad and sickening

Feel the air up above
Oh, pool of blue sky
Fill the air up with love
All black with starlight

Feel the sky blanket you
With gems and rhinestones!!!
See the path cut by the moon
For you to walk on

For you to walk on...

Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing here...
Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing left...
Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing here...

See the path cut by the moon
For you to walk on
See the waves on distant shores
Awaiting your arrival

Dream the dreams of other men
You'll be no one's rival
Dream the dreams of others then
You will be no one's rival

You will be no one's rival...

A distant time, a distant space
That's where we're living
A distant time, a distant place
So what ya giving?
What ya giving?

Infallible

Kanske till och med köra flera låtar om dagen denna sista veckan...? :-) Jag kan nämligen inte bestämma mig för vilka låtar som måste väljas bort...
Spelad live 16 gånger sedan oktober 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard

Keep on locking your doors
Keep on building your floors
Keep on just as before

Pay disasters no mind
Didn't get you this time
No friends left at the crime

Our ship's come in and it's sinking
Of everything that's possible
In the hearts and minds of man
Somehow it is the biggest things
That keep on slipping right through our hands
By thinking we're infallible
Oh we are tempting fate instead
Time we best begin here at the ending

Want a third second chance
Put your faith in big hands
Pay no more than a glance

All good things come to an end
This could be good as it gets
How's the view from the fence

You think we've been here before
You are mistaken

Of everything that's possible
In the hearts and minds of man

When progress could be plausible
In the verse we curse ourselves
By thinking we're infallible
Oh we are tempting fate instead
Time we best begin here at the ending

Of everything that's possible
In the hearts and minds of man

Somehow it is the biggest things
That keep on slipping right through our hands
By thinking we're infallible
Oh we are tempting fate instead

Time we best begin here at the ending
Here at the ending
Keep on locking your doors
Keep on building your floors
Keep on just as before

Indifference

Vi kör dagens låt istället för veckans låt denna veckan... För på söndag är det ju examensdags - då ska jag kontrollera att ni har pluggat alla texter och sjunger med på alla låtar konserten igenom... :-D

Spelad live 144 gånger sedan juni 1993.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard

i will light the match this mornin', so i won't be alone
watch as she lies silent, for soon light will be gone
i will stand arms outstretched, pretend i'm free to roam
i will make my way, through, one more day in hell...
how much difference does it make
how much difference does it make...
i will hold the candle till it burns up my arm
i'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired
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
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
how much difference does it make
how much difference does it make...

Mother

Pink Floyd cover. Vansinnigt bra!! Denna versionen är från förra Oslo-konserten.

PJ20

PJ20 - hela filmen. Om man inte vet vad man ska göra så här på midsommardagen... Så kan man ju alltid kolla på denna! :-)

Low light

Spelad live 49 gånger sedan oktober 2001.

Text: Jeff Ament
Musik: Jeff Ament

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

Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog

Pearl Jam med Chris Cornell. Detta är så bra så det är löjligt.

20 år tidigare lät det så här:

Amongst the waves

Spelad live 43 gånger sedan september 2009.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

What used to be a house of cards
Has turned into a reservoir
Save the tears that were waterfalling
Let's go swim tonight, darling

And once outside the undertow
Just you and me, and nothing more
If not for love, I would be drowning
I've seen it work both ways

But I am up riding high amongst the waves

Where I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
Where I can feel like I've
Put away my early grave

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

Remember back, the early days
When you were young, and less amazed
Suddenly the channel changed
The first time you saw blood

Cut to later, now you're strong
You've bled yourself, the wounds are gone
It's rare when there is nothing wrong
Survived and you're amongst the fittest

Love ain't love until you feel it
Up riding high amongst the waves

I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can see the light
Coming through the clouds in rays

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

Hey...yeah...

Riding high amongst the waves
I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can see the light
Coming through the clouds in rays

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

Say it now
Better loud than too late

Bridge School Benefit

Bridge School Benefit er en årlig konsert, som normalt hålls i oktober på Shoreline Amphitheatre i Mountain View i San Francisco Bay Area i Californien. Konsertene arrangeras av musikern Neil Young og hans fru Pegi.
De insamlade pengarna från konserterna och skivförsäljningen går till Bridge School som har som ändamål att stötta barn med speciella fysiska rörelsehindringar som gör att de har särskilda behov av assistans för att kunna kommunicera med omvärlden.

Speciellt 12-16 minuter in i konserten: Eddie Vedder är min hjälte. Jag skrev till och med ett skolarbete om honom på högstadiet när vi skulle skriva om vardagshjältar :-)
Men ärligt talat, hur kan han ha så mycket empati, vara så varm, så hjärtlig, så vänlig, så äkta?
Finns det en finare man någonstans i hela världen?

Eddie Vedder har uppträtt på Bridge School Benefit vid ett flertal tillfällen, och 2011 lät det så här:

Better Man

Undrar just hur många gånger jag har lyssnat på denna låten egentligen... Den snurrade mååååånga gånger på stereon under tonårstiden. Fantastiskt bra låt!
Enligt Eddie så är låten "dedicated to the bastard that married my Momma."
Spelad live 462 gånger sedan maj 1993.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

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 colour, she dreams in red, can't find a better man
Can't find a better man
Can't find a better man
Oh

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 colour, 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 colour, she dreams in red, can't find a better man
Can't find a better man
Can't find a better man
Yeah

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

Long Road med Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Originalversionen finns med på Merkinball-singeln som Pearl Jam gjorde med Neil Young.
Denna versionen, med Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan är med som en del av soundtracket till filmen "Dead Man Walking". GRYMT bra version!

Detta är en låt som ska spelas på min begravning - men förhoppningsvis inte förrän om tidigast 50 år eller så... Vackert, tröstande. There's no need to say goodbye.

And I wished for so long. Cannot stay.
All the precious moments. Cannot stay.
It's not like wings have fallen. Cannot stay.
But still something's missing. I cannot say, yeah.

Holding hands are daughters and sons.
And their faiths are falling down, down, down, down.
I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.

Will I walk the long road? (the long road) Cannot stay. (the long road)
There's no need to say goodbye. (to say goodbye)

All the friends and family.
All the memories going round, round, round, round.
I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.

And the wind keeps roaring. And the sky keeps turning grey.
And the sun is set. The sun will rise another day.

I...

I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.
I have wished for so long. How I wish for you today.

Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
Will I walk the long road?
Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
Will I walk the long road? We all walk the long road.
Will I walk the long road?

World wide suicide

Var bortrest förra fredagen... Så förra veckans låt kommer nu istället!
World wide suicide är en antikrigslåt mot kriget i Irak och den amerikanska regeringen under George W. Bush. Låten är spelad live 116 gånger sedan april 2006.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

I felt the earth on Monday. It moved beneath my feet.
In the form of a morning paper. Laid out for me to see.

Saw his face in a corner picture. I recognized the name.
Could not stop staring at the. Face I'd never see again.

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday in a hell manmade
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Medals on a wooden mantle. Next to a handsome face.
That the president took for granted.
Writing checks that others pay.

And in all the madness. Thought becomes numb and naive.
So much to talk about. Nothing for to say.

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

Laying claim to the take that our soldiers save
Does not equate, and the truth's already out there

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there's another, another, another, another
Another way

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Setlist

Varje konsert med Pearl Jam är olik. Bandet har inte en fastsatt setlist, trots att det är samma turné utan låtarna kan variera ganska mycket. Detta gör ju att varje konsert blir personlig - bandet spelar de låtar som de själva vill just den kvällen. Och ibland får publiken komma med önskemål.

Vid mina tidigare två konserter har jag fått höra dessa låtarna:
Grymma spelningar, bägge två :-)

Oslo, 29 juni 2000 (Binaural tour)
1. Sometimes
2. Breakerfall
3. Corduroy
4. Hail Hail
5. Animal
6. Red Mosquito
7. Given To Fly
8. Nothing As It Seems
9. In Hiding
10. Insignificance
11. Grievance
12. Wishlist
13. Evacuation
14. Alive
15. Spin The Black Circle
16. Daughter (+ In the mood/Hold on/Androgynous Mind covers)
17. Better Man
18. Immortality
19. Last Exit
20. Porch
21. Sleight Of Hand
22. Do The Evolution
23. Once
24. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
25. Timeless Melody (Th La's cover)
26. Black
27. Fuckin' Up (Neil Young cover)

Oslo, 9 juli 2012 (2012 European Tour)
intro (Metamorphosis 2, Philip Glass)
1. Long Road
2. Animal
3. Hail Hail
4. Given To Fly
5. Corduroy
6. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
7. Low Light
8. Severed Hand
9. Even Flow
10. Green Disease
11. Red Mosquito
12. Daughter (+ It's OK cover)
13. Immortality
14. Leatherman
15. The Fixer
16. Black
17. Why Go
18. Inside Job
19. Just Breathe
20. Breath
21. Mankind
22. Do The Evolution
23. Porch
24. Once
25. Smile
26. Mother (Pink Floyd cover)
27. Alive
28. Rockin' In The Free World (Neil Young cover)
29. Yellow Ledbetter

Love Boat Captain

Texten handlar om existentiella frågor, och har referenser till Roskilde-tragedin, "Lost 9 friends we'll never know,.. 2 years ago today". När låten spelas live ändrar Eddie texten så att antalet år blir rätt.
Spelad live 89 gånger sedan september 2002.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder & Boom Gaspar

Is this just another day,... this god forgotten place?
First comes love, then comes pain. Let the games begin,...
Questions rise and answers fall,... insurmountable.

Love boat captain
Take the reigns and steer us towards the clear,... here.
It's already been sung, but it can't be said enough.
All you need is love

Is this just another phase? Earthquakes making waves,...
Trying to shake the cancer off? Stupid human beings,...
Once you hold the hand of love,.. it's all surmountable.

Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you,...
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word I stil believe
And it's

It's an art to live with pain,... mix the light into grey,..
Lost 9 friends we'll never know,.. 2 years ago today
And if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret?

And the young, they can lose hope cause they can't see beyond today,...
The wisdom that the old can't give away
Hey,...
Constant recoil...
Sometimes life
Don't leave you alone.

Hold me, and make it the truth,...
That when all is lost there will be you.
Cause to the universe I don't mean a thing
And there's just one word that I still believe and it's
Love,... love. love. love. love.

Love boat captain
Take the reigns,.. steer us towards the clear.
I know it's already been sung,... can't be said enough.
Love is all you need,.. all you need is love,..
Love,.. love,...
Love.

Pendulum

En vanlig öppningslåt sedan Lightning Bolt släpptes. Spelad live 19 gånger sedan oktober 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament

Can't know what's high
'Til you've been down so low
The future's bright,
Lit up with nowhere to go,
To and fro the pendulum throws

We are here and then we go
My shadow left me long ago

Understand what we don't know
This might pass
This might last
This may grow
Easy come and easy go
Easy left me a long time ago

I'm in the fire but I'm still cold
Nothing works works for me anymore

Ah ah ah ah ah
To and fro the pendulum throws
To and fro the pendulum throws

To and fro
To and fro

Min andra PJ konsert

Oslo Spektrum, 2012-07-09

2012 hade det gått tolv år sedan sist Pearl Jam spelade i Skandinavien, och sist jag såg dem.
Jag lyckades lura med mig min sambo, som egentligen inte tycker att Pearl Jam är bra alls. Det är för gnälligt och deprimerande enligt honom. Men han fick en annan bild av dem efter denna kvällen, han tyckte att konserten var grymt bra! Och det är lite så med Pearl Jam - man kan inte INTE gilla dem efter att ha sett dem live. De skapar en helt magisk stämning.
Och vi som redan är frälsta, vi blir närmast fanatiska efter en konsert. Kärleken bara växer.

Nothing as it seems

Jag klurar på så mycket annat just nu så jag glömmer nästan bort att vi snart ska på konsert...!!! Därför kommer förra veckans låt nu istället för i fredags :-)
 
"It's a song about judgment and not always understanding what is going on with another person." - Jeff Ament

Text: Jeff Ament
Musik: Jeff Ament

don't feel like home, he's a little out...
and all these words elope, it's nothing like your poem
putting in, inputting in, don't feel like methadone
a scratching voice all alone, there's nothing like your baritone
it's nothing as it seems, the little that he needs, it's home
the little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it's home
one uninvited chromosome, a blanket like the ozone
it's nothing as it seems, all that he needs, it's home
the little that he frees, is nothing he believes
saving up a sunny day, something maybe two tone
anything of his own, a chip off the cornerstone
who's kidding, rainy day
a one way ticket headstone
occupations overthrown, a whisper through a megaphone
it's nothing as it seems, the little that he needs, it's home
the little that he sees, is nothing he concedes, it's home
and all that he frees, a little bittersweet, it's home
it's nothing as it seems, the little that you see, it's home...

Who you are

Rytmiskt :-)
Låten är spelad live 36 gånger sedan september 1996.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Jack Irons, Stone Gossard

come to send, not condescend
transcendental consequence
is to transcend where we are
who are we? who we are
trampled moss on your souls
changes all you're a part
seen it all, not at all
can't defend fucked up man
take me a for a ride before we leave...
circumstance, clapping hands
driving winds, happenstance
off the track, in the mud
that's the moss in the aforementioned verse
just a little time, before we leave...
stop light plays its part
so i would say you've got a part
what's your part? who you are
you are who, who you are

Min första PJ konsert

Oslo Spektrum, 2000-06-29
Pearl Jam hade inte spelat i Skandinavien sedan 1993, och då hade jag inte fått åka på konserten för mamma, så jag var sjukt taggad inför denna spelningen. Pearl Jam var väldigt stora i min umgängeskrets i början och mitten av 90-talet men på slutet så var det många som hade tappat intresset. Det var därför ingen som ville gå på konserten med mig, men det spelade absolut ingen roll. Jag skulle gå. Basta. Så jag gick själv.
Och jag hade "the time of my life"!! :-) Pearl Jam levererar verkligen live, det var en helt fantastisk stämning. Trängde mig nästan längst fram - där det var så trångt att jag mest svävade fastklämd mellan alla andra, utan kontakt med golvet. Lite obehagligt (speciellt med tanke på vad som hände på Roskilde dagen efter denna konserten...) så jag drog mig tillbaka lite igen och stod på högersidan och "bangade". Och njöt. Jag vill tillbaka :-)

Hela konserten kan ses/lyssnas på här:

Life wasted

Från Wikipedia:
The lyrics for "Life Wasted" were reportedly written about the death of Johnny Ramone and about the feelings one has after driving home from a funeral. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Vedder stated:
When you leave that funeral, that drive is as important as any single stretch of road you'll travel on. You've got a renewed appreciation for life. And I think that feeling can last through the day, through the week, but then things start getting back to normal and you start taking this living and breathing and eating thing for granted. I think that song is there to remind you, 'This is that feeling'....The truth is—I'm a little sensitive and this is a close, personal relationship. I'll just say it. Fuck it. Right up front. Half the record is based on the loss of the guy who turned out to be the best friend I ever had on the planet. And that was Johnny Ramone.


Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

You're always saying that there's something wrong...
I'm starting to believe it's your plan all along...

Death came around, forced to hear its song...
And know tomorrow can't be depended on.

I seen the home inside your head,...
All locked doors and unmade beds.
Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that

I have faced it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

I escaped it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Having tasted,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

The world awaits just up the stairs
Leave the pain for someone else.

Nothing back there for you to find,...
Or was it you, you left behind?

You're always saying you're too weak to be strong...
You're harder on yourself than just about anyone.

Why swim the channel just to get this far?
Halfway there, why would you turn around?

Darkness comes in waves,... tell me,why invite it to stay?

You're warm with negativity,
Yes, comfort is an energy,...
But why let the sad song play?

I have faced it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

I escaped it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Having tasted,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Oh I erased it,... A life wasted,...
I'm never going back again.

Daughter

Andra singeln från andra albumet (Vs.). Ååååååååhhhhhh vad jag längtar efter konserten nu!!

Text: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)
Musik: Stone Gossard (hela bandet)

Alone listless breakfast table in an otherwise empty room
Young girl, violin's center of her own attention
The mother reads aloud, child, tries to understand it
Tries to make her proud
The shades go down, into 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

Don't call me daughter, not fit to
The picture kept will remind me
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be
The picture kept will remind me

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

The shades go down
The shades go down
The shades go down
The shades go down

I see a girl of the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Oh, next to a garbage can

Now she's put her kid away
She's going to get a hit
She hates her life
And what she's done with it

That's one more kid
That'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool

That's one more kid
That'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool

He won the lottery
When he was born
A big hand slapped
The white male American

Do no wrong
So clean cut
Dirties his hands
It comes right off
Police man, police man

In hiding

Jag låter bandet själva berätta om hur denna låten kom till:

Text: Eddie Vedder

Musik: Stone Gossard

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 being was enlightened.

I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding

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 my being was enlightened

Now I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
Oh, I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding
I'm in hiding

Om hur Eddie Vedder blev Pearl Jams sångare.

Jeff och Stone spelade in några instrumentala låtar, och via Red Hot Chili Peppers trummis Jack Irons så hamnade den kassetten i händerna på Eddie Vedder. Han "klottrar ihop" texter och spelar in dem samma dag - och skickar tillbaka kassetten till Jeff och Stone.
Resultatet blev Alive, Once, Footsteps - och så småningom PEARL JAM. Jag bockar och bugar och tackar högre makter för alla dessa lyckliga omständigheter, som man kan läsa om i detalj här.
Dessa tre låtar har senare kallats "The Mamasan" eller The Momma-Son", eftersom de alla är del av en trilogi/mini-opera som omhandlar förhållandet mellan en mor och en son; om födsel, incest och död. I Alive får sonen veta att mannen han har trott är hans far i själva verket är hans styvfar - hans biologiska far är död. I Once går sonen berserk och blir serie-mördare och i Footsteps sitter han i fängelse, dömd till döden, och ser tillbaka på livet. Historien har element av Eddies självbiografi i sig, men är till stor del uppdiktad.

Alla tre låtarna från "The Momma-Son demo":

Black

Texten har betytt så otroligt mycket för mig, och speciellt efter pojkvännens självmord 1996 blev denna låten "min". Jag kan fortfarande inte höra låten utan att börja gråta. Det blir för starkt. "How quick the sun can drop away".
Låten är spelad live av Pearl Jam 512 gånger sedan oktober 1990.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

Hey... oooh...

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay

Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.

All five horizons revolved around her soul

As the earth to the sun

Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything

Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds

Of what was everything.

Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside

I'm surrounded by some kids at play

I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?

Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head

I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning

How quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass

Of what was everything?

All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black

Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...

Uh huh... uh huh... ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,

I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why

Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

Aah... uuh..

Too doo doo too, too doo doo [many times until fade]

Corduroy

Åttonde låten från tredje studioalbumet; Vitalogy.

"Q: Is "Corduroy" also about a relationship?
A: It is about a relationship but not between two people. It's more one person's relationship with a million people. In fact, that song's almost a little too obvious for me. That's why instead of a lyric sheet we put in an X-ray of my teeth from last January and they are all in very bad shape, which was analogous to my head at the time." Källa: Five Horizons


Text: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)
Musik: Eddie Vedder (hela bandet)

The waiting drove me mad... you're finally here and I'm a mess
I take your entrance back... can't let you roam inside my head
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
I would rather run but I can't walk...
Guess I'll lie alone just like before...
I'll take the vermin's path... oh, and I must refuse your test
A-push me and I will resist... this behavior's not unique
I don't want to hear from those who know...
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes...
I don't want to limp for them to walk...
Never would have known of me before...
I don't want to be held in your debt...
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed...
I'm already cut up and half dead...
I'll end up alone like I began...
Everything has chains... absolutely nothing's changed
"Take my hand, not my picture," spilled my tincture
I don't want to take what you can give...
I would rather starve than eat your bread...
All the things that others want for me...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't buy what I want because it's free...
Can't be what you want because I'm...
Why ain't it supposed to be just fun
Oh, to live and die, let it be done
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began...
It's your move now...
I thought you were a friend, but I guess I, I guess I hate you..

Crazy Mary

Victoria Williams cover.
Galet bra!

Take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around...

 She lived on the curve in the road in an old tar paper shack.
On the south side of the town on the wrong side of the tracks.
Sometimes on the way into town we'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did but her hands flew from her side.
Wild eyed crazy Mary.
Down a long dirt road past the Parson's place.
That old blue car we used to race.
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side.
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
One night thunder cracked. Mercy backed outside her windowsill.
Dreamed I was flying high above the trees over the hills.
Looked down into the house of Mary.
Bare bulb on Newspaper covered walls. And Mary rising up above it all.
Oh... Oh... Oh...
Next morning on the way into town saw some skid marks and followed them around.
Over the curve, through the fields, into the house of Mary.
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway. (x2)
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
Oh, pass it a... Pass it arround. Pass it a... Pass it a... Pass it a...
Oh yeah.

Mind your manners

Andra låten på tionde, och senaste, studioalbumet Lightning Bolt. Denna låten kommer garanterat att spelas på konserten i sommar!
I texten blir organiserade religioner kritiserade för "so many of the things which have come out of those organizations– like the abuse of children and then its cover-up."
Låten är spelad live 34 gånger sedan juli 2013.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Mike McCready

I've got an unfortunate feelin'
I've been beaten down
I feel I don't believe
And now the truth is coming out
What they've taken is more than a vow
They've taken your innocence
And then they throw them on a burning fire

All along they're sayin'
Mind your manners

I caught myself believin'
That I needed God
And if it's hard for some
We sure could use it now

Try my patience
My patience tried
This world's no longer good enough
That makes me wanna cry

All along they're sayin'
Mind your manners
Silence save him

Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve a mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky
Or we could something else

No longer sayin'
Mind your manners
Always burning

Self-realized and metaphysically redeemed
May not live another life
May not solve a mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky
Or we could something else

Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell
Go to Heaven
That's swell
How do you like it
Livin' Hell

Livin' Hell!

Rockin' in the free world - Neil Young

Pearl Jam spelar nästan alltid minst en coverlåt på sina konserter. Neil Young, Pink Floyd, The Who och Victoria Williams är några av de artister som har fått sina låtar tolkade av Pearl Jam.

Denna fantastiska konsert-avslutningen fick de som såg Pearl Jam på Air Canada Centre i Toronto, Canada den 11 september 2011.

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Just Breathe

Jag var bortrest förra fredagen, så veckans låt blev bortglömd. Men kommer nu istället!

Den omedelbara favoritlåten från förra plattan, Backspacer, blev "Just Breathe". Enligt setlist.fm har Pearl Jam spelat låten live 86 gånger sedan september 2009, och Eddie Vedder solo har spelat den live 65 gånger. En vacker och finstämd start på veckan eller hur?

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

Förra gången de var i Oslo lät det så här:

Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh
Oh I'm a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they've got none

Stay with me...
Let's just breathe...

Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
I don't wanna hurt, there's so much in this world to make me bleed

Stay with me
You're all I see...

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me

As I come clean...
I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would save, oh no

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave...

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah...

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side...

Once

Spelad live 326 gånger sedan 1990.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Stone Gossard

Här är en riktigt tidig version (och dålig läppsynk får man på köpet...).
En ung, arg och energisk Eddie Vedder!

Ungefär 20 år senare är det inte riktigt lika skrikigt, men fortfarande sabla bra! :)

I admit it...what's to say...yeah...
I'll relive it...without pain...mmm...
Backstreet lover on the side of the road
I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode
I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes, I play...
Once upon a time I could control myself
Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah...
Oh, try and mimic what's insane...ooh, yeah...
I am in it...where do I stand?
Oh, Indian summer and I hate the heat
I got a backstreet lover on the passenger seat
I got my hand in my pocket, so determined, discreet...I pray...
Once upon a time I could control myself
Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah...
You think I got my eyes closed
But I'm lookin' at you the whole fuckin' time...
Ooh, once upon a time I could control myself, yeah...
Once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Once, upon a time I could love myself, yeah...
Once upon a time I could love you, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Once [4x]
Yeah...once, once...yeah, yeah...
Yeah...yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah...oww...

Society

Eddie Vedder och Johnny Depp = Eyecandy*2 :-)

Society är låt nummer åtta på Eddie Vedders första soloalbum Into the Wild, som också var soundtracket till filmen med samma namn. (Har du inte sett filmen? Se den!!)
Pearl Jam har aldrig spelat låten på konsert, så man får gå på en Eddie Vedder solo-konsert för att eventuellt få höra den live... 

Text: Jerry Hannan
Musik: Jerry Hannan

It's a mystery to me

We have a greed with which we have agreed

And you think you have to want more than you need

Until you have it all, you won't be free

Society, you're a crazy breed

I hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have, you think you need

And when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place

Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space

Society, you're a crazy breed

I hope you're not lonely without me

Society, crazy indeed

Hope you're not lonely without me

There's those thinking more or less, less is more

But if less is more, how you keepin score?

Means for every point you make your level drops

Kinda like you're startin' from the top

And you can't do that

Society, you're a crazy breed

I hope you're not lonely without me

Society, crazy indeed

I hope you're not lonely without me

Society, have mercy on me

I hope you're not angry if I disagree

Society, you're crazy indeed

I hope you're not lonely without me

Wishlist

Låt nummer fem från femte studioalbumet Yield 1998.
Spelad live 212 gånger sedan 1997.

Text: Eddie Vedder
Musik: Eddie Vedder

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...