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.