Pearl Jam

Lyrics



I Got Id
Time: 4:53
Vedder

From the single "Merkin Ball"

My lips are shaking my nails are bit off
Been a month since I've heard myself talk
All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea
And I fight back in my mind
Never lets me right out
I got memories I got shit
So much it don't show
Oh I walked the lie when you held me in that night
I walked the line when you held my hand that night
An empty shell seem so easy to crack
Got all these questions don't know who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I'm not ugly and your looking at me
And I stay in bed
Oh in a little while I'll see you
If just once I could feel love
Oh stare back at me yea
But I walked the lie when you held me in that night
Oh I walked the lie when you held my hand that night
Oh I walked the lie when you held me close that night
I paid the price never held you in real life
My lips are shaking


Long Road
Time: 5:59
Vedder

From the single "Merkin Ball"

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 yea
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

Let Me Sleep
Time: :
Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

From the 1991 Holiday single

Cold wind blows on the soles of my feet
Heaven knows nothing of me
I'm lost nowhere to go
Oh when I was a kid oh how magic it seemed
Oh please let me sleep it's Christmas time
Flowered winds was where I lived
Thought you burned not froze for your sins
Oh I'm so tired and cold
Oh when I was a kid oh how magic it seemed
Oh please let me sleep it's Christmas time
Oh oh when I was a kid oh how magic it seemed
Oh please let me sleep it's Christmas time
Oh oh when I if I was a kid oh how magic it seemed
Oh please let me dream it's Christmas time

Ramblings I
Time: :
Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

From the 1991 Holiday single

but i think your drums are
no cheep ones
hey everybody uh this is eddie from pearl jam
and jeff
and me too
and mike
and it's me mike
and i'd talk to you if i could fucking see you if i talk i'd fuck up the song so sorry
and he cusses too every time he talkes
and dave
daves here
daves not here and
dave is in the house
dave is here
I am the chief who undress in a green prom dress
he's not a quiet percussion one he's the new not quiet hard hitting one
i'm not the grinch cuse I didn't have a drink
anyway we all thought we'd wish you a merry Christmas
and we're very happy right now cause we're on tour with the chilli peppers
and that's them playing in the background and a happy new year
and god bless everyone everywhere
that was mike he's tiny Tim now
and this is eddie saying i'm a rhino and my skin is two feet thick
so we'll leave you with this song and thank you again bye
se you merry Christmas
merry christman woo no cheep ones
happy happyness is good
yes we like that
happy (x7) is good
you think the slayer tour is out or what
the slayer tours not happpering this year
we should probley rap this up cuse
See ya
being paied right now
bye merry Christmas
bye slayer happy new year
that was ment to blow up your speakers
this is my it's actually the devil in santa clauses suit after all if you switch the letters around in santa it speels satin
you gotta switch em around and change a couple of them
i just saw that last night on the news you know those little...

Sonic Reducer
Time: :
Bators, Chrome, Zero, Blitz, Magnum, Thomas

From the 1992 Holiday single

I don't need anyone don't need no mom and dad
Don't need no good advice don't need no human rights
I got some news for you don't even need you too
I got my time machine got my 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer ain't no loser
Got a sonic reducer sonic reducer
People out on the streets they don't know who I am
I watch them from my room they are just passing by
I'm not just anyone said I'm not just anyone
I got my time machine my little 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer sonic reducer ahhh
Nothing left here there's not really nothing left here
I'll be your bearer soon love on some cotton doom
Things will be different then the sun will rise from here
Then I'll be ten feet tall then you'll be nothing at all
I got my time machine got my 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer sonic reducer oh
Sonic reducer sonic reducer yeah
Sonic reducer sonic reducer sonic reducer oh
Sonic reducer sonic reducer (x3)

Ramblings II
Time: :
Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

From the 1992 Holiday single

lets do this thing it's doing right now hey
merry Christmas we thought we'd give you a little insight into our band psysgolgy
which one of us is really fucked up that's the question we pose to you
is it eric johnson or it'll be the guy on the next album not wearing shoes
eric is dead
we just looked at the artwork for the christman single and it's preatty damm good
it's been a really fun year and
we're a little more relaxed at this little
we're much more relaxed right now
thank you guys very much for supporting us so much
say something nice to the people edward
hi he's doing the shy retuine right now
i'm not shy i'm just pissed
he's pissed and shy
merry pissmass
all right bye see ya

Angel
Time: :
Abbruzzese, Vedder

From the 1993 Holiday single

Like an angel fly over your house
Like an angel pass out wishes
Like an angel I will move the arrow
Like an angel I live alone
I'm not livin' what was promised
I am close but can't enjoy
Oh I'm not dyin'
Oh I'm so tortured 'cause I see all
Tortured and all I cannot do
Tortured all I should have done
Tortured while I occupied a man
I'm not livin' what was promised
I am far from glorified
Oh I'm not dyin'
Oh I'm not alone
Mind is not a celestial state with idle hymns of praise
Time is short I have an appointment at noon at noon in Hell
Across the waste of space and fields of air I glide alone at night
Oh please please think of me 'cause I'm I'm by your side
I'm by your side I'm by your side oh
I'm I'm right in front of you I'm by your side

Ramblings III
Time: :
Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder

From the 1993 Holiday single

Stop
Fuck me in my brain (x2)
You fuckin' little cunt
You're drivin' me insane
Fuck me in the brain (x2)
You're drivin' me drivin' me insane
Fuck me in my life hah
You wanted to be my wife huh huh
Fuck me in my brain fuck
I'm ready for you
I don't believe nothin' even if it's true no
Fuck me fuck me in my brain
Fuck me my ears are open in my brain
Fuck me
You think I care 'Bout those emotions you wear
You think I care 'Bout the way you wear your veil
You think our love huh
Is so far above oh
Fuck me (x7)

History Never Repeats
Time: :
N. Finn

From the 1995 Holiday single

History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
Don't say the words you might regret
I lost before, you know I can't forget
There was a girl I used to know
She dealt my love a savage blow
I was so young, too blind to see
But anyway, that's history
And I say, history never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
And there's a light shining in the dark
Leading me on towards a change of heart
You say I always play the fool
I can't go on if that's the rule
Better to jump than hesitate
I need a change and I can't wait
I say, history never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
And there's a light shining in the dark
Leading me on towards a change of heart
Never repeats, whoa, oh
History never repeats (x2)
Deep in the night it's all so clear
I lie awake with great ideas
Looking about in no man's land
I think at last I understand
History never repeats
I tell myself before I go to sleep
And there's a light shining in the dark
Leading me on towards a change of heart
Ahhh

Sonic Reducer
Time: 3:13
Bators, Chrome, Zero, Blitz, Magnum, Thomas

From the 1995 Holiday single

I don't need anyone don't need no mom and dad
Don't need no good advice don't need no human rights
I got some news for you don't even need you too
I got my time machine got my 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer ain't no loser
People out on the streets they don't know who I am
I watch them from my room they are just passing by
I'm not just anyone your not just anyone
I got my time machine got my little 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer ain't no loser yea
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer ain't no loser ohh
I'll be your bearer soon love on some cotton doom
Things will be different then the sun will rise from here
Then I'll be ten feet tall then you'll be nothing at all
I got my time machine got my 'lectronic dream
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer ain't no loser yea
Sonic reducer ain't no loser oh
Sonic reducer ain't no loser

Swallow My Pride
Time: :
Arm, Turner

From the 1995 Holiday single

She looked at me with dignity said
"There's something you got to see if you know we're headed for war this country's prouder than ever before yes there's a spirit in the air we're more American than anywhere"
Well I just smiled 'cause I could tell this little girl's going to Hell
Now I wouldn't mind if you swallowed my pride
Would make me feel alright deep inside feel alright
All the warmth in her heart can't keep my blood from running cold
Keep my blood from running cold
First I fell for her looks now I just wanna go for the throat
I tried to tell her a hundred times this little girl didn't understand at all
Pride comes before a fall
Now I wouldn't mind if you swallowed my pride
Make me feel alright deep inside feel alright Ohh
This ain't the Garden of Eden
This ain't the summer of love
Things ain't what they used to be
There ain't no angels above
Whoa
Ain't the Garden of Eden
Ain't no angels above
Things ain't what they used to be
This ain't the summer of love

My Way
Time: :
Akka, Fransic, Revaux, Thibault

From the 1995 Holiday single

And out isn't perfect
My friends I'll say it too
Stay my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life as full
I've traveled each and every highway
Oh and more as more gets
I did it my way
Regrets I've had a few
But they're too few to mention
I did what I had
It's all through without exemption
I play each charted course
I've traveled each and every byway
And more much more than this
I did it my way
Well twice I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
I knew it all without a doubt
I ate it up and I had to spit it out
I passed it on and I stood tall
And I did it my way

Olympic Platinum
Time: :
Didia

From the 1996 Holiday single

If I could reach to the sky and touch it for my country
Get some on my finger and take in its smell
The smell of victory land of the free Olympic dream
My Olympic dream
My promotion scheme
How hard can it be
How high can I jump
How high can I throw
How high can I run
How high can I hold my breath and stay underwater
and wave my legs around in perfect unison with my partner who really doesn't understand me
For my Olympic dream
I'll be like Dwight Stone
I'll be like Bruce Jenner
I'll be like that girl who trained all her life as a distance runner and then tripped with a quarter mile to go
But I I will get up and I will run
I will run with the Georgia peach breeze and I will win
I will win my Olympic dream
The gold's just not good enough
And I don't even think of the bronze
I've ????? my life for Olympic Platinum
Olympic dream
I'll sing like Whitney
My Olympic dream

Smile (live)
Time: :
Ament, Vedder

From the 1996 Holiday single

Uh como se desa smile?
Don't it make you smile (x2)
When the sun don't shine
Yea don't it make you smile
Don't it make you smile
Yea don't it make you smile yea
When the sun don't shine it don't shine at all yea
Don't it make you smile
I miss you already I miss you always
I miss you already yea yea I miss you all day
And this is how I feel
I miss you already yea I miss you always always
Three crooked hearts swirls all around yea
I miss you always always
Don't it make you smile
Three crooked hearts swirls all around yea
Don't it make you smile

Happy When I'm Crying
Time: :
Irons

From the 1997 Holiday single

Eí per noi un piacere augurarvi insieme
Ai R.E.M. un buon cetriolo
(It is a pleasure for us to wish you, together
with R.E.M., a merry cucumber)

I need a song to help along
When it feels wrong it seems so long
To get to the light
We live in homes talk on phones
Hear the tones can you hold
Moving fast as light TV's on at night
Does peace come out of fighting
Can truths come out of lying
I'm happy when I'm crying
If reality is what I see newspapers mag-azines TV
Tell's what's going on leading us along
It's not absurd to all get heard
Put our feelings into words
You have to reach inside no feelings to hide
Does peace from out of fighting
Can truth come out of lying
I'm happy when I'm crying
Bring children into the world
We couldn't have done it by ourselves
Stop and wonder why
There's more than meets the eye
Somewhere inside I did believe
I can't belong I was wrong
I have gained insight
I will see the light
Truth isn't lying
Peace isn't fighting
Love isn't dying

Live For Today
Time: 3:06
Berry, Buck, Mills, Stipe, Riedl
Song performed by "REM"

From the 1997 Holiday single

You had this bright idea one late summer night.
Candy-coated popcorn strung like a beaded curtain hung over your door.
I guess the heat got to it, dripped and melted all over the floor.
Chocolate-covered cherries in tin foil boats float around the floorboard.
I had to laugh not to cry.
Now all your possessions, all of your things, all of your hopes, schemes, desires, all of your dreams.
All gone away.
"Live for today", you said, "live for today".
I had to laugh not to cry.

Soldier Of Love
Time: :
Cason, Moon

From the 1998 Holiday single,
the Last Kiss single,
and the No Boundaries Benefit album.

Lay down your arms and surrender to me.
Oh lay down your arms and love me peacefully. Yea.
Use your arms for squezing and please I'm the one that loves you so.
Oh there ain't no reason for you to declare war on the one who loves you so.
So forget the other boys because my love is real.
Come off your battlefield.
Lay down your arms and surrender to me.
Yea lay down your arms and love me peacefully. Yea.
Use your arms for squezing and please cuse that's the way it has to be.
The weapons you're using are hurting me bad.
But someday you're going to retreat.
Cause my love baby is the truest you've ever had.
A soldier of love that's hard to beat.
Lay down your arms and surrender to me.
Lay down your arms and love me peacefully. Yea.
Use your arms to hold me tight. Baby I don't wanna fight no more. (x2)
Oh baby, lay down your arms. (x7)
Please baby lay down your arms.

Last Kiss
Time: :
Cochran

From the 1998 Holiday single,
the Last Kiss single,
and the No Boundaries Benefit album.

Oh where oh where can my baby be
The lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road strait up there
A car was stalled the engine was dead
I couldn't stop so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screaming tires the busting glass
The painful scream that I heard last
Oh where oh where can my baby be
The lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
When I woke up the rain was poring down
There were people standing all around
Something warm flowing through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head see looked at me and said
Hold me darling just a little while
I held her close I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I had missed
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight
I lost my love my life that night
Oh where oh where can my baby be
The lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
Woh (x4)
Ohh (x4)