SINGLE: Merkinball
RELEASED: 5th December 1995
TRACKS:
I Got Id [4:53]
Long Road [5:59]
this piece accompanies Neil Young's Mirrorball [SEE BELOW]
NOTES: This was released on December 5, 1995. The two songs were from when Pearl Jam recorded with Neil Young during the recording of MIRRORBALL. Both songs have Eddie, Neil and Jack present .. with Brendan O'Brien playin' the bass on I Got Id and Jeff playin the bass on "Long Road". Lurv these two tracks .. especially "I Got Id" .. cOme to think of it .. wOuld LURV to heAr these twO songs live¡ =)
My lips are shakin', 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 let's me be right, oh ..
I got memories, I got shit
So much it don't show ..
I walked the line
When you held me in that night
I walked the line
When you held my hand that night ..
An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions, don't know dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the
And I'll stay in a bed
Oh, goodbye, I've seen him
If just once, I could feel loved
Oh, stare back at me, yeah ..
But I walked the line
When you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the line
When you held my hand that night
Oh, I walked the line
When you held me close at night
I paid the price, never held you in real life ..
ALBUM: Mirrorball
RELEASED: 27th July 1995
LENGTH: 55:13
TRACK LISTING:
Song X [4:40]
Act of Love [4:54]
I'm The Ocean [7:05]
Big Green Country [5:08[
Truth Be Known [4:39]
Downtown [5:10]
What Happened Yesterday [:46]
Peace and Love [7:02]
Throw Your Hatred Down [5:45]
Scenery [8:50]
Fallen Angel [1:14]
NOTES: Produced by: Brendan O'Brien .. All songs on Mirrorball are credited to Neil Young with additional lYrics to "Peace and Love" written by Eddie Vedder ..
Neil Young: vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, pump organ .. Jeff Ament: bass guitar .. Stone Gossard: electric guitar .. Mike McCready: electric guitar .. Jack Irons: drums .. Brendan O'Brien: background vocals, electric guitar, piano .. Eddie Vedder: background vocals
Pearl Jam have done a number of covers and during the '92 Lollapolooza Tour Young was quite impressed by the band of their cover on his "Rockin' in the Free World". Young and Pearl Jam have since done a number of performances together over the past few years and eventually .. teamed up to record Young's 1995 album .. MIRRORBALL¡ The album was apparently recorded in just four days at Bad Animal Studios during January/February and came about when Young suggested they record a song called "Act of Love" which they performed at a "Voters for Choice" concert .. and it all sorta went from there with MIRRORBALL being the end result¡ =)
Hey ho away we go we're on the road to never
Where life's a joy for girls and boys and only will get better
Hey ho away we go along the road to never
Romeo and Juliet the doctor and his case
Without a plan they left the van and there were laid to waste
Hey ho away we go were on the road to never
The priest was there with sandy hair religion by his side
He saw his law was broken the punishment was applied
Hey ho away we go along the road to never
Hey ho away we go we're on the road to never
He held her hand and wished her well although his heart was aching
The cameras rolled the print was bold the holy war was breaking
It's hey ho away we go we're on the road to never
Where life's a joy for girls and boys and only will get better
Hey ho away we go along the road to never
Hey ho away we go we're on the road to never
Hey ho away we go along the road to never
Hey ho away we go we're on the road to never
The priest was there with sandy hair religion by his side
He saw his law was broken the punishment was applied
ACT OF LOVE
The fruit of love was in the future
I'M THE OCEAN I'm an accident I was driving way too fast BIG GREEN COUNTRY Across the plain flew the long grey rider
TRUTH BE KNOWN Saw your friend working in this hotel says he used to know you
DOWNTOWN There's a place called downtown where the hippies all go Can't forget what happened yesterday
PEACE AND LOVE Peace and love flying so high
THROW YOUR HATRED DOWN Here in the conscious world we place our theories down
SCENERY Looking at the grave at the scenery around you
Around the corner and over the hill
The act of love was slowly pounding
Slowly pounding .. slowly pounding
The holy war was slowly building
Heroes leaving for the great crusade
Seek reward in the ever after
Ever after .. ever after
Don't wanna have to lose you
Baby don't want to have to take you back
You know I'll never lose you baby
Abuse you baby .. use you baby
You know I'll always help you baby
But I just can't do that
I know I said I'd help you baby
Here's my wallet call me sometime
Act of love .. act of love .. act of love .. act of love
The fruit of love was in the future
Around the corner and over the hill
The act of love was slowly pounding
Slowly pounding .. slowly pounding
Act of love .. act of love .. act of love .. act of love
Couldn't stop though so I let the moment last
I'm for rollin' I'm for tossin' in my sleep
It's not guilt though it's not the company I keep
People my age They don’t do the things I do
They go somewhere while I run away with you
I got my friend and I got my children too
I got her love she's got my love too
I can't hear you but I feel the things you say
I can't see you but I see what's in my way
Now I'm floating 'cause I'm not tied to the ground
Words I've spoken seem to leave a hollow sound
On the long plain see the rider in the night
See the chieftain see the braves in cool moonlight
Who will love them when they take another life
Who will hold them when they tremble form the knife
Voicemail numbers on an old computer screen
Rows of lovers parked forever in a dream
Screaming sirens echoing across the bay
To the old boats from the city far away
Homeless heroes walk the streets of their hometown
Rows of zeroes on a field that's turning brown
They play baseball they play football under lights
They play card games and we watch them every night
Need distraction need romance and candlelight
Need random violence need entertainment tonight
Need the evidence want the testimony of expert witnesses on the brutal crimes of love
I was too tired to see the news when I got home
Pulled the curtain fell into bed alone
Started dreaming saw the rider once again
In the doorway where she stood and watched for him
I'm not present I'm a drug that makes you dream
I'm an aerostar I'm a cutlass supreme in the wrong lane trying to turn against the flow
I'm the ocean .. I'm the giant undertow .. I'm the ocean
I'm the ocean .. I'm the giant undertow .. I'm the ocean
I'm the giant undertow .. I'm the ocean .. I'm the ocean
I'm the ocean .. I'm the ocean .. I'm the ocean .. I'm the ocean
Leather bag pounding on his back
Above the clouds the moon was climbing higher
A pack of wolves wanted their money back
With folded arms the chief stood watching
Painted braves slipped down the hill
In his ears the spirit talking as they closed in for an easy kill
At the house the door was wide open
Wind blew curtains off the rod
She was waiting and hoping
She was praying to her God
He was luckier than most men
He was barely in his prime
As she stood there in the doorway
Her long dress flowing
Would he make it this time
Over the hill in the big green country
That's the place where the cancer cowboy rides
Pure as the driven snow before it got him
Sometimes I feel like he's all right
Sometimes I feel like a piece of paper
Sometimes I feel like my own name
Sometimes I feel different later
Sometimes I feel I feel just the same
When and your dreams lucky as they seemed they all turned their back on him
Truth be known
Truth be known way I feel tonight living in this back street town
'bout my dreams they all seem to fade as soon as I put my money down
Truth be known
When the fire that once was your friend burns your fingers to the bone
And your song meets a sudden end echoing through right and wrong
Truth be known .. truth be known
And they dance the Charleston and they do the limbo
Yeah the hippies all go there 'cause they want to be seen
It's like a room full of pictures its like a psychedelic dream
Downtown .. let's go downtown .. downtown tonight
Downtown let's have a party .. downtown at night
Yeah its right around the corner up and down the hill
When you hear the band playin' it's gonna give you a chill
Give your money to the gateman young blood in his eye
Hold on to your baby when you slip into the sky
Downtown .. lets go downtown .. downtown tonight
Downtown hear the band playin' .. downtown all right
Jimi's playin' in the back room Led Zeppelin on stage
There's a mirror ball twirlin' and a note from page
Like a water-washed Diamond in a river of sin
Goin' down like a whirlpool when you get sucked in
Downtown .. let's go downtown .. downtown tonight
Downtown hear the band playin' .. downtown all right
Downtown .. let's go downtown .. downtown tonight
Downtown lets have a party .. downtown all right
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY
Thought my friends say don't look back
I can feel it coming through me
Like an echo
Like a photograph
Peace and love too young to die
Peace and love now you decide
Stay for the children
You don't really want to go
Can't feel it pulling like you did
Peace and love
Peace and love only a ride
Strength is gone dying inside
Tell me now what did you find
Found love in the people
Livin' in a sacred land
Found love in the people
Peace and love
Found love found say my mistake
Broke walls of pain to walk again
I saw the dream I saw the wake
We shared it all but not the take
Peace and love Lennon's goodbye
Over now living in time
A broken bell a nursery rhyme
Deserted by heroes
Strangers in your own land
No way to deny you
No way to deny you
Peace and love
I took the underlying sensibilities with no repercussion
I took the oath I took it
All til I had most I took what's left
I gave it breath I had it all once I gave it back
Why man must bring us to our knees
Before he sees the weakness of his sinful plan
The power in his hand will never touch a friend
Throw your hatred down
Throw your hatred down
Meanwhile in the underworld the weaknesses are seen
By peasants and presidents who plan the counter-scheme
Children in the schoolyard finish choosing teams
Divided by their dreams while a TV screams
Throw your weapons down
Throw you weapons down
The wheel of fortune keeps on rollin' down
The street that's paved with sinful plans
There but for circumstance may go you or I
Dressed in gold lame find a place to stay
Throw your hatred down
Throw your hatred down
Throw your hatred down
Throw your weapons down
Home of the brave
Sometimes they leave you like they found you
Sometimes they worship you
Sometimes they tear your houses down
Sometimes they comfort you
Sometimes they spread your life around
Nothing you can see that they wont try to give you
Land of the free where the legend will outlive you
When you earn their trust then you are truly in danger
Where greed and lust have never been a stranger
Home of the brave
That's where the heroes need protection
Media image slaves live by random selection
You sell your heart but that's not the price of freedom
Where things are useful only when you need them
Where will you go when you need to make some changes
Who will you love in a world of constant strangers
I'll go with you if you want to take a hero home
I'll stay behind if you want to take a hero home
Looking at the grave at the scenery around you
Home of the brave
Sometimes they leave you like they found you
Home of the brave
Home of the brave
Home of the brave