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Live On 2 Legs
Corduroy||
Given to Fly||
Hail, Hail||
Daughter||
Longest Title in the Pearl Jam Catalog
Untitled||
MFC||
Go||
Red Mosquito||
Even Flow||
Off He Goes
Nothingman||
Do the Evolution||
Better Man||
Black||
F*ckin' Up
The waiting drove me mad. You're finally here and I'm a mess.
I don't want to take what you can give.
I'll take the firmest path, and I must refuse your test.
I don't want to hear from those who know.
I don't want to be held in their debt.
Everything has changed. Absolutely nothing's changed.
I don't want to take what you can give.
It's supposed to be just fun.
TOP
He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out.
A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw.
Floated back down cause he wanted to share
And he still gives his love, he just gives it away.
TOP
Is there room for both of us? Both of us apart?
Like you're the only one and I'll never be enough.
I swore I'd love you 'til the day I die...and beyond.
If you're the only one will I never be enough?
I sometimes realize that I could only be as good as you'll let me.
Black Monday on the run in a race that can't be won.
(We're making up for lost time here, uh... thanks for waiting...)
TOP
Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room.
The shades go down, into her head.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
She holds the hand that holds her down.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The shades go down... [4x]
[Rocking in the Free World]
That's one more kid that'll never go to school,
[W.M.A.]
(Alright...)
TOP
(This one's called 'Longest Title in the Pearl Jam Catalog,'
All these changes taking place...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... [2x]
I swear I recognize your breath.
I changed by not changing at all...
I just want to scream...hello...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
(Pretty good singing there...)
TOP
Got a car. I got some gas.
TOP
Sliding out of reverse into drive.
There's no leaving here.
They said that timing was everything,
There's no leaving here.
There's no leaving here.
TOP
Oh, please don't go out on me, don't go on me now.
Once fastened, servile...now your getting sharp.
Please, don't go on me.
Time...fuck...burn...shit... aggressive...fuck...burn... jump...
TOP
Watched from the window with a red mosquito.
I was bitten...must have been the devil.
Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior.
I was bitten...must have been the devil.
If I had known then what I know now... [4x]
TOP
Kneeling...rests his head on a pillow made of concrete..again.
Even flow. Thoughts arrive like butterflies.
Kneeling...looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read.
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
(Let me introduce you to Michael...)
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
(This is uh...a nice little ditty...)
TOP
Know a man. His face seemed pulled and tense.
Said he'll see me on the flipside
He's yet to come back, but I've seen his picture.
I wonder about his insides.
And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned.
And now he's home and we're laughing
Before his first step, he is off again.
(Here we go... )
TOP
Once divided there's nothing left to subtract.
Caught a bolt of lightning. Cursed the day he let it go.
She once believed in every story he had to tell.
And he who forgets will be destined to remember.
She don't want him...she won't feed him after he's flown away.
Nothingman... nothingman... TOP
(That's an old song, this is a new song...
It's evolution baby...see ya all later...)
I'm ahead...I'm a man.
I'm a beast...I'm the man.
Admire me, admire my home,
I'm a thief, I'm a liar.
Admire me, admire my home,
I am ahead...I am advanced,
TOP
Waiting, watching the clock. It's four o'clock.
She lies and says she's in love with him. Can't find a better man.
Talking to herself. "There's no one else who needs to know," she tells
herself.
She lies and says she's in love with him. Can't find a better man.
She loved him. She don't want to leave this way.
(Thanks...)
TOP
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay,
And now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds,
I take a walk outside. I'm surrounded by some kids at play.
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass,
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, TOP
(Alright, this is a Neil Young song...this is for Neil...)
Lonely drifter on the hill... (why do I?)
Why do I keep fuckin' up?
I can see you on a hill... (why do I?)
Why do I keep fuckin' up?
Bowman's pick and dogs that bite... (why do I?)
Why do I keep fuckin' up?
(It's a good night for music. See ya tomorrow.)
1) Corduroy
Take your entrance back. Can't let you roam inside my head.
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.
Push me and I will resist. This behavior's not unique.
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'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed.
I'm already cut up and half dead.
We'll end up alone like we began.
Take my hand, not my picture. Spilled my tincture.
I would rather starve than eat your breast.
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 they want because I'm...
Yeah, but to be tried, no, be a judge...
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began.
2) Given to Fly
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 knees.
Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at me now!"
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor.
Oh, now, now...oh...
He's flying whole...high...wide...whole...
This 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.
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.
He's flying whole...high...wide...
Oh, he's flying...oh...he's whole...
3) Hail, Hail
Are we bound out of obligation? Is that all we got?
I kiss the earth and then I get to thinking...
I don't want to think, I want to feel.
How do I feel? Oh fuckin' how do I...
Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
It's egg rolling thick and heavy. All the past we carry.
I could be new. You underestimate me.
Hail hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
Are you woman enough to be my man? Bandaged hand in hand.
Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
If you're my only one...I want to be your one...
I want to be your one. Enough, you win...enough, you won...
4) Daughter
Young girl...violins...the center of her own attention...no, no.
The mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it,
Tries to make her proud.
Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong...
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 will rise above.
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...
Go, go, go...
I see 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 gone to get a hit...
She hates her life and what she's done with it...
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool...
[2X]
He won the lottery when he was born...
Big hand slapped a white male american...
Do no wrong, so clean cut...
Dirty his hands, it comes right off...
Police man... [2X]
5) Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small
Town
'Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town'...1-2-3-4-2-3...)
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it.
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.
Lifetimes are catching up with me.
I wish I'd seen the place,
But no one's ever taken me.
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former.
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf.
Small town predicts my fate,
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see.
My god its been too long, never dreamed you'd return.
But now here you are, and here I am.
Hearts and thoughts they fade away.
Hearts and thoughts they fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade...
Fade away... [3x]
6) Untitled
Oh, let's get out of here. Get outta here fast.
Ah, everyone's confused, so I stay in my room.
If I go, I don't want to go alone.
I hope you get this message. Oh, your not home.
I could be there in ten minutes or so.
Oh, I got my things.
We'll make it up as we go along.
Oh, with you I could never be alone.
...Never be alone.
7) MFC
This wheel will be turning right, then straight.
Off in the sunset she'll ride.
She can remember a time denied,
Stood by the side of the road, now she's out on...
Out on her own and line high.
Ask I'm an ear.
He's disappeared now.
Made him want to be everywhere.
There's a lot to be said for nowhere.
Ask I'm an ear.
He's disappeared now.
Ask I'm an ear.
Fuck it...we'll disappear now.
8) Go
Never acted up before, don't go on me now.
I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now.
Suppose I abused you, just passing it on.
Go...fuck...
Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm.
I pulled the covers over head, should have pulled the alarm.
Turned to my nemesis...a fool, not a fucking god.
Go...fuck...shit...it's you...
Don't go on me. [3x]
Please, please, please...
Don't go on me. [4x]
Don't you want me?...don't go on me.
Don't go on me..
9) Red Mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room.
I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up.
Somewhere in the time between...
He was just paying me a little visit,
Reminding me of his presence...
Letting me know he's waiting.
While you're climbing up slippery hills...
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck.
Hovering just above your bed... [2x]
He was just paying me a little visit,
Reminding me of his presence,
And letting me know he's waiting...
Always waiting...
10) Even Flow
Ceiling...maybe he'll see a little better set of days.
Hand out... faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar.
Dark grin...he can't help when he's happy looks insane.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Life again... [2x]
Praying...up to something that has never showed him anything (never
will).
Feeling...understands the weather of the winter on its way.
Ceilings...few and far between all the legal halls of shame.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Whispering hands gently lead him away.
Lead him away... him away...
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Whispering hands gently lead him away.
Lead him away... him away...
11) Off He Goes
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds.
So I approach with tact. Suggest that he should relax.
But he's always moving much too fast.
Of this trip he's taking for a ride.
He's been taking too much on.
There he goes with his perfectly unkempt clothes...
There he goes.
It doesn't look the same up on the rack.
We go way back.
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size.
He's been taken where I don't know.
There he goes with his perfectly unkept hope.
And there he goes.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned.
For he still smiles, and he's still strong.
Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit that has grown.
Like we always did my same old, same old friend.
Until a quarter to ten...I saw the strain creep in.
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next.
12) Nothingman
Some words when spoken can't be taken back.
Walks on his own with thoughts he can't help thinking.
Future's above, but in the past he's slow and sinking.
Nothingman... nothingman...
Isn't it something? nothingman...
One day she stiffened. Took the other side.
Empty stares from each corner of a shared prison cell.
One just escapes. One's left inside the well.
Nothingman... nothingman...
Isn't it something? nothingman...
Into the sun...into the sun...burn, burn, burn...
Nothingman... nothingman...
Isn't it something? nothingman...
Coulda' been something, nothingman.
13) Do the Evolution
Oh, I'm the first mammal to wear pants.
I am at peace with my lust.
Oh, I can kill cause in God I trust.
It's evolution baby!
Buying stocks on the day of the crash.
On the loose, I'm a truck.
All the rolling hills I'll flatten 'em out.
It's herd behavior...it's evolution baby!
Admire my son, he's my clone.
This land is mine, this land is free,
I'll do what I want, yet irresponsibly.
It's evolution baby!
There's my church, I sing in the choir.
Halelujah...Halelujah...
Admire my son, he's my clone.
An appetite for a nightly feast.
Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me.
Nothing. Why? Because it's evolution baby!
I am the first man to wet my pants.
I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher.
2010 watch it go to fire.
It's evolution baby! [2x]
Do the evolution!
Come on! [3x]
14) Better Man
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 dreams in color, she dreams in red. Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.
Memories back when she was bold and strong and waiting for the world to
come along.
Swears she knew him now she swears he's gone.
She dreams in color, 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 color, she dreams in red. Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.
She feeds him. That's why she'll be back again.
Can't find a better man.
15) Black
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.
And all I taught her was everything...
I know she gave me all that she wore...
of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black...
...tattooed everything.
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
And twisted thoughts that spin around my head...
I'm spinning...I'm spinning...
How quick the sun can drop away.
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.
I hope you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be...can't it be mine?
16) F*ckin' Up
One must have a heart of steel... (why do I?)
It's not how you look, but how you feel... (why do I?)
You must have a heart of steel... (why do I?)
All comatose, but walking still... (why do I?)
Flowing curves beneath your flowing gown... (why do I?)
Only I can bring myself down... (why do I?)
Dogs that howl through the night... (why do I?)
Broken leashes all over the floor... (why do I?)
Keys left hanging in a swinging door... (why do I?)