SOMETIMES
(Vedder/Gossard/Ament/McCready)
Large fingers pushin'
paint...
You're God and you got big hands...
The colors blend...
The challenges you give man...
Seek my part... devote myself...
My small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf...
Sometimes I know, sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall, sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe, sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk, sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all...
Sometimes I reach to myself, hear God...
Tope
HAIL, HAIL
(Vedder/Gossard/Ament/McCready)
Ah, is there room for both
of us? Both of us apart?
Are we bound out of obligation? Is that all we've got?
I get the words, and then I get to thinkin'
But I don't want to think, I want to feel!
How do I feel? And how do I...
If you're the only one, well I'll never be enough
Hail, hail, the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
A-how I love you till the day I die... ah, and beyond...
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
It's egg rollin' thick and heavy... all the past we carry...
Oh, I could be new... you underestimate me...
If you're the only one, well I'll never be enough
Hail, hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
I sometimes realize... I could only be as good as you'll let me...
Are you woman enough to be my man? Bandaged hand in hand...
Yeah...
I find it on my run in a race that can't be won
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love
If you're my only one... so good, you only one...
I want to be your one... enough, you won... your one... your hun...
Tope
WHO YOU ARE
(Vedder/Gossard/Irons)
Come to send, not condescend
Transcendental consequences 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 the command...
Take me a for a ride before we leave...
Circumstance, clappin' hands...
A-driving winds, happenstance...
Off the track, in the mud...
That's the moss in the aforementioned verse...
Miraculous... and a little...
Just a little time, before we leave...
Stoplight 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...
Tope
IN MY TREE
(Vedder/Gossard/Irons)
Up here in my tree
Newspapers matter not to me
No more crowbars to my head
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead
Wave to all my friends
They don't seem to notice me, no...
All their eyes trained on the street, yo, oh...
Sidewalk cigarettes and scenes
Up here so high I start to escape
Up here so high, the sky I scrape
I'm so high, I hold just one breath here within my chest
Just like innocence...
I remember him
I swore I knew everything
They say knowledge is a dream
He's growing up just like me
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 bars 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 innocence...
Baby, got it... still got it...
Tope
SMILE
(Vedder/Ament)
Don't it make you smile?
When the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all...
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make you smile?
Don't it make me smile?
When the sun don't shine, it don't shine at all...
Don't it make me smile?
I miss you already, I miss you always...
I miss you already, I miss you all day...
This is how I feel...
I... I miss you already, I miss you always...
The crooked heart swells all around, I miss you all day...
The crooked heart swells around
Don't it make you smile?
The crooked heart swells around...
Tope
OFF HE GOES
(Vedder)
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4...
Know a man...his face seemed pulled and tense...
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 movin' much too fast...
Said he'll see me on the flipside
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on...
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes...
He's yet to come back... but I've seen his picture...
It doesn't look the same up on the racks...
We go way back...
I wonder 'bout his insides...
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size...
He's been taken... where, I don't know?
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope...
There he goes...
And now I rub my eyes... for he has returned...
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...
And now he's home, and we're laughing, 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 gonna happen next...
Before his first step...he is off again...
Tope
HABIT
(Vedder)
See it happen to a couple of
friends
See it happen and the message it sends
Taking off for what's an obvious fall
Just to see what all the fuss is about
It's not your way...not your way...
It's not your way...
Another habit, sentence him up with you
Another habit, says he's long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self...
It's not your way... not your way...
It's not your way...
Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you, never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you, never, never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...
Speaking as a child of the nineties...
Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you, never thought you...
Never thought you'd habit...
I never thought you, never, never thought you...
Never...never me...never you...never me...
Tope
RED MOSQUITO
(Vedder/Gossard/Ament/McCready/Irons)
Watched from the window with
a red mosquito...
I was not allowed to leave the room...
I saw the sun go down, and now it's comin' up...
Somewhere in the time between...
I was bitten...must have been the devil...
He was just payin' me...
A little visit, a-reminding me of his presence...
Lettin' me know...he's a-waitin' for me...
Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior
While you're climbing up slippery hills
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck
Hoverin' just above your bed
I was bitten... must have been the devil
He was just paying me
A little visit, reminding me of his presence
And lettin' me know... he's a-waitin'... he's a-waitin'
Up there
If I had known then what I now know
Tope
LUKIN
(Vedder/Gossard/Ament/McCready/Irons)
Drive down the street, can't
find the keys to my own fucking home
I take a walk so I can curse my ass for being dumb
I make a right after the arches, stinking grease and bone
Stop at the supermarket, people stare like I'm a dog
I've been goin' to Lukin's... I gotta spot that Lukin's...
I knocked the door at Lukin's... opened the fridge...
Now I know life is worth...
I find the key, but I return to find an open door
So fucking freezin', they jump out the car, everybody wants some
I find my wife, I call the cops, this day's work's never done
The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun
Tope
PRESENT TENSE
(Vedder/Gossard/Ament/McCready/Irons)
Do you see the way that tree
bends? Does it inspire?
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays...a lesson to be applied...
Are you gettin' something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone, redigesting past regrets
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can forgive yourself
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
Have you ideas on how this life ends?
Checked your hands and studied the lines?
Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light?
Seems that needlessly it's gettin' harder
To find an approach and a way to live...
Are we gettin' something out of this all-encompassing trip?
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself
A-makes much more sense to live in the present tense
Tope
MANKIND
(Gossard)
You'll be... going out with
radio...
Going out with disco... going out like bacchanal...
I'll be... going out with telephone...
Going out alone... to the radar zone...
It's all just inadvertent, imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation...
If it's just inadvertent, simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?
I'll be playing with my magazine
Using up my Listerine... Like Ovaltine
And you'll be... you're dippin' in your battleship
For the latest tip... for the latest dream
It's all just inadvertent, imitation, and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation...
If it's just inadvertent, simulation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?
If it's just inadvertent, imitation, a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world fakin' it?
What's got the whole world fakin'?
What's got the whole world fakin' it, yeah?
Tope
I'M OPEN
(Vedder/Irons)
A man lies in his bed in a
room with no door
He waits, hoping for a presence; something, anything to enter
After spending half his life searching, he still felt as blank
As the ceiling at which he stared
He is alive, but feels absolutely nothing
So, is he?
When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine, he had deciphered the illusion, trading magic for fact
No tradebacks...
So this is what it's like to be an adult
If he only knew now what he knew then...
I'm open
Come on in
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets
And no covers he decides to dream
Dream up a new self for himself
Tope
AROUND THE BEND
(Vedder)
I'm wishing you a-well
Mind at peace within yourself
Covers up, I cast you off
I'll be watching as you breathe
I'd lie still, you move, I'd send you off around the bend
I hold your head deep in my arms
My fingertips they close your eyes
Off you dream, my little child
There's a sun around the bend
There's a sun around the bend
All the evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive, won't you, dear?
Please forgive and let me share with you around the bend
You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep of and all around the bend
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