BRAIN OF J.
(Vedder/McCready)
Who's got the brain of JFK
What's it mean to us now?
It's hard to trust
But I can tell ya,
This is no lie
The whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
You, you been taught
Whipped into shape
Now I got you in line
Stand behind the stripes
I was the owner
So give up your mind
The whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
And my name
The name they gave me
The name I'm letting go
The whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
Tope
FAITHFULL
(Vedder/McCready)
Plaque on the wall says that
No one's slept here
It's rare to come upon
A bridge that has not
Been around or been stepped on
Whatever the notions
Laced on our prayers
The man upstairs is used to
All of this noise
I'm through with screaming
And echoes
That nobody hears
it goes, it goes, it goes
Like this
We're Faithful
We all believe, we all believe it
So faithful
We all believe, we all believe it
M.Y.T.H. is
Belief in a game
Controls that keeps us in
A box of fear
We never listen
Voice inside so drowned out
Drowned you are
You are, you are a furry thing
and everything is you
Me, you
You, me
It's all related
What's a boy to do?
Just be and I will be too
Faithful to you.
Tope
NO WAY
(Gossard)
Here's a token of my
openness
Of my need to not disappear
How I'm feeling so revealing
To me, I'll set my mind too clear
I just need someone to be there for me
I just want someone to be there for me
Oh the static in my attic
Shoots down my sciatic nerve
To the ocean of my platitudes
Longitudes, latitudes
It's so absurd
I just need someone to be there for me
I just want someone to be there for me
Cause I've stopped tryin to make a difference
I'm not tryin to make a difference
I'll stop tryin to make a difference
No way
Let's call it an angel
Tope
GIVEN TO FLY
(Vedder/McCready)
He could have 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 out of 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
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
He's flying! Woah!
Whole!
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... He still stands.
And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
the love he recieves is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
a human being that was given to fly
Flying!
Whole! Flying!
Flying
Tope
WISHLIST
(Vedder)
I wish I was a neutron bomb
for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice
that somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental
ornament that you hung on
a christmas tree, I wish I was
the star that went on top
I wish I was the evidence
I wish I was the grounds
for 50 million hands
upraised and open toward the sky
I wish I was a sailor with
someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate
as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger
and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining
off of your Camaro's hood
I wish I was an alien
at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souviener
your kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal brake
that you depended upon
I wish I was the verb to trust
that never let you down
I wish I was the radio song
the one that you would turn up
I wish I wish I wish I wish
I guess it never stops
Tope
PILATE
(Ament)
Talk of circles, punching
down
Looking in, drawing circles down
Falling off the south marking ground
Talking out of turn, drawing circles down
Like Pilate, I have a dog
(obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Walks me out of town, still one's a crowd
Making angels in the dirt, looking up, looking all around
Like Pilate, I have a dog
(obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Stung by my own reflection
It's looking back, sees me too clear
And I swore I'd never go there again
Not unlike a friend now
That lightly that drags you down
Like Pilate, I have a dog
(obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Tope
DO THE EVOLUTION
(Vedder/Gossard)
I'm ahead
I'm advanced
I'm the first mammal to wear pants
I'm at peace, with my lust
I can kill 'cause in god I trust
It's evolution baby!
I'm at peace
I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash
I'm a beast
I'm a truck
All the rolling hills I'll flatten 'em out
It's hard behavior!
It's evolution baby!
Man in me,
Man in my mind,
Man in my sign ain't my soul, yeah
And that time my spirit is free,
All that I've wanted is part of me... yea, come on
It's evolution baby!
Admire me
Admire my home
Admire my son
He's my clone
This land is mine
This land is free
I do what I want
But very responsibly
It's evolution baby!
I'm a theif
I'm a liar
There's my church I sing in the choir
(hallelujah, hallelujah)
Admire me
Admire my home
Admire my son
Admire my clothes
Cause you know
And when it's time for nightly feast
This ignorent indian's got nothin on me
Nothing. Why?
Because... it's evolution baby!
I'm ahead
I'm advanced
I'm the first mammal to wear pants
I've crawled the earth
Now I'm higher
Twenty ten watch it go to fire
It's evolution baby!
Come on, come on
Tope
MFC
(Vedder)
Sliding
Out of reverse into drive, 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, spilled like wine, now
She's out on her own and line high
There's no leaving here
Ask, I'm an ear
She's disappeared
They said
Timing was everything, made him
Want to be everywhere, there's a
Lot to be said for
Nowhere
There's no leaving here
Ask, I'm an ear
He's disappeared
There's no leaving here
Ask, I'm an ear
We've disappeared
Tope
LOW LIGHT
(Ament)
Clouds roll by
Reeling is what they say
Or is it just my way
Wind blows by
Low light
Sidetracked
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 jealosy tell me why
All I feel... calm
Wind rolls by
Low light
Car crash
Low light
Can't wear my mask
Your first, my last
Voice tells why
Two birds is what they'll see
Gettin lost upon their way
Wind rolls by
Low light
Eye sight
Low light
I don't need the light
I'll find my way
From wrong
What's real
Our dream I see
Tope
IN HIDING
(Vedder/Gossard)
I shut and locked the front
door
No way in or out
I turned and walked the hallway
And pulled the curtains down
I knelt and emptied the mouth
Of every plug around
But nothing's sound
Nothing's sound
I stay where my last step left me
Ignored all my rounds
Soon I was seeing visions
And cracks along the walls
You're upside down
I swallow my words to keep from lying
I swallow my face just to keep from biting
I swallow my breath and believe I was dying, dying
I surfaced and all of my men were colliding
I'm in hiding
It's been about three days now
Since I've been aground
No longer overwhelmed
And it seems so simple now
It's funny when things change so much
It's a state of mind
I swallow my words to keep from lying
I swallow my face just to keep from biting
I swallow my breath and believe I was dying, dying
I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened
I'm in hiding
Tope
PUSH ME, PULL ME
(Vedder/Ament)
I had a false belief
I thought I came here to stay
We're all just visiting
All just breaking the waves
The oceans made me
But who came up with love?
Push me, pull me
Push me
Put me out
If there were no angels
Would there be no sin?
Nah, stop, before I begin
But let me stay
If I behave
Can you arrange
A spacious hole in the ground?
Somewhere nice
Make it nice
Where the land meets high tide
Push me, pull me
Push me
Put me out
Like a cloud dropping rain
I'm discarding all thought
I'll dry up
Leaving puddles on the ground
I'm like an opening band for the sun
Push me, pull me
Push me
Put me out
Tope
ALL THOSE YESTERDAYS
(Gossard)
Don't you think you oughtta
rest?
Don't you think you oughtta lay your head down?
Don't you think you want to sleep?
Don't you think you oughtta lay your head down?
Tonight...
Don't you think you've done enough?
Don't you think you got enough?
Well maybe...
You don't think there's time to stop
Time enough for you to lay your head down
Tonight,
Let it wash away
All those yesterdays
What are you running from?
Taking pills to get along
Creating walls to call your own
So no one catches you
Drifting off and doing all those things
That we all do
Let them wash away
All those yesterdays
All those yesterdays..
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