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Rating: Eddie is in a hotel room.
He's trying to write lyrics for a new song, but he's experiencing writer's block. His heart is still broken over what happened two years earlier.
The Pearl Jam were playing at the Roskilde festival, but their performance was stopped when the security realized something was wrong.
Due to the crowd swaying, but mainly because of the rain, 9 people were suffocated and many others were seriously injured.
The screens showed an Eddie Vedder slumped and in tears as he realized what had happened.
A tough blow, a bitter pill to swallow for a band that has always respected their fans in an almost religious way, to see them die right in front of them.
Eddie is still there, so he decides to write something on a piece of paper to help exorcise the negative thoughts and encourage him to move on despite the memory of the event that will never leave him.
He ends up accepting the harsh reality, but with a challenge to life's sentiment that only a lion like him could bring out:
I know I was born and I know that I’ll die,
the in between is mine.
I am mine.
A truly significant and deeply evocative piece. You can fall to the ground but no one can keep you down.
Ten years after the event, Eddie and his band will return to that same stage in tears to remember those nine souls.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 I Am Mine (03:35)
The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure, as each breath goes by
I only own my mind
The north is to south what the clock is to time
There's east and there's west and there's everywhere life
I know I was born and I know that I'll die
The in-between is mine
I am mine
And the feeling, it gets left behind
All the innocence lost at one time
Significant between the lines
There's no need to hide
We're safe tonight
The ocean is full 'cause everyone's crying
The full moon is looking for friends at high ride
The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied
I only know my mind
I am mine
And the meaning, it gets left behind
All the innocents lost at one time
Significance behind the eyes
There's no need to hide
We're safe tonight
Whoa!
And the meanings that get left behind
All the innocents lost at one time
We're all different behind the eyes
We may need to hide...
And the meanings that get left behind
All the innocents lost at one time
We're all different behind the eyes
There's no need to hide
02 Bu$hleaguer (03:58)
How does he do it? How do they do it? Uncanny and immutable
This is such a happening tailpipe of a party
Like sugar, the guests are so refined
A confidence man, but why so beleaguered?
He's not a leader, he's a Texas leaguer
Swinging for the fence, got lucky with a strike
Drilling for fear makes the job simple
Born on third, thinks he got a triple
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way
I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed
A think tank of aloof multiplication
A nicotine wish and a columbus decanter
Retrenchment and hoggishness
The aristocrat choir sings
"What's the ruckus?"
The haves have not a clue
The immenseness of suffering
And the odd negotiation, a rarity
With onion-skin plausibility of life
And a keyboard reaffirmation
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way through the cities
Blackout weaves its way
I remember when you sang
That song about today
Now it's tomorrow and
Everything has changed.
03 Undone (03:08)
Last stop on the westcoast line
South of the northern border
One small corner on my mind
Everybody they know me there
Don't get any second glances
Chances are that they don't care
World as come undone
like they change it everyday
Change don't come at once
There's a wave building before it breaks
Can't wait for election day
Where the nasty occupation
Corporations rule the day
Playing on the pendulum throws
Farther out to the one side swinging
Has to sweep back the other way
The world has come undone
Another day and who can wait
Change don't come at once
It's a wave building before it breaks
All this hope and nowhere to go
This is how I used to feel but no more
The world has come undone
Like a game that few can play
Change don't come from one
It's a wave building before it breaks
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