Pearl Jam
I Am Mine

THE REVIEW

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.