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Rating: Roskilde 2000 is just a memory, a bad memory, and Pearl Jam chase it away by remembering those kids who just wanted to listen to music, the same music that echoes at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Boom Gaspar's organ introduces "Love Boat Captain" and opens a concert that will end up on this double DVD to testify what the PJ are in 2003. The adrenaline rises when the band starts with "Last Exit", almost as if to apologize for starting slowly, without singing at the top of their lungs but in a hushed and almost whispered way. Eddie Vedder is not at his best, the beautiful "In My Tree" shows how his voice sometimes wanes, falters, suffers on the higher notes, but who cares? Classics like "Even Flow", where the grit is the same as fifteen years ago, can only leave you enchanted.
McCrady enjoys himself in pentatonic, Vedder drinks wine from the bottle, Cameron pounds on the drum skins like a madman and then you really start to have fun, along with them. "I Am Mine and Low Light" are a winning pair in arenas and auditoriums, and "Wishlist", with an emotional play of lights, turns the MSQ into a high school prom. If the first part of the show is a mix of slow and fast, the second part is full of surprises. In the choir of "..Don't call me daughter.." a great like Ben Harper joins in, accompanying Eddie in a wonderful "Indifference". Steve Diggle is as happy as a child while he picks up the guitar and plays "Baba O'Riley", but after all, who wouldn't be? Obviously, not all their concerts will have guests like in New York City, but what matters is listening to Pearl Jam play live like they've always done and hearing them close with "Yellow Ledbetter" with the lights on, the singer exhausted, and the audience gathered around a single stage, singing the same words… endlessly.
"...to me, because I need it."
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Thumbing My Way (04:30)
I have not been home
since you left long ago
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
Calm steps walking backwards on the road
I'm counting my way back to heaven
I can't be free with what's locked inside of me
If there was a key you took it in your hand
There's no wrong or right
but I'm sure there's good and bad
the questions linger overhead
No matter how cold the winter
There's a springtime ahead
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
I wish that I could hold you
I wish that I had
Thinking about heaven
I let go of the rope
Thinking that's what held me back
And in time I've realized
It's now wrapped around my neck
I can't see what's next
from this lonely overpass
Hang my head and count my steps
as another car goes past
All the rusted signs
we ignored throughout our lives
choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back
now there's no turning back
mmmmmmm
No matter how cold the winter
There's a springtime ahead
I smile, but who am I kidding?
I'm just walking the mile
every once in a while get a ride
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
I'm thumbing my way back to heaven
05 Crown of Thorns (07:05)
You ever heard the story
of Mr. Faded Glory?
Say he who rides a pony must someday fall
I been talkin' to my alter
Says life is what you make it
And if you make it death well then rest
your soul away
Away away yeah
It's a broken kind of feeling
She'd have to tie me to the ceiling
A bad moon's a comin'
better say your prayers
I wanna tell you that I love you
But does it really matter?
I just can't stand to see you dragging down.
Again, again, again.
So I'm singing
This is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves you alone
This is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind and leaves me alone
I used to treat you like a lady
Now you're a substitute teacher
This bottle's not a prayer, not a prayer in sight
I owe the man some money
so I'm turnin over honey
Oh Mr. Faded Glory is once again doin' time.
This is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone
This is my kinda love
It's a crown of thorns
It's the kind that
It's the kind that leaves me alone
Like a crown of thorns
It's all who you know.
So don't burn your bridges cause
someday, yeah
Start singing
This is my kinda love
It's the kind that moves on
It's the kind that leaves me alone
This is my kinda love
It's a crown of thorns
It's the kind that leaves me alone
06 Breath (07:17)
Oh tonight began with anything
Shaft of a light, a warm breath and a scream, ah yeah...
Oh, tamper if you like between the doors, oh yeah...huh...huh...
Oh, can't expect to go out...to go out...
With anything...anything more...
Oh reach the door...a breath and a...Oh reach the door
And a la la la la yeah
Life ain't what it's worth...a breath and a...Oh reach the door
All these reaching hands out grabbin' things, grabbin' me
Day in, day out, accumulating, ah yeah
Oh, I suggest you step out on your porch
Oh yeah, huh, huh, huh, huh, yeah...
Run away my son, to see it all...oh, see the world
Oh reach the door...a breath and a...Oh reach the door
And a la la la la yeah
Life ain't what it's worth...a breath and a...Oh reach the door
Come...here it comes...there it goes...when it comes
Where it goes...where it comes...can't see through the faith...whoa
Ooh, come...here it comes...there it goes, grasp what you can
Don't you know there's something inside your head, yeah...
Oh, if I knew where it was I would take you there
There's much more than this, ooh...much more than this
Oh, see the world...much more than, oh...much more than...Why?
07 Better Man (05:01)
Waitin', watchin' the clock, it's four o' clock, 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 lies and says she's in love with 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.
Can't find a better man.
Ohh...
Talkin' to herself, there's no one else who needs to know...
She tells herself, oh...
Memories back when she was smooth and strong, and waiting for the world to come along.
Swears she knew it, now she swears he's gone.
and she swears he's cool.
She lies and says she's in love with him.
Can't find a better man.
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.
Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.
Yeah...
She loved him, yeah...
She don't want to leave this way.
She feeds him, yeah...
That's why she'll be back again.
Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better...man...
08 Do the Evolution (05:34)
I'm ahead, I'm a man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in god I trust, yeah
It's evolution, baby
I'm at peace, I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash, yeah
On the loose, I'm a truck
All the rolling hills, I'll flatten them out, yeah
It's herd behavior, uh huh
It's evolution, baby
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, he's my clone
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but irresponsibly
It's evolution, baby
I'm a thief, I'm a liar
There's my church, I sing in the choir:
Hal-le-lu-jah
Hal-le-lu-jah
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, admire my clones
Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me
Nothin', why?
Because, it's evolution, baby!
I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the Earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
It's evolution, baby
It's evolution, baby
Do the evolution!
Come on
C'mon, c'mon!
10 Crazy Mary (07:07)
She lived on the curve in the road
In an old tar paper shack.
On the south side of the town
On the wrong side of the tracks.
Sometimes on the way into town
We'd say, "Mama can we stop and give her a ride?"
Sometimes we did
But her hands flew from her side.
Wild eyed
Crazy Mary.
Down the long dirt road
Past the Parson's place.
That old blue car
We used to race.
Little country store with a sign tacked to the side.
Said 'NO L-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G ALLOWED.'
Underneath that sign always congregated quite a crowd.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Drink it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
A-take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
One night thunder cracked.
Mercy backed outside my windowsill.
Dreamed I was flying
High above the trees, over the hills.
Looked down into the house of Mary.
Terrible thoughts, newspaper covered walls.
And Mary rising up above it all.
Oh... Oh... Oh...
Next morning on the way into town
Saw some skid marks and followed them around.
Over the curve,
Through the fields,
Into the house of Mary.
That what you fear the most could meet you halfway. (x2)
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it around.
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it around. Pass it a...
Take a bottle drink it down. Pass it... Pass it a... Pass it around.
Oh, pass it a... Pass it arround. Pass it a... Pass it a... Pass it a...
Oh yeah.
14 Yellow Ledbetter (06:09)
Unsealed yeah, on a porch a letter sat.
Then you said, "I wanna leave it again."
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand.
And on the sand...
I wanna leave it again... yeah.
On a weekend... wanna wish it all away, yeah...
And they called, and I said that "I want what I said" and then I call out again.
And the reason, oughta' leave her calm, I know...
I said, "I know what I wear, not the boxer or the bag."
(''Alternate version:''
''I want to see that...
On a voice that let out said,
"Let me see him."
I want to leave it{him} again.
Once I saw him on a beach of weathered sand.
I don't want to see him.
I want to leave it{him} again.
I want to leave here, I want to get wasted on the-way, yeah.
And he called and I said and I know what I said and I called out again
And the reason, I'm gonna' leave her{him} gone, But I know...
What-I said, "I don't know whether to leave it in the box there or n'the bag."
Ah yeah... Can you see them out on the porch?... yeah, but they don't wave...
I see them... round different ways, yeah.
And I know, And I know {That I don't}... I don't want to say'')
Ah yeah, yeah,
Can you see them...
Out on the porch?...
Yeah, but they don't wave...
I see them... round the front way, yeah.
And I know, and I know...
I don't want to stay...
(make me cry)
Ooooh I see...
Ooh, I dont know there's something else...
I want to drum it all away...
Oh, I said, "I--I don't, I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag."
Ah yeah...
Can you see them...
Out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave.
But, I see them round the front way, yeah.
And I know, and I know...{, that I don't...} I don't want to stay, alone {at all}
I don't wanna stay. Yeah.
I don't wanna stay. (2x)
I don't.
Don't wanna...
Ohhhh...
Yeah... oooh no no no no no
Ohhhhhhh oh oh oh oh
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