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In the modern coordinates of rock music, Pearl Jam remain a unique example of professional honesty, social commitment, and maturity. A maturity that is not only artistic but particularly human, achieved through events and episodes that have alternated between triumphs and tragedies. Their discography and songs, full of betrayed idealism and charged with anger, have always reflected their lived experiences. Over the years, Pearl Jam has chosen to protect their artistic integrity by rejecting media overexposure or the allure of MTV. They preferred to reach the masses through an incredible concert activity, and with hundreds of live albums released, they have won the adoration of an audience that respects them. Eddie Vedder's band has always firmly believed in the power of music, a fundamental tool to communicate emotions and unite different individuals. Furthermore, Pearl Jam are great traditionalists and have been continuing on the rock path already beaten by Neil Young and The Who for years.
Anyone who wants to get an idea of the musical recipe of the Seattle group and lose themselves in the magic created by their live shows can rely on this luxurious box set of seven CDs, which includes three different concerts recorded between 2005 and 2006 at The Gorge, an open-air venue in the state of Washington. These three incredible shows represent a very important sound document for both the fans and the band itself, intent on playing a large portion of its repertoire. The performances are energetic, inspired, intense, and alternate between a hard-driven part and a more classically rock section made of heart-wrenching ballads. The group functions magnificently in all its components and plays with passion and incredible transport, alternating high lyrical and quiet moments with electric discharges, burning solos, and punk rage. A continuous push-and-pull that offers a high adrenaline rate to the event. The setlists also hold many welcome surprises, such as the presence of songs missing for years from the group's live repertoire ("Rats", "Leash", "Dirty Frank") or rarely performed ("Wash", "Satan's Bed", "Undone", "Sad").
As tradition dictates, there is no shortage of a good series of successful covers performed with personality and directly drawn from the history of rock music. The emotion that arises from listening to the classic tracks taken from the first three albums remains unchanged over the years, along with the usual closure, with the lights already on, with the beautiful "Yellow Ledbetter", a postcard with which Pearl Jam bid farewell to their beloved audience. An audience in ecstasy for the entire duration of the show returns home satisfied and convinced that they have witnessed a true and vibrant rock show played in one breath and with heart in hand by a group that firmly believes in what they play.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Wash (04:28)
Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways.
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste.
Smiling eyes before me and tears from my face.
Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.
Sin for sale. Buying just a need. Just who planted all the devils seeds?
And what's the truth? And the truth that lies at home.
It's on the inside and I can't get it off. Yeah.
Wash my love. Wash my love. Wash my love, yeah.
What's clean is pure. But hey, I'm white on the outside. Though I stray.
What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow. Bring it back someday.
Bring it back, bring it back. Back to, to the clean form. To the pure form.
Wash my love. [x8]
Ooh...
02 Corduroy (04:30)
The waiting drove me mad,
You're finally here and I'm a mess.
I take your entrance back,
Can't let you roam inside my head.
I don't want to take what you can give,
I would rather starve than eat your bread,
I would rather run but I can't walk,
Guess I'll lie alone just like before.
I'll take the varmint's path,
Oh, and I must refuse your test.
Push me and I will resist.
This behavior's not unique.
I don't want to hear from those who know,
They can buy, but can't put on my clothes.
I don't want to limp for them to walk,
Never would have known of me before.
I don't want to be held in your debt,
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed.
I'm already cut up and half-dead.
I'll end up alone like I began.
Everything has chains.
Absolutely nothing's changed.
Take my hand, not my picture, spilled my tincture...
I don't want to take what you can give,
I would rather starve than eat your breast.
All the things that others want for me,
Can't buy what I want because it's free,
Can't buy what I want because it's free,
Can't be what you want because I'm...
Why ain't it supposed to be just fun?
Oh, to live and die, let it be done.
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began.
It's your move now.
I thought you were a friend,
But I guess I... I guess I hate you...
03 Hail, Hail (03:28)
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 thinking.
I don't wanna think, I wanna feel.
How do I feel?
How do I?
If you're the only one, will I never be enough, yeah.
Hail, hail the lucky ones.
I refer to those in love, yeah.
Oh, how I'd love you till the day I die... and beyond.
Are we going to the same place?
If so, can I come?
It's egg rolling, thick and heavy.
All the past we carry.
Oh, I could be new.
You under-estimate me.
If you're the only one, will I never be enough, yeah.
Hail, hail the lucky ones.
I refer to those in love, yeah.
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.
Black lining,
On the run in a race that can't be won, yeah.
Oh, hail, hail the lucky ones.
I refer to those in love, yeah.
If you're my only one...
So good, you, only one...
I want to be your one...
Enough, you won, your one, your one...
06 Given to Fly (03:43)
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
Oh, oh oh...
He's flying! Woah!
Whole! Woah! Oh...
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...fuckers, 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! Woah...
Whole! Flying! Woah...
Flying Woah...
Oh Woah...
07 Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town (03:17)
I seem to recognize your face.
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it.
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.
Lifetimes are catching up with me.
All these changes taking place,
I wish I'd seen the place, but no one's ever taken me.
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
I swear I recognize your breath.
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former.
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf.
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate.
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see.
I just wanna scream hello.
My god, it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return.
But now here you are, and here I am.
Hearts and thoughts they fade away.
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade...
08 Even Flow (07:50)
Freezin', rests his head on a pillow made of concrete, again.
Oh, feelin' maybe he'll see a little better, set a days, ooh, yeah.
Oh, hand out, faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar, oh yeah.
Oh, dark grin, he can't help, when he's happy looks insane, oh yeah.
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away.
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again.
Life again, life again...
Kneelin', looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read, ooh yeah.
Oh, prayin', now to something that has never showed him anything.
Oh, feelin', understands the weather of the winters on its way.
Oh, ceilings, few and far between all the legal halls of shame, yeah.
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away.
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again.
Whispering hands, gently lead him away.
Him away, him away...
Yeah!
Woo...ah yeah...fuck it up...
Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away.
Someday yet, he'll begin his life again, yeah.
Oh, whispering hands, gently lead him away.
Him away, him away...
Yeah!
Woo...uh huh...yeah, yeah, mommy,mommy...
10 I Am Mine (03:53)
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
11 Unemployable (03:03)
He's got a big gold ring which says Jesus Saves
And it's dented from the punch thrown at work that day
When he smashed the metal locker where he kept his things
After the big boss say "You best be on your way"
So this life is sacrifice
Oh yeah
Jumping trains just to survive
Well his wife and kids asleep but he's still awake
And his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette, he's grown to hate
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream again?
So this life is sacrificed
Oh yeah
To a stranger's bottom line
Oh yeah
I've seen the light, oho oh ohhhh oho oh ohhhh
I'm scared alive
Nearly dead
Oho oh ohhhh oho oh ohhhh
I've seen the light
Still alive
Yeah
So this life is sacrificed
Oh yeah
Was a dream that had to die
Oh yeah
I've seen the light, oho ohhh ohhhhh oho ohhh ohhhhh
I'm scared alive
Near to death
oOo ohhh ohhhhh oho ohhh ohhhhh
I've seen the light
Scared alive
Oho ohhh ohhhhh oooohoooo
I'm here to die
Here to die
Scared alive
Here to die
Here to die
Scared of life
12 Daughter (08:50)
Alone, listless, breakfast table in an otherwise empty room.
Young girl, violence, center of her own attention.
Mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it, tries to make her proud.
The shades go down inside her head.
Painted room, can't deny there's something wrong.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me...
She holds the hand that holds her down.
She will rise above.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me...
The shades go down...
The shades go down...
The shades go...
Go...
14 Black (07:45)
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay,
Her legs spread out before me as her body was still.
All five horizons revolved around her soul as the Earth to the Sun.
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn.
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything.
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore.
And now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black,
Tattooed everything...
I take a walk outside,
I'm surrounded by some kids at play.
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
And twisted thoughts that spin round my head,
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning...
How quick the sun can drop away,
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black,
Tattooed everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black,
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be, yeah.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine?
15 Insignificance (04:37)
All in all, its no ones fault,
excuses turn to carbon wall,
blame it all on chemical intercourse.
the swallowed seeds of arrogance,
breeding in the thoughts of ten.
thousand fools who fight irrelevance.
the full moon is dead skin,
the one down heres wearing thin,
so set up,.. the ten pins.
as the human tide rolls in,
like a ball that's spinning.
Bombs dropping down,..
overhead,.. underground,.
its instilled, to wanna live.
Bombs , dropping down,..
please forgive, our hometown,..
In our insignificance.
Turn the jukebox up, he said,
Dancing in irreverance,
Play C3, let the song protest.
The plates begin to shift,
perfect lefts come rolling in,
I was alone, and far away,
when I heard the band start playing,
on the lip, late take off.
Bombs , dropping down,..
Feel like resonance of distance,
In the blood,.. the iron lies.
Its instilled, to wanna live.
16 Life Wasted (03:46)
You're always saying that there's something wrong
I'm starting to believe it's your plan all along
Death came around, forced to hear its song
And know tomorrow can't be depended on
Seen the home inside your head
All locked doors and unmade beds
Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that
I have faced it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
I escaped it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Having tasted, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
The world awaits just up the stairs
Leave the pain for someone else
Nothing back there for you to find
Or was it you you left behind?
You're always saying you're too weak to be strong
You're harder on yourself than just about anyone
Why swim the channel just to get this far?
Halfway there, why would you turn around?
Darkness comes in waves
Tell me, why invite it to stay?
You're one with negativity
Yes, comfort is an energy
But why let the sad song play?
I have faced it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Oh I escaped it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Having tasted, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
Oh I erased it, a life wasted, I'm never going back again
17 Blood (03:23)
Spin me round.
Roll me over.
Fucking circus.
Stab it down.
One way needle.
Pulled so slowly.
Drains and spills.
Soaks the pages.
Fills their sponges.
It's my blood.
It's my blood.
Paint Ed big.
Turn Ed into one of his enemies.
It's my blood.
It's my blood.
It's my blood.
Stab it down.
Fill the pages.
Suck my blood dry.
Maker of my enemies.
Take my...
Why, why, why, why, why, why?
Rats.
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