Pearl Jam Lyrics

Pearl Jam album

Table of contents

• Life Wasted
• Worldwide Suicide
• Comatose
• Severed Hand
• Marker In The Sand
• Parachutes
• Unemployable
• Big Wave
• Gone
• Wasted Reprise
• Army Reserve
• Come Back
• Inside Job

Life Wasted

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 warm 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

Life Wasted

Worldwide Suicide

I felt the earth on Monday
It moved beneath my feet
In the form of a morning paper
Laid out for me to see
Saw his face in a corner picture
I recognized the name
Could not stop staring at the
Face I'd never see again.

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over?
It's the same everyday in a hell manmade
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...World over
It's a worldwide suicide

Medals on a wooden mantle
Next to a handsome face
That the president took for granted
Writing checks that others pay
And in all the madness
Thought becomes numb and naive
So much to talk about
Nothing for to say

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devil's on their shoulder
Laying claim to the take that our soldiers save
Does not equate, and the truth's already out there

The whole world,... World over
It's a worldwide suicide
The whole world,... World over
It's a worldwide suicide

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there's another, another, another, another
Another way

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over
It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

The whole world,... World over
It's a worldwide suicide
The whole world,... World over
It's a worldwide suicide

World Wide Suicide

Comatose

Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction

Yea, I’ll be hanging upside down
And there I will swing
For all eternity

Fell it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling

Consider me an abscess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission

Feel it rising, yea next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling

Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel It rising

High above I’ll break the law,
if it’s illegal to be in love,
leave the hatred, on the cross

yea I’ll be hanging upside down and here I will swing
for all eternity

feel it rising, yea next stop falling
feel it rising, comatose with no fear of falling

feel it rising, yea, next stop falling
feel it rising

something never thought you’d be part of

alternative lyrics

Comatose

Severed Hand

Big man stands behind an open door
Said, "leave your lady on the cement floor."
"got some kicks, want to take a ride?"
I said, "yeah!"
"take your pick, leave yourself behind"
I said, "yeah!"

I've no fear but for falling down
So look out below I am falling now
Oh please understand I just need, my friend,
a way a way a way home

Tried to walk, found a severed hand
Recognized it from the wedding band

Said "it's ok, do you want some more?"
I said, "yeah!"
"You'll see dragons after 3 or 4"
I said, "yeah!"

"Understand I'm not falling down"
I said, "look around, the room's taller now",
I can't close my eyes, 'cause I see the sound in waves
In waves, lets me stay calm

If I don't lose control
Explore and not explode
A preternatural other plane
With the power to maintain

Like a tear in all we know
Once dissolved we are free to grow
What is human, what is more?
I'll answer this when I get home

Severed Hand

Marker In The Sand

There is a Marker,
no one sees it cause of sand
that has covered over
all the messages it kept
from misunderstanding,
what Original Truth was
And now expanding
in a faith, but not in love...

What went wrong?
Walking tightrope high
over moral ground
Seeing visions of
falling up somehow
Oh do come down
with the living, let
what is living love.
So unforgiving, yet
needing forgiveness first...

God, what do you say?

Those undecided
needn't have faith to be free.
And those misguided,
there was a plan for them to be...
Now you got both sides
claiming 'killing in god's name'.
But god is nowhere
to be found, conveniently...

What goes on?
Walking tightrope high
over moral ground
Walk the bridges be-
-fore you burn them down!
Do come round
with the living, let
what is living love
Unforgiving, yet
needing forgiveness first...

God, what do you say?
God, what do you say?

I feel a sickness...
A sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom
being sucked straight out to sea
And the solution?
Well, from me far would it be
But the delusion
is feeling dangerous to me

What goes wrong?
Walking tightrope high
over moral ground.
Seeing visions of
falling up somehow
Oh, do come down
with the living, let
what is living love,
unforgiving...yet
needing forgiveness first?

Oh, what do you say?
God, what do you say?

What do you say?

Calling out, calling out
Calling out, calling out

Marker In The Sand

Parachutes

Why deny all the troubles when combined
With the missing light it don’t feel like home now

That your gone all the trouble suddenly explained infinitum
You’re always wishing and never here at home

You all the dreams we shared and
lights we turned on
but the house is getting dark

and I don’t want to know your plans
but together share the dawn
and I won’t need nothing else
cause when we’re dead
we would’ve had it all

And I would've fallen from the sky to you
Parachutes have opened now

Heaven knows if there’s a ceiling
Gone so low with the kneeling
Please know that
that I've got all the friends I need and
Before my light go out
As the doors are closing now

And far away will be my home
And the grass beside them blown
But I don’t need
Further back and forth, a wave will break on me today

And love
Wish the world could glow again with love
One can’t seem to have enough

And war
Break the sky and tell me what it's for
Travelling on my own

And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you

Parachutes

Unemployable

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
oho 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

Unemployable

Big Wave

I used to be crustacean
In an underwater nation
And I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave

I feel the need
planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
the oceans size?
Defining time
and tide
arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride

I scream in affirmation
Of connecting dislocations
And exceeding limitation
By achieving levitation

Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave
Got me a big wave, ride me a big wave, got me a big wave

I feel the need
planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
the oceans size?
Defining time
and tide
arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind
To let me ride

Got me a ride
I got me a ride

Big Wave

Gone

No more upset mornings
No more trying evenings
This American Dream I am disbelieving
When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank
Gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride
Oh the lights of the city, they only look good when I’m speeding
I wanna leave em all behind me cause this time I’m gone
Long gone,
This time I'm letting go of it all
So long,
This time I'm gone

In the far off distance
As my taillights fade
No one tends to witness but they will someday
Feel like a question is forming
And the answer's far
I will be what I could be
Once I get out of this town

For the lights of this city
They have lost all feeling
Gonna leave em all behind me cause this time I’m gone
Long gone,
this time I'm letting go of it all
So long,
Long Gone, I'm letting go of it all
Yeah, This time I'm gone


If Nothing is everything
If nothing is everything I'll have it all
If nothing is everything then I will have it all
I’m...I am gone

Gone

Wasted Reprise

I have faced it
a life wasted
I'm never going back again
Having tasted
a life wasted
I'm never going back again
I escaped it
a life wasted
I'm never going back ... again

Wasted Reprise

Army Reserve

How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
The stars on her pillow
She's folding in darkness
Begging for slumber

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body

Her son's slanted
Always giving her
The sideways eye
The empty chair where dad sits
How loud can silence get?
And mom, she reassures
To contain him
But it's becoming a lie

She tells herself
And everyone else
Father is risking
His life for our freedoms

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Darling you'll save me
If you save yourself

Army Reserve

Come Back

If I keep holding out
Will the light shine through?
Under this broken roof
It's only rain that I feel
I've been wishin' out the days
Oh oh oh
Come back

I have been planning out
All that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away
Know that I still remain true
I've been wishin' out the days
Please say that if you hadn't have gone now
I wouldn't have lost you another way
From wherever you are
Oh oh oh oh
Come back

And these days, they linger on, yeah, yeah
And in the night, I've been waiting for
A real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
I go to sleep

If I don't fall apart
Will my memory stay clear?
So you had to go
And I had to remain here
But the strangest thing to date
So far away and yet you feel so close
I'm not going to question it any other way
It must be an open door for you
To come back

And the days they linger on, yeah
Every night I'm waiting for
The real possibility that I may need to end my pain
Sometimes you're there and you're talking back to me
Come the morning I could swear you're next to me
And it's ok

It's ok, it's ok

I'll be here
Come back, come back
I'll be here
Come back, come back
I'll be here
Come back, come back
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo

Come Back

Inside Job

Underneath this smile lies everything
All my hopes and anger, pride and shame
Make myself a pact not to shut doors on the past
Just for today I am free

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today

I know this one thing well…

I used to try and kill love. the highest sin
Breathing insecurity out and in

Searching hope, I'm shown the way to run straight
Pursuing the greater way for all human light.

How I choose to feel is how I am
How I choose to feel is how I am

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today

Holding on, the light of night
On my knees to rise and fix my broken soul
Again

Let me run into the rain
To be a human light again

Let me run into the rain
To shine a human light today

Life comes from within your heart and desire
Life comes from within my heart and desire
Life comes from within your heart and desire

Inside Job

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