In 1998 you are in Portugal
www.expo98.pt
Recorded at : London Bridge Studios, Seattle Wa. March -
April 1991
Released : August 27, 1991
Label : Sony
Manufacturer and Marketer : Epic Records #ZK 47857
Producers : Pearl Jam and Rick Parashar
Dave Krusen - Drums
Jeff Ament - Bass guitar
Eddie Vedder - Vocals
Mike McCready - Lead Guitar
Stone Gossard - Rhythm Guitars
Lyrics
Once
Ooo...
I admit it what's to say yeah...
I'll relive it without pain mmm...
Back street lover on the side of the road
I got a bomb in my temple that is gonna explode
I got a sixteen gauge buried under my clothes I play
Once upon a time I could control myself
Ooh once upon a time I could lose myself, yeah...
Oh try and mimic what's insane ooh
I am in it, where do I stand, stand stand
Oh Indian summer and I hate the heat
I got a back street lover on the passenger seat
I got my hand in my pocket, so determined, discreet, I pray
Once upon a time I could control myself
Ooh, once upon a time I could lose myself yeah waa
You think I got my eyes closed But I've been lookin' at you the whole
fuckin' time
Ooh once upon a time I could control myself, yeah
Once upon a time I could lose myself yeah yeah yeah
Once upon a time I could love myself yeah
Once upon a time I could love you yeah yeah
Once (x4)
Yeah once once yeah yeah
Yeah...yeah, yeah...yeah, yeah...oww...
Even Flow
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
Ooh yeah
Oh dark grin he can't help when he's happy looks insane ooh
Even flow thoughts arrive like butterflies
Oh he don't know so he chases them away-yea Oh
Oh 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
Oh someday yet he'll begin his life again
Oh 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-yea
A someday yet he'll begin his life again yeah
Oh whispering hands gently lead him away
Him away him away
Yeah
Woo...uh huh yea...yeah, yeah, momma, mommy...
Alive
Son she said have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a
While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin' sorry you didn't see him but I'm glad we
talked
Oh I oh I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive
Hey ooh
Oh she walks slowly across a young man's room
She said I'm ready for you
Why I can't remember anything to this very day
'Cept the look the look
Oh you know where now I can't see I just stare
I I'm still alive
Hey I but I'm still alive
Hey I boy I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive yeah
Ooh yeah...yeah yeah yeah oh ooh
Is something wrong she said of course there is
You're still alive she said oh and do I deserve to be
Is that the question and if so if so
Who answers who answers
I oh I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive
Hey I but I'm still alive
Yeah I ooh I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Woh uh huhu
Yea uh huhu
Ohh woh uh huhu
Yea uh huhu
yea yea yea yea
Why Go
She scratches a letter into a wall made of stone
Maybe someday another child won't feel as alone as she does
It's been two years and counting since they put her on this place
She's been diagnosed by some stupid fuck and mommy agrees yeah
Whoa...yeah...hey yeah
Why go home (x3)
She seems to be stronger but what they want her to be is weak
She could play pretend she could join the game boy
She could be another clone
Ooh...whoa...ah yeah
Ooh
Why go home (x4)
What you taught me...put me here...don't come visit...mother
Stick it
Woa ooh
Why go home (x4)
What you taught me...put me here...don't come visit...mother mother yeah
Why go home (x7)
Whoa
Black
Hey ooh
Sheets of empty canvas untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
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 I was everything
Ooh I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands shade beneath the clouds
Of what was everything
Oh 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
Ooh 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
Uh huh...uh huh...ooh
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 a can't it be mine
Oh...ohh yea oh
Do do do do do do do (x20 total)
Yeaa...Yeaa...ha
Ha (x6)
Yea (x3)
Jeremy
At home drawing pictures of mountain tops with him on top
Lemon yellow sun arms raised in a V
And the dead lay in pools of maroon below
Daddy didn't give attention
Oh to the fact that mommy didn't care
King Jeremy the wicked oh ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today (x2)
Clearly how I remember pickin' on the boy
Seemed a harmless little fuck
Ooh but we unleashed a lion
Gnashed his teeth and bit the recess lady's breast
How could I forget
And he hit me with a surprise left
My jaw left hurtin' ooh dropped wide open
Just like the day oh like the day I heard
Daddy didn't give affection no
And the boy was something mommy wouldn't wear
King Jeremy the wicked ooh ruled his world
Jeremy spoke in class today (x3)
Woo (x14)
Try to forget this...try to forget this
Try to erase this...try to erase this
From the blackboard
Jeremy spoke in class today (x2)
Jeremy spoke in spoke in (x2)
Jeremy spoke in class today
Woo (x29)
Woohh spoke in spoke in spoke in spoke in
Woohh (x2)
I (x11)
Uh huh (x4)
yea
Uh huh (x10)
Oceans
Hold on to the thread the currents will shift
Glide me towards you know something's left
And we're all allowed to dream of the next
Oh ohh the next time we touch
Oooh (x3)
You don't have to stray the oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts hold tight the ring
The sea will rise please stand by the shore
Oh oh oh I will be
I will be there once more
Oooh... (x3)
Uh huh...oh (x2)
Porch
What the fuck is this world running to you didn't
Leave a message at least I coulda' learned your voice one last time
Daily minefield this could be my time 'bout you
Would you hit me (x2)
Ohh...whoa oww
All the bills go by and initiatives are taken up
By the middle there ain't gonna be any middle any more
And the cross I'm bearing home ain't indicative of my place
Left the porch (x2)
Oh...Hear my name take a good look this could be the day
Hold my hand walk beside me I just need to say
Uh huh..uh huh yea uh huh...uh huh yea uh huh
Oh hear my name take a good look this could be the day
Hold my hand lie beside me I just need to say
I could not take a-just one day
I know when I would not ever touch you
Hold you feel you in my arms never again
Yeah (x12)
Garden
She don't wander in here...don't wander in here she
She don't wander in here...don't wander in here
The direction of the eye so misleading
The defection of the soul nauseously quick
I don't question our existence
I just question our modern needs
She don't wander in here don't wander in here she
She don't wander in here
I will walk with my hands bound
I will walk with my face blood
I will walk with my shadow flag
Into your garden garden of stone yeah
After all is done and we're still alone
I won't be taken yet I'll go with my hands bound
I will walk with my face blood
I will walk with my shadow flag
Into your garden garden of stone yeah
I don't show I don't share
I don't need yeah what you have to give yeah
Ooh I will walk with my hands bound
I will walk with my face blood
I will walk with my shadow flag
Into your garden garden oh
I will walk with my hands bound
I will walk into your garden garden of stone
I don't know I don't care
I don't need yeah for me to live yeah...yeah
Uh huh huh (x8)
Deep
Ahha-yea
On the edge a windowsill
Ponders his maker ponders his will
To the street below he just ain't nothin'
But he's got a great view and he sinks the needle deep yeah
Whoa can't touch the bottom
In too deep yeah uh-huh can't touch the bottom
Ooh on the edge of a know-nothin' town
Feelin' quite superior the age had come
To the sky above he just ain't nothin'
But he's got a great view and he sinks the burning mask deep yeah
Ooh can't touch the bottom
In too deep yeah uh huh can't touch the bottom in too deep
Ohh... Ohhh
Oww
On the edge of a Christmas clean love
Young virgin down from heaven ohh visiting hell
To the man above her she just ain't nothin'
And she doesn't like the view
She doesn't like the view (x2)
But he sinks himself deep oh can't touch the bottom
In too deep yeah oh can't touch the bottom can't touch the bottom
Deep yeah
Oh...yeah the bottom...yeah...wo (x5)
Release
Father oh oh oh
I see the world feel the chill
Which way to go windowsill
I see the words on a rocking horse of time
I see the verse in the rain
Ohh (x4)
Oh dear dad can you see me now
I am myself like you somehow
I'll ride the wave where it takes me
I'll hold the pain Release me
Ohh...ohh I...ohh...ohh
Oh dear dad can you see me now
I am myself like you somehow
I'll wait up in the dark for you to speak to me
Now I'll open up Release me
Release me release me dad release me
Ohh...ohh I...ohh...ooh...ooh
Dirty Frank
Ragh woo eats meat eats meat hahaha look out
Dirty Frank Dahmer he's a gourmet cook yeah
I got a recipe for anglo-saxin soup yeah
Wanted a pass so she relaxed
Now the little groupie's getting chopped up in the back
I got a cupboard full of fleshy fresh ingredients
A very careful at the same time quite expedient
Eats meat a release
Bus driving's harder on your head than on your feet
Dirty frank
A Dirty frank yea
A Dirty frank oh
A Dirty frank yea oh
Keeps it clean a keeps it copaseptic
A little boys and girls their heads are all collected
A not crazy a per se
Just a little strange when he gets hungry
City state your town he will continue
A stadiums tiny clubs every venue
A his bus a your trust
There goes another turned into crust
Dirty frank a Dirty Frank yeah
a Dirty frank oh a Dirty Frank
Yeah oh watch it now
Why that dirty Frank was a bad mother Shut your mouth
Hey man, I'm just talking about dirty Frank
Oh wa-ha a yea cookoo there fucking crazy these kids are driving me
crazy
Oh Middle of the night we're stopped the freeway shoulder
A frank's shoveling to bury the leftovers
A they're sunk he's drunk
Now he's gonna drive I'm hiding in my bunk oh
The band all knows we're too afraid to mention
A Don't want to be part of frank's luncheon
A lose weight a be safe
Where's Mike McCready
My god he's been ate
Dirty frank a Dirty Frank yeah
A Dirty frank oh a Dirty Frank yea yea yea yea yea yea
Dirty frank frank frank frank a Dirty frank yea
Dirty frank oh a dirty frank a yea yea yea
Wa yea a yea yea yea yea oh he's gone fruit loops it's the perfect job
Cook 'em just to see the look on their face ] (x10 total)
I cook 'em just to see the look on their face ]
Mommy mommy I'll just sing mommy no no ahh
Why
Why that Dirty Frank was a bad mother shut your mouth
Hey I'm just talking about Dirty Frank yea
Dirty Frank wow a Dirty Frank a dirty frank yeah
Oh why that dirty frank was a bad mother shut your mouth
Hay man i'm just talking about dirty frank woo
A Dirty Frank yea a dirty frank (x2)
Dirty frank (~x8)
Wo Ok I think that's enough
Wash
Oh please let it rain today
This city is so filthy like my mind in ways
Oh was a time like a clean new taste
Smiling eyes before me inches from my face
Wash my love (x2)
Wash my love yeah
Sin for sale buying just a need
Just who planted all the devils seeds
And what 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 (x2)
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
Alive (live)
Son she said have I got a little story for you
What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a
While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin' sorry you didn't see him but I'm glad we
talked
Oh I oh I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive
Hey ooh
Oh she walks slowly across a young man's room
She said I'm ready for you
Why I can't remember anything to this very day
'Cept the look the look
Oh you know where now I can't see I just stare
I I'm still alive
Hey I but I'm still alive
Hey I boy I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive yeah
Ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah oh ooh
Is something wrong she said of course there is
You're still alive she said oh and do I deserve to be
Is that the question and if so if so
Who answers who answers
I oh I'm still alive
Hey I oh I'm still alive
Hey I but I'm still alive
Yeah I ooh I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Woh uh huhu
Yea uh huhu
Ohh woh uh huhu
Yea uh huhu
yea yea yea yea
Ah woo woo ah
I've Got A Feeling
I've got a feelin' a feelin' deep inside oh yeah oh yeah
I've got a feelin' a feelin' I can't hide oh no no whoa no
Yeah yeah I've got a feelin' yeah
Oh please believe me I'd hate to miss the train oh yeah oh yeah haha
Ooh and if you leave me I won't be late again no no no oh no
Yeah I've got a feelin' yeah whew ooh oh yeah
And I don't understand how come nobody told me
Why I'd want to sing like a Milli Vanilli
All I ever wanted was someone who looked like you you oh
I got a feelin' that keeps me on my toes oh yeah yeah oh yeah
Uh huh I got a feelin' I think that everybody knows oh yeah yeah oh yeah
Yeah wow I got a feelin' yeah whoa
Everybody had a good year though we never saw the sunshine
Everybody had a wet dream making Temple was a good time
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Everybody made a movie everybody had one line
Everybody misses Andy we'll be seein' him in no time
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
Ooh yeah I got a feelin' yeah oh
I got a feelin' a feelin' deep inside oh yeah yeah oh yeah
Ooh I got a feelin' a feelin' I can't hide oh no no oh no
Yeah I got a feelin' yeah yeah ah ooh yeah
Recorded in : Chicago, Atlanta, and Studio Litho
(Seattle)
Released : August 27, 1996
Label : Sony
Manufacturer and Marketer : Epic Records #EK 67500
Producers : Pearl Jam and Brendon O'Brien
Mike McCready - Guitar
Jeff Ament - Bass
Stone Gossard - Guitar, Vocals
Jack Irons - Drums
Eddie Vedder - Vocals, Guitar
Jeff Ament - Guitar on 5
Mike McCready - Piano on 1
Eddie Vedder - Harmonica on 5
Brendon O'Brien - Piano on 5, 6, 13
Songs:
Sometimes
Hail Hail
Who You Are
In My Tree
Smile
Off He Goes
Habit
Red Mosquito
Lukin
Present Tense
Mankind
I'm Open
Around The Bend
Sometimes
Large fingers pushing paint
You're god and you've got big hands
Colors blend
The challenges you give me
Seek my part
Devote myself
My small self
Like a book amongst the many on a shelf
Sometimes I know
Sometimes I rise
Sometimes I fall
Sometimes I don't
Sometimes I cringe
Sometimes I live
Sometimes I walk
Sometimes I kneel
Sometimes I speak of nothing at all
Sometimes I reach to myself dear god
Hail, Hail
Ah is there room for both of us both of us apart
Are we bound out of obligation is that all we got
I get the words and then I get to thinking
I don't want to think I want to feel
And how do I feel and 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'll love you til 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 you carry
Oh I could be new you underestimate 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
I find it on the run in a race that can't be won yeah
All hail the lucky ones I refer to those in love yeah
If you're my only one so could you only one
I want to be your one enough you want no one you're one
Who You Are
Come to send not condescend
Transcendent to consequences
To transcend where we are
Who are we who we are
Trampled marks on your souls
Changes all you're a part
Seen it all not at all
Can't defend fucked up men
Take me for a ride before we leave
Circumstance clappin' hands
A driving winds happenstance
Off the track in the mud
That's the marks before mentioned words
Just a little time before we leave
Stop light plays its part
So I would say you've got a part
What's your part who you are
You are who who you are
In My Tree
Up here in my tree yeah
Newspapers matter not to me yeah
No No more crowbars to my head yeah
I'm trading stories with the leaves instead yeah
I wave to all my friends yeah
They don't seem to notice me no
Ah their eyes strait on the street yo oh
Sidewalks cigarettes and seams yeah yeah
Up here so high I start to shake
Up here so high the sky I scrape
I'm so high I hold just one breath deep within my chest
Just like innocence
Eddie runs his home
The blue sky it's his home
Eddie's blue sky home
Oh the blue sky it's his home
I remember when yeah
I swore I knew everything oh yeah
They say knowledge is a tree yeah
It's growing up just like me yeah
I'm so light the wind me shakes
I'm so high the sky I scrape
Yea I'm so high I hold just one breath to go back to my nest
To sleep with innocence
Up here so high the boughs they break
Up here so high the sky I scrape
And my eyes feel both wide open
And I got a glimpse of my innocence
Got back my innocence
Still got it still got it
Smile
Don't it make you smile (x2)
When the sun don't shine
It don't shine at all
Don't it make you smile (x2)
Don't it make me smile yea
When the sun don't shine it don't shine at all yea
Don't it make me smile
I miss you already I miss you always
I miss you already yea I miss you all day
This is how I feel
I miss you already yea I miss you always
Three crooked hearts swirls all around yea
I miss you all day
Don't it make you smile (x2)
Three crooked hearts swirls all around
Don't it make you smile
Off He Goes
1,2,1,2 Know a man his face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds
So I approach with tact suggest that he should relax
But he's always moving much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flipside
Of this trip he's taking for a ride
He's been taking too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes
He's yet to come back but I see his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
We go way back
I wonder about his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been taken where I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope
There he goes
And now I rub my eyes for he has returned
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles and he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit that has grown
And now he's home and we're laughing like we always did
My same old same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next
Before his first step
He is off again
Habit
See it happen to a couple of friends
See it happen and the message it sends
Takeing off for what's an obvious fall
Just to see what all the fuss is about
It's not your way
Not your way
It's not your way
Another habit says it's in love with you
Another habit says it's long overdue
Another habit like an unwanted friend
I'm so happy with my righteous self
It's not your way
Not your way
It's not your way
Never thought you'd habit (x3)
I Never thought you
Never thought you
Never thought you'd habit (x3)
I Never thought you
Never never thought you
Never thought you'd habit (x6)
Speaking as a child of the 90's
Never thought you'd habit (x3)
I Never thought you
Never thought you
Never thought you'd habit (x3)
I Never thought you
Never never thought you
Never
Never me Never you Never me
Red Mosquito
Watched from the window with a red mosquito
I was not allowed to leave the room
I saw the sun go down and now it's coming up
Somewhere in the time between
I was bitten must have been the devil
He was just paying me a little visit
Reminding me of his presence
Letting me know he's waiting ohh
Red man's your neighbor call it behavior
While you're climbing up slippery hairs
Two steps ahead of him punctures in your neck
Hovering just above your bed (x2)
I was bitten must have been the devil
He was just paying me a little visit
Reminding me of his presence
And letting me know he's waiting
He's waiting ohh there yea
If I had known then what I know now (x4)
Lukin
Drive down the street can't find the keys to my own fucking home
I'll take a walk so I could curse my ass for being dumb
I'll make a right after the arches stinking grease and bone
Stopped at the supermarket people stare like I'm a god
I'm going to Lukins
I've got a spot at Lukins
I knocked the door at Lukins
Open the fridge
Now I know life is worth
I found the key but I returned to find an open door
Some fucking freak who claims I fathered by rape her own son
I find my wife I call the cops this days work's never done
The last I heard that freak was purchasing a fucking gun
Present Tense
Do you see the way that tree bends
Does it inspire
Leaning out to catch the sun's rays a lesson to be applied
Are you getting something out of this all encompassing trip
You can spend your time alone
Redigesting past regrets oh
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can forgive yourself oh
Makes much more sense to live in the present tense
Have you ideas on how this life ends
Checked your hands and studied the lines
Have you the belief that the road ahead ascends off into the light
Seems that needlessly it's getting harder
To find an approach and a way to live
Are we getting something out of this all encompassing trip
You can spend your time alone redigesting past regrets ohh
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who cannot forgive yourself ohh oh
Makes more sense to live in the present tense
?????
Mankind
You'll be going out with radio
Going out with disco
Going out like bacchanal
I'll be going out with telephone
Going out alone
To the radar zone
It's all just inadvertent imitation and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking it
I'll be playing with my magazine
Using up my Listerine
Like Ovaltine
And you'll be dipping in your battleship
For the latest tip
For the latest dream
It's all just inadvertent imitation and I don't mean mine
It's all across this nation
If it's just inadvertent simulation a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking it
If it's just inadvertent imitation a pattern in all mankind
What's got the whole world faking it
What's got the whole world faking (x4)
What's got the whole world faking it yea
I'm Open
A man lies in his bed in a room with no door
He waits hoping for a presence something anything to enter
After spending half his life searching
He still felt as blank as the ceiling at which he's staring
He's alive but feels absolutely nothing
So is he
When he was six he believed that the moon overhead followed him
By nine he had deciphered the illusion trading magic for fact
No tradebacks
So this is what it's like to be an adult
If he only knew now what he knew then
I'm open (x2)
Come in (x4)
I'm open (x2)
Yeah
Come in (x4)
Lying sideways atop crumpled sheets and no covers
He decides to dream dream up a new self for himself
Around The Bend
I'm wishing you a well
Mind a peace within your cell
Covers up I cast you off
I'll be watching as you breathe
I lie still you move
I send you off around the bend
I hold your head deep in my arms
My fingertips they close your eyes
Off you dream my little child
There's a sun around the bend (x2)
All evenings close like this
All these moments that I've missed
Please forgive me won't you dear
Please forgive and let me share
With you around the bend
You're an angel when you sleep
How I want your soul to keep
On and on around the bend