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// lil birds \\

"but now here you are, and here i am

hearts and thoughts they fade...away..."

Pearl Jam - 10th November 2006

Hey...oooh...

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 her was everything

Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe 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

Oh, 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 that 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, why can't it be mine

LIVE in #Dallas, Texas on November 15, 2013. #pearljam #eddievedder #lightningbolt #tgif

Lollapalooza 1992

let me sleep..

LIVE in #Dallas, Texas on November 15, 2013. #pearljam #eddievedder #lightningbolt #tgif

Large fingers pushin' paint...

You're God and you got big hands...

The colors blend...

The challenges you give man...

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, hear God...

here

LIVE in #Dallas, Texas on November 15, 2013. #pearljam #eddievedder #lightningbolt #tgif

LIVE in #Dallas, Texas on November 15, 2013. #pearljam #eddievedder #lightningbolt #pjdallas

"Rockin' In The Free World" with Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

Eddie Vedder - Pearl Jam live in New Jersey 2006

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Lollapalooza 1992.

I don't remember which show this was at, but I think it was early in the tour. The band would go into a long jam then Eddie would climb the stage scaffolding. It's hard to tell from this photo but because he's above the lights, he's probably 50 or 60 feet in the air!

Really mind-blowing at the time.

Wishlist

Pearl Jam (Album: Yeld)

I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off

I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on

I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on

The Christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top

I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds

For 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky

I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me

I wish I was as fortunate, as fortunate as me

I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good

I wish I was the full moon shining off a Camaro's hood

I wish I was an alien at home behind the sun

I wish I was the souvenir you kept your house key on

I wish I was the pedal brake that you depended on

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down

I wish I was a radio song, the one that you turned up

I wish... I wish...

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Lollapalooza 1992. Leatherman Al dente.

Pearl Jam in Albany, NY.

Lollapalooza 1992

"Now I can't see, I just stare

I, I, I'm still alive

Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive

Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive

Yeah, yeah I, oh, I'm still alive, yeah

Is something wrong?

She said

Of course there is

You're still alive

She said

Oh do I deserve to be?

Is that the question?

And if so, if so

Who answers?

Who answers?"

Pearl Jam

Madison Square Garden

New York City

May 1, 2016