 Benaroya Hall - 10/22/03 (2003) [ larger cover art ] |
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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 reaches 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
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?
Mm, 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
Woo
I know that 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?
Ah, yeah
Uh, woo-hoo
| Biscobret (Vashon, WA) | Posted: May 09, 2013 - 20:07 I just can't get past this guy's voice sounding like Elmer Fudd. WTF, perhaps the most lame comment I have ever read on RP post. OMG, perhaps the best comment I have ever read on RP post!   Insert obligatory "I hate Pearl Jam" comment, here. |
| hayduke2 (Southampton, NY) | Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 16:02 stop reading, raise the volume, and just let it in |
| ScottN (Condo in Gaza needs remodeling. Still, I Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | Posted: Feb 10, 2013 - 13:48 fitzworld wrote: LOVE the song, HATE the live version. I have no interest in hearing the audience mangle lyrics. I pay to hear Eddie Vedder, not drunks and high people waving their iPhones at the stage. I am with you. Most live recordings seem unable to resist mixing in too much of the crowd. |
| jocelynsart | Posted: Jan 24, 2013 - 17:31 Love Pearl Jam - but, and it is Rare, though there are some exceptions, that a Live performance can be as satisfying on the ears to me, and this one follows suit. |
| tle0223 | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 12:34 Love Pearl Jam, LOVE this song! I've seen them live 14 times, this is an outstanding live version of Black. |
| fitzworld (The Big A) | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 12:34 LOVE the song, HATE the live version. I have no interest in hearing the audience mangle lyrics. I pay to hear Eddie Vedder, not drunks and high people waving their iPhones at the stage. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 12:32 bethnca wrote: OMG goosebumps when the audience sang! wow! That's what they do........at every show. For this.......and Betterman.......and many many other songs. The feeling in the audience for this band is one I've never experienced - and I've been going to live rock shows for 35 years. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Jan 04, 2013 - 12:30 raga wrote: Love PJ but sorry this is boring... Sorry - You can not love PJ and think this beautiful and somewhat different (unplugged and slower) version of this masterpiece is BORING. |
| teleskialaska (Alaska) | Posted: Dec 24, 2012 - 09:26 drife wrote: I just can't get past this guy's voice sounding like Elmer Fudd. WTF, perhaps the most lame comment I have ever read on RP post. |
| amanzanom | Posted: Dec 04, 2012 - 03:43 F*cking awesome song, epical |
| raga (Italy - Como) | Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 00:57 Love PJ but sorry this is boring... |
| coyotexxx2 (Enjoying Paradise) | Posted: Oct 02, 2012 - 09:42 Just saw PJ live - what a great show. Eddie likes interacting with the crowd and invites them to sing many of the songs. |
| plaid (Tech nexxus o' my house) | Posted: Aug 20, 2012 - 16:44 Ooo! Goosebumps! |
| hupenpaula | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 11:56 <<Black>> is for me one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard. This version is absolutely amazing and this song will never die! "I know someday you..." Thank you Pearl Jam for this!!! |
| hayduke2 (Southampton, NY) | Posted: Jul 31, 2012 - 11:02 cranked up, a 10 for me, it's a cool listening experience Thank you RP |
| SteadyRollingMan (Miami, Florida) | Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 07:03 Album artwork; goosebumps indeed!!!!  |
| dsd (PDX) | Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 06:21 Love this song. The studio version is so powerful—this version seems insipid to me until the audience jumps in and carries the thing through. |
| stevendejong | Posted: Jul 20, 2012 - 06:19 8—>9 |
| bethnca (Vancouver, WA) | Posted: Jun 18, 2012 - 17:23 OMG goosebumps when the audience sang! wow! |
| drife (Golden, CO) | Posted: Jun 18, 2012 - 17:18 I just can't get past this guy's voice sounding like Elmer Fudd. |
| ShirleyEva | Posted: May 29, 2012 - 03:07 Thanx for that!!! great version! |
| velocette (Puget Sound, beneath the volcanoes) | Posted: May 17, 2012 - 22:19 lemmoth wrote: Oh yeah??? As Tom Petty about "Breakdown, " McCartney about "Hey Jude" as only two examples. If you ever wrote a masterpiece, which I sincerely doubt you have, you would love it if your adoring audiences sang it to you. Especially a home-town audience.... |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 09:42 ri_shelton wrote: Yeah, I'm not fond of letting a drunk/stoned crowd sing one of MY masterpieces... Oh yeah??? As Tom Petty about "Breakdown, " McCartney about "Hey Jude" as only two examples. If you ever wrote a masterpiece, which I sincerely doubt you have, you would love it if your adoring audiences sang it to you. |
| chasech5 (Ames, IA) | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 09:38 Great song, great performance. BUT.... Getting the audience to sing that particular part really really ups the whiny-ass quotient beyond a tolerable level. I can handle it when its the band singing it, but not the audience. |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 09:38 Nobody loves their band like a PJ audience does. We sing like this at every show. Nobody loves their audience like PJ does. They play with fire and love this now ancient song every time. |
| xtalman (What dimension?) | Posted: Apr 27, 2012 - 09:37 Now I remember why I vote this a 1. dorks at the end singing really fark it up. |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 16:08 Normally I do not care much for recordings of live performances — BUT this is amazing! This song and DCD "American Dreaming" and Madrugada "Majesty" — I will make exceptions for. |
| sfearll (Sunny SoCal) | Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 16:04 love this slow version of one my favorite PJ songs..! |
| buddy | Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 13:33 I really doesn't get much better than this. Goose bumps every time. |
| Geordie (Location, Location, location) | Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 13:20 Great spin this after!!! |
| Webfoot (Eugene, Oregon) | Posted: Mar 15, 2012 - 13:18 oldsaxon wrote: Imagine how either of them felt. That is crowd love and I for one would have loved it. It's a brilliant tune, sung well by Eddie, played wonderfully by the band and the crowd ate it like chocolate cake.... Mmmm, I love chocolate cake. |
| lafcadio (Knox-vegas) | Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 06:56 languid, uninspired, tired, blah ick. |
| spij (Helsinki, Finland) | Posted: Jan 12, 2012 - 00:20 I'm a big fan of RP and I generally dislike negative comments. Still I have to say that Pearl Jam and Peter Gabriel are highly overplayed... both are depressogenic... |
| walchenbach (Puget Sound) | Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 19:38 play it again, and again, and again ...... |
| impediguy | Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 19:34 Rhinofin wrote: You guys actually like this better than music?
I suppose then that you are not listening. Nor are you "tuned in" (to Radio Paradise). |
| Rhinofin (Portland, OR) | Posted: Nov 09, 2011 - 12:08 You guys actually like this better than music? |
| czyrsk (POLAND, Gdańsk) | Posted: Nov 09, 2011 - 11:57 Best ever |
| Galateea (Lynchburg, VA) | Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 05:26 Love this live! |
| oldsaxon | Posted: Sep 07, 2011 - 13:21 StoneyG wrote: It's not exactly Eddie's though. He wrote the lyrics, but Stone Gossard wrote the song. Besides, what does the pot or beer intake of the crowd have to do with it? I've heard far worse crowds. And which are YOUR masterpieces? Imagine how either of them felt. That is crowd love and I for one would have loved it. It's a brilliant tune, sung well by Eddie, played wonderfully by the band and the crowd ate it like chocolate cake.... |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Aug 18, 2011 - 04:48 ScottFromWyoming wrote: Hmm well now this is a mathematical conundrum. Live versions are, generally speaking, inferior to studio versions and this is no exception. However, I have rated the studio version of this a 1. What to do, what to do?  Wow! You are tougher than me! I completely agree live versions are inferior to studio and indeed this is no exception. However, I actually like the studio version of this song so I rated this a 1.  |
| StoneyG (Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th) | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 20:08 ri_shelton wrote: Yeah, I'm not fond of letting a drunk/stoned crowd sing one of MY masterpieces... It's not exactly Eddie's though. He wrote the lyrics, but Stone Gossard wrote the song. Besides, what does the pot or beer intake of the crowd have to do with it? I've heard far worse crowds. And which are YOUR masterpieces? |
| FooledAgain (43°40'N 79°20'W) | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 20:02 olivertwist wrote: OK, that's what I would hope, but the singing style is so earnest and intense that I don't get any sense of irony in the delivery of that line. If you got a sense of irony from the singing style, that would undermine the irony. It wouldn't be ironic anymore. |
| ri_shelton (A few clicks up the river) | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 20:01 Yeah, I'm not fond of letting a drunk/stoned crowd sing one of MY masterpieces... |
| Mar-tay | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 20:00 Great song by a great band. I wish I could sing like that, awesome vocal. |
| StoneyG (Just east of The Rockies; north of the 49th) | Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 19:58 You should play some other songs from this show. Why not? The entire performance is great. It would help to illuminate many of the other good songs they've written that most are unaware of because they've heard Ten eleven thousand times, and very little else. |
| PhoenixArtDj (Star Idaho) | Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 19:13 This is a top notch performance by a top notch band. That said, there are a few songs from this show that are unparalleled in PJ performance history. Of the Girl, I Believe in Miracles, Around the Bend are awesome, but the version of Immortality is untouchable. Mike McC is channeling the best of Clapton, Paige, and Hendricks for that song. Check it out. |
| choffman2001 (Florida's Left Coast) | Posted: Jul 06, 2011 - 19:13 Wow... all this angry commentary... and I just came here to say that I love/hate this song - love it because it's really the prettiest PJ song I've ever heard (not this live version; the original) ; hate it because even after 13 years of marriage to me, my husband still gets misty-eyed hearing it because it reminds him of a past love and an ancient (in my eyes) pain. I have nothing to add to the farmer/soldier theme!  |
| Delboy77 (Feldkirch, Austria) | Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 03:53 though i am a hard core pearl jam fan i must admit that eddie's vocal performance on this take is mediocre at its best. the crowd does the trick here, unbelieveable. as always at a pearl jam show. goosebumps all over. |
| olivertwist (Atlanta GA) | Posted: May 22, 2011 - 12:02 FooledAgain wrote: I'm sure it's supposed to be. Frequently songwriters put words in the mouths of their "protagonists" that are meant to reveal the characters' flaws. A form of self-mocking. Randy Newman does this a lot. It always amazed me that so many people were upset about the song "Short People"; I thought it was screamingly obvious that he was making his point by taking a view that was the exact opposite of his own, giving it voice, and showing how ridiculous it was. OK, that's what I would hope, but the singing style is so earnest and intense that I don't get any sense of irony in the delivery of that line. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: May 15, 2011 - 14:24 Byronape wrote: As a child of the grunge generation, I'd take issue with this assessment. Sure, we didn't have Vietnam, we didn't have a major world wars, the economy was doing ok (but don't get me started on Reaganomics). Not having all those attention grabbing issues did not mean that kids couldn't have a bad life. I had a rough childhood despite not having the draft hanging over my head, instead I had a father that was working 12 hours a day to keep the family farm running and a disinterested mother. Oh, but I didn't have to go to war or go hungry, so therefore sunshine should be shooting out my ass? The angst in grunge doesn't revolve around a singular event, instead the feelings of isolation that many of us couldn't get away from. Protest songs of the 60's and 70's are protesting a world event or some singular theme that ties it all together, grunge does not. To say that my generation didn't have anything to rage against clearly means that you don't understand how life had really changed between the generations. Plus, considering the biological issues involved in adolescence, we would have found something to be angry about anyway. Consider what your parents would have said about you. Sure, Vietnam was horrible, but at least there wasn't a major world war going on. 60k soldiers killed in action is a nightmarish number, but compared to around 420k? Your parents would say that you didn't have that much to be so upset about either. You could keep taking that argument back if you want... you have WW1, the depression, and I'm pretty sure that life was harder in 1900 then anything you ever faced, yet did anyone ever question your generation over it's right to be angry? You don't know what it's like to have been raised in my generation any more then I know what it is like to be raised in the generations after mine. But, instead of judging, I try to understand. You grew up on a farm? That's a whole different thing, and I'm so angry about the way the farmers have been treated that I can't even form words). No, I really hope I don't see sunshine shooting out your ass. I really hope I don't see your ass at all (no offense. Really.) Taking this off-board, because I think we have a lot about which to talk. |