Pearl Jam - Backspacer Album Lyrics

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Gonna See My Friend

Do you want to hear something sad?
we are but victims of desire
I'm gonna shake this day
I wanna shake this day before I retire

I'm gonna see my friend
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away
I'm sick of everything
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away

Well I said I... I won't be long before we all walk off the wire
Well I'm gonna see my friend, I'm gonna see my friend for what I require
Well I said I will come in quick
don't want my flame to get no higher

I'm gonna see my friend
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away
I'm sick of everything
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away
I'm gonna see my friend
gonna see my friend, make it go away

Want to leave it all.
Want to give it up.
Want to see it go once and for all
Want to view it cho
Want a little bit home
Want to be there...
Hard as a statue, black as a tattoo, never to wash away

Gonna take me an astral plane
I'm gonna tunnel through denial
But I'm gonna shake this day
I wanna shake this day before I retire

I'm gonna see my friend
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away
I'm sick of everything
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away
I'm gonna see my friend
I'm gonna see my friend, make it go away

 

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Got Some

Every night with the lights out
Where you gone? What's wrong?
Every time, you can try but can't turn on
A rock song

I got some if you need it... [x4]

Get it now, get it on before it's gone
Let's everybody carry on, carry on
Get it now, Set it off before it's gone
Again, everybody carry on, carrying on

Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you on the rise? Are you falling down?
Let me know
Come on let's go yeah

Got some if you need it
I got some if you need it... [x3]

Get it now, get it on before it's gone
Let's everybody carry on, carry on
Turn it up, set it off before we're gone
Let's everybody get it on, get it on

This situation, which side are you on?
Are you getting out?
Are you dropping bombs?
Have you heard of diplomatic resolve, yeah?

Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you on the rise? Are you falling down?
Let me know
Come on let's go, yeah

Got some if you need it
Got some...
Ooh... Aah...

Get it now, get it on before it's gone
Let's everybody carry on, carry on
Turn it up, set it off before we're gone
Let's everybody get it on, get it on

This situation, which side are you on?
Are you getting out?
Are you dropping bombs?
Have you heard of diplomatic resolve, yeah?

Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you drying up?
Are you a big drop?
Are you a puddle full of detriment, oh?

Got some... I got some...
Carry on... Carry on...
Got some if you need it
I got some if you need it
Carry on... Let's go!

 

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The Fixer

Yeah, hey, hey
When somethings dark, let me shed a little light on it
When somethings cold, let me put a little fire on it
If somethings old, I wanna put a bit of shine on it
When somethings gone, I wanna fight to get it back again

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fight to get it back again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

When somethings broke, I wanna put a bit of fixin on it
When somethings bored, I wanna put a little exciting on it
If somethings low, I wanna put a little high on it
When somethings lost, I wanna fight to get it back again

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fight to get it back again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

When signals cross, I wanna put a little straight on it
If there's no love, I wanna try to love again

I'll say your prayers, I'll take your side
I'll find us a way to make light
I'll dig your grave, we'll dance and sing
What's saved could be one last lifetime

Hey, hey, hey
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fight to get it back again
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Fight to get it back again, yeah, yeah, yeah
Fight to get it back again, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

 

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Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar Watson staring at me
riding on 3 wheels, a woman on his knee
With a leg under the red dress I wish I could see
further North the warmth of lovin' lingering
Now Johnny he be having lots of women
Oh the reason he'd be smiling known to him

On the left the girl in red so innocent
never sheds her clothes even when she goes to bed
Yeah the type of girl responsible for original sin
can't help but wonder where and who she is
Oh and the memory's always getting clearer
First thirty years and more I've loved her so
but now I need to know why she's with him

and I sleep with the light on in case she comes
and I sleep with the light on in case she...

Recently as I was waiting on a dream
she came to visit lost and lonely me
Oh she leaned over the bed and with the lips above my head
she asked if I had seen her Johnny
Oh and I hide my disappointment cause for years I have been hoping
oh yeah I have been hoping that when she came that she would come for me

Hey... hey...

I'll hide my disappointment cause for years I have been hoping
that when she came she'd be coming just for me...
I'll hide my disappointment cause for years I have been hoping
that when she came she'd be coming just for me...ah yeah!

Aw yeah!
Aw yeah!
Hoo...

 

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Just Breathe

Yes, I understand that every life must end, uh-huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, uh-huh
Oh I'm a lucky man, to count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah, others, they've got none

Stay with me...
Let's just breathe...

Practiced all my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
I don't wanna hurt, there's so much in this world to make me bleed

Stay with me
You're all I see...

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me

As I come clean...
I wonder everyday, as I look upon your face, uh-huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would save, oh no

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave...

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn't I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean, ah...

Nothing you would take
Everything you gave
Hold me til I die
Meet you on the other side...

 

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Amongst The Waves

What used to be a house of cards
Has turned into a reservoir
Save the tears that were waterfalling
Let's go swim tonight, darling

And once outside the undertow
Just you and me, and nothing more
If not for love, I would be drowning
I've seen it work both ways

But I am up riding high amongst the waves

Where I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
Where I can feel like I've
Put away my early grave

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

Remember back, the early days
When you were young, and less amazed
Suddenly the channel changed
The first time you saw blood

Cut to later, now you're strong
You've bled yourself, the wounds are gone
It's rare when there is nothing wrong
Survived and you're amongst the fittest

Love ain't love until you feel it
Up riding high amongst the waves

I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can see the light
Coming through the clouds in rays

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

Hey...yeah...

Riding high amongst the waves
I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can see the light
Coming through the clouds in rays

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late

Say it now
Better loud than too late

 

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Unthought Known

All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?

Feel the path of every day
Which road you taking?
Breathing hard, making hay
Yeah, this is living

Look for love in evidence
That you're worth keeping
Swallowed whole in negatives
It's so sad and sickening

Feel the air up above
Oh, pool of blue sky
Fill the air up with love
All black with starlight

Feel the sky blanket you
With gems and rhinestones!!!
See the path cut by the moon
For you to walk on

For you to walk on...

Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing here...
Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing left...
Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing here...

See the path cut by the moon
For you to walk on
See the waves on distant shores
Awaiting your arrival

Dream the dreams of other men
You'll be no one's rival
Dream the dreams of others then
You will be no one's rival

You will be no one's rival...

A distant time, a distant space
That's where we're living
A distant time, a distant place
So what ya giving?
What ya giving?

 

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Supersonic

Yeah...

Yeah, I been dreamin' of gettin' along
Now I'm awake, dreamin' keep it on keeping on
I catch a break, then a punch to the head
I smile big with a toothless grin, yeah

Supersonic gone and took my soul
I caught the rhythm but the clock was slow yeh
Supersonic, truth be told
I don't need you to live, but I'll never let you go

Yeah...

Yeh I been thinkin', I already know
Nothin' 'bout nothin' or so I have been told, yeh
I'm not the paper, I'm more like the fold
Cut the crease and put the shit in the whole, yeah

Supersonic, gone and took my soul
I caught the rhythm but the clock was slow yet
Supersonic, truth be told
I don't need you to live to ever let you go, yeah

Supersonic, gotta feel it now
I need to hear, need to feel it loud yeh
Supersonic, truth be told
I wanna live my life with the volume full...

Supersonic, gone and took my soul
I stopped the rhythm but my clock was full, yeah
Supersonic, truth be told
I don't need you to live to ever let you go, yeah

Supersonic, gotta feel it now
I need to hear it, need to feel it loud, yeah
Supersonic, truth be told
I wanna live my life with the volume full, yeah...

Yeah yeah yeah... [x3]

 

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Speed Of Sound

Yesterdays, how quick they change
All lost and long gone now
It's hard to remember anything moving at the speed of sound
Moving with the speed of sound

And yet I'm still holdin' tight to this dream of distant light
in that somehow I'll survive
But this night has been a long one
Waiting on a sun that just don't come

Can I forgive what I cannot forget
And live a lie?
I could give it one more try

Why deny this drive inside, just looking for some peace
Every time I get me some it gets the best of me

I'm not much left, you see

And yet I'm still holdin' tight to this dream of distant light
And that, somehow I'll survive
But this night has been a long one
Waiting on a word that never comes

A whisper in the dark
Is that you or just my thoughts
I'm wide awake and reaching out

It's gone so quiet now
Could it be I'm farther out?

Movin' faster than the speed of sound

 

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Force Of Nature

Understand She's a Force of Nature
Contraband hiding deep inside her soul
Exercising her will to lose control
she lets go

Common Man he don't stand a chance no
Wonderland pulling Alice in the hole
no way to save someone who won't take the rope
and just let's go

One Man Stands the edge of the ocean
a beacon on dry land
Eyes upon the horizon
in the dark before the dawn

hurricane has the trade winds blowing
gale force shaking windows in the storm
shipwreck from a love that he calls home
one light on

Somewhere there's a siren singing
a song only he hears
all the strengths you might think would
disappear resolving

one man stands alone awaiting for her to come home
Eyes upon the horizon
in the dark before the
darkness leaves the dawn

Makes me ache
Makes me shake
Is it so wrong to think that
Love can keep us safe?

Last I saw he was out there waiting
a silhouette in the black light full moon glow
in the sand there he stands upon the shore
Forevermore

somewhere there's a siren singing
a song only he hears
all the strength
that you might think would disappear, resolving

one man stands alone awaiting for her to come home
eyes are closed, you cannot know
but his heart don't seem to roam...
grow...
home....

 

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The End

What were all those dreams we shared
those many years ago?
What were all those plans we made now
left beside the road?
Behind us in the road

More than friends, I always pledged
cause friends they come and go
People change, as does everything
I wanted to grow old
I just want to grow old

Slide up next to me
I'm just a human being
I will take the blame
But just the same
this is not me

You see?
Believe...

I'm better than this
Don't leave me so cold
I'm buried beneath the stones
I just want to hold on
I know I'm worth your love

Enough...
I don't think
there's such a thing

It's my fault now
Having caught a sickness in my bones
How it pains to leave you here
With the kids on your own
Just don't let me go

Help me see myself
cause I can no longer tell
Looking out from the inside
of the bottom of a well

It's hell...
I yell...

But no one hears before I disappear
whisper in my ear
Give me something to echo
in my unknown future's ear

My dear...
The end
comes near...
I'm here...
But not much longer.