Pearl Jam

Released: September 26, 2000

Songwriter: Eddie Vedder

Producer: Brett Eliason John Burton

[Verse 1]
My lips are shaking, my nails are bit off
Been a month since I heard myself talk
All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea
And I fight back in my mind
Never lets me be right
I got memories, I got shit
So much it don't show

[Chorus]
I walked the line
When you held me in that night
I walked the line
When you held my hand that night

[Verse 2]
An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions don't know who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me
And I'll stay in a bed
Oh, blue eyes, I've seen him
If just once, I could feel loved
Oh, stare back at me

[Chorus]
Lord, I walked the line
When you held me in that night
Oh, I walked the lie
When you held my hand that night

[Outro]
Oh, I walked the lie
When you held me close that night
I paid the price
Never held you in real life

Founded in 1990 in Seattle, Pearl Jam is one of the most successful bands out of the grunge movement, if not of the whole alternative rock scene from the early 90s. The group started with Stone Gossard (guitar) and Jeff Ament (bass), veterans of the proto-grunge scene, recording a demo along with local guitarist Mike McCready. Once the tape passed along, it attracted a San Diego-based singer, Eddie Vedder. Along with drummer Dave Krusen, they signed with Epic Records and released Ten in 1991, which by the following year was becoming one of the most successful debut albums ever.

Growing uncomfortable with success, the following albums went for a more anguished and experimental sound, and the band’s notorious activism had its most prominent case once they boycotted Ticketmaster, accusing them of price-gouging fans. In the meantime, various drummers passed through the band, with percussion only settling once Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron joined them in the tour for 1998’s Yield.

With 10 studio albums and various live recordings (including “Official Bootlegs” of basically every concert the band performed since 2000), Pearl Jam has sold nearly 32 million records in the U.S. and an estimated 60 million worldwide.

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