Released: September 26, 2000
Songwriter: Eddie Vedder
Producer: Brett Eliason John Burton
[Verse 1]
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings, made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks or apologize
[Chorus 1]
I couldn't breathe
Holding me down, hand on my face
Pushed to the ground
Enmity gauged, united by fear
Forced to endure what I could not forgive
[Verse 2]
I seem to look away
The wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface
Most defiled
[Chorus 2]
Head at your feet
Fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gauged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive, yeah
[Bridge]
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Clearer, clearer
Oh, once you were in my rear-view mirror
I gathered speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
Hard to believe
Finally the shades are raised
Hey, yeah
[Outro]
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you, once you)
Rear-view mirror
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you, once you)
Rear-view mirror
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you, once you)
Rear-view mirror
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you)
Oh yeah
I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings, made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks or apologize
[Chorus 1]
I couldn't breathe
Holding me down, hand on my face
Pushed to the ground
Enmity gauged, united by fear
Forced to endure what I could not forgive
[Verse 2]
I seem to look away
The wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface
Most defiled
[Chorus 2]
Head at your feet
Fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down
Enmity gauged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive, yeah
[Bridge]
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Saw things
Clearer, clearer
Oh, once you were in my rear-view mirror
I gathered speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
Hard to believe
Finally the shades are raised
Hey, yeah
[Outro]
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you, once you)
Rear-view mirror
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you, once you)
Rear-view mirror
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you, once you)
Rear-view mirror
Saw things so much clearer
(Once you)
Oh yeah
Atlanta, GA 07-August-2000 (Live)
- Release - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Leatherman - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Grievance - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Rearviewmirror - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Encore Break - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Once - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Breakerfall - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Immortality - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Crazy Mary - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Elderly Woman Behind the Counter In a Small Town - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Porch - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- F*****n’ Up - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Nothingman - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Better Man - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Daughter - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Corduroy - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Insignificance - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Animal - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Hail, Hail - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Nothing As It Seems - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Rival - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Given To Fly - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Light Years - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Do the Evolution - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Even Flow - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- In Hiding - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000
- Yellow Ledbetter - Live in Atlanta, Georgia, 07-August-2000