Pearl Jam

Released: February 27, 2001

Songwriter: Tchad Blake Eddie Vedder

Producer: John Burton Brett Eliason

[Verse 1]
All in all, it's no one's fault
Excuses turn to carbon walls
Blame it all on chemical intercourse
The swallowed seeds of arrogance
Breeding in the thoughts of ten
Thousand fools who fight irrelevance
The full moon is dead skin
The one down here's wearing thin
So set up the ten pins
As the human tide rolls in
Like a ball that's spinning

[Chorus]
Bombs dropping down
Overhead, underground
It's instilled, to want to live
Bombs dropping down
Please forgive our hometown
In our insignificance

[Verse 2]
Turn the jukebox up, he said
Dancing in irreverence
Play C-3, let the song protest
The plates begin to shift
Perfect lefts come rolling in
I was alone and far away
When I heard the band start playing
On the lip, late take off

[Chorus]
Bombs dropping down
Overhead, underground
It's instilled, to want to live
Bombs dropping down
Please forgive our hometown
In our insignificance

[Bridge]
Feel like resonance of distance
In the blood, the iron lies

[Outro]
It's instilled, to wanna live
Bombs dropping down
Please forgive our hometown
In our insignificance, oh
In our insignificance

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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