Pearl Jam

Released: September 29, 2017

Songwriter: Eddie Vedder

Producer: John Burton Ed Brooks Brett Eliason

[Spoken Word]
Okay, here we go
It's a gutsy move playing this one right here, ya know
Gutsy!
Comin' right up!

[Verse 1]
She comes on like a stone
But you don't know where from she was thrown
Like a burning meteor from miles high
Looking for a place to land
She said, "Have you got yourself some sand?"
And whatever you replied, she took as yes

[Verse 2]
Now she comes after thee
With her newly planted seeds and soon
You're prone down on your knees and there you dig
And then before you know the weeds are
Obesely overgrown with all the
Wild seed she sows in your sleep

[Chorus]
You gotta know you'll never let her go
She's a lightning bolt
Lightning bolt
Lightning bolt
Lightning bolt

[Verse 3]
Always something and never nothing
Isn't that the way we're taught to be?
To be, yea, yeah
Flipping through the worn out pages
And stages when you knew not who to be
Yeah, yeah
Until the lightning strike, sets you free

[Chorus]
You gotta know you'll never let her go
She's a lightning bolt
Lightning bolt
Lightning bolt
Lightning bolt

[Verse 4]
The crashing stormy waves erode her
Shoreline everyday until the
Castle of her ways turn to sand
She holds her lovely breast
As her birds fall from the nest
Flying towards the great northwest, yeah yeah yeah

[Verse 5]
And with no repair in sight
There is no God with such might
As to open her world wide with subterfuge
And your death will soon arrive
As she finally decides that all her problems
They won't die with you

Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

[Chorus]
She's a lightning bolt
Lightning bolt
She's a lightning bolt
She's too

[Guitar Solo]

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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