Pearl Jam

Released: June 26, 2007

Songwriter: Stone Gossard Eddie Vedder

[Verse 1]
There is a marker, no one sees it because the sand
Has covered over, all the messages it kept
Misunderstanding, what original truth was
And out expanding, in a faith but not in love
What went wrong?

[Chorus]
Walking tightrope high, over moral ground
Seeing visions of, falling up somehow
Do come down
With the living, let what is living love
So unforgiving, yet needing forgiveness first
God, what do you say?

[Verse 2]
Those undecided, needn't have faith to be free
And those misguided, there was a plan for them to be
Now you got both sides claiming killing in Gods name
But God is nowhere, to be found conveniently
What goes on?

[Chorus]
Walking tightrope high, over moral ground
Seeing visions of, falling up somehow
Do come down
With the living, let what is living love
So unforgiving, yet needing forgiveness first
God, what do you say?
God, what do you say?

[Verse 3]
There is a sickness, a sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom, being sucked straight out to sea
An the solution? Well, from me far would it be
But the delusion, is feeling dangerous to me
What goes wrong?

[Chorus]
Walking tightrope high, over moral ground
Seeing visions of, falling up somehow
Do come down
With the living, let what is living love
So unforgiving, yet needing forgiveness first

Oh, what do you say?
God, what do you say?

What do you say?

[Outro]
Calling out, calling out
Calling out, I'm calling you out

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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