Pearl Jam

Released: November 12, 2002

Songwriter: Jeff Ament Stone Gossard Mike McCready Adam Kasper Matt Cameron Eddie Vedder

Producer: Adam Kasper Pearl Jam

Light green to green, dark green, brown
Every life is falling down
Brown to black, it's coming back
Dies to be part of the ground
Seed to seedling, root to stem

Eyes, no eyes, there's no difference
Every life is looking in
Swallowing seeds on the deathbed
Dig a hole in, the garden

Everyone is practicing
But this world's an accident
I was the fool because I thought
I thought the world
Turns out the world thought me
It's all the other way round
We're upside down

Daddy's gone up flames
But this ain't no movie
This ain't no book you can close
When the big lie hits your eye

Everybody's practicing
Our world's an accident
I was the fool because I thought
I thought the world
Turns out the world thought me
It's all the other way round
We're upside down

[Outro]
Let the fluence sat it down
There's an upside of down
The moon is rolling round the world

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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