Pearl Jam

Released: May 26, 2014

Songwriter: Eddie Vedder Jeff Ament Stone Gossard Mike McCready

Producer: John Burton Rick Fisher Brett Eliason

[Verse 1]
Cold wind blows on the soles of my feet
Heaven knows nothing of me
I'm lost, nowhere to go

[Chorus]
Oh, when I was a kid, oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it's Christmas time

[Verse 2]
Flowered winds was where I lived
Thought you burned, not froze for your sins
Oh, I'm so tired, and cold

[Chorus]
Oh, when I was a kid, oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it's Christmas time
Oh, when I was a kid, oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it's Christmas time
Oh, when I was a kid, oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it's Christmas time

[Spoken Word: Eddie Vedder]
Mike McCready there. Now, I'm gonna keep it moving here. Now something happened about eleven years ago. I'll tell you a story about a little girl and her dad. She was about seven years old. It was in the Hawai'ian islands. And the dad just came in from a boat ride, early morning, and his daughter just came out on the dock. And he told the daughter they were going out again, we're not going out again, it's too rough. He was on his own. His name was Keith Baxter. And he pulled into port in Maui. And his daughter was there, little blonde girl. And she said, "Dad, you promised, you promised." And he said, "it's too rough out there. It's too rough." She said, "you promised you were gonna take me to the other island and take a peak." "It's too rough baby." And she insisted, she insisted. He took her out on the boat ride. They got about halfway to the other island, maybe a little further. Big waves in the middle of the channel, the Pailolo Channel, with something like 15-foot waves in the middle of the channel. And this little girl, she was out there and she somehow heard voices. She heard voices amongst all the wind and these big rolling waves in the middle of this channel. Then they stopped. They turned the engine off to listen. Then they listened and listened. And then they heard voices out there, and they looked up and they saw paddles - a couple canoe paddles, in the middle of this channel. There were three people in the middle of the channel drifting. They would have drowned, if they wouldn't have found these people. There was a 70% chance they would've drowned. These people probably wouldn't have lived if it weren't for this little girl that heard this voice, and encouraged the dad to stop. She saved these three people's lives. The reason I know this story and I know it well - I was one of those three people. And that little girl who is seven years old, I haven't seen her since then; or I haven't seen her since then. Her name is Ashley Baxter and she made it to Seattle for this show. I just wanna introduce you to Ashley real quick, and thank her

So, I just wanna thank Ashley and her dad Keith Baxter. I'm dedicating this song for you today. To her. Because without her, I'm not sure we'd have 'em. Speaking of Hawaiians, there's Boone [?]

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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