Pearl Jam

Songwriter: Mike McCready Stone Gossard Dave Krusen Jeff Ament Eddie Vedder

Producer: Pearl Jam

[Verse 1]
Oh please let it rain today. This city's so filthy. Like my mind in ways
Oh it was the time. Like a clean new taste
Smiling eyes before me, inches from my face

[Chorus]
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love

[Verse 2]
Sin for sale. Buying just a need. Just who planted all the devils seeds?
And what's the truth? And the truth that lies at home
It's on the inside and I can't get it off. Yeah

[Chorus]
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love

[Verse 3]
What's clean is pure. But hey, I'm white on the outside. Though I stray
What she don't know today might kill us both tomorrow. Bring it back someday
Bring it back, bring it back. Back to, to the clean form. To the pure form

[Chorus]
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love
Wash my love

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.

more tracks from the album

Ten

From the albums

Ten (1991)
Lost Dogs (2003)

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