Backspacer Album Cover Art for Pearl Jam

Here's the cover art for Pearl Jam's new album Backspacer. It was designed by Tom Tomorrow, known for the This Modern World cartoon series.



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The End Lyrics Pearl Jam

The End Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Many of titles of the tracks from Backspacer share their title with other famous songs. In this case, The End may be a reference to The Door's song. One could describe the lyrics being part of an "aching love song".

The End lyrics:

What were all those dreams we shared

Those many years ago?

What were all those plans we made now

Left beside the road?

Behind us in the road

More than friends, I always pledged
Cause friends they come and go
People change, as does everything
I wanted to grow old
I just want to grow old

Slide up next to me
I'm just a human being
I will take the blame
But just the same
This is not me

You see?
Believe

I'm better than this
Don't leave me so cold
I'm buried beneath the stones
I just want to hold on
I know I'm worth your love

Enough
I don't think
There's such a thing

It's my fault now
Having caught a sickness in my bones
How it pains to leave you here
With the kids on your own
Just don't let me go

Help me see myself
Cause I can no longer tell
Looking out from the inside
Of the bottom of a well

It's hell
I yell
But no one hears before I disappear
Whisper in my ear
Give me something to echo
In my unknown future's ear

My dear
The end
Comes near
I'm here
But not much longer

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Force of Nature Lyrics / Pearl Jam

Force of Nature Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Force of Nature is an expression sometimes given to people to describe their personality e.g. they are stormy, mood and come in an cause trouble...

Force of Nature is also the name of an Oasis song.

Lyrics: Force of Nature / Pearl Jam

Understand she’s a force of nature
Contraband hiding deep inside her soul
Exorcising her will to lose control
She lets go

A common man, he don’t stand a chance, no
Wonderland pulling Alice in the hole
No way to save someone who won't take the rope
And just let’s go

One man stands the edge of the ocean
A beacon on dry land
Eyes upon the horizon
In the dark before the dawn

Hurricane has the trade winds blowing
A gale force shaking windows in the storm
Shipwreck on the rock that he calls home
With one light on

Somewhere there’s a siren singing
A song only he hears
All the strength that you might think
Would disappear,.. Resolving

One man stands alone, Awaiting
For her to come home
Eyes upon the horizon
In dark before the darkness meets the dawn.

Makes me ache,... Makes me shake,...
Is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?

Last I saw, he was out there waiting
A silhouette in the black light, full moon glow
In the sand there he stands upon the shore
Forevermore

Somewhere there’s a siren singing
A song only he hears
All the strength that you might think
Would disappear, resolving

One man stands along, Awaiting
For her to come home
Eyes are closed,.. You cannot know
But his heart don’t seem to roam.

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Speed of Sound Lyrics by Pearl Jam

From the new Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Speed of Sound lyrics by the voice of a generation, Eddie Vedder:

Yesterdays, how quick they change
All lost and long gone now

It's hard to remember any thing
Moving at the speed of sound
Moving with the speed of sound

And yet I’m still holding tight
To this dream of distant light
And that somehow I’ll survive

But this night has been a long one
Waiting on a sun,.. that just don’t come

Can I forgive what I
Cannot forget
And live a lie
I could give it one more try

Why deny this drive inside?
Just looking for some peace

Everytime I get me some
It gets the best of me
Not much left you see

And yet I’m still holding tight
to this dream of distant light
and that somehow I’ll survive

But this night has been a long one
Wiating on a word,.. that never comes

A whisper in the dark
Is that you or just my thoughts?
Wide awake & reaching out

It’s gone so quiet now
Could it be I’m farther out?
Moving faster than the speed of sound

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Supersonic Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Supersonic Lyrics / Pearl Jam / Backspacer

This is not a cover of Oasis' own Supersonic but an original. It is interesting that the Backspacer song, Force of Nature, is also an Oasis song. The End is also song from The Doors. 'This is the end my, friend, this is the end!'

Lyrics: Supersonic

Yeah I been dreaming of getting along
Now I’m awake, dreaming keep it on keeping on
I catch a break, then a punch to the head
I smile big with a toothless grin.

Supersonic gone & took my soul
I caught the rhythm but the clock was slow yeh
Supersonic, truth be told
I don’t need you to live, but I’ll never let you go

Yeah I been thinking, I already know
Nothing bout nothing, or so I have been told
I’m not the paper, I’m more like the fold
Cut the crease & put the shit in the whole

Supersonic, gone & took my soul
I caught the rhythm but the clock was slow yeh
Supersonic, truth be told
I don’t need you to live, but I’ll never let you go

Supersonic, gotta feel it now
I need to hear it, need to feel it loud yeh
Supersonic, truth be told
I wanna live my life with the volume full

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Unthought Known Lyrics Pearl Jam

Unthought Known Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Eddie Vedder has said the song's lyrics are about the human psyche.

PJ Lyrics for Unthought Known:

All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?

Feel the path of every day
Which road you taking?
Breathing hard, making hay
Yeah, this is living

Look for love in evidence
That you're worth keeping
Swallowed whole in negatives
It's so sad and sickening

Feel the air up above
Oh, pool of blue sky
Fill the air up with love
All black with starlight

Feel the sky blanket you
With gems and rhinestones!
See the path cut by the moon
For you to walk on

For you to walk on...

Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing here...
Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing left...
Nothing left, nothing left
Nothing there, nothing here...

See the path cut by the moon
For you to walk on
See the waves on distant shores
Awaiting your arrival

Dream the dreams of other men
You'll be no one's rival
Dream the dreams of others then
You will be no one's rival

You will be no one's rival...

A distant time, a distant space
That's where we're living
A distant time, a distant place
So what ya giving?
What ya giving?

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Amongst the Waves Lyrics

Amongst the Waves Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Lyrically, the song kind of runs a 'surfing-as-life-metaphor'. Slightly anthemic Amongst the Wave was written by guitarist Stone Gossard and the 'yrics written by the 'voice of a generation', Eddie Vedder, "Amongst the Waves" was released on June 21, 2010 as the third single from the band's ninth studio album, 

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Lyrics: Amongst the Waves

What used to be a house of cards
Has turned into a reservoir
Saved the tears that were waterfalling
Let’s go swim tonight, darling

and Once outside the undertow
Just you and me and nothing more
If not for love I would be drowning
I’ve seen it work both ways, but I am up

Riding high amongst the waves
I can feel Like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can feel like I
Put away my early grave

Gotta say it now
Better loud
Than too late

Remember back the early days
When you were young and thus amazed

Suddenly the channel changed
The first time you saw blood

Cut to later, now you’re strong
You’ve bled yourself, the wounds are gone
It’s rare then where is nothing wrong
Survived and you’re amongst the fittest

Love ain’t love until you give it up

Riding high amongst the waves
I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
I can see the light
Coming through the clouds in rays

Gotta say it now
Better loud
than too late...

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Just Breathe Lyrics Pearl Jam

Just Breathe Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer.

Pearl Jam's main lyricist, Eddie Vedder has described the lyrics of "Just Breathe" as being "as close to a love song as we've ever gotten". It's certainly a song that tugs on the heart strings. The lyrics tell the story in a simple way, meaning any listener can match it to their story if they choose.

In 2009 Pearl Jam played Just Breathe with a string quartet... by all accounts it went off.

Just Breathe Lyrics PJ

Yes I understand that every life must end, aw huh
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, aw huh
I’m a lucky man to count on both hands
The ones I love

Some folks just have one,
Others they got none, aw huh

Stay with me
Let’s just breathe.

Practiced are my sins,
Never gonna let me win, aw huh
Under everything, just another human being, aw huh
Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world
To make me bleed.

Stay with me
You’re all I see.

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
As I come clean

I wonder everyday
as I look upon your face, aw huh
Everything you gave
And nothing you would take, aw huh
Nothing you would take
Everything you gave

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see

No one know this more than me.
As I come clean

Nothing you would take everything you gave.
Hold me till I die
Meet you on the other side

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After thoughts: It's amazing this lyric page has had over 150 comments from PJ fans, all echoing the sentiment of what this song means to them (and you!) Thanks for the sharing.

Johnny Guitar Lyrics Pearl Jam

Johnny Guitar Lyrics from the Pearl Jam Album: Backspacer

Johnny Guitar Lyrics were written by the combination of Vedder/Cameron/Gossard.

Eddie Vedder was inspired to write the lyrics for "Johnny Guitar" after viewing a collage of album covers that is pasted on the bathroom wall of Pearl Jam's rehearsal area. Eddie noticed the album cover for Johnny "Guitar" Watson's 1979 album, What the Hell Is This?, and imagined a man who becomes attracted to one of the various women on the cover and then wonders why this woman would rather be one of Watson's many girlfriends instead of his only one. Yup....

Lyrics:

Johnny Guitar Watson staring at me
Riding on 3 wheels, a woman on his knee
With a leg under a red dress I wish I could see
Further North a warmth alive & lingering

Now Johnny he be having lots of women
The reason he be smiling known to him

On the left the girl in red so innocent
Never sheds her clothes even when she goes to bed
The type of girl responsible foriginal sin
Can’t help but wonder where & who she is

And the memory is always getting clearer
For that’s 30 years or more I’ve loved her so
And how I need to know,.. Why she’s with him

And I sleep w/the light on,.. In case she comes
And I sleep w/the light on,.. In case she

Recently as I was waiting on a dream
She came to visit lost & lonely me
She leaned over the bed & with her lips above my head
She asked if I had seen her Johnny

Oh and I hide my disappointment
Cause for years I had been hoping
Oh yeh how I had been hoping
That when she came, she would come for me

I hide my disappointment
Cause for years I had been hoping
that when she came,
she'd be coming just for me

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The Fixer Lyrics Pearl Jam

The Fixer Lyrics Pearl Jam.

The Fixer is the first single off Pearl Jam's new album Backspacer.

Featuring lyrics written by vocalist Eddie Vedder and music co-written by drummer Matt Cameron and guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard.

When asked the question is Eddie the "The Fixer" referred to in the song's title, Vedder stated:
My answer is, aren't we all? Maybe I'm wrong to think that, but it seems like we are...I'm thinking more on a worldview or a community view. I read this quote from Rick Danko, maybe from before The Last Waltz. He said, "We used to think with music that we could save the world, but now we're old enough and wise enough to know that all we can change is our community." Well, then it turns out that our community is a fairly large one. I think it's a classic kind of man/woman thing, and this is where it's not necessarily a positive trait to always try to be fixing things." Eddie then refered to how his follow up song will be called The Listener and wil be an intrumental as by being the listener he wouldn't talk....

'The Fixer' Lyrics

When somethings dark
Lemme shed a little light on it

When somethings cold
Lemme put a little fire on it

If somethings old
I wanna put a little shine on it

When somethings gone
I wanna fight to get it back again.

When somethings broke
I wanna put a little fixing on it

If somethings bored
I wanna put a little exciting on it

When somethings low
I wanna put a little high on it

When somethings lost
I wanna fight to get it back again

When signals cross
I wanna put a little straight on it

If there’s no love
I’m gonna try to love again

I’ll say your prayers
I’ll take your side
I’ll find us a way to make light

I’ll dig your grave
We’ll dance & sing.
Who knows, could be our last lifetime!

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Pearl Jam's Backspacer Album Lyrics

Here's the lyrics to each of the new song's PJ's Backspacer album. Click on the link to view the lyrics. Eddie Vedder, voice of generation strikes again! The blood and guts man is Backspacer's album cover!

1. Gonna See My Friend
2. Got Some
3. The Fixer
4. Johnny Guitar
5. Just Breathe
6. Amongst The Waves
7. Unthought Known
8. Supersonic
9. Speed Of Sound
10. Force Of Nature
11. The End

Gonna See My Friend Lyrics Pearl Jam

See My Friend Lyrics Pearl Jam

The lyrics were written by Eddie Vedder

Gonna See My Friend Lyrics:

Do you wanna hear something sick?
We are but victims of desire
I'm gonna shake this thing
I wanna shake this pain before I retire

I’m gonna see my friend,.. I'm gonna see my friend
Make it go away
I’m sick of everything,.. gonna see my friend
Make it go away

Buona Sera, won’t be long before we
All walk off the wire
I’m gonna see my friend,.. I'm gonna see my friend
for what I require

Buona sera, cut my quick
Don’t’ want my flame to get no higher.

I'm gonna see my friend,.. I'm gonna see my friend,.. Make it go away
I'm sick of everything,.. I'm gonna see my friend,.. Make it go away
I'm gonna see my friend,.. I'm gonna see my friend,.. Make it go away

Wanna leave it all
Wanna give it up
Wanna see it, gone once & for all

Wanna feel withdrawal
Want an overhaul
Wanna be there, hard as a statue
Black as a tattoo, never to wash away

Gonna take me an astral plane
I'm gonna tunnel through denial
I’m gonna shake this thing
I wanna shake this pain 'for I retire

I'm gonna see my friend,.. I'm gonna see my friend,.. Make it go away
I'm sick of everything,.. I'm gonna see my friend,.. Make it go away
I'm gonna see my friend,.. I'm gonna see my friend,.. Make it go away

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Got Some Lyrics Pearl Jam

These lyrics are for the song Got Some that Pearl Jam debuted on the Conan O'Brien Show as promo for the new album, Backspacer.

'Got Some' lyrics.

Every night with the lights out, where you gone?
What’s wrong?
Everytime you can try but can’t turn on
Your rock song

Got some if you need it

Get it now / get it on / before its gone
Let’s everybody carry on, carry on

Get it now / set it off / before its gone
Get everybody, carry on carrying on

Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you on the rise? Are you falling down?
Lemme know, c’mon let’s go yeh!

Got some

Get it now / get it on / before its gone
Lets everybody carry on, carry on

Turn it up / set it off / Before we’re gone
Let’s everybody get it on, get it on

This situation, which side are you on?
Are you getting out? Are you dropping bombs?
Have you heard of diplomatic resolve? Yeh!

Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you on the rise? Are you falling down?
Lemme know, c’mon let’s go

Get it now / Get it on/ Before it’s gone
Lets everybody carry on, carrying on

Turn it up / set it off / before we’re gone
Let’s everybody get it on, get it on

Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you on the rise? Are you falling down?
Lemme know, c’mon let’s go

Got some if you need it
Got some.

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Carry on... Let's go!

Get Some Lyrics Pearl Jam