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10/04/2016 , , , , ,
Pearl Jam - Sirens
Pearl Jam - Sirens


Pearl Jam - Sirens Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lightning Bolt
Released: 2013

Sirens Lyrics


Sirens
  • This soaring, bittersweet love song was released as the second single from Pearl Jam's tenth studio album Lightning Bolt. It finds Eddie Vedder crooning:

    "I could take your hand and feel your breath.
    Or feel that someday we'll be over."

    "I remember when [Vedder] played that for us in his room right after he wrote the lyrics," recalled bassist Jeff Ament. "I think he had stayed up the night before writing."
  • Producer Brendan O'Brien, who has worked with Pearl Jam since their 1993 Vs. album, called this emotional ballad, "one of the best songs they've ever written."
  • Eddie Vedder talked to Rolling Stone about writing mellower music in his middle age, such as this song. The Pearl Jam frontman said there is more "sentimentality" in his lyrics nowadays, adding, "For years, it was playing word games and expressing those emotions, but doing it in such a way that was cryptic and where Mark Arm from Mudhoney would still have some modicum of respect for me. But nowadays, it's more like sitting down and writing a song, and whatever comes out, comes out."
  • The accompanying music video is a performance clip directed by photographer Danny Clinch, who also helmed the visual for "Mind Your Manners."
  • The ballad is one of several tracks on Lightning Bolt that reference mortality. Vedder told Rolling Stone the album has a lot of lyrics about the passing of life and ageing because "They say to write what you know. I think that's maybe one thing that we all know [laughs]. It's living while you're alive, and living to the day you die, and being cognizant of the end, and you might lead a more appreciative life, if that's part of your approach."
  • Guitarist Mike McCready told Billboard magazine that he wrote the music for the song after a Roger Waters concert for The Wall inspired him. "I wanted to write something that would have a Pink Floyd type feel," he said, "We recorded a demo of it [but Vedder] didn't put the lyrics on it until the second time we went back in... I heard them the night that he put them on there and they just brought me to tears. This is Ed at his best in my mind."

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    9/22/2016 , , , , ,
    Pearl Jam - Swallowed Whole
    Pearl Jam - Swallowed Whole


    Pearl Jam - Swallowed Whole Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Lightning Bolt
    Released: 2013

    Swallowed Whole Lyrics


    Swallowed Whole
  • This mid-tempo rocker finds Eddie Vedder wrestling with mortality as he reflects on, "what lies beyond the grave." It is one of several tracks on Lightning Bolt that finds the the Pearl Jam frontman thinking about the passing of life. Vedder explained to Billboard magazine that rather wanting to focus on mortality it was something he couldn't get away from. "It sounds so pedestrian and ridiculous but death is everywhere," he said. "Maybe just because I read the paper every day. Maybe it's war, maybe it's the epidemic rates of suicide in veterans coming back. I just can't seem to get around it. So I think part of it is not getting around it, it's getting through it. Songs end up being mantras that you end up playing for yourself as well."
  • Vedder, a serious surfer, wrote this one night when he had gone out on a paddleboard. "It was a full moon and it was the calmest I have ever seen the ocean," he remembered to The Sun. "I was somewhere very remote and it was midnight and I had to do something. I had to get on the water – so I did a two-hour paddle out to the waves."

    "The waves break about three-quarters of a mile out," he continued, "and as you get closer they're really loud and huge. You couldn't see how big they were from the shore."

    "It was such a tremendously intense experience," Vedder added. "Every nerve is up to your skin. Your senseless are so alive because you are by yourself and it's extremely beautiful and also a little bit dangerous."

    He concluded: "That song came from that night and I do like that it has a build and then it clears out. There's momentum, it's almost like you're running through trails of trees and then it becomes an open field."

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    9/21/2016 , , , , ,
    Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
    Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt


    Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Lightning Bolt
    Released: 2013

    Lightning Bolt Lyrics


    Lightning Bolt
  • The tightly coiled title track of Pearl Jam's tenth studio album finds Eddie Vedder singing about a girl who struck him within his heart like a bolt of lightning. He goes on to lament about having to let the mystery woman go. "I wonder who that's about," commented guitarist Mike McCready to Billboard magazine. "The cool thing is kind of not knowing. I can put in the context of what I feel and who I know just like you can…the important thing is what it means to you the listener."
  • The song was debuted live at Chicago's Wrigley Field in July 2013 after a thunderstorm threw literal lightning bolts in the sky around the baseball stadium.
  • Longtime producer Brendan O'Brien said Eddie Vedder wrote the lyrics for this midtempo rocker using the same typewriter he's written every Pearl Jam album on since they met in the early '90s.
  • The Lightning Bolt album was Pearl Jam's fifth chart-topping LP in the US. It also reached #1 in Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Ireland and Portugal, while its entry into the UK chart at #2 equaled the best-ever performance in that country.

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    8/21/2016 , , , , ,
    Pearl Jam - Infalliable
    Pearl Jam - Infalliable


    Pearl Jam - Infalliable Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Lightning Bolt
    Released: 2013

    Infalliable Lyrics


    Infalliable
  • This song finds Eddie Vedder singing of the ill-advised arrogance of modern humans and questioning whether we're really progressing as a culture. The singer told Rolling Stone he is pointing the finger mostly at America. "I wouldn't want to limit it to just our country," he said with a laugh. "But if you're a casting director, you'd say, 'Well, wow, this country certainly fits the part.' You know, we legalized gay marriage in the state of Washington at the same time we legalized pot, and it was a great reason to celebrate! But then, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for minorities and less fortunate people on the economic scale to vote. That was a huge step backward. We could've made two big strides forward. Instead, we're just, you know, prone, doing the splits."
  • Bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard wrote the song's music (the lyrics are Vedder's). "There's a lot going on in that track. It's three dimensional, you can really hear each instrument playing," Gossard, commented to Billboard magazine. "I think the melodies are so strong, the descending chords in the chorus and where Ed takes that vocally, it has this classic melody that is pretty instantaneous."

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