Longing to Belong Lyrics Eddie Vedder

Longing to Belong Lyrics by Eddie Vedder

'Longing to Belong' was the first song to be released from Eddie Vedder's second solo album, Ukulele Songs. It is a wildy different follow up to Into The Wild...

Free from the chains of his main music machine, Pearl Jam, Eddie was able to mix the album up with some original songs and some covers as well.

The song's lyrics are basically a love song, a subject which long time Pearl Jam fans know is dear to Eddie Vedder's own heart.

Longing to Belong Lyrics:

I'm falling harder than I've ever fell before I'm fallin faster, hoping I'll land in your arms cause all my time is spent here longing to belong to you 

I dream of circles perfect eyes within your face my heart's an open wound that only you replace and though the moon is rising can't put your picture down love, it's a frightning way to fall 

And when the time is right, I hope that you'll respond like when the wind gets tired and the ocean becomes calm I may be dreaming but I'm longing to belong to you

Want more Eddie Vedder Lyrics? Check out Ukulele Songs Lyrics!

Pearl Jam Set List Hard Rock Calling, London 2010

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Pearl Jam Hard Rock Calling, London Set List

As part of their European Tour 2010, Pearl Jam played a long set at the Hard Rock Calling. 

Set List:

Given To Fly

Why Go

Brain Damage (Pink Floyd cover)

Corduroy

Got Some

Once

World Wide Suicide

Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

Amongst The Waves 

Even Flow

Unthought Known

Nothingman

Arms Aloft (Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros cover)

Not For You

Of The Earth

State Of Love And Trust

Do The Evolution

Wasted Reprise

Better Man

PJ 1st Encore:

Just Breathe

Red Mosquito (with Ben Harper, they often do this together)

Black

Porch

PJ Encore 2:

Go

The Fixer

Alive

Yellow Ledbetter

Pearl Jam care, they really care

Not content with sticking it to Ticketmaster and keeping in rocking in the free word, Pearl Jam have upped their game and are now indeed going to save the world. 

While many people dream of becoming a rock star, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard says he is trying to be more of a businessman to help slow climate change.

The U.S. band, which has sold 60 million albums since 1991, said on Monday it was investing $210,000 to plant trees in Washington State to soak up an estimated 7,000 tons of carbon dioxide linked to a 32-date 2009 tour.

"Pearl Jam is a band but we are also a business," guitarist and co-founder Gossard told Reuters in a telephone interview.

"We're seeing ourselves as a Washington business, a regional business that is acknowledging its carbon footprint and hoping to inspire other businesses."

Many leading musicians have sought to raise awareness about the risks of climate change, often by planting trees, and culminating in "Live Earth" concerts in July 2007 across seven continents.

But Gossard, 43, said celebrity-driven inspiration was often short-lived. "The idea of a celebrity is fantastic in terms of raising awareness for a day or a week, but it needs consistent business policy in the long term," he said.

He said there were good business arguments for investing in climate measures -- even though opinion polls in the United States show dwindling belief that mankind causes global warming. Carbon-capping legislation is stalled in the U.S. Senate.

"It's doable. It's not going to kill your company and if anything it will enhance your company's ability to sell whatever it is selling by being good stewards of the land," he said. 

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The move to cleaner and greener is all well and alive in the rock community these days. Jack Johnson's new tour is going to have its profits delivered back to community groups - some of which will no doubt be asking us to cut back on travelling hundreds of miles to see our favourite bands... 

Set List Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam closed the Austin City Limits Festival which ran from 2 – 4th October 2009.

Eddie Vedder laced a series of steely guitar runs through opener “Why Go?” and slashed a jagged path up the center of “Corduroy.” What was most breathtaking about the set list was its brute, blunt force, and the ferocity with which the band tore into the songs.

Rolling Stone Magazine noted “The group’s reliance on classic material afforded an opportunity to see how much they’ve grown. Taken on its own “The Fixer (lyrics),” the sterling new single from Backspacer, is a charmer, Vedder wandering through the world and setting aright all of the things that seem askew (”When something’s cold/let me put a little fire on it”). But coming as it did between a scorching “State of Love and Trust” and a volcanic, borderline-hardcore take on “Go,” the song’s steely optimism felt that much more earned”.

Pearl Jam’s Set List Austin City Limit Festival:

“Why Go?”
“Corduroy”
“Got Some”
“Not For You”
“Modern Girl” (snippet)
“Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”
“Given to Fly”
“World Wide Suicide”
“Even Flow”
“Unthought Known” (lyrics)
“Daughter”
“WMA” (Partial)
“Hail, Hail”
“Insignificance”
“Present Tense”
“State of Love & Trust”
“The Fixer”
“Go”
“Red Mosquito” (with Ben Harper)
“Do the Evolution”
“The Real Me” (The Who Cover)
“Alive”
“Mountain Song” (Jane’s Addiction cover with Perry Farrel)
“Rockin’ in the Free World” (Neil Young cover)

More recent Pearl Jam Set Lists

Backspacer Itunes Pre-Order Links

For Pearl Jam fans outside the United States, here are the links to preorder the new Pearl Jam album, Backspacer, in iTunes. What are you waiting for? Get ordering!

United Kingdom

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=328084...

Germany

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=328863...

Australia

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=328084...

Canada

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=327945...

Japan

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=328084...

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.



Backspacer Album Cover Art

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

Want to read more Backspacer Lyrics. Check out Amongst the Waves or Just Breathe.

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.

More Backspacer Lyrics

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

More Backspacer Lyrics !

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

More Backspacer Lyrics