Life Wasted

(Music: Gossard - Lyrics: Vedder)

You're always saying that there's something wrong.
I'm starting to believe it's you're plan all along.
Death came around, forced to hear it's song
And know tomorrow can't be depended on

Seen the home inside your head.
All locked doors and unmade beds

Open sores unattended
Let me say just once that

I have faced it, a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.
I escaped it, a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.
Having tasted, a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.

The world awaits just up the stairs
Leave the pain for someone else
Nothing back there for you to find
Or was it you you left behind?

You're always saying you're too weak to be strong.
You're harder on yourself than just about anyone

Why swim the channel just to get this far?
Halfway there, why would you turn around?

Darkness comes in waves
Tell me
Why invite it to stay?

You're warm with negativity
Yes, comfort is an energy
But why let the sad song play?

I have faced it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again
Oh i escaped it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again
Having tasted, a life wasted
i'm never going back again
Oh i erased it, a life wasted
I'm never going back again.



Worldwide Suicide (Music: Vedder - Lyrics: Vedder)

I felt the earth on Monday
It moved beneath my feet
In the form of a morning paper
Laid out for me to see

Saw his face in a corner picture
I recognized the name
Could not stop staring at the
Face I'd never see again

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday in a hell manmade
What can be saved, and who will be left to hold her?

The whole world...World over
It's a worldwide suicide

Medals on a wooden mantle
Next to a handsome face
That the president took for granted
Writing checks that others pay

And in all the madness
Thought becomes numb and naive
So much to talk about there's
Nothing for to say

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

Laying claim to the take that our soldiers save
Does not equate, and the truth's already out there

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

Looking in the eyes of the fallen
You got to know there's another, another, another, another
Another way

It's a shame to awake in a world of pain
What does it mean when a war has taken over

It's the same everyday and the wave won't break
Tell you to pray, while the devils on their shoulder

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.

The whole world,... World over.
It's a worldwide suicide.


Comatose (Music: McCready/Gossard - Lyrics: Vedder)

Consider me an object
Put me in a vacuum
Free of all conditions
Free of air and friction

Yeah, I'll be hanging upside down
And there I will swing
For all eternity

Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose, with no fear of falling

Consider me an abscess
Leave me in my vacuum
Blood on all the pistons
Running my transmission

Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose with no fear of falling

Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel It rising

High above I'll break the law
If it's illegal to be in love
Leave the hatred on the cross

Yeah I'll be hanging upside down
And here I will swing
For all eternity

Feel it rising, yeah next stop falling
Feel it rising, comatose with no fear of falling

Feel it rising, yeah, next stop falling
Feel it rising

Something never thought you'd be part of



Severed Hand (Music: Vedder - Lyrics: Vedder)

Big man stands behind an open door
Said, ‘leave your lady on the cement floor.'
"Got some kicks, want to take a ride?”
I said, “yeah!”
“Take your pick, leave yourself behind”
I said, “yeah!”

I've no fear but for falling down
So look out below I am falling now
Oh please understand I just need, my friend,
a way a way a way home

Tried to walk, found a severed hand
Recognized it from the wedding band

Said “it's ok, do you want some more?”
I said, “yeah!”
Said “You'll see dragons after 3 or 4”
I said, “yeah!”

“Understand I'm not falling down”
I said, “look around, the room's taller now”,
I can't close my eyes, ‘cause I see the sound in waves
In wave, lets me stay calm

If I don't lose control
Explore and not explode
A preternatural other plain
With the power to maintain

Like a tear in all we know
Once dissolved we are free to grow
What is human, what is more?
I'll answer this when I get home



Marker in the Sand (Music: McCready - Lyrics: Vedder)

There is a marker.. no one sees it ‘cause the sand
Has covered over all the messages it kept
Misunderstanding, what original truth was
And out expanding, in a faith, but not in love

What went wrong?

Walking tightrope high over moral ground
Seeing visions of falling up somehow
Do come down

With the living let what is living love
So unforgiving, yet needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say?

Those undecided needn't have faith to be free
And those misguided, there was a plan for them to be
Now you got both sides claiming killing in god's name
But god is nowhere to be found, conveniently

What goes on?

Walking tightrope high over moral ground
Walk the bridges before you burn them down
Do come round

With the living let what is living love
unforgiving, yet needing forgiveness first

God, what do you say? What do you say?

I feel a sickness. A sickness coming over me
Like watching freedom being sucked straight out to sea
And the solution? Well, from me far would it be
But the delusion is feeling dangerous to me

What goes wrong?

Walking tightrope high over moral ground
Seeing visions of falling up somehow
Do come down

With the living, let what is living love
Are forgiving, yet needing forgiveness first

What do you say? God, what do you say?
What do you say?

Calling out, calling out
Calling out, calling out



Parachutes (Music: Gossard - Lyrics: Vedder)

Why deny all the troubles when combined
With the missing links it don't feel like home now

That your gone all the troubles suddenly explained infinitum
You're always wishing and never here at home

You all the dreams we shared and
lights we turned on
but the house is getting dark

and I don't want to know your past
but together share the dawn
and I won't need nothing else
cause when we're dead
we would've had it all and

I would've fallen from the sky til you
Parachutes have opened now

Heaven knows if there's a ceiling
Come so low with the kneeling
Please know that I got all the friends I'm needing
Before my light go out
As the doors are closing now

And far away will be my home
And to grasp this, I don't know
But I don't need
Further back and forth, a wave will break on me today

And love
Wish the world could glow again with love
One can't see to have enough

And war
Break the sky and tell me what it's for
I'll travel there on my own

And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you



Unemployable (Music: Cameron - Lyrics: Vedder)

He's got a big gold ring what says “jesus saves”
And it's dented from the punch thrown at work that day
When he smashed the metal locker where he kept his things
After the big boss said, “you best be on your way”

Yeah
So this life is sacrifice

Oh yeah
Jumping trains just to survive

Well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake
On his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills upaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

Yeah
So this life is sacrifice

Oh yeah
To a strangers bottom line

Oh yeah
I seen the light...uh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
I'm scared alive..

Near to death.. uh-oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
I've seen the light
Scared alive.

Ohhh
So this life is sacrifice

Oh yeah
Was a dream that had to die

Oh yeah
I seen the light.. uh-oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
I'm scared alive..

near to death.. -oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
i seen the light

Scared alive..-oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
I'm here to die
Here to die
Scared alive
Near to death
Here to die
scared alive



Big Wave (Music: Ament Lyrics: Vedder)

I used to be crustacean
In an underwater nation
And I surf in celebration
Of a billion adaptations

Got me a big wave, Ride me a big wave, Got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, Ride me a big wave, Got me a big wave.

I feel the need planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time and tide arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind to let me ride

I scream in affirmation
Of connecting dislocations
And exceeding limitation
By achieving levitation

Got me a big wave, Ride me a big wave, Got me a big wave.
Got me a big wave, Ride me a big wave, Got me a big wave.

I feel the need planted in me
Millions of years ago
Can't you see
The oceans size?
Defining time and tide arising
Arms laid upon me
Being so kind to let me ride

Got me a ride.
I got me a ride



Gone (Music: Vedder - Lyrics: Vedder)

No more upset mornings
No more trying evenings
It's the American Dream I am disbelieving.

When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank
I'm gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride

For the lights of the city
They only look good when I'm speeding
I wanna leave them all behind me because this time

I'm gone
Gone, going for it all this time, gone

In the far off distance
As my taillights fade
No one thanks the witness but they will someday

Feel like a question is forming
And the answers far
I will be what I could be
Once I get out of this town

The lights of this city
They've lost all of their feeling
I wanna leave em all behind me because this time I'm gone

Gone, going for it all, this time I'm gone

Nothing is everything
I'll have it all

If nothing is everything then I will have it all
I'm gone



Wasted Reprise (Music: Gossard - Lyrics: Vedder)

I have faced it, a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.

Having tasted, a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.

I escaped it,a life wasted.
I'm never going back again.



Army Reserve (Music: Ament - Lyrics: Vedder/Echols)

How long must she stand
Before the ground, it gives way
To an endless fall
She can feel this
War on her face
Stars on her pillow
She's folding in darkness
Begging for slumber

I'm not blind
Can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm not frantic
I can feel it coming
Violently shakes
My body

Her son's slanted
Always giving her
The sideways eye
And empty chair where dad sits
How loud can silence get?
And mom, she reassures
To contain him
But it's becoming a lie

She tells herself
And everyone else
Father is risking
His life for our freedoms

I'm not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child's eye

I'm no frantic
I can feel it coming
Darling you'll save me
If you save yourself



Come Back (Music: McCready/Vedder - Lyrics: Vedder)

If I keep holding out will the light shine through?
Under this broken roof, it's only rain that I feel
I've been wishing out the days.. come back

I have been planning out all that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away. Know that I still remain true
I've been wishing out the days..

Please say, that if you hadn't of gone now
I wouldn't have lost you another way
From wherever you are.. come back

And these days, they linger on
And in the night as I'm waiting for
The real possibility I may meet you in my dream
I go to sleep

If I don't fall apart will my memories stay clear
So you had to go and I had to remain here

But the strangest thing to date
So far away
And yet you feel so close
And I'm not gonna question it any other way

There must be an open door
For you to come back

And the days, they linger on
And every night, what I'm waiting for
Is the real possibility I may meet you in my dreams

And sometimes you're here and you're talking back to me
Come the morning I could swear you're next to me
And it's okay.

It's okay
It's okay

I'll be here
Come back
Come back

I'll be here



Inside Job

(Music: McCready/Vedder - Lyrics: McCready)

Underneath this smile lies everything
All my hopes and anger, pride and shame

I make myself a pact, not to shut doors on the past
Just for today I am free

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today
I know this one thing well

I used to try and kill love. the highest sin
Breathing insecurity out and in

Searching hope, I'm shown the way to run straight
Pursuing the greater way for all human light

How I choose to feel is how I am
How I choose to feel is how I am

I will not lose my faith
It's an inside job today

Holding on, the light of night
On my knees to rise and fix my broken soul
Again

Let me run into the rain
To be a human light again

Let me run into the rain
To shine a human light today

Life comes from within your heart and desire
Life comes from within my heart and desire
Life comes from within your heart and desire