My husband's favorite band was Pearl Jam. We sang this in the car, I swear I could feel his energetic love for me through his fingers as we linked hands, windows down, blaring Backspacer. He'd sing at the top of his lungs and had such a beautiful voice. He was such a wonderful, talented musician and writer and an incredibly loving person.He passed away Jan 1st of this year. I played "Just Breathe" for him at his funeral. Fly high, love [ JMW 7-20-88 - 1-1-2013 ] love you, more than anything
Your story touched me deeply Cassandra. I hope four years later you are finding peace and purpose again in your husband's memory. This is a beautiful song and I hope this brings good memories as time heals those wounds. God Bless.
Give all of that pain to Jesus Christ He saved me from suicide and He totally delivered me from depression too and healed me from all the pain of a childhood trauma of abuse....
This song always reminds me of the largest battle of addiction to opiates. They were some dark days. But Im up riding high amongst the waves!! Clean for 3years
That is so awesome!!!! I’m a recovering opiate addict also, clean two years. My fiancé and I are both in recovery and will have this song played at our wedding.
Backspacer was the CD I listened to in 2009 as I drove down and up the mountain to visit my brother as he lay dying in a hospital due to alcoholic hepatitis. I have a tattoo that represents my brother and "Unthought Known", but this song, ATW, can easily bring me to tears. I'm grateful to have a band to love so much and whose music helps me through difficult times.
To all you beautiful people out there - find your soul by focusing on it, find the darkness by looking at it. You can have the most enlightening spirit, but if you look at what is wrong or dark about this world you let it enter your spirit. I am not ignorant to all the pain and sorrow out there, I just want to do my best to not add to it...and that means I keep my focuus on LOVE and LIGHT! Namaste
My favourite Pearl Jam song. I am a surfy chick from way back and really believe we need to conserve the Oceans and this world. Or we are going to pay the price. But I love the lyrics, the music, the guitar solos and of course Eddie's voice. Amongst The Waves just as good now as when I first heard it 🖐🖐🇦🇺🇦🇺💖💖
What used to be a house of cards Has turned into a reservoir Save the tears that were water falling 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 Where I can feel like I Have a soul that has been saved Where I can feel like I've Put away my early grave I gotta say it now Better loud than too late Remember back, the early days When you were young, and less 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 when there is nothing wrong Survived and you're amongst the fittest Love ain't love until you feel 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 I gotta say it now Better loud than too late I gotta say it now Better loud than too late Hey yeah 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 I gotta say it now Better loud than too late I gotta say it now Better loud than too late Say it now Better loud than too late
Wow Cassandra - I feel the same way, my husband passed away 10 years ago........Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog bring me right back to the first time we heard Eddie's voice.......we have a daughter, she's 14 and loves Eddie too.....music spans everything, generations, time, space.....it's amazing....
loved it when eddie told everyone in the alive festival to when we catch a wave, to dedicate to him and to every member of pearl jam.. u cant bet i will remember that everytime :D simply the best band ever. LOVE FROM PORTUGAL!
First time I heard this song I was so happy cuz I could tell Eddie was so happy his daughter saved him and his wife ❤️ love is so powerful!!!🙏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I'd never even considered what song I would want played at my own funeral until I read your heartbreaking post Cassandra. But your selection was unquestionably perfect. I love that song because it is the confluence of beauty and pain - the pure expression of how we feel about our lost loved ones.
It's so amazing that after TWENTY years Pearl Jam is still together and making awesome music with so much soul. Seems that too many talented people meet an early grave. Thanks for not disappointing guys.
The Adelaide show reminded me that we are all human.. that show was magic and still today are under it's spell. This song is Pure Love Magic. Thanks Pearl Jam for Being such a huge part of my life.
I can feel like I Have a soul that has been saved!!!! I can see the light Coming through the clouds in rays!!!! and this feeling I get when listening to you guys my loves!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!
I loved the song since I first heard it... but somehow today it made more sense, it got deeper.. I watched Jack Johnson's concert on 8/18 with friends, my wife and daughter... so I was watching the video You and Your Heart, thinking of the part where it said "shouldn't feel so far apart". My heart and I used to be so far apart.. but then my wife made me feel as if I had "a soul that has been saved" so I had better say it "loud than too late". Somehow everything gets me back to PJ.
Essa música é uma das que mais marcou a minha vida. A mensagem que ela passa é sutil: forte e imperceptível a quem não está aberto a ouvir em sua profundidade. Pra mim é uma mensagem de fé na superação. Ouvia todos os dias exaustivamente em um momento obscuro da minha vida, e vi nessas paavras uma certeza de que eu estaria logo mais acima das ondas, com uma visão ampla de tudo. Hoje ouço com amor no coração por entender profundamente que é real esta mensagem! Pearl Jam sempre tocando nossas almas!
So amazing to see the comments from hundreds, expressing how this song has affected their lives in so many ways. Like something delivered from the heavens above, if that sorta thing existed.
Thank you, PJ, for sharing the words. They help me articulately share the lyrics with my blind daughter, who can't see this amazing video. GO GRIZ!!!!!!!!!!!
That was awesome!!! Love seeing Pearl Jam and the Ocean 🌊🌊🌊 in the same video, great job, love the song and the album, I love all their albums, love Pearl Jam, thank you for sharing this awesome video, Eddie puts every bit of himself on stage!! 😊💓🤘✌️
i loved this band in the early 90, got old and faded. this reminds me of the passion of this band. they live to play and it reminds me of my younger years. If you love music, you love this band
Music can unite us Cassandra, we all love Pearl Jam, and I can tell you that with your message you've received love from thousands of people worldwide! Keep loving, and sharing ♡
Hopefully Eddie can keep his voice for another 20 years or so.. it will be a sad day indeed when Pearl Jam quits putting out albums and touring. They've been doing it for 20 years. They really truly are one of the best bands in the last century, IMO.
is the water beautiful, or is it the father/daughter moments that make the oceans worth saving? I say both. and especially in this video- just amazingly beautiful.
is hard to forget all this moments and all that is gone but as the waves those memories will return again and again as this song too /; miss u stephanie
PEARL JAM LOTS OF LOVE FROM GREECE.. you are really amazing ban, thanks for all you have offered to music! we are waiting for you to come sometime..and throw a huge gig
O que falar de Pearl Jam???? Os cara são os melhores. Estava fazendo uma poupança para ir até São Paulo ve-los, achei que tocariam aqui em 2011, olha que moro a quase 3000km de São Paulo, e agora vem esta noticia que os caras estão de recesso, varios sonhos desfeitos.
there is always an album that you heard for the first time that change your life forever for me that album was ten I was eight years old . I love Pearl jam In high school i convinced a friend i was dating Eddie Vedder. Pearl jam got my though high school and my home life.
@Cassandra Ward I have also asked that just breathe be played at my funeral, I am so sorry to hear about your loss...I can empathize with the sentiment attached to the song
This is literally one of my favorite songs of all time now. THe video is so amazing.. but my video in my head is even better. Is that his daughter? If so, that is literally the most adorable thing I've ever seen. Long story, but I've been fan for so long and ups and downs that this song means sooo much and to see Ed with a daughter (now 2!) is just amazing.
Even though this song was written and conceived long before Big Companies and the US Government, it has an amazing new meaning to the events going on in the Gulf. As a longtime fan of PJ and all members from past and present, this video should be a warning as well as a cherished memory of what our oceans should be: a gift to behold and not tarnished. Bravo Guys.
i´m thankfull that i live in this times of century cause i got to grow up with this great band!!!!!!!!!! thanl you guys! wath else can i say!! keep flowing
Directly connected to my spirituality. This song has saved me more than once from imminent disaster. The whole song is a metaphor for my life up until this point. 110% agree with The Resurrection, thank you pearl jam for motivating me.
My husband's favorite band was Pearl Jam. We sang this in the car, I swear I could feel his energetic love for me through his fingers as we linked hands, windows down, blaring Backspacer. He'd sing at the top of his lungs and had such a beautiful voice. He was such a wonderful, talented musician and writer and an incredibly loving person.He passed away Jan 1st of this year. I played "Just Breathe" for him at his funeral. Fly high, love [ JMW 7-20-88 - 1-1-2013 ] love you, more than anything
Your story touched me deeply Cassandra. I hope four years later you are finding peace and purpose again in your husband's memory. This is a beautiful song and I hope this brings good memories as time heals those wounds. God Bless.
This made me cry. My husband and I did the same thing. Pearl jam has helped me through his passing. 5\22\84~5\15\18
Connected wings
Ladies your stories are beautiful. Thank y’all and God bless you both.
@@christinaromano2305 sending you so much love 🖤
Pearl Jam have such a unique talent for capturing the aura of a moment in the feel of a song.
My son died 16 months ago and whenever I want to feel near him, I listen to his favourite band of all time. Comfort and tears.jlmm
Jean Miller I'm sorry for loss love. Hugs for you
I lost my husband 3 months ago😭this song brings me to him as well. Along with given to fly...prayers and hugs
Brave,,,,, you, Are
I farted
Give all of that pain to Jesus Christ He saved me from suicide and He totally delivered me from depression too and healed me from all the pain of a childhood trauma of abuse....
"I can feel like I have a soul that has been saved..." Thank you Pearl Jam.
Is it me or eddie's voice just keeps getting better and better?
It does
Indeed, getting better and better for sure.
I think it is all about the wine... hahaha
Keeps getting VEDDER N VEDDER
You're fucking high.
Baritone voices can certainly get better with age. And his is one of a kind.
This song always reminds me of the largest battle of addiction to opiates. They were some dark days. But Im up riding high amongst the waves!! Clean for 3years
patrick brewer wish you all the best with your recovery. Well done with being clean. Not easy
That is so awesome!!!! I’m a recovering opiate addict also, clean two years. My fiancé and I are both in recovery and will have this song played at our wedding.
patrick brewer same here man. Still working on the sober part but getting better.
Same man. Just about to hit 6 months rage on brotha. Stay the course
Felicitaciones... saludos desde Chile!!!
Backspacer was the CD I listened to in 2009 as I drove down and up the mountain to visit my brother as he lay dying in a hospital due to alcoholic hepatitis. I have a tattoo that represents my brother and "Unthought Known", but this song, ATW, can easily bring me to tears. I'm grateful to have a band to love so much and whose music helps me through difficult times.
Perfection! I stopped drinking today, and this song is helping me cope with it.
Wishing you a giant wave Gary. Lotsa friends coping too.
Hope you have done ok
Jay, I'm doing really well. How are you? I hope you're doing good.
One of the most beautiful PJ guitar solos
One of the best songs I've ever heard in a live setting.
This band never disappoints live. AWESOME!!!
To all you beautiful people out there - find your soul by focusing on it, find the darkness by looking at it. You can have the most enlightening spirit, but if you look at what is wrong or dark about this world you let it enter your spirit. I am not ignorant to all the pain and sorrow out there, I just want to do my best to not add to it...and that means I keep my focuus on LOVE and LIGHT! Namaste
This is the best song of the album! and one of the bests of Pearl JAM
One of the best filling songs Ed ever wrote IMHO. I adore this Song 🎧 & The vid is so complimentary to his song
My favourite Pearl Jam song. I am a surfy chick from way back and really believe we need to conserve the Oceans and this world. Or we are going to pay the price. But I love the lyrics, the music, the guitar solos and of course Eddie's voice. Amongst The Waves just as good now as when I first heard it 🖐🖐🇦🇺🇦🇺💖💖
THEY ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE GREATEST BAND EVER!!!!!
What used to be a house of cards
Has turned into a reservoir
Save the tears that were water falling
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
Where I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved
Where I can feel like I've
Put away my early grave
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
Remember back, the early days
When you were young, and less 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 when there is nothing wrong
Survived and you're amongst the fittest
Love ain't love until you feel 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
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
Hey yeah
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
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
I gotta say it now
Better loud than too late
Say it now
Better loud than too late
Love how he looks at the audience whilst singing. It's like he rerealize how big of a deal his music is every time he's on stage. Such a legend.
I love this song so much #PearlJam is my jam #grunge
really shocked that this song didn't have much success on the charts in the US. It is a gem. Backspacer is a killer album from Pearl Jam.
Wow Cassandra - I feel the same way, my husband passed away 10 years ago........Pearl Jam and Temple of the Dog bring me right back to the first time we heard Eddie's voice.......we have a daughter, she's 14 and loves Eddie too.....music spans everything, generations, time, space.....it's amazing....
Perfection
Best band of my generation. And best band currently playing today.
This song is breathtaking!
loved it when eddie told everyone in the alive festival to when we catch a wave, to dedicate to him and to every member of pearl jam.. u cant bet i will remember that everytime :D
simply the best band ever. LOVE FROM PORTUGAL!
"Love ain’t love until you give it up"
Thank you guys, for making my LIFE a better place to be..
Beautiful song, very powerful. Great thought inspiring lyrics as well.
First time I heard this song I was so happy cuz I could tell Eddie was so happy his daughter saved him and his wife ❤️ love is so powerful!!!🙏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
How so? I don't know the story
I'd never even considered what song I would want played at my own funeral until I read your heartbreaking post Cassandra. But your selection was unquestionably perfect. I love that song because it is the confluence of beauty and pain - the pure expression of how we feel about our lost loved ones.
Fkn Phenomenal video& song one of my most favorites,, such a universal message I love you edd & liv
It's so amazing that after TWENTY years Pearl Jam is still together and making awesome music with so much soul. Seems that too many talented people meet an early grave. Thanks for not disappointing guys.
Pearl Jam and the ocean go together perfectly
A melhor banda dos ultimos tempos...adooorooooo! continuem sempre!
The Adelaide show reminded me that we are all human.. that show was magic and still today are under it's spell. This song is Pure Love Magic. Thanks Pearl Jam for Being such a huge part of my life.
This song gives me the feels every time I listen...such a powerful song.
I can feel like I
Have a soul that has been saved!!!!
I can see the light
Coming through the clouds in rays!!!!
and this feeling I get when listening to you guys my loves!!!!!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!
this may be one of the most beautiful songs by pearl jam. simply amazing thank you pearl jam for keeping real music alive!
Ten, for me, is the best album ever made by an artist or group and PEARL JAM, just keep getting bigger and bigger! Love...
One of the best bands ever! Never too shy to send a message with their music & videos. LOVE PJ FOREVER!
I loved the song since I first heard it... but somehow today it made more sense, it got deeper.. I watched Jack Johnson's concert on 8/18 with friends, my wife and daughter... so I was watching the video You and Your Heart, thinking of the part where it said "shouldn't feel so far apart". My heart and I used to be so far apart.. but then my wife made me feel as if I had "a soul that has been saved" so I had better say it "loud than too late".
Somehow everything gets me back to PJ.
Essa música é uma das que mais marcou a minha vida. A mensagem que ela passa é sutil: forte e imperceptível a quem não está aberto a ouvir em sua profundidade. Pra mim é uma mensagem de fé na superação. Ouvia todos os dias exaustivamente em um momento obscuro da minha vida, e vi nessas paavras uma certeza de que eu estaria logo mais acima das ondas, com uma visão ampla de tudo. Hoje ouço com amor no coração por entender profundamente que é real esta mensagem! Pearl Jam sempre tocando nossas almas!
Most excellent. I just saw them last month in Dublin. The place was full of life. Good times had by all.
it was the first Backspacer song I fell in love, still one of the best song of the album!
Long live PJ!
So amazing to see the comments from hundreds, expressing how this song has affected their lives in so many ways. Like something delivered from the heavens above, if that sorta thing existed.
After Jeremy, this is my favourite song from Pearl Jam.
Thank you, PJ, for sharing the words. They help me articulately share the lyrics with my blind daughter, who can't see this amazing video. GO GRIZ!!!!!!!!!!!
What an amazing video. Love the underwater shots. You have to watch this one in HD!
That was awesome!!! Love seeing Pearl Jam and the Ocean 🌊🌊🌊 in the same video, great job, love the song and the album, I love all their albums, love Pearl Jam, thank you for sharing this awesome video, Eddie puts every bit of himself on stage!! 😊💓🤘✌️
July 10th...Finally They are back to Lisbon!!!!!! The greatest!!! Fabulous!!! Best live act!!!!
Welcome back Pearl Jam. the only survivor of the Grunge movement is blessing us with awesome vocals and music again!
i loved this band in the early 90, got old and faded. this reminds me of the passion of this band. they live to play and it reminds me of my younger years. If you love music, you love this band
Music can unite us Cassandra, we all love Pearl Jam, and I can tell you that with your message you've received love from thousands of people worldwide! Keep loving, and sharing ♡
Hopefully Eddie can keep his voice for another 20 years or so.. it will be a sad day indeed when Pearl Jam quits putting out albums and touring. They've been doing it for 20 years. They really truly are one of the best bands in the last century, IMO.
is the water beautiful, or is it the father/daughter moments that make the oceans worth saving? I say both. and especially in this video- just amazingly beautiful.
well Pearl Jam week is now over...that was nice and relaxing...can't wait for the new CD!!..
MASSIVE RESPECT!! I was blessed to see PJ in 2000. Without a doubt the greatest gig I have ever been to.
is hard to forget all this moments and all that is gone but as the waves those memories will return again and again as this song too /; miss u stephanie
Great lyrics and a divine voice! Listening their music for 17 years and it seems I can't get enough of it! All I can say is Thank You! from Romania.
I just cried this made me so happy! such amazing writing and composure. This song will come to my grave.
love this song .
What a great song!!
BEST SONG
Eddie's vocals just keep getting better and better.
Excelente, como todas as outras músicas ♥
PEARL JAM LOTS OF LOVE FROM GREECE..
you are really amazing ban, thanks for all you have offered to music!
we are waiting for you to come sometime..and throw a huge gig
Man what a great band..thank god we all still have Pearl Jam.
Greatest band, greatest love song, long live Pearl Jam
A voice for the ages. Gives me goosebumps. Just amazing.
O que falar de Pearl Jam????
Os cara são os melhores.
Estava fazendo uma poupança para ir até São Paulo ve-los, achei que tocariam aqui em 2011, olha que moro a quase 3000km de São Paulo, e agora vem esta noticia que os caras estão de recesso, varios sonhos desfeitos.
solo una palabra ESPECTACULAR !!!!
PEARL JAM EL MEJOR.
I've been listening to PJ for 20 plus years and they only get better.
Heard this at the gym, I was stunned for a moment. Awesome! Pearl Jam still got a lot to deliver...... ...
There´s only one Ocean for everyone, and Pearl Jam is that Ocean... I love to be drowned in your music everyday of my life... I love you.
Love the bass in this song
beautiful, beautiful song--what a band. Talented is an understatement.
nothing would ever stop this band to make feel the world happy
Under-rated song
underrated is just one word.
It is the best band in the world! I'ma fan and I'm with the guys forever!
there is always an album that you heard for the first time that change your life forever for me that album was ten I was eight years old . I love Pearl jam In high school i convinced a friend i was dating Eddie Vedder. Pearl jam got my though high school and my home life.
heard this song every time on our boat... makes for great boating memories...
this song makes me feel nostalgia about a cetrain greek island.I ll eagerly anticipate the next summer
I love you & Olivia in this vid very touching. I adore this song the vid is the cherry on top
..beautiful song, beautiful video and the message as a whole..
@Cassandra Ward I have also asked that just breathe be played at my funeral, I am so sorry to hear about your loss...I can empathize with the sentiment attached to the song
I just saw this comment, I hope you're well, Kurt 🖤 just breathe is a beautiful choice 😌
one of Pearl jams best songs and videos! Thanks brothers!!
when they play live have they ever played aceans then after oceans play this song? that would be kind of cool if they played those back to back
This song totally speaks to me and where I am in my life! Thank you for this! :)
I love how this song holds a different meaning for every person, this song got me through my divorce.. thank you 🤍
Great song this one...the tune and lyrics are awesome...
best band ever!! eternal thanks from Peru.
This is literally one of my favorite songs of all time now. THe video is so amazing.. but my video in my head is even better.
Is that his daughter? If so, that is literally the most adorable thing I've ever seen. Long story, but I've been fan for so long and ups and downs that this song means sooo much and to see Ed with a daughter (now 2!) is just amazing.
Even though this song was written and conceived long before Big Companies and the US Government, it has an amazing new meaning to the events going on in the Gulf. As a longtime fan of PJ and all members from past and present, this video should be a warning as well as a cherished memory of what our oceans should be: a gift to behold and not tarnished.
Bravo Guys.
2:49 is why I love Ed's music. Only a Surfer knows
i´m thankfull that i live in this times of century cause i got to grow up with this great band!!!!!!!!!!
thanl you guys!
wath else can i say!! keep flowing
Watch This!!!
Awesome song from the best band on the planet!
Great song, great visuals. What can I say? These guys rock!!
Directly connected to my spirituality. This song has saved me more than once from imminent disaster. The whole song is a metaphor for my life up until this point. 110% agree with The Resurrection, thank you pearl jam for motivating me.
POWERFULL!!!!!! It's a real Music!!!!. Greatings from Poland!!!
❤
Awesome, saw 'em at Hyde park on Friday. They blew my socks off!!