"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky. But why? Why? Why can't it be mine?" That line kills me every time
It kills me too. Bc I Iove her but it hasn't worked out. Maybe she would be better with someone else but bc I Iove her, why can't it be mine. This song hurts so bad.
I remember years ago a band at a place I worked played this song. I was 3/4 drunk n couldn’t take it anymore. As I walked back thru to leave thru the kitchen door. I stopped at the stage n literally interrupted the song as I kinda waved over the lead singer. As the band kept playing, she came over n leaned down so she could hear what I had to say. I told her to do me a favor n never attempt to play Black again, “You’ve ruined this song for me.” She was appalled, she even announced what I’d said to her. I’m not sure what happened afterwards as I didn’t stick around. Said what I had to say n exited thru the kitchen. Fortunately, nobody can ruin this song for me. Most importantly, it’s been almost 20yrs since my last beer.
The ending lines always get me sobbing. You hear Eddie’s voice cracking as he begs, PLEADS, asking “Why? Why? Why?”, each time getting more and more upset. This is an absolute masterpiece of a song.
you said it...masterpiece. He pleads, with all his soul, Why? Why? Why? It's the magnitude of despair. I weep when I listen...I can feel the helplessness.... it's all so real.
I emphatically disagree, if you lose a significant other that is still alive you can try again and you can figure out what you can do better next time there can be hope whether it's that person or somebody even better, on the other hand if you lose a family member that is six feet in the ground there is absolutely nothing that can replace that
@@alangrant8064 I feel you Alan. The things left unsaid. The questions left unasked. No chance for any connection again. Gone from my sight is far better than gone.
Some of the greatest advice I ever received was no matter how bad or how broken things may seem as long as the other person is still alive and will always Be an opportunity to heal and grow
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why... can't it be mine?" Everyone who has lost, feels this lyric deeply
At 69 Year old I still feel the pain of losing the woman I loved more than life in 2003. We both had issues and it may have been inevitable but, the song makes me still sob every time I hear it. I lost everything, literally at that moment. I'm lucky to be alive. Eddie's voice and knowing she will someday have a beautiful life in e else's sky, but not mine is almost too painful to listen to the song. Reflections on ultimate pain after all these years shows the importance of what Pearl Jam still is. I want this played at my funeral.
I'm sitting here at my porch, smoking cigarette and drinking beer, listening to this.. I can't help myself thinking about all those beautiful, full of emotions, outdoor summer nights full of laughter and love, with my friends and girls gathered around the campfire, so drunk.. and fresh air and.. you know, we were dreamers. I don't know if I'm happy or sad right now.. This song, it fucking smells like 90's. Thank you Pearl Jam!
Much love to everyone who's hurting in this crazy world in this crazy time. If you're here you probably came here to feel, we are together in this moment.
Eddie- Black Layne - Love, Hate, Love Trent - Hurt Corey - Snuff Kurt - Where did you sleep last night Aaron - Outside Iconic performances, filled with raw emotion and filled with pain, goes to show that some of the best music comes from the heart and life’s experiences
@@could4903 I debated that one in my mind for quite some time, went with LHL based on the raw emotion he sang this song with especially Live @ the Moore but you are right on with Nutshell especially when he sang it on Unplugged
The pain of loosing someone you have invested your heart and soul into only to have your world destroyed is encapsulated in this song. That's why it touches the soul so much
@@aliciacarver3266I feel Your pain. I too did the same for 6 years. But enough was enough for me. I baled. Luckily, he eventually got help. He recently passed in Oct. 13, 2020. Got diagnosed stage 4 cancer on my birthday Sept. 28, 2020. 😢
This song hits especially hard right now. Spouse currently on life support for late end liver disease. Listened to this and sang it on my way to the hospital with tears coming down. The way his voice sings this, you feel the angst. Beautiful.
An old friend with emotional scars once covered this song perfectly on acoustic right in front of me. He sang as though the lyrics were his life. Very powerful. I'll always think of him when I hear this song.
Omfg did you see how beautiful she is? Gulp...😮🤭 Insurance companies drop guys for having wives that look like that! I left my wife two months ago because I caught her cheating on me. On my birthday no less. I miss her, she was my best friend. I took my dogs and left because I didn't want to get lied to again. We were already in couples therapy, so her cheating in that context is just cruel. You can't still love someone and shit on them like that. I would be a fool to trust her again.
Holy shit this powerful....I never paid attention to the lyrics because its hard to understand Eddie when he sings but manly tears were shed. What a beautiful way to describe a lost love. Damn this hurt.
its really not easy to understand eddie but only because of the originality of the words he uses that im just not used to hear in songs, im looking for simple words he just doesnt use the guy is a genius
Every time i hear the lyrics : "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?" I cry..i guess this song really gets to the heart!
+Katnet1 Wow! Thought I was the only one. Lol! Never been the biggest Pearl Jam fan, but this song is pure gold... especially that part. (sigh) if only we had a time machine.
Lost my daughter in suicide a few months ago. She was just seventeen years old. I wish there was a way to get here back from that black sky full of stars.
After all the years, this song still pulls my heart and brings me to tears, imagine a 6 ft 310lbs 47 yr old man crying like a new born, I must have listen to this song for months after the deaths of my father, only sister, best friend, dog and first real love, I remember them all, I live if not for myself, than for them, and those who can't for themselves, life is so precious and so short
I've lost both parents and got sick and almost lost my life 3000 miles from my home and did not attend either parents funerals. What pulled me thru was my study and belief that i will see them again. I don't grieve too much because i know they are around me in spirit and i know i will see them again. I must continue my life mission before i return to the our true home with god then i shall rejoice with my loved ones. There is so much info on the subject of the afterlife and not just from the Bible, Koran,Torah. It has really helped me to understand the grand picture of it all. Good Luck, Peace and Blessings.
A men must not be ashamed of his tears. To admit you´re crying makes you far stronger than the people laughing at you. This makes you human and you have my respect for that.
I’m sorry brother 😔 I’ve lost three good friends from 2017-2019 and an uncle in the same week as my last friend in car accidents, uncle was of old age. I feel as though I’m heavily scarred and no one can help but those who’ve gone through a similar road. I can only say my friend. God is here your loved ones are with you and around you. Their home is in your heart which keeps you and them going. God bless you man just know your not alone.
I'm sorry brother, don't be ashamed of pain. Sometimes pain is the driving force behind bettering yourself. Lost my brother two months ago. He lost his battle with depression. It took losing him for me to say enough I'm trying to get help I miss him every day. But I understand your pain. Let it drive you to better things. * Hugs*
it cut deeply through my soul with agonizing pain 20+ years ago, and does the same thing today! I cry everytime I play this song. Sometimes you just want to be in a bad mood and feel the hurt.
Racing Wolf 2003 I hear ya. TOTALLY. But Please check out some Stevie Nicks. ANY Stevie Nicks. Actually, anything you probably never have heard before. You could start with Beauty and the Beast. Then Beautiful Child (Fleetwood Mac). If You Ever Did Believe. Storms. Love Is. Sara. Secret Love. That’s a good start. PLEASE check out the first song I listed, at least. You will for sure be moved. One way or another. Quite like this masterpiece of a song we have before us. You have excellent taste. In my humble opinion!!!
"I know someday you'll have a wonderful life. I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why can't it be mine?" Kinda hurts knowing the other person's gonna have a wonderful life and they will find love again and make some other guy the happiest man in the world while you don't think you'll ever love someone as much again. We just pretend we don't care because that's what guys are supposed to do, move on easily.
This is Pearl Jam's best song. The way Eddie sings those amazing lyrics sends shivers down the spine, and takes you to a point in your life when you were with people you loved and cherished, and who are now not in your life anymore, but part of that distant blurry past.
@uncleruckus You listened to this 13 days ago, & I just now listened to it. Today being July 10th, 2023. And not only does the song STILL give me goosebumps, but it DOES make me break down & cry. ESPECIALLY, when I think about the year I was born, & the music that is coming out now that I can't go be a 'groupie' anymore, & all the music I'm going miss when I pass to the next journey!
Welcome to the Club. It makes us rethink life and the time we wasted in our youth and in unrequited love.....ah,Ellon Musk, invents the Time Machine! .....
This song makes me remember all the girls I met in my youth, girls that got away during a turbulent time in my life where I was finding myself and was emotionally unstable. It makes me feel the dread and regret of how I missed so many opportunities to have potentially beautiful relationships. All those pictures in the depths of my mind have all been washed in black... tattooed everything. Painful and bittersweet. Eddie nails the emotions perfectly with his vivid lyrics and expressive singing style.
Yeah I got into a four-and-a-half-year relationship about seven years ago had a child my first child that I don't get to see very much because of her mom because she still has anger issues at me for what I did in our relationship and I regret all of it that I did it still hurts and now since I've grown up a lot more and understanding things I understand I lost one of the only good relationships I did have and now she's in someone else's sky and not mine
Melts me each and every time. Black represents heartbreak, longing, lust and utter despair. Pure magic of the human heart put beautifully into one sublime song
Black represents black tar heroin. The song is about the struggle of being addicted to heroin and watching how your life changes for the worst, but still not doing anything to change it because you love the drug more.
Anyone else listening to this masterpiece in 2021, or is it just me? Edit: For those listening in the year 2021, and the years to come; enjoy, as music like this is rare now in days. Share with your younger generations, and show them what real music is. Also, to the ones annoyed by the original question; shut up, and rock on!🤘🏻🎵
So much lingering pain. So powerful. Been there so many times but this expresses it so brilliantly that it's making me afraid of going back. So human. So honest. I love it because it scares me. It meets people where they are. So glad I learned that. Gave me empathy. Pearl Jam is timeless.
"And now my bitter hands/Cradle broken glass/Of what was everything"- Man, if you don't know the pain in those lyrics, then you've never lost someone who you loved more than life itself
3 years and still missing U pumpkin. It's 3:06am and I had to dedicate it to you. At 1 point we both gave each other life but at the end my life is lost. I just need a lil help and a hug or just a hug. Love U Pumpkin
“I know some day you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky. But why?! Why, why?! Why can’t it be mine?! That lyric, it’s not just the pain it evokes. When you hear Eddie sing you also hear/feel the hurt, the anger and most importantly his confusion. For whatever reason she’s not with him, he cannot see how to change it. And can’t come to grips with its finality. I think anyone who lost the love of someone they were involved with, feels that pain,. Like a gut punch but it never goes away, never letting you get your breath back.
This song makes me feel like I lost a part of me a long time ago that I will never get back. The gut wrenching words of Why, is all that is needed. Much love and peace for all.
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in someone else's sky, but why..why..why can't it be, can't it be... Mine? Who hasnt felt that unrequited love before? ;_;
it's bittersweet. It's so great that this song exist but it sucks knowing Eddie must have gone though a miserable fucking breakup and spent quite some time living in hell for him to be able to write it and put that dreadful despairing feeling into words. But he did so perfectly. This song perfectly encapsulates that feeling of just nothingness that you feel after a breakup.
@@daishaparsons399 no it's not. It is about the heartbreak of leaving a girl you loved and trying to move on from it because she never loved you back. Both of his daughters are still alive and were born like 3 decades after this was written.
Still 1 of the greatest love songs from a male perspective. The rawness and emotion. Try singing this song in front of ppl and not feel like ur exposing a significant part of yourself. Beautiful
I cant help but come back to these old songs. I am currently 19, serving in the USMC as an aviation mechanic. 6 years ago I was sitting in the backseat of my moms beat up ford escape with headphones plugged in listening to this exact song on my way to middle school. Its a marvel how the emotional impact of music can stay with you for so long. Im so appreciative of the small things that life provides.
I can't listen to this without missing my ex wife. The mother of my daughters. Life happens and we can't always control how things turn out. I have great memories and this song brings them back. Cherish those memories because they can't be replicated. Don't take em for granted. I love this song but it hurts to listen to it at the same time. Love and live every day to the fullest because you never know when it will end.
@@digidrum2003 was with this girl for over 8 years. she cheated on me last week and left. im still in shambles and struggling. hope you guys do better now.
I have to agree with Type O Negative: LIFE IS KILLING ME. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying being over the hill because it's preferable to being under the hill. Please be safe in these uneasy times.
@@peternorton4358 I gave my heart & soul to GOD in 2000 after I was widowed & He's taken care of me ever since. I also consider myself a realistic Christian who expects to die & be ready for it when my time is up!
Still the best Pearl Jam song ever...nothing else compares really to the emotion and painful love in this song. We all are a little BLACK inside sometimes. Some more than others...
what i love most about this song is its not just eddie sounding like he's in pain. the whole band are sounding like they're in pain. that's what makes this song so damn beautiful and painful at the same time
Corrections needed: 0:49 "All five horizons, revolved around her SOUL, as the earth to the sun". 1:36 "And now my bitter hands, SHAKE beneath clouds of what was everything" Sorry to be a pest, but simply LOVE this song - special place in the heart :-)
It is a great break up song! I would direct you to check out Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks," as well as Sean Lennon's "Friendly Fire" as great break up albums!
Luke Secrest Sean's "Friendly Fire" is much easier to digest than much of his early work. It is way more mature and a whole and complete thought whereas most of his earlier work was much more disjointed and less fleshed out. He had many good songs but broken up with many others that don't hold up
Takes some livin life, some years under your belt, to truly feel great songs like this that I grew up with. 42 now and truly understand and appreciate lyrics like this.
I hope the young people get that this song is about letting go of some one you love no matter how much it hurts. If you love some one let them go free, if they come back they're yours to keep, but if they don't they were never yours.
"why can't it be...mine?" A feeling which is the most saddest of all. We all have only one life sadly, and there are always some thing's which aren't in our favor...especially love. It is a heartbreaking truth to realize that you will never get that ONE person you loved so much...and in the End, we have to die knowing that we had to let go of someone we never really get to know... Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Where i work, most of my co workers are "grunges" no matter if i hate to use that grunge term. We are listening those kind of songs at work all day long, so that moment never died for us, we just stick with what we liked to listen.
Von, I turned 21 in 1992. We had such an intensity then, in everything we did. If we only knew then that it was truly the last raging era of individual freedom. No pussies allowed. I would have wagered a bag of weed that we would always be that young, alive, beautiful, and free, lol. ...25 yrs later the pussies invade the mosh pit and outlaw full contact bc it makes them uncomfortable. Wtf happened?! Hell yeah I'll go. Let's hit the west coast summer music festivals, watch the LA riots from a balcony somewhere, and sell organic smoothies and glow sticks at the naked man festival. Remind me to invest in Intel so we can be rich and move to Costa Rica and bypass all this other shit. 🙃
I’ve lost two children 💔 today would have been my daughter’s 13th birthday and as I sit here broken this song is the first on my soundtrack of sadness! It’s so beautiful and sad at the same time which is exactly how today feels to me!
You are totally right, probably because it wasn´t released as a single of Ten I read somewhere a long time ago that in an interview Eddie Vedder said that the song was too personal, as a confession and he thought that making it commercial as a single will ruin it Anyway this is one of the most powerfull ballads in the music history
Heretech ...regardless...this tune ROCKS!!! Look at it this way...the sun is a star, so.... Sad that no one makes music like this nowdays...or do they? I am not up n current with the slop of today, however there must be somebody, somewhere thinking the same and starting a band or maybe a group in the studio recording...and the rest of us just dont know it yet...I can hope...so...who knows what will hit the music scene next year and it might be better than the last 10 or 20 years. One can dream...
remembering my first love . damn it hurt and seemed like the end of the world when it ended . teenagers out there , just hang on . it will be ok . however , you will never forget your first love . its been 32 years since mine and i still see her like yesterday in my dreams and mind . time flies . enjoy the ride .
lyricman nixon damn bro that’s some deep shit! 😳 I don’t know how many teenagers still listen to Pearl Jam, but if they do, I hope they find your comment. It’s this music that brings u back to that feeling. It’s crazy how music can do that. This song brings me strait back to 95. Freshman year in high school. Portland OR, Flannel and all. They just don’t make tunes like this anymore
T-Wrecks hang in their man! U are young and u will have ample opportunity to fall in love again. U won’t ever forget your first love, but the pain will go away! I promise u will survive and make it through the other side. U will live to love another day! 100%
Loss...we all deal the best we can. It hits me so hard I can't breathe. It's so hard to explain that deep grief to anyone who hasn't experienced it. But to those that have, they know the feeling of the air being so heavy and yourself are so weak. Not just in death but in the loss of a relationship. We mourn what we had, the possibilities of what was to come, we mourn the loss of ourselves as who we were with that person. We mourn and we go on. We never forget.
I'll never ever forget you Dale!! You're still my star because I know we'll be together again.. next time it's for eternity ... I miss you I miss us everyday God life is so hard
My eldest daughter would have been 9 this year... passed at 14 weeks along in the pregnancy... my best friend lily was murdered last year. My friend riko this year... to all those i love and have to go without... i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why, why, why cant it be mine....
Godamn , I remember like it was yesterday , it's 1992 , I'm 9 yo and my parents playing this song In our first CD player , thanks to them , I listen only good music .
The best tearjerker I know, this song is an accurate translation of the most painful emotion one can experience: heartache. Beautiful metaphors used by Eddie give this song so much depth and meaning, especially the use of his emotion in his voice makes this song soul touching. 😢
aerodaan please shut up. You are wrong. You need to tearjerk yourself off somemore or something and stop being a big baby. “Heartache is this most painful emotion one can experience”? Fuck no. What about suicide? Death of a family member? Poverty? Betrayed by your own brother? Or just being terribly mislead about what GOOD is? You oughtta go tearjerk yourself off somemore or something because you are actin like a big cry baby right now.
Eric Christman He's a puss because he comes to TH-cam and tells everyone he cries to a Pearl jam song. Crying is fine, telling everyone about it for attention isn't cool. He'll get older and probably agree with me, I used to post shit like he did. It was and still is ridiculous.
let me tell you, there comes a time where attention seeking means nothing, the man is suffering heart ache, an ailment we all know, why talk shit, let the man speak his peace in peace without someone else's fake judgement as if they havent felt that same heartache.
This song had me crying. Through the pandemic my 10 yr relationship/marriage ended. I lost my ex husband to whom I thought was my best friend. The lyric that resonated to me was " I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. Almost was like my ex husband telling me before we separated ways I know you'll have a beautiful life and start anew, why why did it have to be this way. Ultimately he wanted to see me happy because I was very unhappy for the past 3 yrs. Tried to make my marriage work but it was over. We changed as people sadly. 😔😢😢
Hello Kimberly Shirvani, how are you doing today? I'm glad you're a fan, and It's my pleasure meeting you here. I hope this song one of your 5 most favorite songs, and it helps you feel better whenever it comes on.
@@Eddie_Vedder. So surprised and happy you read her story and replied. I just came across your music...thank you for all your work and music ...LOVE LOVE this song. You truly got to the core of lost love and being broken. We as humans must go through this passage of love lost and this song is what it feels like...when we truly let go and love. You rock!!! Thank you!!!
@@maribelchacon-torres4334I know you must be surprised to get a reply from me but I'm always happy to see that good people still exist. For you to have got here, it simply means you read her story and felt touched by it. I'm glad you love this song. It truly warms my heart. I would love to know more about you, and what you think about me, and the band. Can you send me an email ✉️ now?
Its definitely one of the greatest. I wouldn't say single greatest though because music is so diverse. A lot of songs are just as good but completely different from this one. Because of that it's hard to compare.
I would say this is probably the single worst song I've ever heard. Majority minor chords, slurred words, weird way of pronouncing words, abnormally lame lyrics, no real distinguishing direction of song - like a run on sentence.
This is everuthing I felt when my husband died 22 years ago. I was a sculpter and havent sculpted since. I still feel his spirit around me, my world was shattered and this song stirs such feeling
Maybe you should use your emotions as an inspiration to start sculpting again, you might be surprise :) I’m sure your husband would love to see you sculpting again
ive listen to this song million times during drugs times during broken rock bottom times and fun times ill never get tired of this song i hav so many different versions of it. its always refreshes memories. beautiful song
You know I never shot up heroin,but my extended friends from my bro r.I.p. got into that shit.I love opiates though,but you learn that's not gonna work out.
Wow..! Simply breathtaking music and lyric combo. I listen to this song over and over again. I just love the emotional impact that song creates on me. Wow...!!!
I’ve lost count to how many times I’ve heard this song over the years but I still melt every time he sings that high note 🤤❤️can we bring back this kind of music?!? Utter perfection 🥰
This is my mom's song. She's long gone and lived a hard life. I lost her at a young age but she's always been with me. This song connect's us from me in this world and her in the next. Love. Love forever. My world has been turned black as hers was but she keeps me from falling all the way down the way she did. I understand her and know her better the older I get. I love you momma, the bird flying free in death as in life. You are my strength and my reason to live. I love you with all the love I can give. Forever.
All of my love to you. I am so, so sorry for your pain. I watched my mum suffer and die, she passed when I just turned 21 - she was my whole universe, my complete family and my best friend. I am broken. I hope that you are safe and have support. Always talk and share about your mum, it's beautiful
People are mistaken if they think this song is just about the loss of a lover, it's about the loss of anyone a person might love: mother, brother, sister, best friend, etc.
60 years from now Pearl Jam will still be rocking us. they will be held in the same high regard as bands such as Led Zeppelin are held by us now. a true rock band.
Ya know, this song reminds me of when I lost my son. He was so innocent with lots of dreams. He loved listening to this song. Anytime I listen to this song, i feel like it's a sign that he's still with me.
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a star In somebody else's sky. But why? Why? Why can't it be mine?" That line kills me every time
same here .. there is no way how that Eddie nailed those lyrics with that feeling perefctly match .
I know" right," me too it's a haunting song 😊✌👍
It kills me too. Bc I Iove her but it hasn't worked out. Maybe she would be better with someone else but bc I Iove her, why can't it be mine.
This song hurts so bad.
I think this line is all we feel one day.
... everytime 💔
"I know you'll be star in somebody's else's sky" shit is real man
reminds me of someone i thought i was theirs 😕
@@justbeinnmissy me 2
@My name is August West nice words
Missy Carter me too
@My name is August West wow your future looks pretty bleak with that mindset .
Nobody can cover this song because of the emotion in Eddie’s voice. It’s incredible. Such an amazing song.
Aaron lewis did a great cover actually
I remember years ago a band at a place I worked played this song. I was 3/4 drunk n couldn’t take it anymore. As I walked back thru to leave thru the kitchen door. I stopped at the stage n literally interrupted the song as I kinda waved over the lead singer. As the band kept playing, she came over n leaned down so she could hear what I had to say. I told her to do me a favor n never attempt to play Black again, “You’ve ruined this song for me.” She was appalled, she even announced what I’d said to her. I’m not sure what happened afterwards as I didn’t stick around. Said what I had to say n exited thru the kitchen. Fortunately, nobody can ruin this song for me. Most importantly, it’s been almost 20yrs since my last beer.
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I agree. That was a personal experience. You can't recreate that without having that experience
I wonder how many tears have been shed listening to this masterpiece???? Such a powerful piece of art!!!! Thank you Eddie!!!!!
You can count mine for sure 😢
Sounds like my life story 😢
I'm sorry, don't you mean Mother Lovebone
mine in tears right now
many many. even now. im going to his concert. i might cry through the whole thing
The ending lines always get me sobbing. You hear Eddie’s voice cracking as he begs, PLEADS, asking “Why? Why? Why?”, each time getting more and more upset. This is an absolute masterpiece of a song.
you said it...masterpiece. He pleads, with all his soul, Why? Why? Why? It's the magnitude of despair. I weep when I listen...I can feel the helplessness.... it's all so real.
It reminds me of korns daddy
Literally. The sentences you’ll be a star in some one else sky but why can’t it be mine. FUCKKKKKKK
@@geminix1510 I've listened to this song since I was 12, Im 37 now and that part never fails to make the hairs on my neck stand up.
To anyone who has ever lost a love of your life you will understand the anguish of the word WHY!!!
Greatest grief one shall have is loss of someone who is still alive. This song proves it for sure.
Got away from a Narcissist and this song is the truth
I emphatically disagree, if you lose a significant other that is still alive you can try again and you can figure out what you can do better next time there can be hope whether it's that person or somebody even better, on the other hand if you lose a family member that is six feet in the ground there is absolutely nothing that can replace that
@@alangrant8064 I feel you Alan. The things left unsaid. The questions left unasked. No chance for any connection again. Gone from my sight is far better than gone.
Some of the greatest advice I ever received was no matter how bad or how broken things may seem as long as the other person is still alive and will always Be an opportunity to heal and grow
Not sure about that.... but it definitely torments you in a different way
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. But why... can't it be mine?" Everyone who has lost, feels this lyric deeply
I was the one lost. I left him for another man who turned out to be a monster. Stupid stupid me. 😩
Yeah..
🤔😢😢😢😢
I am currently in the midst of my life being destroyed. This song touches me. Why can't it be mine....this line kills me.
*Me casually loosing...
At 69 Year old I still feel the pain of losing the woman I loved more than life in 2003. We both had issues and it may have been inevitable but, the song makes me still sob every time I hear it. I lost everything, literally at that moment. I'm lucky to be alive. Eddie's voice and knowing she will someday have a beautiful life in e else's sky, but not mine is almost too painful to listen to the song. Reflections on ultimate pain after all these years shows the importance of what Pearl Jam still is. I want this played at my funeral.
RIP
Gdblss you man in 2003 I lost my grandad and the pain stills exactly the same when I remembered it.
You are a good guy.
❤
I'm sitting here at my porch, smoking cigarette and drinking beer, listening to this.. I can't help myself thinking about all those beautiful, full of emotions, outdoor summer nights full of laughter and love, with my friends and girls gathered around the campfire, so drunk.. and fresh air and.. you know, we were dreamers.
I don't know if I'm happy or sad right now.. This song, it fucking smells like 90's.
Thank you Pearl Jam!
Those times pass too fast !!!
Here’s to the porches, beer, girls, and campfires.
Well said bud
Sounds like the life to me
drunk like indians?.. im not super offended but as a native american tribal member...ur wording there is kind of iffy..
Much love to everyone who's hurting in this crazy world in this crazy time. If you're here you probably came here to feel, we are together in this moment.
💜
Man bro...that's cool Vibe..bless ya buddy
Thank you 😊
Hard to read through my tears, but u hit the nail on the head. Thanks bro. Much love
That's very cool Vibe....Much Love to you my Brother.
We are lucky to have this era of music. We will never have anything like it again.
Hi Tam💐
Amen brother
no we will not...
My Lord this comment is so true! What a generation we were born in. Right after a time and before another. The last great generation.
“I know some day you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, but why can’t it be mine” hits hard
it sure does...
fr
@@lisamarie479
Yep ...
everithink flow, panta rei, tutto scorre. The animals seems not to be sad for this low of universe. The man has to be strong to defy this truth
arguably the most powerful line in the entire song. It just conveys a sense of longing and the realization of loss.
The "Whyyyyyyyyy!?!?!?!?" Gives me goosebumbs each time
omg me 2...
Deadass
Yup. Especially if you’ve felt that way about someone. You can hear the pain in his voice.
You're notalone
Not only u man and u r not alone 🇳🇵🇳🇵🙄🙄
Eddie- Black
Layne - Love, Hate, Love
Trent - Hurt
Corey - Snuff
Kurt - Where did you sleep last night
Aaron - Outside
Iconic performances, filled with raw emotion and filled with pain, goes to show that some of the best music comes from the heart and life’s experiences
Layne is nutshell
@@could4903 I debated that one in my mind for quite some time, went with LHL based on the raw emotion he sang this song with especially Live @ the Moore but you are right on with Nutshell especially when he sang it on Unplugged
@@mattdavis8473
Chester?
Avenged Sevenfold?
Chris Cornell?
@@outsiderx7576 good callout, what would you suggest?
@@could4903 i was torn on that one, Love, Hate, Love Live @ The Moore is so intense thats why i went with that one
The pain of loosing someone you have invested your heart and soul into only to have your world destroyed is encapsulated in this song.
That's why it touches the soul so much
This comment. 💔
INDEED. I dedicate this to my ex who chose substance abuse over me. I tried for 28 years 😢
@@aliciacarver3266I feel Your pain. I too did the same for 6 years. But enough was enough for me. I baled. Luckily, he eventually got help. He recently passed in Oct. 13, 2020. Got diagnosed stage 4 cancer on my birthday Sept. 28, 2020. 😢
@@roxannechavez9054 🙏
46 yrs together n he’s gone in 5 more days. Omg why couldn’t it be me?😭
This song hits especially hard right now. Spouse currently on life support for late end liver disease. Listened to this and sang it on my way to the hospital with tears coming down. The way his voice sings this, you feel the angst. Beautiful.
Prayers for your wife and yourself 🙏🏼 Jesus loves you guys
Blessings to you and your wife. This song is a great piece of art. Let the tears flow, in a way I’ll bet it feels good.
So sorry man that's tough. Enjoy the song. Prayers
I am so sorry for what you’re going through. Prayers going out your way. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 We are here for you.
I hope you doing ok.
My girlfriend of 3 months died when I was 17. This song makes me cry every time I hear it. I’ll see you again Tricia. We had a lot we missed.
My boyfriend of 1 year passed from suicide and I can feel your pain.. Stay strong 💕
:(
Hey Trisha
That's heavy. Big ups.
F
Here I am, drunk in quarantine. The year is 2020 and this song will always rock. Cheers everyone 🍻
Ditto brah
This song is profound !!!
Song is still heartbreaking
Word. Cheers my friend
T squirrel, same boat dude!
An old friend with emotional scars once covered this song perfectly on acoustic right in front of me. He sang as though the lyrics were his life. Very powerful. I'll always think of him when I hear this song.
How long has he been singing and playing guitar?
@@Dr.Lemmy_C_Yabum I don't quite remember but I'm pretty sure he said since he was 4 years old.
Damn wish u recorded it. Hope he still plays
hmmm an old friend is that right? wow okay ...
@@breedesilva9121 lol jealous much
The hurt in his voice. Gives me chills Everytime. God I miss my husband.
I love this song! Can’t believe I’m still listening to it. But yeah through the years I wonder how to be call a husband..
Omfg did you see how beautiful she is? Gulp...😮🤭
Insurance companies drop guys for having wives that look like that!
I left my wife two months ago because I caught her cheating on me. On my birthday no less.
I miss her, she was my best friend.
I took my dogs and left because I didn't want to get lied to again.
We were already in couples therapy, so her cheating in that context is just cruel. You can't still love someone and shit on them like that.
I would be a fool to trust her again.
😔
God bless you and your husband
i feel for you kelly, be strong
Black by Pearl Jam is not just a song, it is art. The lyrics and instruments create a magical melody transcending feelings of nostalgia and love.
Holy shit this powerful....I never paid attention to the lyrics because its hard to understand Eddie when he sings but manly tears were shed. What a beautiful way to describe a lost love. Damn this hurt.
well sed my friend
bang weekly It's about his Mother
heartbroken, well done conveying that through your music..............:'(
John Doe lmfao
its really not easy to understand eddie
but only because of the originality of the words he uses that im just not used to hear in songs, im looking for simple words he just doesnt use
the guy is a genius
Every time i hear the lyrics : "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?" I cry..i guess this song really gets to the heart!
Really explains what s the cause of suffering after a break up in few lines. My favourite part too
YES! Sameeee
+Katnet1 Wow! Thought I was the only one. Lol! Never been the biggest Pearl Jam fan, but this song is pure gold... especially that part. (sigh) if only we had a time machine.
i'm crying now
Same here. I still miss her :/
Lost my daughter in suicide a few months ago. She was just seventeen years old.
I wish there was a way to get here back from that black sky full of stars.
Sorry
I'm sorry for your grief, the pain you must feel, I can't imagine
Just remember the Bright star of Love that you had and have for your Daughter 💓🌟 ✌️
I’m so sorry
I feel sorry for you ❤️
This song has me feeling so many different emotions. Happy, sad, regretful and accepting of what I don't have anymore.
It's sad for me for thangs
Me too breather.
"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why can't it be mine?"
Yeah she's a star in someone else's sky now
This is the most touching lyrics in this song. There's a lot of emotion that comes from this.
The best part!!!
I can only tear up to relate to this.
I see you in my sky
Me: Play " Black" - Pearl Jam
Spotify: But, sir you will cry
Me: Just do it!!!
And you did, indeed, cry :/
@@rachelh2731 me too 😭
im crying😢
Piero Hinojosa : thank you for cleverly capturing my exact frame of mind~
Same
30 years later, and this song is still emotional as hell😢
yes. yes it is
After all the years, this song still pulls my heart and brings me to tears, imagine a 6 ft 310lbs 47 yr old man crying like a new born, I must have listen to this song for months after the deaths of my father, only sister, best friend, dog and first real love, I remember them all, I live if not for myself, than for them, and those who can't for themselves, life is so precious and so short
I've lost both parents and got sick and almost lost my life 3000 miles from my home and did not attend either parents funerals. What pulled me thru was my study and belief that i will see them again. I don't grieve too much because i know they are around me in spirit and i know i will see them again. I must continue my life mission before i return to the our true home with god then i shall rejoice with my loved ones. There is so much info on the subject of the afterlife and not just from the Bible, Koran,Torah. It has really helped me to understand the grand picture of it all. Good Luck, Peace and Blessings.
A men must not be ashamed of his tears.
To admit you´re crying makes you far stronger than the people laughing at you.
This makes you human and you have my respect for that.
I’m sorry brother 😔 I’ve lost three good friends from 2017-2019 and an uncle in the same week as my last friend in car accidents, uncle was of old age. I feel as though I’m heavily scarred and no one can help but those who’ve gone through a similar road. I can only say my friend. God is here your loved ones are with you and around you. Their home is in your heart which keeps you and them going. God bless you man just know your not alone.
I'm sorry brother, don't be ashamed of pain. Sometimes pain is the driving force behind bettering yourself. Lost my brother two months ago. He lost his battle with depression. It took losing him for me to say enough I'm trying to get help I miss him every day. But I understand your pain. Let it drive you to better things. * Hugs*
Man if this so.g doesn't make u emotional then u have no so.to begin with!.
Much love brother!
Hearing this now no longer cuts to the soul. Life goes on. Live it. Loved and learned. I’ve got to be the star in my own sky.
God damn right
Amen
it cut deeply through my soul with agonizing pain 20+ years ago, and does the same thing today! I cry everytime I play this song. Sometimes you just want to be in a bad mood and feel the hurt.
Mo Hazan That is how I will probably feel when my Grandparents die.
@@U2FanSanFran i thought i was the only one
Black is hands down the saddest song I've ever heard, and is also one of the most beautiful
my 2nd saddest behind Great Big World-say something
also ...... th-cam.com/video/B-jR2XMLuHE/w-d-xo.html
Racing Wolf 2003
I hear ya. TOTALLY. But Please check out some Stevie Nicks. ANY Stevie Nicks. Actually, anything you probably never have heard before. You could start with Beauty and the Beast. Then Beautiful Child (Fleetwood Mac). If You Ever Did Believe. Storms. Love Is. Sara. Secret Love.
That’s a good start. PLEASE check out the first song I listed, at least. You will for sure be moved. One way or another. Quite like this masterpiece of a song we have before us. You have excellent taste. In my humble opinion!!!
Its everything a true love song should b
Jade 2003 listen to a song called William and Wanda with dry eyes.😐☝🏻
In my opinion this is easily in the top 10 greatest rock songs ever written in the history of planet earth.
Agreed
For the real ❤
"I know someday you'll have a wonderful life. I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why can't it be mine?" Kinda hurts knowing the other person's gonna have a wonderful life and they will find love again and make some other guy the happiest man in the world while you don't think you'll ever love someone as much again. We just pretend we don't care because that's what guys are supposed to do, move on easily.
Doesn't Matter , you hit the nail right on the head.....
I knew they were slimey
Amen
So true
Here's my take on that verse: My young husband, soulmate, was killed by a drunk driver at age 33. He's in somebody else's sky, not mine any more.
This is Pearl Jam's best song. The way Eddie sings those amazing lyrics sends shivers down the spine, and takes you to a point in your life when you were with people you loved and cherished, and who are now not in your life anymore, but part of that distant blurry past.
bleep77 naaaah... jeremy or even flow are the best. But this is definitively one of the best.
Bleep77 has it spot on.
bleep77 Eddies voice is every story tellers dream, his interpretation of everything is unique and so damn good
nah, release for sure.
bleep77 the memories fade to Black to help you forget temporarily, but they will always linger
one of the greatest songs ever written.
Christopher Sullivan don't disagree with That. sirens is incredible
Christopher Sullivan lmao its just new shitty commercial song, even Eddie admitted that
ExidiumYT great call. Sirens is legendary
Really love your name!
ExidiumYT you im still in 007 jc s not here no more
30+ years later and this song _still_ gives me goosebumps and makes me want to breakdown crying everytime I hear it! 😭
@uncleruckus You listened to this 13 days ago, & I just now listened to it. Today being July 10th, 2023. And not only does the song STILL give me goosebumps, but it DOES make me break down & cry.
ESPECIALLY, when I think about the year I was born, & the music that is coming out now that I can't go be a 'groupie' anymore, & all the music I'm going miss when I pass to the next journey!
Welcome to the Club. It makes us rethink life and the time we wasted in our youth and in unrequited love.....ah,Ellon Musk, invents the Time Machine! .....
This song makes me remember all the girls I met in my youth, girls that got away during a turbulent time in my life where I was finding myself and was emotionally unstable. It makes me feel the dread and regret of how I missed so many opportunities to have potentially beautiful relationships. All those pictures in the depths of my mind have all been washed in black... tattooed everything. Painful and bittersweet. Eddie nails the emotions perfectly with his vivid lyrics and expressive singing style.
ONCE I HAD THE RAREST ROSE THAT EVER DEEMED TO BLOOM, CRUEL WINTER CHILLED THE BUD AND STOLE MY FLOWER TO SOON.
I understand what you are saying.
I can relate. Even as a 47 year old man I think about it in those quiet moments when I think I've forgotten about it.
I CAN DEFINITELY RELATE
🤟🏾❤️❤️🤟🏾
Looks like we're all in the same boat. :o(
Yeah I got into a four-and-a-half-year relationship about seven years ago had a child my first child that I don't get to see very much because of her mom because she still has anger issues at me for what I did in our relationship and I regret all of it that I did it still hurts and now since I've grown up a lot more and understanding things I understand I lost one of the only good relationships I did have and now she's in someone else's sky and not mine
Melts me each and every time. Black represents heartbreak, longing, lust and utter despair. Pure magic of the human heart put beautifully into one sublime song
MsIndigo78 beautifully put.
Worded beautifully. U nailed it!
you should write lyrics dude/dudette.
Black represents black tar heroin. The song is about the struggle of being addicted to heroin and watching how your life changes for the worst, but still not doing anything to change it because you love the drug more.
MsIndigo78 best comment ever. tnx
Anyone else listening to this masterpiece in 2021, or is it just me?
Edit: For those listening in the year 2021, and the years to come; enjoy, as music like this is rare now in days. Share with your younger generations, and show them what real music is.
Also, to the ones annoyed by the original question; shut up, and rock on!🤘🏻🎵
Yeah, it's just you.
Nobody cares when you listen to it.
@@Syncopated_ You clearly care enough to comment. 😘
@@SilverStamp6413 Okay, I'll say it again since you don't get it. It's annoying.
@@Syncopated_ You're entitled to YOUR OPPINION. 👊🙏
@@SilverStamp6413 dude, you're emojis are killing me lmao
So much lingering pain. So powerful. Been there so many times but this expresses it so brilliantly that it's making me afraid of going back. So human. So honest. I love it because it scares me. It meets people where they are. So glad I learned that. Gave me empathy. Pearl Jam is timeless.
"And now my bitter hands/Cradle broken glass/Of what was everything"- Man, if you don't know the pain in those lyrics, then you've never lost someone who you loved more than life itself
2 years now since the love of my life left me and still hurts like fuck when I hear those lyrics.... hurts like if it was yesterday
Amen brother.
3 years and still missing U pumpkin. It's 3:06am and I had to dedicate it to you. At 1 point we both gave each other life but at the end my life is lost. I just need a lil help and a hug or just a hug. Love U Pumpkin
The first time I had a broken heart it felt like nothing could speak to my brokeness. This song speaks exactly to what the fuck I felt.
hector valdivia they say time heals all wounds but im not too sure about that...i had some bad breakups and it took a long ass time to get over
“I know some day you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky.
But why?! Why, why?! Why can’t it be mine?!
That lyric, it’s not just the pain it evokes. When you hear Eddie sing you also hear/feel the hurt, the anger and most importantly his confusion. For whatever reason she’s not with him, he cannot see how to change it. And can’t come to grips with its finality. I think anyone who lost the love of someone they were involved with, feels that pain,. Like a gut punch but it never goes away, never letting you get your breath back.
Calm it
@@DC-rm9qm shut it
@@DC-rm9qm let him have this moment of truth. Because, in the end, he is right.
… that emptiness feel… is horrendous…
Damn man, is this poor chap still alive?
One of the greatest songs of all time
Maybe But Lynerd Skynerd is the Greatest Band of All time....
+anna leonardi *Lynyrd *Skynyrd...
😍😍😍
Absolutely. This song touches something so deep inside I never even knew it was there before. Etherial.
+Susan Reid exactly, bitter pain
This song makes me feel like I lost a part of me a long time ago that I will never get back. The gut wrenching words of Why, is all that is needed. Much love and peace for all.
First loose the evil looking pic you have, then lets talk about redemption.
I can relate to your post.
Sameeeeeee
You are so right. It does me too. Thanks for your post. God bless you too
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in someone else's sky, but why..why..why can't it be, can't it be... Mine?
Who hasnt felt that unrequited love before? ;_;
It's a wondrous, if not futile, sense of self we attain from the pain we get from realizing that the world keeps moving even if we stay still.
Indeed. :(
+Reign Omega this is beautiful
+SFforlife Experiencing it for the last 3 years...
+bdham 62 (Rebel) That burn doesn't really work in text, genius.
it's bittersweet. It's so great that this song exist but it sucks knowing Eddie must have gone though a miserable fucking breakup and spent quite some time living in hell for him to be able to write it and put that dreadful despairing feeling into words. But he did so perfectly. This song perfectly encapsulates that feeling of just nothingness that you feel after a breakup.
Perfectly said Nicholas.
This is what gives our pain meaning. Helping others with theirs.
It's actually about Eddie's daughter that passed. Which makes it even sadder 💔
@@daishaparsons399 no it's not. It is about the heartbreak of leaving a girl you loved and trying to move on from it because she never loved you back. Both of his daughters are still alive and were born like 3 decades after this was written.
@@Arrica101, or...something else?
www.songfacts.com/facts/pearl-jam/black
Still 1 of the greatest love songs from a male perspective. The rawness and emotion. Try singing this song in front of ppl and not feel like ur exposing a significant part of yourself. Beautiful
I agree 100%, great perspective man!!!!
Man, you're fucking right! I sing it now in my room, and I already feel like i'm completely naked before my roomate who's eating downstairs. :D
I cant help but come back to these old songs. I am currently 19, serving in the USMC as an aviation mechanic. 6 years ago I was sitting in the backseat of my moms beat up ford escape with headphones plugged in listening to this exact song on my way to middle school. Its a marvel how the emotional impact of music can stay with you for so long. Im so appreciative of the small things that life provides.
How is it that no matter how many times you hear this song it just gets better and better? Perfection.
For the one that doesn't understand this song... you will, once you've had a broken heart.
truth 💯
@@justbeinnmissy Thanks, Missy
Right the FK on !!!
Very true I miss him all the time..
Edward knows...
I can't listen to this without missing my ex wife. The mother of my daughters. Life happens and we can't always control how things turn out. I have great memories and this song brings them back. Cherish those memories because they can't be replicated. Don't take em for granted. I love this song but it hurts to listen to it at the same time. Love and live every day to the fullest because you never know when it will end.
Same here bro!!
This made my heart ache for you. I hope that you find love again
@@paeganthatcher1644 thank you.. :-)
My dad was taken from me and this song always hits differently
Im not in a good place right now. Im struggling but i know I'll get thru it. This song touched me when it came out and still does.
Hang on kid!! Lost my wife in 2022. Stay strong!!!
Wife left me 7 months ago....I'm shattered, but holding it together.....we are in this together......you are not alone!
@@digidrum2003 was with this girl for over 8 years. she cheated on me last week and left. im still in shambles and struggling. hope you guys do better now.
Hope your struggles are over .
Peace ✌️
Hey! How’re you holding up!?
Still a masterpiece in 2019
It will never not be a masterpiece.
Always. As well as yellow
Whole album
It always will be! It's absolutely perfect.
Still and FOREVER will be a masterpiece.. hell its legendary!!!
Most people never see my comments but to those who do have a great day and live your life the best you can because you only get one
This was right on time. Thanks
Yes definitely YOLO❤
You too! Have a great day! Didn't realize how much I miss Pearl Jam. And you made my day with your comment. Thanks!!
thank you we need people like you in our world
I Saw Your Comment! Thank You!
He sounds so broken, it sends shivers down my spine. Personally one of my favourite songs of theirs.
June 2023….I seen Pearl Jam live in Vancouver in 2010 and it was by far the best concert I’d ever been too…they did 7 encores.
If this song isn’t played at my funeral, I’m not dying. Period.
I have to agree with Type O Negative: LIFE IS KILLING ME. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying being over the hill because it's preferable to being under the hill. Please be safe in these uneasy times.
If you're hurting 💔 you can give your heart to God and then songs can make more sense
Peter Norton Amen 🙏🏻
@@katelynna.2337 ✌
@@peternorton4358 I gave my heart & soul to GOD in 2000 after I was widowed & He's taken care of me ever since. I also consider myself a realistic Christian who expects to die & be ready for it when my time is up!
Still the best Pearl Jam song ever...nothing else compares really to the emotion and painful love in this song. We all are a little BLACK inside sometimes. Some more than others...
VideoUpload420 release is the best imo
Amanda Fletcher no
what i love most about this song is its not just eddie sounding like he's in pain. the whole band are sounding like they're in pain. that's what makes this song so damn beautiful and painful at the same time
Pearl Jam could have named their first album Greatest Hits and gotten away with it. Incredible album.
TRUE!!!!!!! But they did name it: 10.
As in… 10 out of 10????
Facts
Dime piece
One of the heaviest songs ever written.
your being sarcastic right?
No. Have you ever listened to the words? Or noticed how it gets more and more intense?
try out some cannibal corpse if you want heavy
I'm not talking about distortion and shit like that. I'm talking about emotion, loss, remorse. Dummies.
+Von Milash I was waiting for someone to get it lmao
Corrections needed:
0:49 "All five horizons, revolved around her SOUL, as the earth to the sun".
1:36 "And now my bitter hands, SHAKE beneath clouds of what was everything"
Sorry to be a pest, but simply LOVE this song - special place in the heart :-)
thanks
"Chafe beneath the clouds"
Ausreflect Industries Thank you
It is chafe, not shape!
nope. no changes needed.
Just heard this song for the first time. Blew my mind big time. Haven't heard lyrics this profound since Led Zeppelin.
+Paul Z wow, where have you been man?
I know, I'm ashamed. But hey, discovering their music is a great incentive to get up in the morning!
gold
Haha, try 51. I don't know why I had never heard that song before. But hey, it's never too late to appreciate Pearl Jam.
+Paul Z Yes it is.
why is it the sound is so beautifully, tragically, soulfully, filled with every encompassing emotion in one masterpiece....word.
eddie vedder is the master of poets. such amazing lyrics
Amit he and Billy Corgan. Two of the greats. We are lucky to have been around to live it.
I love how the beginning of this song is kind of happy, and it changes tone so drastically but gracefully to very melancholy and sad
That piano is a beauty
This must be the best break up song ever written in the history of the world and any other worlds. If this does not draw tear then you have no heart.
Otto Wolf , goodbye my lover is even sadder and stronger
It is a great break up song! I would direct you to check out Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks," as well as Sean Lennon's "Friendly Fire" as great break up albums!
Devery Shepardson wonderful, many thanks for the recommendations. Love dylan, Sean was always a bit tough for me to swallow but good nonetheless
Luke Secrest Sean's "Friendly Fire" is much easier to digest than much of his early work. It is way more mature and a whole and complete thought whereas most of his earlier work was much more disjointed and less fleshed out. He had many good songs but broken up with many others that don't hold up
I've cried out all my tears from all the pain I've suffered but it does touch my heart
Takes some livin life, some years under your belt, to truly feel great songs like this that I grew up with. 42 now and truly understand and appreciate lyrics like this.
I hope the young people get that this song is about letting go of some one you love no matter how much it hurts. If you love some one let them go free, if they come back they're yours to keep, but if they don't they were never yours.
That is almost funny.
amen
It took me a harsh and long time to realize that, Now I understand... Amen brother
+InfinyteGard3n learning is important buddy.keep moving
TAKE YOU LIKE👍 GOOD MAN. ..😂😂😂😂😂
"why can't it be...mine?"
A feeling which is the most saddest of all. We all have only one life sadly, and there are always some thing's which aren't in our favor...especially love. It is a heartbreaking truth to realize that you will never get that ONE person you loved so much...and in the End, we have to die knowing that we had to let go of someone we never really get to know...
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Mozart R seen to much Scfi and Altered Carboon I guess...
well said and she never realised that within me,garvo u know what im sayin!
Pussy
Damn bro
The last sentence you wrote really hit home. So true...so true!
I wish I could go back to 1992. I'd give almost anything to go back.
Where i work, most of my co workers are "grunges" no matter if i hate to use that grunge term. We are listening those kind of songs at work all day long, so that moment never died for us, we just stick with what we liked to listen.
Sometimes it seems it would be nice but nah. I'll keep aging gracefully.
Von, I turned 21 in 1992. We had such an intensity then, in everything we did. If we only knew then that it was truly the last raging era of individual freedom. No pussies allowed. I would have wagered a bag of weed that we would always be that young, alive, beautiful, and free, lol.
...25 yrs later the pussies invade the mosh pit and outlaw full contact bc it makes them uncomfortable. Wtf happened?!
Hell yeah I'll go. Let's hit the west coast summer music festivals, watch the LA riots from a balcony somewhere, and sell organic smoothies and glow sticks at the naked man festival. Remind me to invest in Intel so we can be rich and move to Costa Rica and bypass all this other shit. 🙃
Sweet Jesus I so would go back
So would I, but I would have been a new born or my mother was still knocked up depending on the month.
I’ve lost two children 💔 today would have been my daughter’s 13th birthday and as I sit here broken this song is the first on my soundtrack of sadness! It’s so beautiful and sad at the same time which is exactly how today feels to me!
I hear you
2024 sending you love🥰
The person who broke my boy Eddie’s heart is gonna catch these hands
loganbaileysfunwithtrains BIG FACTS
Eddie is a dick he still owes me a 20 for that sac i fronted him. Tell eddie he better have my money next time i see him. 👊 👊
LMFAO 😂😂
Do it?
Well, this song was written in at least 1990 or 1991, so you might have trouble tracking her down. :)
One of the most underrated songs in music history.
You are totally right, probably because it wasn´t released as a single of Ten
I read somewhere a long time ago that in an interview Eddie Vedder said that the song was too personal, as a confession and he thought that making it commercial as a single will ruin it
Anyway this is one of the most powerfull ballads in the music history
This song gets in the top 10 of our top rock 1500 songs on the nz rock radio station each year
This song gets top 3 in my book. It makes me think of life alot.
Tony DeGregorio agree...it's been my favorite since I heard it years ago ....I doubt that will change..
@Brian: Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?
MD MGTOW that part resonates with me heavily.
Pheadra Remington Same. I was doing ok despite a breakup till that part of the song. Now I'm a mess. Crazy how powerful music can be.
It hits so hard and hurts so much
Love this line. But isn't it "sun" and not "star"
I guess not but I always heard sun.... made more sense to me than just another star... oh well
Heretech ...regardless...this tune ROCKS!!! Look at it this way...the sun is a star, so.... Sad that no one makes music like this nowdays...or do they? I am not up n current with the slop of today, however there must be somebody, somewhere thinking the same and starting a band or maybe a group in the studio recording...and the rest of us just dont know it yet...I can hope...so...who knows what will hit the music scene next year and it might be better than the last 10 or 20 years. One can dream...
What a gem ! The lyrics are words we can all relate to at one time or another ! This song gives me chills.
remembering my first love . damn it hurt and seemed like the end of the world when it ended . teenagers out there , just hang on . it will be ok . however , you will never forget your first love . its been 32 years since mine and i still see her like yesterday in my dreams and mind . time flies . enjoy the ride .
lyricman nixon just let my first love go a few weeks ago, I appreciate your comment
lyricman nixon damn bro that’s some deep shit! 😳 I don’t know how many teenagers still listen to Pearl Jam, but if they do, I hope they find your comment. It’s this music that brings u back to that feeling. It’s crazy how music can do that. This song brings me strait back to 95. Freshman year in high school. Portland OR, Flannel and all. They just don’t make tunes like this anymore
T-Wrecks hang in their man! U are young and u will have ample opportunity to fall in love again. U won’t ever forget your first love, but the pain will go away! I promise u will survive and make it through the other side. U will live to love another day! 100%
never even had a gf fuck
@@dickkickem choose wisely.
Loss...we all deal the best we can. It hits me so hard I can't breathe. It's so hard to explain that deep grief to anyone who hasn't experienced it. But to those that have, they know the feeling of the air being so heavy and yourself are so weak. Not just in death but in the loss of a relationship. We mourn what we had, the possibilities of what was to come, we mourn the loss of ourselves as who we were with that person. We mourn and we go on. We never forget.
True..
I'll never ever forget you Dale!! You're still my star because I know we'll be together again.. next time it's for eternity ... I miss you I miss us everyday God life is so hard
I’m currently mourning both losses 💔💔
Do you happen to have "diamonds", by chance?
Sorry for being insensitive :(
This is by far one of the most painful songs I’ve ever heard. I almost always tear up on the last lines.
Me too
It has been almost 4 years since I've shed a tear. I just forgot how. But when he started screaming "why?!!" It got to me.
Poetry at its highest level. Thank you Eddie!
My eldest daughter would have been 9 this year... passed at 14 weeks along in the pregnancy... my best friend lily was murdered last year. My friend riko this year... to all those i love and have to go without... i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky but why, why, why cant it be mine....
Stay strong man
Lots of love for you my friend❤️
Take care
Damn that's sad wish you a good life after that
Godamn , I remember like it was yesterday , it's 1992 , I'm 9 yo and my parents playing this song In our first CD player , thanks to them , I listen only good music .
no such luck for me here in India Mumbai
How crazy is it that 1992 was almost 30 years ago now and we had CD players. How expedited technology has become, and where it will be in another 30.
People that appreciate great music. That's who is still listening in 2024.
From 1991 and still in 2019 Pearl Jam is pure emotion.
The best tearjerker I know, this song is an accurate translation of the most painful emotion one can experience: heartache. Beautiful metaphors used by Eddie give this song so much depth and meaning, especially the use of his emotion in his voice makes this song soul touching. 😢
aerodaan right on bro
The most painful emotion one can feel isn't heartache, it's seeing your dog fall on lava in Minecraft.
aerodaan please shut up. You are wrong. You need to tearjerk yourself off somemore or something and stop being a big baby. “Heartache is this most painful emotion one can experience”?
Fuck no.
What about suicide?
Death of a family member?
Poverty?
Betrayed by your own brother?
Or just being terribly mislead about what GOOD is?
You oughtta go tearjerk yourself off somemore or something because you are actin like a big cry baby right now.
@@conradmurphy2876 Don't all u mentioned lead straight to heart ache? Hard to believe u can't connect the dots....it's all about devastating loss.
This makes me cry uncontrollably every single time. Oh my god, its almost to much.
Seen your other comment. I hope you find your love again.
Coleman Maguire Go hit a bong man
Coleman Maguire Don't be a puss.
Eric Christman
He's a puss because he comes to TH-cam and tells everyone he cries to a Pearl jam song. Crying is fine, telling everyone about it for attention isn't cool. He'll get older and probably agree with me, I used to post shit like he did. It was and still is ridiculous.
let me tell you, there comes a time where attention seeking means nothing, the man is suffering heart ache, an ailment we all know, why talk shit, let the man speak his peace in peace without someone else's fake judgement as if they havent felt that same heartache.
This song had me crying. Through the pandemic my 10 yr relationship/marriage ended. I lost my ex husband to whom I thought was my best friend. The lyric that resonated to me was " I know someday you'll have a beautiful life I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky. Almost was like my ex husband telling me before we separated ways I know you'll have a beautiful life and start anew, why why did it have to be this way. Ultimately he wanted to see me happy because I was very unhappy for the past 3 yrs. Tried to make my marriage work but it was over. We changed as people sadly. 😔😢😢
Hello Kimberly Shirvani, how are you doing today? I'm glad you're a fan, and It's my pleasure meeting you here. I hope this song one of your 5 most favorite songs, and it helps you feel better whenever it comes on.
@@Eddie_Vedder. So surprised and happy you read her story and replied. I just came across your music...thank you for all your work and music ...LOVE LOVE this song. You truly got to the core of lost love and being broken. We as humans must go through this passage of love lost and this song is what it feels like...when we truly let go and love. You rock!!! Thank you!!!
@@maribelchacon-torres4334I know you must be surprised to get a reply from me but I'm always happy to see that good people still exist. For you to have got here, it simply means you read her story and felt touched by it. I'm glad you love this song. It truly warms my heart. I would love to know more about you, and what you think about me, and the band. Can you send me an email ✉️ now?
Probably the greatest song ever written
Totally agree
Its definitely one of the greatest. I wouldn't say single greatest though because music is so diverse. A lot of songs are just as good but completely different from this one. Because of that it's hard to compare.
I think you may be right.
I would say this is probably the single worst song I've ever heard. Majority minor chords, slurred words, weird way of pronouncing words, abnormally lame lyrics, no real distinguishing direction of song - like a run on sentence.
Gehenna by slipknot is better imo
This is everuthing I felt when my husband died 22 years ago. I was a sculpter and havent sculpted since. I still feel his spirit around me, my world was shattered and this song stirs such feeling
Ash Philips you should sculpt again, I’m sure your husband would want that
Maybe you should use your emotions as an inspiration to start sculpting again, you might be surprise :) I’m sure your husband would love to see you sculpting again
Create a sculpture with this on a loop. As painful as it may be, you'll take that step forward.
You got this :) he would want you to do what you love!!!
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R.I.P. MY BROTHERS' JOEY & TODD😢....I LOVE U & MISS U BOTH EVERYDAY+ A PIECE OF ME IS WITH YOU BOTH💔......LOVE YOUR ONLY SISTER👱 DENYSE....☝📿
Never gets old a timeless classic 👌🏽
ive listen to this song million times during drugs times during broken rock bottom times and fun times ill never get tired of this song i hav so many different versions of it. its always refreshes memories. beautiful song
feel you mate
james moore me too bro
You know I never shot up heroin,but my extended friends from my bro r.I.p. got into that shit.I love opiates though,but you learn that's not gonna work out.
But if used correctly its the shit
I feel it too.... good or bad...here this song is....
Wow..! Simply breathtaking music and lyric combo. I listen to this song over and over again. I just love the emotional impact that song creates on me. Wow...!!!
Pearl Jams greatest song by far...
Yellow Bed Wetter 😆
Yes steven. Greatest pearl Jam song ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yellow Ledbetter
Pearl jam-im still alive, one if my favorites
I see 140-0
It's so good to have a song like this that can express how it feels to lose someone you love when words alone just can't convey the bottomless grief.
I’ve lost count to how many times I’ve heard this song over the years but I still melt every time he sings that high note 🤤❤️can we bring back this kind of music?!? Utter perfection 🥰
Amen to that , I've always Loved this song the haunting lyrics & melody 😊✌👍
This is my mom's song. She's long gone and lived a hard life. I lost her at a young age but she's always been with me. This song connect's us from me in this world and her in the next. Love. Love forever. My world has been turned black as hers was but she keeps me from falling all the way down the way she did. I understand her and know her better the older I get. I love you momma, the bird flying free in death as in life. You are my strength and my reason to live. I love you with all the love I can give. Forever.
I'm so sorry for your loss. Hang in there and try to enjoy every moment . It's all so fleeting. Either you die young or getnokd much too fast.
All of my love to you. I am so, so sorry for your pain. I watched my mum suffer and die, she passed when I just turned 21 - she was my whole universe, my complete family and my best friend. I am broken. I hope that you are safe and have support. Always talk and share about your mum, it's beautiful
what you say is beautiful
People are mistaken if they think this song is just about the loss of a lover, it's about the loss of anyone a person might love: mother, brother, sister, best friend, etc.
60 years from now Pearl Jam will still be rocking us. they will be held in the same high regard as bands such as Led Zeppelin are held by us now. a true rock band.
Tom Leonard EXACTLY
Well said brother.
Who's still listening in 2024..?
☝️
This band is 🔥 ❤ This song is so strong and powerful. The words 🔥 💚💔💚
Still Rockin this one out for Sure!
Yessirrrr
Perfect
Ya know, this song reminds me of when I lost my son. He was so innocent with lots of dreams. He loved listening to this song. Anytime I listen to this song, i feel like it's a sign that he's still with me.
Excellent,,.🙏 pray
That sucks man. He's still up there listening to this. 🙏
He is with you if you believe that Jesus is lord and your savior
May his memories and love be with you til the end of your days. I can't bare the thought of losing my only son. Greetings from México, bro.
May God bless you, sorry for your loss