BINAURAL

1. BREAKERFALL
2. GOD'S DICE
3. EVACUATION
4. LIGHT YEARS
5. NOTHING AS IT SEEMS
6. THIN AIR
7. INSIGNIFICANCE
8. OF THE GIRL
9. GRIEVANCE
10.RIVAL
11.SLEIGHT OF HAND
12.SOON FORGET
13.PARTING WAYS




Title: Breakerfall

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 2:19
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

There's a girl on a ledge, she's got nowhere to turn,
'Cause all the love that she had was just wood that she burned.
Now her love is on fire, it's no one's concern.
She can blame the world, or prey 'til dawn,
But only love can break her fall.
Break her fall...
Now only love can break her fall... fall.

It's like she lost her invitation to the party on earth,
And she's standing outside hating everyone here.
She's her own disease, crying to her doll,
But only love can break her fall.
Break her fall...
Only love can break her fall...

Break her fall...
Break her fall...
Love, love, love can break her fall...
Now only love can break her fall...
Love, love can break her fall... fall
Love, love can break her fall...
Only love can break her...



Title: God's Dice

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 2:26
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Jeff AmentIt's out of my hands, making your hands meet...
It's stumbling and crumbling out of reach.
It's in the cards...
Your destiny, your sanity in tow...

Designate my luck...
Resignate...

This power has no roots to guide, no role.
Trust me, rusted minds refuse to go.
Unwillingness, it's meaningless
To walk away in vain.

Designate my deal...
Designate my fill...
Resignate...

My will is crashing, synapses flashing slow.
Days like frame by frame, where do they go?
If I fight, forget it...
Can't I spend it after I go?

Roll them high...
Throw them again...
All God's dice.

Monkey driven, call this living.
Too much thought, it's overwrought, a hole...
Minding yours, what's mine not yours
Will finish us off.

Designate a life...
Designate a view...
Resignate my will...
My will, my will, I will...
Resignate my god.



Title: Evacuation

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 2:56
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: matt and Ed VedderThe sirens scream wanton attention...
Time to take heed and change direction...
Time to take stock and make ommissions...

Evacuation...
Evacuation...

Time to take leave all formal functions...
Time to plant seeds of reconstruction...
No time this time to feign reluctance...

It's like you're waiting for a diamond shore to wash your way...
Bets put aside, you're evil...let's crawl into your face...
A vision, vague or not, raising a frightful wake-you-up...

Time for...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...

There was a solemn man who watched his twilight disappear...
(In the sand...)
Altered by a fallen eagle, a warning sign...
(In the sand...)
He sensed worry could be strength, with a plan he said...

Time for...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...
Evacuation...



Title: Light Years

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 5:06
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Ed Vedder

I've used hammers made out of wood.
I have played games with pieces and rules.
I've deciphered tricks at the bar,
But now you're gone, I haven't figured out why.
I've come up with riddles, and jokes about war.
I've figured out numbers and what they're for.
I've understood feelings and I've understood words,
But how could you be taken away?

And wherever you've gone...and wherever we might go...
It don't seem fair...today just disappeared.
Your light's reflected now...reflected from afar...
We were but stones...your light made us stars.

With heavy breath...awakened regrets...
Backpages and days alone that could have been spent
Together, but we were miles apart.
Every inch between us becomes light years now.
No time to be void or save up on life...
You got to spend it all.

And wherever you've gone...and wherever we might go...
It don't seem fair...you seem to like it here.
Your light's reflected now...reflected from afar...
We were but stones...your light made us stars.

And wherever you've gone...and wherever we might go...
It don't seem fair...the day just disappears.
Your light's reflected now...reflected from afar...
We were but stones...your light made us stars.



Title: Nothing As It Seems

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 5:27
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Jeff Ament

Don't feel like home...he's a little out.
And all these words elope...it's nothing like your poem.
Putting in, inputting in...don't feel like methadone.
A scratching voice, all alone...is nothing like your baritone.

It's nothing as it seems. The little that he needs...it's home.
The little that he sees is nothing. He concedes...it's home.

One uninvited chromosome...a blanket like the ozone.

It's nothing as it seems. All that he needs...it's home.
The little that he frees is nothing, he believes...

Saving up a sunny day...something maybe two-tone.
Anything of his own...a chip off the cornerstone.
Who's kidding? Rainy day...a one way ticket headstone.
Occupations overthrown...a whisper through a megaphone...

It's nothing as it seems. The little that he needs...it's home.
The little that he sees is nothing. He concedes...it's home.
And all that he frees...a little bittersweet...it's home.
It's nothing as it seems. The little that you see...it's home.



Title: Thin Air

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 3:32
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard
There's a light when my baby's in my arms.
There's a light when the window shades are drawn.
Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her.
Wash it off, 'cause this feeling we can share.

And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.

Byzantine is reflected in our pond.
There's a cloud, but the water remains calm.
Reaching in, the sun's fingers clutch the dawn to pass.
Even out, it's a precious thing to bear.

And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart in thin air.

It's not in my past to presume
Love can keep on moving in both directions.
How to he happy and true
Is a quest we're taking on together.
Taking on, on , on, on, on...
Taking on, on , on, on...

There's a light when my baby's in my arms.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart.



Title: Insignificance

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 4:28
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

All in all, it's no one's fault.
Excuses turn to carbon walls.
Blame it all on chemical intercourse.
The swallowed seeds of arrogance
Breeding in the thoughts of ten
Thousand fools that fight irrelevance.

The full moon is dead skin,
The one down here's wearing thin,
So set up the ten pins
As the human tide rolls in
Like a ball that's spinning...

Bombs dropping down overhead, underground.
It's instilled to want to live. The bombs dropping down...
Please forgive our home town in our insignificance.

"Turn the jukebox up," he said,
Dancing in irreverance.
"Play C3...let the song protest."

The plates began to shift,
Perfect lefts come rolling in.
I was alone and far away, hey...
When I heard the band start playin'.
On the lip...late take off.

Bombs dropping down overhead, underground.
It's instilled to want to live. The bombs dropping down...
Please forgive our own time in our insignificance.

Feel like resonance of distance...
In the blood...the iron lies...

It's instilled to want to live. Bombs dropping down...
Please forgive our own time in our insignificance.
Oh, in our insignificance....



Title: Of The Girl

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 5:07
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard

Oh he deals 'em off... off the top... ties 'em off.
Fills it up with his past...gets carried away.
Oh, half his life a hand me down...wasted away...
Oh, he fills it up with the love of a girl.

Oh, he left it alone...drilled the pain...money to buy...

How he makes his getaway...
How he makes his getaway...

Oh, he chose a path... heavy the fall... quarter to four...
Fills his mind with the thought of a girl...
How he makes his getaway...
How he makes his getaway...
How he makes his getaway...
Getaway...



Title: Grievance

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 3:14
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

Have a drink, they're buying...
Bottom of bottle of denial.
Big guy, big eye, watching me...
Have to wonder what it sees.
Progress laced with ramifications.
Freedom's bein' plugged...

Pull the innocent from a crowd,
Raise the stakes then bring 'em down...
If they fail to obey...if they fail to obey.

For every tool they lend us,
A loss of independence.

I pledge my grievance to the flag,
'Cause you don't give blood then take it back again.
We're all deserving something more.
Progress...taste it...invest it all...
Champagne breakfast for everyone.

Break the innocent when they're proud.
Raise the stakes then bring 'em down.
If we fail to obey...if we fail to obey.

Pledge a grievance to the flag.
Aw, come on, don't give blood then take it back again.
Oh, we're all deserving something more.

Have another drink, drink...
Have another drink, drink...

I wanna grieve while I recieve...
I wanna take everyone I feed...
I wanna ride with 'em...I wanna hide...
I wanna run to the sea...
I want life....to be...I just wanna be...
I will feel alive as long as I am free.



Title: Rival

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 3:38
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard
All my rivals will see what I have in store... my gun.
I've been harboring fleets in this resevoir... red sun.
And this nation's about to explode.

Your disciples are riddled with metaphors... well hung.
Better pony up and bring both your barrelfulls... not one.
As we release this unspeakable toll.

Every grain of sand equals...all the stars and everyone.

How's our mother to damn these contributors... with mud?
How will the man who made chemicals difficult shed blood?
How's our father supposed to be told?



Title: Sleight of Hand

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 4:47
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Jeff Ament and Ed Vedder

Routine was the theme...
He'd wake up and wash and pour himself in uniform...
Something he hadn't imagined being....

As the merging traffic passed,
He found himself staring down at his own hands...
Not remembering the change...
Not recalling the plan... was it?

He was okay, but wondering about wandering...
Was it age? By consequence?
Or was he moved by sleight of hand?

Mondays were made to fall...
Lost on a road he knew by heart...
It's like a book he read in his sleep...
Endlessly...

Sometimes he hid in his radio...
Watching others pull into their homes...
While he was drifting...

On a line of his own... off the line... on the side...
Bye the by... as dirt turned to sand...
As if moved by sleight of hand.

When he reached the shore of his clip-on world...
He resurfaced to the norm...

Organized his few things...coat and keys...
Any new realizations would have to wait
'Til he had more time... more time...

Time to dream to his self...
Waves goodbye to himself...
I'll see you on the other side...

Another man moved by sleight of hand.



Title: Soon Forget

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 1:47
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette.
Thinks he'll get the girl, he'll only get the mechanic.
What's missing? He's living a day he'll soon forget.

That's one more time around... the sun is going down.
The moon is out, but he's drunk and shouting,
Putting people down. He's pissing...
He's living a day he'll soon forget.

Counts his money every morning...
The only thing that keeps him horny.
Locked in a giant house, that's alarming.
The townsfolk, they all laugh.

Sorry is the fool who trades his love for hi-rise rent.
Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get.
And it's fitting... he's barely living a day he'll soon forget.

That's one more time around, and there is not a sound...
He's lying dead, clutching Benjamins... never put the money down.
He's stiffening... we're all whistling...
A man we'll soon forget.



Title: Parting Ways

Releases: Binaural
Released: 2000
Running Time: 7:17
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

Behind her eyes there's curtains...
And they've been closed to hide the flames... remains.

She knows their future's burning...
But she can smile just the same... same.

And though her mood is fine today,
There's a fear they'll soon be parting ways.

Standing like a statue...
A chin of stone, a heart of clay... hey.

And though he's too big a man to say,
There's a fear they'll soon be parting ways.

Drifting away...
Drifting away...
Drifting away...
Drifting away...
Drifting away...
Drifting away...







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