LIVE ON TWO LEGS

1. CORDUROY
2. GIVEN TO FLY
3. HAIL, HAIL
4. DAUGHTER
5. ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A SMALL TOWN
6. UNTITLED
7. MFC
8. GO
9. RED MOSQUITO
10.EVEN FLOW
11.OFF HE GOES
12.NOTHING MAN
13.DO THE EVOLUTION
14.BETTER MAN
15.BLACK
16.F*CKIN' UP (WRITTEN BY NEIL YOUNG)

Title: Corduroy

Releases: Vitalogy and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1994
Running Time: 4:37
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed VedderThe waiting drove me mad. You're finally here and I'm a mess.
I take your entrance back. Can't let you roam inside my head.

I don't want to take what you can give.
I would rather starve than eat your bread.
I would rather run but I can't walk.
Guess I'll lie alone just like before.

I'll take the firmest path, and I must refuse your test.
Push me and I will resist. This behavior's not unique.

I don't want to hear from those who know.
They can buy but can't put on my clothes.
I don't want to limp for them to walk.
Never would have known of me before.

I don't want to be held in your debt.
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed.
I'm already cut up and half dead.
I'll end up alone like I began.

Everything has changed. Absolutely nothing's changed.
Take my hand, not my picture. Spilled my tincture.

I don't want to take what you can give.
I would rather starve than eat your bread.
All the things that others want for me,
Can't buy what I want because it's free.
Can't buy what I want because it's free.
Can't be what you want because I'm...

It's supposed to be just fun.
To live and die...let it be done.
I figure I'll be damned, all alone like I began.

It's your move now.
I thought you were a friend but I guess,
I... I guess I hate you.



Title: Given To Fly

Releases: Yield and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1998
Running Time: 4:01
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Mike McCready and Ed Vedder

He could have tuned in, tuned in,
but he tuned out.
A bad time, nothing could save him.
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out.
He got up outta there, ran for hundreds of miles.
He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree.
The wind rose up set him down on his knees.

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw.
Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at me now!"
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor.
He's flying whole...high...wide...

He floated back down cause he wanted to share
This key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere.
But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed
By faceless men...the fuckers...he still stands.

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away.
The love he receives is the love that is saved.
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky,
A human being that was given to fly.
I'm flying...high....flying...
He's flying...high...



Title: Hail, Hail

Releases: No Code and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1996
Running Time: 3:41
Song Type: Album Track

written By: Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Ed Vedder
Is there room for both of us? Both of us apart?
Are we bound out of obligation? Is that all we've got?
I get the words and then I get to thinking.
I don't want to think, I want to feel.
And how do I feel? How do I...

If you're the only one will I never be enough?
Hail hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.
I swore I'd love you 'til the day I die...and beyond.
Are we going to the same place? If so, can I come?
It's egg rolling thick and heavy. All the past we carry.
I could be new. You underestimate me.

If you're the only one will I never be enough?
Hail hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love.

I sometimes realize I could only be as good as you'll let me.
Are you woman enough to be my man? Bandaged hand in hand.

Like I'm the only one in a race that can't be won.
All hail the lucky ones, I refer to those in love. Yeah.
If you're my only one...so good, you only one.
I want to be your one. Enough...you won...your one...your one.



Title: Daughter

Releases: Vs and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 3:54
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Ed Vedder

You guys ready?

Alone...listless...breakfast table in an otherwise empty room.
Young girl...violins...center of her own attention.
The mother reads aloud, child tries to understand it,
Tries to make her proud.
The shades go down, it's in her head.

Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.

The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me.

She holds the hand that holds her down.
She will rise above.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me daughter, not fit to be.
The picture kept will remind me.
Don't call me...

The shades go down...the shades go down...
The shades go, go, go...



Title: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

Releases: Vs and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 4:14
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Ed Vedder

I seem to recognize your face.
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it.
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name.
Lifetimes are catching up with me.

All these changes taking place...
I wish I'd seen the place,
But no one's ever taken me.

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...

I swear I recognize your breath.
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.
Me you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former.
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf

I changed by not changing at all...
Small town predicts my fate,
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see.

I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return.
But now here you are, and here I am.
Hearts and thoughts they fade away.

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away...



Title: Untitled

Releases: Live on Two Legs
Released: 1998
Running Time: 2:02
Song Type: Album Track and Improv

Written By: Ed VedderGot a car. I got some gas.
Oh, let's get out of here. Get outta here fast.
Ah, everyone's confused, so I stay in my room.
If I go, I don't want to go alone.
I hope you get this message. Oh, your not home.
I could be there in ten minutes or so.
Oh, I got my things.
We'll make it up as we go along.
Oh, with you I could never be alone.
...Never be alone.



Title: MFC

Releases: Yield
Released: 1998
Running Time: 2:27
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

Sliding out of reverse into drive.
This wheel will be turning right, then straight.
Off in the sunset she'll ride.
She can remember a time denied,
Stood by the side of the road, spilled like wine.
Now she's out on her own and line high.

There's no leaving here.
Ask I'm an ear.
She's disappeared now.

They said that timing was everything,
Made him want to be everywhere.
There's a lot to be said for nowhere.

There's no leaving here.
Ask I'm an ear.
He's disappeared now.

There's no leaving here.
Ask I'm an ear.
Fuck it...we'll disappear now.



Title: Go

Releases: Vs and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 3:13
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Dave Abbruzzese, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Ed Vedder

Oh please don't go out on me, don't go on me now.
Never acted up before, don't go on me now.
I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now.
Suppose I abused you, just passing it on.
Go...fuck...

Once fastened, servile...now your getting sharp.

Moving oh so swiftly, with such disarm.
I pulled the covers over head, should have pulled the alarm.
Turned to my nemesis...a fool, not a fucking god.
Please, don't go on me.

Suck...blood...touch...please, too aggressive...fuck...time...see...
Please, please, please...
Don't go on me.
Please...Don't you want me?...don't go on me.
Please, don't go on me..



Title: Red Mosquito

Releases: No Code and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1996
Running Time: 4:03
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

Try one...mighty fine.

Watched from the window with a red mosquito.
I was not allowed to leave the room.
I saw the sun go down, and now it's coming up.
Somewhere in the time between...

I was bitten...must have been the devil.
He was just paying me a little visit,
Reminding me of his presence...
Letting me know he's waiting.

Red man's your neighbor, call it behavior.
While you're climbing up slippery hills...
Two steps ahead of him, punctures in your neck.
Hovering just above your bed...
Hovering just above your bed...

I was bitten...must have been the devil.
He was just paying me a little visit,
Reminding me of his presence,
And letting me know he's waiting...
He's a-waiting...

If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now...
If I had known then what I know now...



Title: Even Flow

Releases: Ten and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1991
Running Time: 4:53
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard and Ed VedderFreezing...rests his head on a
pillow made of concrete..again.
Feeling...maybe he'll see a little better set of days.
Hand out... faces that he sees time again ain't that familiar.
Dark grin...he can't help when he's happy looks insane.

Even flow. Thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.

Kneeling...looking through the paper though he doesn't know to read.
Praying...up to something that has never showed him anything.
Feeling...understands the weather of the winter on its way.
Ceilings...few and far between all the legal halls of shame.

Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies.
He don't know so he chases them away.
Someday yet he'll begin his life again.
Whispering hands gently lead him away.



Title: Off He Goes

Releases: No Code and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1996
Running Time: 5:58
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed VedderOne two...One two...

Know a man. His face seemed pulled and tense.
Like he's riding on a motorbike in the strongest winds.
So I approach with tact. Suggest that he should relax.
But he's always moving much too fast.

Said he'll see me on the flipside of this trip he's taking for a ride.
He's been taking too much on.
There he goes with his perfectly unkempt clothes...there he goes.

He's yet to come back...but I've seen his picture.
It doesn't look the same up on the rack.
We go way back.

I wonder about his insides.
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size.
He's been taken where I don't know.
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept hope.
There he goes.

And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned.
For he still smiles, and he's still strong.
Nothing's changed but the surrounding bullshit that has grown.

And now he's home and we're laughing
Like we always did my same old, same old friend.
Until a quarter to ten...I saw the strain creep in.
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next.

Before his first step, he is off again.



Title: Nothingman

Releases: Vitalogy
Released: 1994
Running Time: 4:33
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Jeff Ament and Ed VedderOnce divided, nothing left to subtract.
Some words when spoken can't be taken back.
Walks on his own with thoughts he can't help thinking.
Future's above, but in the past he's slow and sinking.

Caught a bolt of lightning. Cursed the day he let it go.
Nothingman... nothingman...
Isn't it something? nothingman...

She once believed in every story he had to tell.
One day she stiffened. Took the other side.
Empty stares from each corner of a shared prison cell.
One just escapes. One's left inside the well.

And he who forgets will be destined to remember.
Nothingman... nothingman...
Isn't it something? nothingman...

She don't want him...she won't feed him after he's flown away.
Into the sun...into the sun...burn...
Nothingman... nothingman...
Isn't it something? nothingman...

Nothingman... nothingman...
Coulda' been something, nothingman.



Title: Do The Evolution

Releases: Yield and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1998
Running Time: 3:54
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard and Ed VedderI'm ahead...I'm advanced.
I'm the first mammal to wear pants.
I am at peace with my lust.
I can kill cause in god I trust.
It's evolution baby!

I'm a beast...I'm the man.
Buying stocks on the day of the crash.
On the loose, I'm a truck.
All the rolling hills I'll flatten 'em out.
It's herd behavior...it's evolution baby!

Admire me, admire my home,
Admire my son, he is my clone.
This land is mine, this land is free,
I'll do what I want, yet irresponsibly.
It's evolution baby!

I'm a thief, I'm a liar.
There's my church, I sing in the choir.
Halelujah...Halelujah...

Admire me, admire my home,
Admire my song, admire my clothes.
Cause we know an appetite for nightly feasts.
Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me.
Nothing. Why? Because it's evolution baby!

I am ahead...I am advanced,
I am the first mammal to make plans.
I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher.
2010 watch it go to fire.
It's evolution baby! [2x]
Do the evolution!
Come on! [3x]
It's evolution baby!



Title: Betterman

Releases: Vitalogy and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1994
Running Time: 4:27
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Ed Vedder

Waiting, watching the clock. It's four o'clock.
It's got to stop. Tell him. Take no more.
She practices her speech as he opens the door, she rolls over.
Pretends to sleep as he looks her over.

She lies and says she's in love with him. Can't find a better man.
She dreams in color, she dreams in red. Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.

Talking to herself. "There's no one else who needs to know," she tells
herself.
Memories back when she was bold and strong and waiting for the world to
come along.
Swears she knew him now she swears he's gone.

She lies and says she's in love with him. Can't find a better man.
She dreams in color, she dreams in red. Can't find a better man.
She lies and says she still loves him. Can't find a better man.
She dreams in color, she dreams in red. Can't find a better man.
Can't find a better man.

She loved him. She don't want to leave this way.
She feeds him. That's why she'll be back again.
Can't find a better man.



Title: Black

Releases: Ten and Live on Two Legs
Released: 1991
Running Time: 5:43
Song Type: Album Track

Written By: Stone Gossard and Ed Vedder

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay,
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul,
As the earth to the sun.
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn.
And all I taught her was everything...
I know she gave me all that she wore...

And now my bitter hands shake beneath the clouds,
Of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black...
...tattooed everything.

I take a walk outside. I'm surrounded by some kids at play.
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
And twisted thoughts that spin around my head...
I'm spinning...I'm spinning...
How quick the sun can drop away.

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass,
Of what was everything.
All the pictures have all been washed in black...
...tattooed everything.
All the love gone bad turned my world to black...
...tattooed all I see...all that I am...all I'll be.

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?



Title: Fuckin' Up

Releases: Live on Two Legs
Released: 1998
Running Time: 6:17
Song Type: Cover

Written By: Neil Young

Lonely drifter on the hill... (why do I?)
One must have a heart of steel... (why do I?)
It's not how you look, but how you feel... (why do I?)
You must have a heart of steel... (why do I?)

Why do I keep fuckin' up?

I can see you on a hill... (why do I?)
All comatose, but walking still... (why do I?)
Flowing curves beneath your flowing gown... (why do I?)
Only I can bring myself down... (why do I?)

Why do I keep fuckin' up?

Bowman's pick and dogs that bite... (why do I?)
Dogs that howl through the night... (why do I?)
Broken leashes all over the floor... (why do I?)
Keys left hanging in a swinging door... (why do I?)

Why do I keep fuckin' up?







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