VS
1. GO
2. ANIMAL
3. DAUGHTER
4. GLORIFIED G
5. DISSIDENT
6. W.M.A.
7. BLOOD
8. REARVIEWMIRROR
9. RATS
10.ELDERLY WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER IN A
   SMALL TOWN
11.LEASH
12.INDIFFERENCE







Title: Go                       Back on Top

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 VedderOh 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: Animal                     Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 2:48
Song Type: Album Track

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

1-2-3-4-5 against 1...
5...5...against 1...
Said 1-2-3-4-5 against 1...
5...5...5...5...against...

Torture from you to me.
Abducted from the street.

I'd rather be with an animal.

Why would you wanna hurt me?
So frightened of your pain.

I'd rather be with an animal.

Said 1-2-3-4-5 against 1...
5, 5...5, 5...5 against 1...
1-2-3-4-5 against 1...
5, 5...5, 5...5 against 1.



Title: Daughter                   Back on Top

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: Glorified G                Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 3:25
Song Type: Album Track

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

Got a gun, fact I got two.
That's O.K. man, cuz I love god.
Glorified version of a pellet gun.
Feels so manly when armed.
Glorified version of a pellet gun.

Double think, dumb is strength.
Never shot at a living thing.
Glorified version of a pellet gun.
Feels so manly when armed.
Glorified version of a pellet gun.

Always keep it loaded...
Kindred to being an American...

Life comes...I can feel your heart...
Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...
Life comes...I can feel your heart through your neck...
Like some...I can steal your heart from your neck...



Title: Dissident                Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 3:35
Song Type: Album Track

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

She nursed him there, over a night.
I wasn't so sure she wanted him to stay.
What to say...what to say.
But soon she was down, soon he was low.
At a quarter past a holy note
She had to turn around.

When she couldn't hold, she folded.
A dissident is here.
Escape is never the safest path
A dissident, a dissident is here.
And to this day, she's glided on.
Always home but so far away,
Like a word misplaced.
Nothing said, what a waste.
When she had contact with the conflict,
There was meaning, but she sold him to the state.
She had to turn around.

She gave him away.
When she couldn't hold, she folded...
A dissident is here.
Escape is never, the safest path
A dissident, a dissident is here...



Title: w.m.a                     Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 5:59
Song Type: Album Track

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

He won the lottery when he was born.
Took his mothers white breast to his tongue.
Trained like dogs, color and smell.
Walks by me to get to him.
Police man.

He won the lottery by being born.
Big hand slapped a white male American.
Do no wrong, so clean cut,
Dirty his hands, it comes right off.
Police man.
Police stopped my brother again...

Jesus greets me...looks just like me...

All my pieces set me free...human devices set me free...



Title: Blood                     Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 2:49
Song Type: Album Track

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

Spin me round...roll me over...fuckin' circus.
Stab it down...one way needle...pulled so slowly.
Drains and spills...soaks the pages...fills their sponges.
It's my blood.

Paint Ed big...Turn Ed into one of his enemies...
It's my blood.

Stab it down...fill the pages...suck my life out.
Maker of my enemies...



Title: Rearviewmirror           Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 4:43
Song Type: Album Track

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

I took a drive today.
Time to emancipate.
I guess it was the beatings made me wise.
But I'm not about to give thanks or apologize.
I couldn't breathe...holdin' me down.
Hand on my face...pushed to the ground.
Emnity gauged...united by fear.
Forced to endure what I could not forgive.

I seem to look away.
Wounds in the mirror waved.
It wasn't my surface most defiled.
Head at your feet...fool to your crown.
Fist on my plate...swallowed it down.
Enmity gaged...divided by fear.
Tried to endure what I could not forgive.

Saw things...saw things...saw things...saw things...
Clearer...clearer...
Once you were in my rearview mirror.

I gather speed from you fucking with me.
Once and for all I'm far away.
I hardly believe, finally the shades are raised.

Saw things so much clearer
Once you were in my rearviewmirror.



Title: Rats                     Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 4:14
Song Type: Album Track

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

They don't eat...don't sleep.
They don't feed...they don't seethe.
Bare their gums when they moan and squeak.
Lick the dirt off a larger one's feet.
They don't push...don't crowd.
Congregate until they're much too loud.
Fuck to procreate till they are dead.
Drink the blood of their so called best friend.

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way.
Don't pack themselves together and run as one.
Don't shit where they're not supposed to.
Don't take what's not theirs.
They don't compare.

They don't scam...don't fight.
Don't oppress an equals given rights.
Starve the poor so they can be well fed.
Line their holes with the dead ones bread.

They don't scurry when something bigger comes their way.
Don't pack themselves together and run as one.
Don't shit where they're not supposed to.
Don't take what's not theirs.
They don't compare.

Rats...They don't compare.
Ben, the two of us need look no more.




Title: Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town                     Back on Top

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: Leash                     Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 3:03
Song Type: Album Track

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

Troubled souls unite. We got ourselves tonight.
I am fuel, you are friends. We got the means to make amends.
I am lost...I'm no guide, but I'm by your side,
I am right by your side.

Young lover, I stand.
It was their idea, I proved to be a man.
Take my fucking hand.
It was their idea, I proved to be a man.

Will myself to find a home, a home within myself.
We will find a way, we will find our place...

Drop the leash, drop the leash...
Get out of my fucking face.

Drop the leash...we are young.
Get out of my fucking face.

Delight, delight, delight in our youth...



Title: Indifference              Back on Top

Releases: Vs
Released: 1993
Running Time: 5:02
Song Type: Album Track

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

I will light the match this mornin' so I won't be alone.
Watch as she lies silent, for soon that will be gone.
I will stand arms outstretched, pretend I'm free to roam.
I will make my way through one more day in Hell.
How much difference does it make?

I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm.
I'll keep takin' punches until their will grows tired.
I will stare the sun down until my eyes go blind.
I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind.
How much difference does it make?

I'll swallow poison, until I grow immune.
I will scream my lungs out till it fills this room.
How much difference...?
How much difference does it make?








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