Music for the Soul

Tonight was Pearl Jam concert #1 of 3 this weekend.... and #6 overall for me.  That's nothing compared to Shaun who was seeing them for the 44th time, but I'm making progress.  See, I wasn't a Pearl Jam fan a few years ago... not that I didn't like them... just didn't follow them.  My memories of Pearl Jam go back to the early 90's.  My brother was a fan and you could hear "Alive," "Jeremy" and "Even Flow" coming up the stairs from the basement where he played video games and forcing me to not go down there.  That was all Pearl Jam meant to me until Shaun came into my life.

While I don't have a connection to them like he does, I have a connection to Shaun... and the things he loves.  My first concert was 2 years ago, and since then I've gone whenever they are close enough to drive.  This summer we are hitting 3 shows as kind of a "last hurrah" before moving to Seattle.  Tonight one song hit me particularly hard and I thought I would share the lyrics:

Yes I understand that every life must end, aw huh,..
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, aw huh,..
I’m a lucky man to count on both hands
The ones I love,..

Some folks just have one,
Others they got none, aw huh,..

Stay with me,..
Let’s just breathe.

Practiced are my sins,
Never gonna let me win, aw huh,..
Under everything, just another human being, aw huh,..
Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world
To make me bleed.

Stay with me,..
You’re all I see.

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,..
No one knows this more than me.
As I come clean.

I wonder everyday
as I look upon your face, aw huh,..
Everything you gave
And nothing you would take, aw huh,..
Nothing you would take,..
Everything you gave.

Did I say that I need you?
Oh, Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,..
No one know this more than me.
As I come clean.

Nothing you would take,..
everything you gave.
Hold me till I die,..
Meet you on the other side.

The song is called "Just Breathe" and it's off their newest album, Backspacer.  I guess it's hit me lately because I feel the need sometimes to just sit back and breathe, and it's so much easier when you have someone you love with you.  I guess it's just a great song to remember to tell those people you love that you do in fact love them... and to my friends and family... I do... in fact... love you all.