Ok ...im a 60+ year old black dude who love my music from my era but when heard this song when it came out i was instantly hooked. Lyrics and music is perfect.
You're not alone. Every since I was 12 yrs old I related to Journey, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Aerosmith, Peter Frampton, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Janes Addiction, Alternative, Metal, Classic, and even Punk Rock... Ha! Etctera.There are to many good bands to list.
Oh the 1990s simpler time back when everything was simple no cellphones or auto tune just real music played by real musicians. Pearl Jam is like running into an old friend. Huge fan.
@seanduddy3298 not in the least. This is a comment from an actual human being. That appreciates the only thing worthwhile he was ever given. They taught me. Maybe you can grow up someday too.
"My God it's been so long. Never dreamed you'd return. But now here you are. And here I am.". This is something that I had hoped and wished for, for so many years but had never happened. These lyrics are so beautiful and powerful.
I’m 51 now, I’ve listened to this album hundreds maybe thousands of times and I get that same feeling that I did in my early 20’s when I first heard it.
always come back to this one. haven't for many years, and now it actually hurts to hear, despite being so beautiful. It's a double-strike at the heart because hearts and thoughts have faded now compared to when I first heard it. I used to belt this out on my guitar to impress friends - now some of those friends are gone, and others are "gone" but in a different way. Jesus this song is so sad but so true and so damn pretty.
Legendary band. Some kid like 200 years from now is going to discover Pearl Jam and it will blow their mind and that kid will go on to create incredible music for the world. Man I am so high right now. Great song.
Wish I could do more of that. Great reminder. When I find the money tree to pay for Major Depressive Disorder therapies not covered by insurance, I could start dreaming of being more than a fading memory which breathes - or a cautionary tale. I've always thought if the person from the past being the happier me form decades ago. "My God, it's been so long ." Edit: No idea why I went on and on about this yesterday. The mental health system in the U.S. is impossible for some if us. Leaving it up in case it makes someone else feel less alone. Sorry to be a bummer.
@@a.joegevara3519 well you got a notification to pop up on my phone and a response. Even if I'm X miles away, sitting on a toliet typing a comment for a handful of people to see, you are one of them. Your tiny action made me do a tiny action in return. You aren't alone, even if the world and your mind are telling you that you are.
@@bigchilling420 Makes me wonder what the most heartfelt thing ever written while on a toilet might have been, but your comment is right up there. Thanks for sharing the beautiful sentiment.
Know I'm taking this song out of context, but I just lost my mom to dementia and always felt such a personal connection to these lyrics and her situation. She wrote poetry, which I'd been unable to read without bursting into tears since the disease stole her from me. As she lay in the hospital bed this week, unresponsive and on a myriad of drugs to ease the pain of her journey, all I could do was stay at her side, hold her hand, play her favorite music and read her beautifully written poems and stories to her again. It was a gift for me in many ways. It brought back, if only through prose, my magnificent mom and her gift for writing. The lyrics "memories like fingerprints are slowly raising" were true. So thank you, Pearl Jam, for allowing me to apply my own deeply personal meaning to your haunting song as I navigate this intense grief.
I feel what you are going through. Going through it now myself. My beautiful mum hears the music I play for her, no matter how far away she is. I know.
I always get tears with this one. like 20 years was just yesterday and tomorrow is so far away. I feel so many feels with this one, it hurts, it feels good...nostalgia is there, so isn't Frodo my doggo that passed a few years ago. Sad things...man, but also glorious things.
I play this every day on my guitar atm. I can't play it for other people yet because when the chorus kicks in after the solo it always makes me cry, so I choke on the lyrics for a few seconds.
It's hard to choose the best ones, Eddie is an amazing lyricist (and the rest as well, but Eddie wrote the biggest amount of breathtaking lyrics) Literally every single album has some masterpieces that bring me in tears
" ...I change by not changing at all..." and then i discovered temple of the dog and THEN and THEN the explosion of my life SOUNDGARDEN and the everlasting King warrior and wizard Chris Cornell. oh these times i cant even find a word for it...
I lost my Daddy in late August of 2021! We love the Stones, I was is one and only child. I miss him daily! This reminds me of him SO MUCH, LOVE U DADDY❤
No, it was just our era for music. Music peaked in the late 1960s in terms of melody and harmony (computers analyzed it). We knew at the time in the 1980s and 1990s that music was going downhill but we still had some great songs. Around 2015 it was like there was no more good music. Now I find myself seeing 80s songs getting burnt out.
@bigneiltoo complete bs.. the musicianship of the 80s, particularly shred and glam far surpasses anytjing you've mentioned. Eric Johnson, yngwie malmsteen, Steve Vai, how can you possibly say music peaked before Eddie and van halen invent their tone that becomes famous. Lol Purely a fools comment... Leanr to appreciate amazing music again.. there was a ton of it before the last 20 years that is incredible
This song will ALWAYS make me cry. I feel it in my life everyday as memory fades. 54 and it still has that affect. Might be my favorite song ever by any band
I will never forget the 1st time i heard this song, ayrton senna had just died and ESPN used this song in a tribute. Such a sad day and everytime i hear this song always takes me back to that sad day in 1994.
I like to think Eddie himself has changed through all these decades by not changing at all, this same deep innocent soul who never seemed to let fame and fortune corrupt him or drive him into a destructive lifestyle. And that voice is so iconic, like he's truly just this born performer
Very true, initially his lyrics certainly seemed the most personal and painful of the bunch. He seemed to be able to work through it where Chris n certainly Layne's lyrics only seemed to become more haunting as time went on. Blessing we still have EV with us.
I think in this song at the time he wrote it, it was more of a funny history to him, sings it weirdly almost as if it was a country song and in a way I feel he didn't relate to it the way he sings it now that he's older
I’ll be that old lady behind the counter been at the coffee shop for 25 years watched so many grow up and become young adults as I was when I started working for my fam. Still waiting on a cover to be played at the Mocha House. I love this song!
When we travel the Road to Recovery, NeuroPathways to Enlightenment, Holiday Road, Journey to Awaken our Spirit, Mission to Finding our Self (the psyche),... the mind gets quiet and it happens. Shhh it happens! HELLO! My Inner G (energy), it's been so long! Never dreamed you'd return! But now here YOU are, and here I AM. ♥➕💭 together in peace and love. ☯ There is an Elder/Tallest/Higher/Acsended energy within you. Be it! Don't COUNT yourSelf out and get left behind in small mindedness. ♥ is it! BEloved!
It's so funny that you say that -- I'm on the wrong side of 55, but after losing so many years to major depression, I feel as if I'm picking up where I left off in 95. I'll be looking for part time work in the next couple of weeks to get me out among people again, it's guaranteed that at the worst, it'll be a coffee shop. Toronto's impossible to afford, so I live in a small town where there are no book stores I could slink my way into. What scares me a little bit is the foreknowledge that coffee shops are no light work, and I ruined my back hauling boxes of cds & records during my 20s (showing off like the dumbass I often was). I'm looking forward to being out & about among people again, esp younger ones who usually seem so gorgeously full of life. I wish I'd known that about myself when I was young & incredibly, painfully insecure, but so it goes.
I remember you coming in the room in our apartment waking us up in the early morning after getting home from working the overnight shift playing this song on our small acoustic guitar. You were so happy that day. I never asked why. It has always stuck in my mind. I miss you my brother. May your soul rest and be rocking out in heaven.
PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO WHEN THIS CAME OUT…I REMEMBER IT WELL .. I ENTERED TOWER RECORDS DOWN IN HIGH STREET KENSINGTON.. LONDON …THIS WAS PLAYING OUT LOUD IN THE STORE.. I STAYED. THERE AND LISTENED TO THE WHOLE ALBUM AND LOVED IT TO THIS DAY …HAPPY DAYS 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
I listened to this a lot senior year 4 years ago. I heard this song for the first time on the radio and sound hounded it immediately. Post high school life doesn’t easier but it’s full of ups and downs with more responsibility
I just dedicated this song to my oldest daughter, whom I haven't seen or heard from in years now. One of the few songs that can even begin to address that pain.
*LYRICS:* 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 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 it's 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 Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade Copy pasted from .... wherever
So familiar This was me at University at the se time at Gatton Queensland Australia. Hearts and thoughts haven't faded away. Best times of my life. Pearl Jam encapsulated these times there. My hearts and thoughts haven't faded away from there ❤❤❤❤
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 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 it's 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 Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away Hearts and thoughts they fade
"You wouldn't recall, I'm not my former....," This makes me think of my grandmother, the only grandparent I ever knew. I was a horrible person when I was younger and she died before she could see me change. My brother was around to see the start of it when he passed at 52 from a heart attack and my father the near completion of it. I now only have my mom and sister at 80 and 60 respectively speaking. God willing, they'll have been around long enough to see me go from....doing what I'd done to having a PhD. I don't think my grandmother would recognize me if only for my face given the chance, but I like to believe she would all the same.
Just had my last day of high school. Can’t stop listening to this awesome song. Had so many great memories and relationships there…so sad that as we move on to new chapters of our lives we leave those we love behind and fade over time.
Sorry for your loss. I lost my dad also from dementia. It was rough to see how he was before the illness to eventually see the king of shape he was in just shortly before he passed.
I’ve haven’t heard this song in a while, yet it gives me so much inspiration. “ I’ve changed by not changing at all” is the part that really sticks with me, because that’s what I don’t wanna become. Someone that you knew and never changed and improved ever since.
I changed by not changing at all.. ...I swear I recognize your breath... ...not my former... Stuck up on a shelf... Only Black moves me more. Hearts and thoughts they fade. Thanks Eddie. For deep uncountable reasons...thanks
Ominous and sublime, one of the most haunting songs ever made, over and over again, hearing while feeling the memories of the lyrics so instantly relatable and ever so deeply effecting the soul with every listen.
@@mrcrandberry6115 What isn’t ominous and haunting about the living long enough to see that you don’t matter to anyone anymore, even within the context of a small town, your friends, and family? What isn’t ominous and haunting about being dead to the world even when your world is small?
@@AP-op4rc I think "evocative" or "poignant" would be better words for this then "ominous" and "haunting." Mainly because "ominous" intends to a feeling of foreboding or calamity, and this song is really just about remembering.
@@mrcrandberry6115 I guess it comes down to how we interpret some of the meaning behind it. I agree, evocative and poignant are great descriptors. I guess I just see a lot of darkness in the way that things are remembered in this song. To me it’s not in a nostalgic way, but more in a way that emphasizes a sense of loss and emptiness.
I love how this beautiful song takes me back to a time when life was much more simple .. my youthful years! This is probably my favorite song ever by these guys!! 🤟😎💯
this was my dads favorite song, i recently heard it while at a concert and it brought back so many memories. i miss him so much and i’m glad i’m listening to this song again
For those of us who moved from our hometowns it is a deep desire to go back and reconnect before it is too late. I know it would not be the same but I feel that need before my life is finished to say one final farewell to those of my youth who still remain. The song evokes nostalgia beyond words.
This song was sent to me by my bf just now, it reminded her of my husband who passed away 3 years ago. I just listened to it and it brought happy tears to my eyes. I’ll always love you Mark Landskroner and I know your an angel watching over me every day and night. Miss you my love, love Jamie Pearl Jam- Elderly woman behind a counter in a small town, ROCK IT
Do you ever go back and listen to tunes such as this one and cry tears of ,maybe happiness, cuz it takes you back to memories of the good times of our lives that we'll never be able to have again but can make new ones that we don't realize will make us cry again in the future when we look back at this current time and be like, wow, those were the days of my life? THESE are the days of our lives!
Listening to this song endlessly all night long, the dawn is about to breakthrough. Thousand emotions and thoughts mixed in this amazing tune joy and sorrow embracing a lot of hope. Words really just can't describe the feeling about this song. Not confusion but certainty of better days coming.
Ah, the progression of life. Things don't always turn out the way you thought they would, but that's life for you. Time waits for no one and life will always move. Funny how time flies when you aren't looking.
I'm kinda depressed and a little drunk. I love this song, remember when it was new. It's a part of the small repertoire of songs that I can play ad sing on the guitar.
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"I change by not changing at all" It's an amazing lyric
Ok ...im a 60+ year old black dude who love my music from my era but when heard this song when it came out i was instantly hooked. Lyrics and music is perfect.
Vocals too. Eddie is awesome.
Amen!!!
You're not alone. Every since I was 12 yrs old I related to Journey, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Aerosmith, Peter Frampton, Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Janes Addiction, Alternative, Metal, Classic, and even Punk Rock... Ha! Etctera.There are to many good bands to list.
Bless your soul, my best friend was a big soul from Barbados , he loved rock, as we all should.
Embrace the glort
Oh the 1990s simpler time back when everything was simple no cellphones or auto tune just real music played by real musicians. Pearl Jam is like running into an old friend. Huge fan.
If ever their was a song that had an uncanny knack of pulling at my heart strings, it was this one.
This takes me back. Makes me smile. Makes me cry. Every. Single. Time.
Eddie what are you doing in lagos,Nigeria
Beautiful Song 🎵 ❤️
@Eddievedder3156Can you not
yeah
Every damn time I actually listen to this song when I need a good cry
I used to sing this song to my sons when they were infants. 93 & 99. Love you sons. Thank you for teaching me what life is really about.
This is difently a drunkin comment..? love it 😅
@seanduddy3298 not in the least. This is a comment from an actual human being. That appreciates the only thing worthwhile he was ever given. They taught me. Maybe you can grow up someday too.
I'm in that boat right now! I have two very young kids and they really do put life in perspective.
Oh being a baby of 93... that warms my soul amazing mother..
@@DUCK-DUCK777 I'm their Dad. They are the greatest gift anyone ever gave me.
"My God it's been so long. Never dreamed you'd return. But now here you are. And here I am.". This is something that I had hoped and wished for, for so many years but had never happened. These lyrics are so beautiful and powerful.
I cry literally every time at this line
It can happen. It took 32 years...but it happened. I am grateful...I hope the same for you.
But when it happens, it’s like magic.
And how do you know it’s not about you? Never dreamed you’d return. But now here you are …
My fiancé favorite song. I'm beginning to understand 15 years later after we reconnected
"Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name".
That's fucking poetry.
Music is truly a time machine.
Seriously. Standing in my kitchen at almost midnight. Kids all.tucked into bed and thinking about this song and what I was doing 30 years ago.
Dude I’m back in 1996 when I graduated from HS
haven't heard this song in years, it feels like yesterday.
Especially after 38 High Lifes
@Eddievedder3156you are the best
I’m 51 now, I’ve listened to this album hundreds maybe thousands of times and I get that same feeling that I did in my early 20’s when I first heard it.
Yep. 52, still listening 🤘💯💜
It never fades
If this song doesn't hit different now than when you were in your 20s...
Same here... I'll never forget first time hearing it driving during winter...
always come back to this one. haven't for many years, and now it actually hurts to hear, despite being so beautiful. It's a double-strike at the heart because hearts and thoughts have faded now compared to when I first heard it. I used to belt this out on my guitar to impress friends - now some of those friends are gone, and others are "gone" but in a different way. Jesus this song is so sad but so true and so damn pretty.
I change by not changing is deep
Legendary band. Some kid like 200 years from now is going to discover Pearl Jam and it will blow their mind and that kid will go on to create incredible music for the world.
Man I am so high right now. Great song.
Legendary comment
😂
dude i fucking love this song.
I really really really hope you're right. None of us will be there to see it, but I really love to.
Wyld Stallyons! 🤘
Pearl Jam is one of the greatest band ever, including this song
I like them but they are not one of the greatest bands ever, they had a few good songs in the 90's and that's it.
One day we'll all be forgotten, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy every moment until then.
Wish I could do more of that.
Great reminder.
When I find the money tree to pay for Major Depressive Disorder therapies not covered by insurance, I could start dreaming of being more than a fading memory which breathes - or a cautionary tale.
I've always thought if the person from the past being the happier me form decades ago. "My God, it's been so long ."
Edit: No idea why I went on and on about this yesterday. The mental health system in the U.S. is impossible for some if us. Leaving it up in case it makes someone else feel less alone. Sorry to be a bummer.
Seriously, I idk just I want to thank you for that
Sad when I'm still here and feel forgotten...
@@a.joegevara3519 well you got a notification to pop up on my phone and a response. Even if I'm X miles away, sitting on a toliet typing a comment for a handful of people to see, you are one of them. Your tiny action made me do a tiny action in return. You aren't alone, even if the world and your mind are telling you that you are.
@@bigchilling420 Makes me wonder what the most heartfelt thing ever written while on a toilet might have been, but your comment is right up there. Thanks for sharing the beautiful sentiment.
Know I'm taking this song out of context, but I just lost my mom to dementia and always felt such a personal connection to these lyrics and her situation. She wrote poetry, which I'd been unable to read without bursting into tears since the disease stole her from me. As she lay in the hospital bed this week, unresponsive and on a myriad of drugs to ease the pain of her journey, all I could do was stay at her side, hold her hand, play her favorite music and read her beautifully written poems and stories to her again. It was a gift for me in many ways. It brought back, if only through prose, my magnificent mom and her gift for writing. The lyrics "memories like fingerprints are slowly raising" were true. So thank you, Pearl Jam, for allowing me to apply my own deeply personal meaning to your haunting song as I navigate this intense grief.
@Hostile NPc Sload Thank you so much for your kind words. You have no idea how meaningful they are right now. 💓
Strength to you man.
Im black n tht brings me to tears
I feel what you are going through. Going through it now myself. My beautiful mum hears the music I play for her, no matter how far away she is. I know.
I'm sorry to the both of you for losing your precious mothers. I lost my Mom in 94 and this album soothed me at the time. ❤❤❤
"I swear I recognize your breath" what a great line! " I just wanna scream HELLO"
I was there in a small American town in the 90s. Listening to this evokes memories of flannel shirts, autumn leaves and a bottle of Goldschläger.
Reminds me of Highschool...miss the 90s
Sitting here at a Restaurant.
This Song Pierced my Mind.
I loved the 90’s.
I Love Life.
I change by not changing at all....
This became my life motto.
Mine too
I always get tears with this one. like 20 years was just yesterday and tomorrow is so far away. I feel so many feels with this one, it hurts, it feels good...nostalgia is there, so isn't Frodo my doggo that passed a few years ago.
Sad things...man, but also glorious things.
I play this every day on my guitar atm. I can't play it for other people yet because when the chorus kicks in after the solo it always makes me cry, so I choke on the lyrics for a few seconds.
I love everything about this song it is a a scream of quiet desperation......
_Hearts and thoughts they fade… faaade away.._
I really like this part.♡
And this song reminds me of my mom.My hometown that I miss...
Hearts and thought they fade faaaaade away
God I miss my hometown
You know this is good when there’s 5 likes in 33 seconds. Lyrically, I think one of the best Pearl Jam songs.
15 by the two minute mark.
And climbing quickly.
It's hard to choose the best ones, Eddie is an amazing lyricist (and the rest as well, but Eddie wrote the biggest amount of breathtaking lyrics)
Literally every single album has some masterpieces that bring me in tears
@@Faks.09 my personal favourites change often. There's a great Pearl Jam song no matter your mood.
One of their best lyrics
It doesn’t get any better than this
Doesn’t get Eddie Vedder than this
" ...I change by not changing at all..."
and then i discovered temple of the dog and THEN and THEN the explosion of my life SOUNDGARDEN and the everlasting
King warrior and wizard Chris Cornell.
oh these times i cant even find a word for it...
I lost my Daddy in late August of 2021! We love the Stones, I was is one and only child. I miss him daily! This reminds me of him SO MUCH, LOVE U DADDY❤
Very sorry for your loss. ♥
Yeah I lost mine in April of the next year, it does the same for me with my grandmother in April of 99 and soon my mother, I fear.
This was the greatest era for music! I miss those days badly!
It was & I miss it too!
No, it was just our era for music.
Music peaked in the late 1960s in terms of melody and harmony (computers analyzed it).
We knew at the time in the 1980s and 1990s that music was going downhill but we still had some great songs.
Around 2015 it was like there was no more good music. Now I find myself seeing 80s songs getting burnt out.
Me too! 💛
@bigneiltoo complete bs.. the musicianship of the 80s, particularly shred and glam far surpasses anytjing you've mentioned.
Eric Johnson, yngwie malmsteen, Steve Vai, how can you possibly say music peaked before Eddie and van halen invent their tone that becomes famous. Lol
Purely a fools comment...
Leanr to appreciate amazing music again.. there was a ton of it before the last 20 years that is incredible
One of the coolest songs ever!!!!!
Awww this gets me all the time
Eddie Vedder is a wordsmith, this track has something for everyone.
Small town predicts my fate. That hits on many levels.
This song will ALWAYS make me cry. I feel it in my life everyday as memory fades. 54 and it still has that affect. Might be my favorite song ever by any band
probably in the top 10 best songs of our lifetime.
I just wanna scream hellooooo! Love this song! Love Pearl Jam!
I guess we’ll be coming up on 30 years of this soon. This Song , Twin Peaks and Best Friends. Life was great.
I JUST WANT TO SCREAM HELLO
MY GOD IT'S BEEN SO LONG, NEVER DREAMED YOU'D RETURN
But now here you are and here I ammmm...
Oh, hello 🖐🏻
HI!!!!!!
'Sup?!
I will never forget the 1st time i heard this song, ayrton senna had just died and ESPN used this song in a tribute. Such a sad day and everytime i hear this song always takes me back to that sad day in 1994.
My God it's been so long, never dreamed you'd return! But now here you are, and here I am! Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
“Sometimes even though that person is not *the person” anymore …”
I like to think Eddie himself has changed through all these decades by not changing at all, this same deep innocent soul who never seemed to let fame and fortune corrupt him or drive him into a destructive lifestyle. And that voice is so iconic, like he's truly just this born performer
Very true, initially his lyrics certainly seemed the most personal and painful of the bunch. He seemed to be able to work through it where Chris n certainly Layne's lyrics only seemed to become more haunting as time went on.
Blessing we still have EV with us.
I think in this song at the time he wrote it, it was more of a funny history to him, sings it weirdly almost as if it was a country song and in a way I feel he didn't relate to it the way he sings it now that he's older
I’ll be that old lady behind the counter been at the coffee shop for 25 years watched so many grow up and become young adults as I was when I started working for my fam. Still waiting on a cover to be played at the Mocha House. I love this song!
But do you live in a small town? And do you want to scream hello?🧐
@@TenNineD yes, Newton Fall is a village and I scream that all day…
When we travel the Road to Recovery, NeuroPathways to Enlightenment, Holiday Road, Journey to Awaken our Spirit, Mission to Finding our Self (the psyche),... the mind gets quiet and it happens. Shhh it happens!
HELLO! My Inner G (energy), it's been so long! Never dreamed you'd return! But now here YOU are, and here I AM. ♥➕💭 together in peace and love. ☯
There is an Elder/Tallest/Higher/Acsended energy within you. Be it! Don't COUNT yourSelf out and get left behind in small mindedness. ♥ is it! BEloved!
It's so funny that you say that -- I'm on the wrong side of 55, but after losing so many years to major depression, I feel as if I'm picking up where I left off in 95. I'll be looking for part time work in the next couple of weeks to get me out among people again, it's guaranteed that at the worst, it'll be a coffee shop. Toronto's impossible to afford, so I live in a small town where there are no book stores I could slink my way into. What scares me a little bit is the foreknowledge that coffee shops are no light work, and I ruined my back hauling boxes of cds & records during my 20s (showing off like the dumbass I often was).
I'm looking forward to being out & about among people again, esp younger ones who usually seem so gorgeously full of life. I wish I'd known that about myself when I was young & incredibly, painfully insecure, but so it goes.
@@1michelemichele1I hope everything is going well for you, hon! 💙🫂🩵
I remember you coming in the room in our apartment waking us up in the early morning after getting home from working the overnight shift playing this song on our small acoustic guitar. You were so happy that day. I never asked why. It has always stuck in my mind. I miss you my brother. May your soul rest and be rocking out in heaven.
Precious memories my friend. ❤
PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO WHEN THIS CAME OUT…I REMEMBER IT WELL .. I ENTERED TOWER RECORDS DOWN IN HIGH STREET KENSINGTON.. LONDON …THIS WAS PLAYING OUT LOUD IN THE STORE.. I STAYED. THERE AND LISTENED TO THE WHOLE ALBUM AND LOVED IT TO THIS DAY …HAPPY DAYS 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
You Stopped me at Tower Records ❤
I played this song about 10 times straight the day after I graduated high school.
I don’t know why I did that…
Yes you do ,,,, you left something you will never go back to
I now do an internship at my own high school, haha. So I'm playing: We'll meet again, Far Cry 5 version.
That makes two of us.
I wish I could have done the same thing
I listened to this a lot senior year 4 years ago. I heard this song for the first time on the radio and sound hounded it immediately.
Post high school life doesn’t easier but it’s full of ups and downs with more responsibility
I just dedicated this song to my oldest daughter, whom I haven't seen or heard from in years now. One of the few songs that can even begin to address that pain.
My daughter has faded away too 😢
This is one of their best songs.
One of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever. So much truth and humanity in these timeless lyrics-
Hearts and thoughts do indeed fade away.
😕
*LYRICS:*
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
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 it's 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
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
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obrigado
Great Song, Eddie Vedder!!
i love it when someone goes to the trouble of pasting the lyrics. Thankyou.x
such a poetic feel. love this one.
Thanks!
So familiar
This was me at University at the se time at Gatton Queensland Australia.
Hearts and thoughts haven't faded away.
Best times of my life.
Pearl Jam encapsulated these times there.
My hearts and thoughts haven't faded away from there ❤❤❤❤
someone told me he wrote this be cause he was fascinated by small towns. (literally)
This is the first PJ song I ever listened to. I love PJ!
By far the best Pearl Jam song ever
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
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 it's 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
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away
Hearts and thoughts they fade
"You wouldn't recall, I'm not my former....," This makes me think of my grandmother, the only grandparent I ever knew. I was a horrible person when I was younger and she died before she could see me change. My brother was around to see the start of it when he passed at 52 from a heart attack and my father the near completion of it. I now only have my mom and sister at 80 and 60 respectively speaking. God willing, they'll have been around long enough to see me go from....doing what I'd done to having a PhD. I don't think my grandmother would recognize me if only for my face given the chance, but I like to believe she would all the same.
All the emotions flood back 😢 these days left us too fast!
I felt greatfull to grow up around greatness and originality
30 years old. still love it. Hearts and thoughts they fade
This song. So many memories
It's not until you a good karaoke singer that you realize how distinct Eddie's voice is. Truly one of the best in Rock.
Just had my last day of high school. Can’t stop listening to this awesome song. Had so many great memories and relationships there…so sad that as we move on to new chapters of our lives we leave those we love behind and fade over time.
This song always brings tears to my eyes 😢
My favorite song by Pearl Jam.
That footage of Quagmire and his real estate agent made me cry. Anyone else?
When I hear this song, it brings me back to being in Seattle from 1994 to 1997. Pike Market and Pioneer Square were the places to be.
Sorry for your loss. I lost my dad also from dementia. It was rough to see how he was before the illness to eventually see the king of shape he was in just shortly before he passed.
Gotdanm what a beautiful song!!!!
🎯💯
I remember the first time I heard this song I was with my friend who I cared about very much for and played this song in a talent show for her.
My god it's been so long...
I’ve haven’t heard this song in a while, yet it gives me so much inspiration. “ I’ve changed by not changing at all” is the part that really sticks with me, because that’s what I don’t wanna become. Someone that you knew and never changed and improved ever since.
I changed by not changing at all..
...I swear I recognize your breath...
...not my former...
Stuck up on a shelf...
Only Black moves me more.
Hearts and thoughts they fade.
Thanks Eddie. For deep uncountable reasons...thanks
Ominous and sublime, one of the most haunting songs ever made, over and over again, hearing while feeling the memories of the lyrics so instantly relatable and ever so deeply effecting the soul with every listen.
I don't think you know the meanings of "ominous" or "haunting"
@@mrcrandberry6115 What isn’t ominous and haunting about the living long enough to see that you don’t matter to anyone anymore, even within the context of a small town, your friends, and family? What isn’t ominous and haunting about being dead to the world even when your world is small?
@@AP-op4rc I think "evocative" or "poignant" would be better words for this then "ominous" and "haunting." Mainly because "ominous" intends to a feeling of foreboding or calamity, and this song is really just about remembering.
@@mrcrandberry6115 I guess it comes down to how we interpret some of the meaning behind it. I agree, evocative and poignant are great descriptors. I guess I just see a lot of darkness in the way that things are remembered in this song. To me it’s not in a nostalgic way, but more in a way that emphasizes a sense of loss and emptiness.
@@mrcrandberry6115 ok dork
I love how this beautiful song takes me back to a time when life was much more simple .. my youthful years! This is probably my favorite song ever by these guys!! 🤟😎💯
The summer this album came out was amazing, this cd was always on
Pearl Jam always gives you a sense of serenity through each song that resignates with what you are going through at the time. Thank you.
this was my dads favorite song, i recently heard it while at a concert and it brought back so many memories. i miss him so much and i’m glad i’m listening to this song again
God bless your Dad, you'll have those memories forever🙏🏻
❤❤❤
For those of us who moved from our hometowns it is a deep desire to go back and reconnect before it is too late. I know it would not be the same but I feel that need before my life is finished to say one final farewell to those of my youth who still remain. The song evokes nostalgia beyond words.
Memories like finger prints ...,never dreamed you return 😭😭😭❤❤❤💙🔥🔥♾️
This song was sent to me by my bf just now, it reminded her of my husband who passed away 3 years ago. I just listened to it and it brought happy tears to my eyes. I’ll always love you Mark Landskroner and I know your an angel watching over me every day and night. Miss you my love, love Jamie
Pearl Jam- Elderly woman behind a counter in a small town, ROCK IT
I love you and your comment. Sorry for your loss.
@@voices3312 who’s this ?
Perfect road trip song!
Do you ever go back and listen to tunes such as this one and cry tears of ,maybe happiness, cuz it takes you back to memories of the good times of our lives that we'll never be able to have again but can make new ones that we don't realize will make us cry again in the future when we look back at this current time and be like, wow, those were the days of my life?
THESE are the days of our lives!
Always wanted to see them live... Someday ☺️
God what a fuckin vibe ....
Listening to this song endlessly all night long, the dawn is about to breakthrough. Thousand emotions and thoughts mixed in this amazing tune joy and sorrow embracing a lot of hope. Words really just can't describe the feeling about this song. Not confusion but certainty of better days coming.
Ah, the progression of life. Things don't always turn out the way you thought they would, but that's life for you. Time waits for no one and life will always move. Funny how time flies when you aren't looking.
Yes! Nostalgia you win.
The crescendo this song hits by the end gets me. Wasn't a major fan of the song when released but I've really become one.
To Pearl Jam: Thank you. You were an integral element in my college years and I thank you all for your contributions to the woman I became. ❤️
Thanks Chris B for giving this to me and Chris S! I love you both beyond words.❤
@Eddievedder3156 Talk privately how? Of course I would love to speak to Eddie Vedder but why would he want to speak to little ole me?
@Eddievedder3156 I'm replying
@@katherinecrossman2293 ma’am, are you aware that this person is not Eddievedder, just an impersonator
One of my favourite albums ever...
I'm kinda depressed and a little drunk. I love this song, remember when it was new. It's a part of the small repertoire of songs that I can play ad sing on the guitar.
Great song!!!! Deep almost Pink Floyd Like
The song that made me realize I wanted to learn to play guitar. Thanks guys, thanks Eddie.❤️
This is for you corrine . You still do it for me after all these years . And I love you for it ❤
This is my favourite Pearl Jam song. Phenomenal.
I absolutely love this this song it’s sang from the very depths of the soul.
just saw him in Missoula MT last night .. song blew my mind ..🧠
These two fucking rocked