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[[Pearl Jam|This grunge band]] [[Tear Jerker|can really make you cry]].
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* "Black". In almost any other group's "hands" this would be just [[Narm|a cheesy]] and [[Wangst|wangsty]] song about [[Unrequited Love]], but Vedder and Co. make it ''work''.
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I know you'll be the sun of somebody else's life...
Why, why, why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine? }}
* And "Jeremy". It's about a guy who committed suicide in the middle of his English class.
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Oh, to the fact that Mommy didn't care.
King Jeremy the Wicked,
Oh, ruled his world. }}
* And "Even Flow". About a homeless, illiterate, mentally insane man.
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O7jmmSYI9U Present Tense]" can get some people choked up.
* "O4/20/02" was written and recorded hours after a distraught Eddie Vedder had learned that his friend Layne Staley of [[Alice in Chains]] was found dead due to an OD from a speedball (A Heroin and Cocaine cocktail) In the song Eddie laments for the wasted talent of Layne and feels utter rage for recent musicians copying his vocal style.
{{quote|"So sing just like him, fuckers,
It won't offend him,
Just me...
Because he's dead."|Eddie Vedder 04/20/02}}
** "Indifference", which is about Vedder basically giving up. Saying that nothing he does in the long run matters, no matter how much he wants it too.
* "Love Boat Captain" was written in response to the 2000 Roskilde Festival disaster, when 9 people suffocated due to the crowd pressure at a Pearl Jam concert.
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** When the line is performed at live concerts, the last bit is changed to the number of years since June 30, 2000.
* The dreary, almost suicidal atmosphere of "Sad" can really choke some people up -- especially the chorus:
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"And there is no god with a plan, it's sad"
"And his loneliness is proof, it's sad"
"He could only love you, it's sad" }}
* Also: "Man of the Hour", and "[[Grief Song|Just Breathe]]".
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