Hi All
The Pearl Jam Lyric Tournament has begun. Voting for Brackets A+B is up for today and tomorrow (11/7-11/8). You can vote on the Red Mosquito forums
Bracket A
1. Under your tongue/I'm like a tab/I will give you what you're not supposed to have
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Anxious is the present/Unwrap your gifts, take your time
2. I've got scratches all over my arms/One for each day since I fell apart
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Escape is never the safest path
3. Are you getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
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A night bird is following you all the time.
4. Life has nothing to do with killing time
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Eyes, no eyes, there's no difference/Every life is looking in
5. Sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky/a human being that was given to fly
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It's like she's lost her invitation to the party on earth/And she's standing outside hating everyone here
6. Not unlike a friend that politely drags you down.
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I let go of a rope, thinking that's what held me back/now in time I've realized, it's now wrapped around my neck
7. Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun
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Standing like a statue/A chin of stone, a heart of clay
8. I smile but who am I kidding?
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I'm a lucky man to count on both hands the ones I love
Bracket B
9. It's egg rolling thick and heavy/All this past we carry.
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Now you got both sides claiming killing in God's name/But God is nowhere to be found, conveniently.
10. Mondays were made to fall, lost on a road he knew by heart/It was like a book he read in his sleep, endlessly
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I guess it was the beatings/ made me wise/but I am not about to give thanks, or apologize
11. Don't see some men as half empty/see 'em half fulla shit
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Just be darling, and I will be too/Faithful to you
12. And wherever you've gone/and wherever we might go/It don't seem fair/you seemed to like it here
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I was the fool because I thought I thought the world/Turns out the world thought me
13. I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down
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Like a cloud dropping rain I'm discarding all thought/I'll dry up, leaving puddles on the ground.
14. Tried to endure/what i could not forgive
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Everything has chains/Absolutely nothing’s changed
15. she holds the hand that holds her down/she will rise above
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Looks like lightning in my child's eyes.
16. There was a solemn man, watched his twilight disappear/Altered by a fallen eagle, a warning sign /He sensed worry could be strength/With a plan that said, "Time for--evacuation."
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We were but stones/your light made us stars
