Signs

EDDIE VEDDER

Seattle, 2006

PHOTOGRAPHER DANNY CLINCH SAYS: I was shooting a video with Pearl Jam for the single ''World Wide Suicide'' and there was downtime, so Ed asked me to come to the studio; the band was wrapping up for the night and he wanted to play the record for me. He cued up the first song and then stopped it and asked me to wait a minute. Then he gathers all these handwritten lyrics and puts the stack in front of me and says, ''Now we can listen.'' And I'm thinking, Eddie Vedder wrote these songs with a pen and paper! It's cool to be Danny Clinch right now.

She said to me, over the phone she wanted to see other people

i thought, "well then, look around, they're everywhere"

said that she was confused...i thought, "darling, join the club"

24 years old, mid-life crisis nowadays hits you when you're young

i hung up, she called back, i hung up again

the process had already started

at least it happened quick

i swear, i died inside that night my friend,

he called i didn't mention a thing

the last thing he said was, "be sound"...sound...

i contemplated an awful thing, i hate to admit

i just thought those would be such appropriate last words

but i'm still here and small so small..

how could this struggle seem so big?

so big...while the palms in the breeze still blow green and the waves in the sea still absolute blue

but the horror every single thing i see is a reminder of her

never thought i'd curse the day i met her

and since she's gone and wouldn't hear who would care?

what good would that do?

but i'm still here

so i imagine in a month...or 12

i'l be somewhere having a drink

laughing at a stupid joke or just another stupid thing

and i can see myself stopping short drifting out of the present

sucked by the undertow and pulled out deepand there i am,

standing wet grass and white headstones all in rowsand in the distance there's one,

off on its own so i stop, kneel my new home...

and i picture a sober awakening,

a re-entry into this little bar scene sip my drink til the ice hits my lip

order another round and that's it for now

sorry

never been too good at happy endings...

[há histórias que, mesmo tristes, são tão bonitas, quando contadas pelas vozes certas, das pessoas certas. Este homem é único.]