Pearl Jam - Sirens

I come from a genius, I am my father’s son, Yeah, too bad he was a psychopath and now I’m the next in line, (Lonely nest), dear mother, yes, surely she’s a work of art, I never got top dollar, but she gave us all a star. Can I get a reprieve? This gene pool don’t hurt me. Can I beg a release From the volunteer amputee? From the moment I fell I called on DNA, Why such betrayal Got me tooth and nail. Yeah, how’s about one conversation with nothing else left to be had, (Oh, is this) your long lost son, and he’s never had dear old dad, I forget the insemination and for that I’m s’posed to be glad, What a pity you left us so soon to climb your mountain of regret. Can I get a reprieve? This gene pool dark and deep. Can I beg a release? Can I volunteer amputee? From the moment I fell I called on DNA, Why such betrayal? Oh I gotta set sail. Oh real bright light shining as you’re trying to breathe in thin air, Cannot forget you’re hiding collected wounds left unhealed, When every thought you’re thinking sinks you darker than the new moon sky, The faraway lights rising in the whites of your eyes. Now father you’re dead and gone and I’m finally free to be me, Thanks for all your dark gifts for which I’ve got no sympathy, I’m living in a walled-up place in the bounds of 5th symphony, Thanks for this and thanks for that, I gotta let go, learn to see (legacy?). Can I get a reprieve? This gene pool don’t hurt me. Can I beg a release? Can I volunteer amputee? From the moment I fell I called on DNA, Why such betrayal Oh I gotta set sail. Sirens Hear the sirens, hear the sirens Hear the sirens, hear the circus so profound I hear the sirens more and more in this here town Let me catch my breath to breathe then reach across the bend Just to know we’re safe, I am a grateful man This light is pit, alive and I can see you clear Oh, I could take your hand, and feel your breath For feel that someday will be over I pull you close, so much to lose Knowing that nothing lasts forever I didn’t care, before you were here A distant laughter, with the everafter But all things change, let this remain Hear the sirens covering distance in the night The sound, echoing closer, will they come for me, next time? For every choice, mistake I made, is not my plan To see you in the arms of another man And if you choose to stay, I’ll wait, I’ll understand Oh, it’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, if I think too much, I can’t get over When by the graces, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders Want you to know, that should I go, I always loved you, held you high above too I studied your face, the fear goes away. It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, if I think too much, I can’t get over When by the graves, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders Want you to know, that should I go, I always loved you, held you high above too I studied your face, the fear goes away, the fear goes away, the fear goes away.