I Got Id

Album: Merkin Ball (1995)
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  • My lips are shakin', my nails are bit off
    Been a month since I heard myself talk
    All the advantage this life's got on me
    Picture a cup in the middle of the sea

    And I fight back in my mind
    Never lets me be right, oh
    I got memories, I got shit
    So much it don't show

    I walked the line
    When you held me in that night
    I walked the line
    When you held my hand that night

    An empty shell seems so easy to crack
    Got all these questions, don't know who I could even ask
    So I'll just lie alone and wait for a dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me

    And I'll stay in bed
    Oh, blue eyes, I've seen him
    If just once, I could feel loved
    Oh, stare back at me, yeah

    But I walked the line
    When you held me in that night
    Oh, I walked the line
    When you held my hand that night
    Oh, I walked the line
    When you held me close that night
    I paid the price
    Never held you in real life

    My lips are shakin' Writer/s: Eddie Jerome Vedder
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • AnonymousI also saw this in concert. Still thinking about it too. It was great.
  • AnonymousSaw Pearl Jam a week ago in concert they did I got ID it was awesome my favorite song from the set I’m still thinking about it
  • Marci from Dallas, TxI love this song. Recently rediscovered it mainly bc I never knew the name of it. I'm ready for a nice soulful grunge revival. I miss the 90's so much.
  • Jeff from Ottawa, OnOctober 12, 2013 in Buffalo, NY Eddie introduced this song by saying that they only had 9 songs for Wrecking Ball, and the producers wanted it and asked Neil if he had another song, and Neil said "I got s--t!" Eddie was listening...
  • Daniel from Sunny Isles Beach, FlThis is one of the best songs ever made. So epic sounding. The lyrics and music are a perfect match. And to anyone that is predisposed to depression, they can instantly identify with the lyrics.
  • Adrian from Toledo, OhThe guitar build-up and subsequent crescendo at the end of the song is pure grunge ecstacy! One of the hardest, cleanest-distorted (controlled chaos) and rockingnest guitar pieces ever played. The Godfather of Grunge Guitar never fails to dissapoint.
  • Eric from Mentor, OhI love this song! Very unique.
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