Album: Binaural (2000)

Charted: 52

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• I've used hammers made out of wood
  I have played games with pieces and rules
  I've deciphered tricks at the bar
  But now you're gone
  I haven't figured out why
  I've come up with riddles
  And jokes about war
  I've figured out numbers and what they're for
  I've understood feelings
  And I've understood words
  But how could you be taken away
  
  And wherever you've gone
  And wherever we might go
  It don't seem fair
  Today just disappeared
  Your lights reflected now
  Reflected from a far
  We were but stones
  Your light made us stars
  
  With heavy breath
  Awaken regrets
  Back pages and days alone they could've been spent
  Together but we were miles apart
  Every inch between us becomes light years now
  No time to be void
  Or save up on life
  Uh you've got to spend it all
  
  And wherever you've gone
  And wherever we might go
  It don't seem fair
  You seem to like it here
  Your lights reflected now
  Reflected from a far
  We were but stones
  Your light made us stars
  
  And wherever you've gone
  And wherever we might go
  It don't seem fair
  Today just disappeared
  Your lights reflected now
  Reflected from a far
  We were but stones
  Your light made us stars Writer/s: Eddie Jerome Vedder, Michael David Mccready, Stone C. Gossard
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 6

• Ally from Buffalo NyThank you Eddie for singing this for Gord a Downie back in 2016, it was so classy and beautiful. I’m a big fan of you both and it was very powerful
• Just Me from The NetherlandsEddy about this song and Diana, Pinkpop, 2000 The Netherlands
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaenCSUypHg&t=2228s
• Xiru from Sao Leopoldo, BrazilIn a concert in Brasil (Porto Alegre, 11/11/2011), Vedder dedicated this song to Johnny Ramone.
• Karen from Utrecht, NetherlandsI'm not sure who EV originally wrote the song for, but the 'Diane' he dedicated it to at Pinkpop was not someone he knew 'long ago'. She was the talent scout who worked for their record company in the Netherlands, and her name was actually Diana - not Diane. However long/short the friendship though, I can imagine that her talent, humor and dedication - her 'light - certainly did play an important role in 'making them stars.
• Poet1987_jlb from Horsham, PaThis song is dedicated to Diane...
  
  The words to this song are deeply emotional and represent an eternal "hello" to a love somewhere out there in the world, possibly the same friend represented in the song "Black". The opening of the song indicates a person transitioning into the time of life where they claim their intelligence and identity, possibly an awkward stage for them...good with numbers, but still learning which riddles and jokes are safe topics. For many, this is in high school. This song is definately about someone EV knew long ago, who he looked up to as a person, and who he had profound love for...even if he met her only briefly and she lived somewhere else in the distance. I have the strong impression that this person made a strong impression in his personal life and in his music as indicated by the multiple references about her "light" and how her "light made us stars". She is truly the luckiest girl in the world...
• Eric from Mentor, OhAMAZING song. On of their best.

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