Pearl Jam - Marker in the Sand

[ttmoran]

Top Flipping Notch!!

[Flagellator1974]

(by da way)

G R U N G E ;)

[ghostwhiskey]

please stop saying "grunge" its on every page

[oralsurgery84]

GOOD TUNE! This song, Porch, Gods Dice and Glorified G are my favs. Love the break in the middle. Good chord changes

[doceddie90]

A most unhearlded PJ classic.

[notlhe81]

@didyme666 OPINO LO MISMO; I AGREE

[Ekyvvsaq]

I second that!

[MetalMassacre45]

Matt Cameron tears it up on this song!

[kaityyyie]

the world needs more songs like this, and more people who get them

[gibbson90]

i went to target today o get it and they're all out. i even called them earlier and they said they had it but i get there and it be all gone

[gibbson90]

howd u get it early?

[Portao7INTER]

PEARL JAM = THE KINGS

[gibbson90]

ima be pissed it backspacer sucks

[Ekyvvsaq]

buy it in store?

[micklee2604]

No dude not der last ever ... the last one they had out :

[jimlovesearth2]

great band, great song, great lyrics.

[MrAguila]

Ive only recently got into Pearl Jam. They've quickly become one of my favourite bands, all of their albums are so good to listen to

[gibbson90]

AHHHH FUCKING GAY ITUNES MADE THE "PEARL JAM" ALBUM A PARTIAL ALBUM!!!! now the only songs from it are severed hand, life wasted, and world wide suicide

[micklee2604]

its on their self-titled pearl jam record ... ie their last album !

[Ekyvvsaq]

The last ever?????

[PearlAnatta]

My take on the meaning is that it's about the War On Terror. The Islamic extremists are committing these acts and trying to support the fact they're killing by saying they are morally right. Then the West has condemned them for being immoral and to show its supposed moral superiority implements a war. The song is, I think, Eddie's dismay at both camps killing masses of people and trying to claim that they are morally just in doing so.

[mightymightysimon]

...totally underrated!! great song!!!

[dlbbc94]

this is an awesome song!

[Endy77Endy]

my all time pearl jam favorite

[redhotpearl]

I can't make heads or tails about what the actual meaning of this song is anyone know?

[dlbbc94]

its about war

[redhotpearl]

want to elaborate for me?

[dlbbc94]

oops sorry clicked post to fast.

anyway:

"...name*" is about war. like iraq and america. im not sure about the rest but i can guess that hes saying where is God? we need him but he isnt here where we can see him.

i believe that this is happening for a reason but i dont know what that is. no one does but God and we have to trust him. thats what faith is.

sorry if i didnt help much but thats all i got out of it.

BTW this is MY opinion. i dont know if its true.

[dlbbc94]

i completely messed up on my post. sorry :(

one half didnt show up and thats the begining so oops!!!

walking tightrope over moral ground is saying we're going on about right and wrong and good and bad.

now you got both sides killing in God's name is talking about war. Iraq and America.

hope that cleared it up and sorry!!

[dmp78]

it's challenging religion and the notion of "god"

[lbc72]

OK, I will take a shot at it. I find it to be about the earliest form of "religion" (for lack of a better term) known to us human beings. It was delivered to us many many years ago. The "marker in the sand" refers to a place where the secret teachings (Original Truth) are kept. They were covered up by "sand" after a major natural disaster took place on Earth (possibly the great flood). The song is calling for the "original truth"/meaning of our existance to be discovered, (cont...)

[lbc72]

brought forth and put in place once again on Earth.Allowing all to leave in peace. But what to do with the "decided" and "misguided"? Does it really have to come to a "revolution"? So, as a last ditch effort, at the end we are calling out for God to "do come around with the living, while we are still in love". "God what do you say?" as if asking for a rebuttal to all the crazy things said in his name. "Calling out". Just my take on a great song!

[sunny606]

super song