Dance Of The Clairvoyants

Album: Gigaton (2020)
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  • Confusion is to commotion
    What love is to our devotion
    Imperceptibly big
    Big as the ocean
    And equally hard to control

    So save your predictions
    And burn your assumptions
    Love is friction
    Ripe for comfort
    Endless equations
    And tugging persuasions
    Doors open up
    To interpretation

    Expecting perfection
    Leaves a lot to ignore
    When the past is the present
    And the future's no more
    When every tomorrow
    Is the same as before

    The looser things get
    The tighter you become
    The looser things get
    Tighter

    Not one man can be greater than the sun
    That's not a negative thought
    I'm positive, positive, positive

    Falling down, not staying down
    Coulda held me up, rather tear me down
    Drown in the river

    Expecting perfection
    Leaves a lot to endure
    When the past is the present
    And the future's no more
    When every tomorrow
    Is the same as before

    Numbers keep falling off the calendar's floor
    We're stuck in our boxes
    Windows open no more
    Collecting up the forget-me-nots
    Not recalling what they're for
    I'm in love with clairvoyants
    'Cause they're out of this world

    I know the girls wanna dance
    Away their circumstance
    I know the boys wanna grow
    Their dicks, and fix and fire things

    I know the girls wanna dance
    Clairvoyants in a trance
    I know the boys wanna grow
    Their dicks and fix and fire things

    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back
    Stand back when the spirit comes

    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back

    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back
    I know the girls wanna dance
    Away their circumstance
    I know the boys wanna grow
    Their dicks and fix and fire things
    Drown in the river
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back

    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back (Their dicks, and fix and fire things)
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    Stand back when the spirit comes
    (Drown in the river) Writer/s: Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron, Mike McCready, Stone Gossard
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Cdthomas1981 On 10c from Milwaukee, WiI think this is what the guys are going for, I got this from Wikipedia when searching for Clairvoyant:

    "According to scientific research, clairvoyance is generally explained as the result of confirmation bias, expectancy bias, fraud, hallucination, self-delusion, sensory leakage, subjective validation, wishful thinking or failures to appreciate the base rate of chance occurrences and not as a paranormal power."

    A lot of the Conservative view is non-scientific and perceptibly the logic is not based on facts, but only perception itself. Instead of living in an America that uses facts to decide the direction of this country and the world as well, we just live in constant denial.
  • Buddy C. from North Carolina Absolutely positively brilliant. Certainly the uncertainty and nothing less than the unexpected. Was floored when I heard this because it was like wow who are these guys this is a new band right. Wrong this is an evolving band that is truly dedicated to getting better all the time and fearlessly treading waters that most artists and bands would steer clear of. Nothing wrong with leaving one's comfort zone if you're willing to put forth the time, dedication, and hard work to put out quality material. That's what Pearl Jam just did with Dance Of The Clairvoyants. Great song.
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