Dance of the Clairvoyants, Pearl Jam’s first single off their forthcoming album, Gigaton. Available everywhere at http://pearljam.lnk.to/DOTCTwe
Unofficial Lyrics:
Confusion is to commotion
What love is to our devotion
Perceptively 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 entitled persuasion
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 sum
It’s not a negative thought, I’m positive,
Positive, positive!
Falling down, not staying down
Could’ve held me up, brother, 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 calender’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 that boys wanna grow
they’re fixing ___ ___ things?
I know that girls wanna dance
Clairvoyants in a trance
I know that boys wanna grow
they’re _______ fixing vile 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
(lay me down in the river)
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back
(drown in the river)
I know the girls wanna dance
away their circumstance
I know that boys wanna grow
they’re fixing ___ ___ things?
(drown in the river)
I know that girls wanna dance
Clairvoyants in a trance
I know that boys wanna grow
they’re _______ fixing vile things?
they’re _______ fixing vile things?
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back
(coming down in the river)
Dance of the Clairvoyants was released January 22, 2020 at 12:00 AM and is 4 minutes, 25 seconds long.
I can’t tell you how proud I am about this group of songs. As you know, we took our time and that benefited us taking more changes. ‘Dance’ was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration, mixing up the instrumentation and building a great song, and Ed writing some of my favorite words yet, around Matt’s killer drum pattern. Did I mention Mike’s insane guitar part and that Stone is playing bass on this one? We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting.
Jeff Ament
Stone Gossard on SiriusXM Pearl Jam Radio
Released Wednesday, January 22, 2020, watch the official video now:
Quicklink: https://tinyurl.com/pjdotc
By Laura Trafton
Unofficial lyrics deciphered by: Romy Bianchi, Laura Trafton, Anthony Krysiewicz
