Pearl Jam - Unemployable Lyrics
He's got a big gold ring what says "Jesus Saves"
And it's dented from the punch thrown at work that day
When he smashed the metal locker where he kept his things
After the big boss said, "You best be on your way"
So this life is sacrifice
Oh yeh
Jumping trains just to survive
Well, his wife and kid are sleeping but he's still awake
On his brain weighs the curse of thirty bills unpaid
Gets up, lights a cigarette he's grown to hate
Thinking if he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?
So this life is sacrificed
Oh yeh
To a strangers bottom line
Yeh
I seen the light,... Uh-oh oh oh, Uh-oh oh oh
I's scared alive,...
Near to death,... Uh-oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
I seen the light,... scared alive
Yeh,
So this life is sacrificed
Oh yeh
They can't say I never tried
Yeh
I seen the light,... Uh-oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
I's scared alive,...
Near to death,... Uh-oh oh oh, Uh-oh oh oh
I seen the light.
Scared alive,...... Uh-oh oh oh, uh-oh oh oh
Near to death
Here to die.
Scared alive.
Near to death.
Hear to die.
Scared alive.
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Pearl Jam Unemployable Comments
The Avocado album is by far my favourite. Such an apt narrative for that time of my life when I first listened to it
Someone just trying to get by and keep everything together, rendered risk-averse by normalized general cruelty, who clings to in-clubs and safety charms because what else can he do. So relatable, even despite not sharing a lot of attributes. When dreams get far enough away from you to not see any more, simply a less rapidly accelerating rate of compromise seems like victory. "Scared alive" indeed.
What puts it over the top of course is being backed up by bloody awesome music. My absolute favourite song of theirs.
so few know this fucking awesome sound
Yeah, so few people have ever listened to the most popular rock band of the past 30 years
@Ryan K to be fair, most of the time when people listen to a band due to its popularity, the bulk of them limit themselves to singles and radio play. So the point still stands, they probably haven't heard this. Not exactly an obscure song, but against the rest of their discography, definitely relatively unappreciated.
A song the Foo Fighters could've done.
No the song has a hook. FF rarely does
They couldn't have written it
A dumb meaningless comment my turd in the toilet could've made
I'm feel as I returned to my 16 years old ❤
one of their most underrated songs imho
I remember hearing world wide suicide on KROQ when it first came out
very springsteen vibe
In my top 10 PJ songs. Never gets old!
What outside of Ten presumably do you like?
Craap. As a kid I didn't believe a day could come that sleeping and dreaming would be more desirable than living. Songs like this made no sense.
definitely one of their best from the post 2000s albums
One of my favorites from PJ.
so this life is sacrifice!
it is or it is not?
let's us light a cigarett and think about it...
maybe we'll find the answear...
But I do not smoke.
Haywood Jablowme just 8 years after the comment. Good job
Diego Schwerzmann not his fault
mikeisagodd2012 I smoke though.
@Diego Schwerzmann such is the way of the youtubes. Late responses on a site that archives all its videos and encourages binge watching and revisits. Whodathunkit?