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Pearl Jam
Tabbed by Nick Key (nkey@ionet.net)

Drop D  D a d g

Intro: 
 3x
|--------------------------|
|---11---11-11-10-10-10-10-|
|--------------------------|
|-7----7-------------------|

fourth time
|-----------------------------|
|---11---11-11---11---11-11---|
|-----------------------------|
|-7----7-------7----7---------|

Verse

This is the basic d e a d progression that jeff plays slightly
different each time
 fig. 1
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
|---------------------------------|
 fig. 2
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------------------|

Play fig. 1

|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---|

|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|




|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|

Play fig. 2

Chorus
2x
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-55555555-77777777-------------------|
|-------------------00000000-55555555-|

Play the whole thing again

Then this:

|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------7-7-7-7-7-5---5---|
|-5--7--5---------------------------------7-----|
|----------7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------------------|

Play fig. 2

Then chorus 1x

Second time play:

|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-55555555-77777777------------4-5-7-4-7-4----|
|-------------------00000000-7-------------7--|

Play chorus again, then

fourth time play:

|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-55555555-77777777------------4--4-4-3-3-3-3-|
|-------------------00000000-7--7-------------|

                
Play outro till end:

|-------------------| 
|-------------------|  
|---4---4-4-3-3-3-3-|  
|-7---7-------------|

End on C# or A

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: BassMasta.net
http://www.bassmasta.net/p/pearl_jam/.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture esuvee ® Lead Player	#1 by esuvee ® at Nov 5, 1978 at 5:12 PM EST
	The version I'm listening to has some important differences... I suppose my version is the original from lost dogs, but I'm not sure... The differences: - instead of "I like to go deep", "I'd like to go deep"; - instead of "the way you sympathize", "the way you don't sympathize"; - instead of "I don't think it's easy to stay in love", "I thought it was easy to stay in love"

No Picture Colin Average	#2 by Colin D at Mar 7, 1990 at 11:18 AM EST
	i like that thought alimania, but I would say that I'll take it for the easiest thing, in a sense, and say that its about a girl. I believe Ed is married and I suppose it could be for his wife, or perhaps not, but I like to think of it as to someone you really really love.

No Picture Pat Lead Player	#3 by Pat O'Shea at Feb 5, 1991 at 7:02 PM EST
	in the lost dogs booklet it says this song was written in ten minutes while in a car ride. That might explain its difficulty to interpret but i think its probably just about his wife, that would be the easy thing to think i guess, im probably wrong though.

No Picture ben Wanna Be	#4 by ben cashin at May 29, 1991 at 8:32 AM EST
	Nice, catchy song... No idea what it means though... maybe about being true to yourself?

No Picture Josh Wanna Be	#5 by Josh at Sep 29, 1997 at 7:29 AM EST
	This song is one of the weaker outtakes on Lost Dogs. I don't think it's catchy at all. I can't get into the music no matter how hard I try.

No Picture Zim Average	#6 by Zim Zimson at Apr 12, 1998 at 5:53 PM EST
	Well, I'm a sucker for catchy songs, but Pearl Jam rules, so that's ok in this case :). I think this song is really beautiful, here's my interpretation: He's saying that it's really hard for him to love this person and complains about a bunch of things that piss him off, but inspite of this he continues loving. So, he's saying how difficult it was to fall in love, and in the end he says "I thought it was easy to stay in love", implying two things: first, that he actually did fall in love, and second, the repetitive structure implies that staying in love will be just like falling in love in the sense that there it will be as difficult and have a bunch of annoying things, but he'll be able to do it anyways. The repitition of "you, you, you" to me represents two things: first, his fixation for the person he loves, which is a part of love, and second, the selfishness of that person for intending to be the center of the universe or something. I think it's really nice how he describes the hard parts of falling in love. But I will go further in my interpretation: it appears to me that the person he loves doesn't treat him too well, is selfish, and makes him insecure about falling in love, but the beautiful thing is that he does. It's like his love is beyond these problems and the selfishness of this person... OK, maybe I went over the edge, but this is how I see the song.

No Picture Kitty/Dottie Average	#7 by Kitty/Dottie kat at Jun 8, 2004 at 4:54 AM EST
	I didn't know what guile was, so, from http://www.m-w.com, I got: 1 : deceitful cunning : DUPLICITY 2 obsolete : STRATAGEM, TRICK