Pearl Jam I Got Id Lyrics

My lips are shaking... my nails are bit off.
It's been a month since I've heard myself talk.
Only advantage this life's got on me... picture a cup in the middle of the sea.

And I fought back in my mind... never lets me be right.
I got memories... I got s___... so much it don't show.

Oh, I walk a line... When you held me in that night.
Oh, I walk a line... When you held my hand and I.

On empty shells seem so easy to crack... got all these questions... don't know who I could even ask.
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream... where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me.

And I'll stay in bed... oh, little I've seen there
If just once I could feel loved... Oh, stare back at me.

Oh, I walk a line... when you held me in that night.
Oh, I walk a line... when you held my hand and I.
Oh, I walk a line... when you held me close at night.
And I paid the price... never held you in real life.

My lips are shaking...

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Vedder stated that "[Neil Young] gave me a song writing lesson at a half-price rate; this is what I came up with...on my final, he gave me a B+ I think." At Pearl Jam's May 10, 2006 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Air Canada Centre, Vedder revealed that the song's chorus melody was inspired by the verse melody in Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" from the 1969 album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.