“Dance Of The Clairvoyants” is the lead single off of American Rock band Pearl Jam’s eleventh studio album, Gigaton. The full-length record is also the group’s first since 2013’s Lightning Bolt. This track also marks the band’s first new song since the 2018 release of the politically charged “Can’t...
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
The looser things get
The tighter you become
The looser things get
Tighter
Not one man
Can be greater than the sum
That's not a negative thought
I'm positive, positive, positive
Falling down, not staying down
Coulda held me up rather than tearing me down
Drown in the river
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
Numbers keep falling off the calendar's floor
We're stuck in our boxes
Windows open no more
Couldn't lift up the forget-me-nots
Not recalling what they're for
I'm in love with clairvoyants
'Cause they're out of this world
[Bridge]
I know the girls wanna dance
Fall away their circumstance
I know the boys wanna grow
Their dicks and fix and file things
I know the girls wanna dance
Clairvoyants in a trance
I know the boys wanna grow
Their dicks and fix and file things
[Outro]
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 file 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
Dance of the Clairvoyants was written by Eddie Vedder & Matt Cameron & Stone Gossard & Jeff Ament & Mike McCready.
Dance of the Clairvoyants was produced by Pearl Jam & Josh Evans.
Pearl Jam released Dance of the Clairvoyants on Tue Jan 21 2020.
“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 chances. ‘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 word...