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“Not For You” is Eddie Vedder complaining about “how youth is being sold and exploited” by the music industry. Along with blatant commercialization, Pearl Jam was unnerved to learn how ticket vendor Ticketmaster was basically price-gouging costumers, leading to widely publicized boycott of the comp...
[Verse 1]
Restless soul, enjoy your youth
Like Muhammad hits the truth
Can't escape from the common rule
If you hate something, don't you do it too (too)
[Verse 2]
Small, my table, sits just two
Got so crowded, I can't make room
Oh, where did they come from? Stormed my room!
And you dare say it belongs to you, to you
[Chorus 1]
This is not for you
This is not for you
This is not for you
Oh, not for you, not you
[Bridge]
Scream, my friends don't call me
Friends, no, they don't scream
My friends don't call, my friends don't
[Verse 3]
All that's sacred comes from youth
Dedication, naïve and true
With no power, nothing to do
I still remember, why don't you, don't you?
[Chorus 2]
This is not for you
This is not for you
This is not for you
Oh, never was for you, fuck you
[Refrain]
This is not for you
Oh, this is not for you, yeah, you
This is not for you
Oh, not for you, oh, you
[Instrumental Outro]
Not for You was written by Eddie Vedder.
Not for You was produced by Brendan O’Brien & Pearl Jam.
Pearl Jam released Not for You on Tue Nov 22 1994.