Lyrics for Come Back as interpreted by N0 C0DE 79

Come Back Lyrics
If I keep holding out
Will the light shine through?
Under this broken roof
It's only rain that I feel
I've been wishin' out the days
Oh oh oh
Come back

I have been planning out
All that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away
Know that I still remain true
I've been wishin' out the days
Please say that if you hadn't have gone now
I wouldn't have lost you another way
From wherever you are
Oh oh oh oh
Come back

And these days, they linger on, yeah, yeah
And in the night, I've been waiting for
A real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
I go to sleep

If I don't fall apart
Will my memory stay clear?
So you had to go
And I had to remain here
But the strangest thing to date
So far away and yet you feel so close
I'm not going to question it any other way
It must be an open door for you
To come back

And the days they linger on, yeah
Every night I'm waiting for
The real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
Sometimes you're there and you're talking back to me
Come the morning I could swear you're next to me
And it's ok

It's ok, it's ok

I'll be here
Come back, come back
I'll be here
Come back, come back
I'll be here
Come back, come back
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo
Oooooooo

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garaloo
04-16-2006

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this is a great sad song. Really portrays a great vocal song for eddie. Its about losing someone you truely love and wish in everyway for them to return."I have been planning out
All that I'd say to you
Since you slipped away" Shows regrets of before they died. HAving something to say, but never getting the chance. This song has a "highschooldance" kinda feel.
Lovely though.

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muzac
04-28-2006

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Wow.. the meaning of this song is so obvious, but its definately the best song on the CD in my view... talk about a hit song..

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dosw
05-02-2006

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Great song. The meaning is pretty obvious- it's simply about losing someone, whether that be to death or just a lost relationship.

But, man... garaloo's "high school dance" comment kinda ruins it for me, lol...

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richie8092
05-03-2006

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this is a great song, i love the closing five on the new album

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N0 C0DE 79
05-03-2006

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That conclusion with Eddie crying Come Back,... and then his harmonizing with McCready,...

Oh my God,...
This song is soo gorgeous,....

Anyone else think the song starts off reminiscent of some of Clapton's early slow stuff?

Good God I love this song,...

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captainhastings
05-05-2006

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This song has made me cry several times this week. I keep listening to it over and over again and I think of somebody I wish would "come back"

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brie10
05-08-2006

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i thought it had a high-school-dance-feel to it too! but i really love this song! the ending is awesome! for some reason i never thought of it as a person dying. i kind of invisioned just a young couple and one of them is moving away. its so sad! but so good!

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Norguard
05-09-2006

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This song is a continuation of Army Reserve - much like the rest of the album, it keeps the war constantly in the background.

It's a chat between the wife and the memory of her husband. ...the imagery of the broken roof in the family structure is pretty intense.

A beautiful piece that's really reminiscent of '50s rock. It's got those Earth Angel qualities, and I suppose it's Pearl Jam's official take on Last Kiss, which is from the same era as the chord/melody structure in this song.

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N0 C0DE 79
05-10-2006

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Well they hit it right on the head,...

I took a little road trip up to Toronto last night, to see them perform,...

They played this song, and blew the album version to hell,...
And the ALBUM version is AMAZING!!!!

This is easily one of their best songs EVER, anything negative I have ever said about the album because of it's relative lack of slow or mellow songs in comparison to Albums like No Code or Riot Act, pretty much went the way of the Dodo last night with Eddie belting this song out,..

This song was the highlight of a night I will remember for the rest of my life,..

It's ok,
Come back,
I'll be here,...

and then the harmonizing,... simply amazing,...

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T-Crash
05-14-2006

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This song, in my opinion, is better than "Parachutes" and "Gone". I like the slow blues and soulful mood it creates. The lyrics are pretty obvious, but you don't have to have confusing metaphors in each song. Vedder does have a great voice, and it shows here.

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TommyCap77
05-19-2006

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I agree with Norguard in that this song is about a woman in a conversation with her battle-slain husband, since the whole album is really Eddie Vedder speaking out against the war and George W. Bush. Very 50s like. I have to be in the mood to listen to this because of the slow-blues crawl, but it still is a very beautiful song.

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iwishiwasspecial
05-28-2006

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heard this song last night in at their camden concert. simply amazing.

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in_my_tree
05-30-2006

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This song is just amazing...Black/Comeback are the best ballads ever by PJ.

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N0 C0DE 79
06-14-2006

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Something about this song,... just wow,...

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JoNNieS K
07-29-2006

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Apparently Eddie Vedder said in concert in New Jersey that this song is part two in a two part series, part one being "Man Of The Hour". That part one is the young man saying farewell to his father and part two is the young man two months later wishing he would come back. Makes sense...

Either way, amazing song, especially the last chorus, its seriously powerful.

Cant wait for them to tour Australia :D

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Sneedy
08-02-2006

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In their second night in San Francisco, the band merged the "Life Wasted Reprise" as a prelude to "Come Back", and on the following third night, did the same with the Reprise and "Man of the Hour"... maybe there is a connection between the songs!

This song is really great. I resent the "High school dance" comment as well, just because I don't won't people to take it for granted as something it was clearly never meant to be.

The song is a slow-moving soul number. It's really a homage to the early hits of Otis Redding, a truly AMAZING artist and with that timing the number is a new-age torch song, NOT something to taken lightly. You can dance to it, but dance with someone you love in privacy. That's the only way to make it count.

I really hope this song makes it as a late single for the album after "Severed Hand". I enjoy it better than "Parachutes", which still a good song, but I care little for "Gone".

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iwishiwasspecial
08-06-2006

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he said in an interveiw that this was about johnny ramone

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Scianaphobia
08-25-2006

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This song is about losing someone close, or even becoming distant from someone who is very dear. The singer wishes that they could have more time with the person, and hopes the memories of that person will always remain.

It's a special song to me.

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TheBible
09-01-2006

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This songs seems to be the second part of the amazing song of the movie big fish.... the man of the hour, a very sad song, but the diference its tha this one speaks about the other side of the mirror, the first, the man of the hour talks about the men that is dying and his life, this one speak about the pain of wantin that person back.....that deep deep deep pain.

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ColdenScence
09-09-2006

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best pearl jam melow track yet and also best track of their album (IMO). the solo brings me to another world.

"A real possibility that I may meet you in my dreams
I go to sleep".... very nice.

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nic000
10-27-2006

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This song is fully deep my brothers and sisters of the mookie clan

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bugoff
08-17-2007

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This song has always reminded me of that nameless, faceless girl you only meet in your dreams. You don't remember much about her, only that it was perfect and you were happy. When morning comes, you expect her to be right there next to you. When you realize it was a dream, you remind yourself that's all "OK, just a dream.." Only to get depressed later on screaming for her to return.

Waiting all day for that moment when you can go back to sleep, hoping to see her again.

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bugoff
09-01-2007

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I'm not lonely at all :P

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