On bended knee is no way to be free
Lifting up an empty cup I ask silently
That all my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breath
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know
Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul
So it goes
Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you
Everyone I come across in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering
But I'm never what they thought
Got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees
They're singing with the dead
Overhead
Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite for ever orbiting
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed
Lifting up an empty cup I ask silently
That all my destinations will accept the one that's me
So I can breath
Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
Half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know
Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul
So it goes
Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you
Everyone I come across in cages they bought
They think of me and my wandering
But I'm never what they thought
Got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive
Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
Underneath my being is a road that disappeared
Late at night I hear the trees
They're singing with the dead
Overhead
Leave it to me as I find a way to be
Consider me a satellite for ever orbiting
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me
Guaranteed
Lyrics submitted by CCDevlin, edited by arsinux, freelikethesea
Guaranteed Lyrics as written by Eddie Vedder
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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As for this song and McCandless, being its position on the album after The Wolf and End of the Road, I think it's supposed to be his spirit, finally at peace roaming the wilderness, where he was happiest, urging his family (Eddie said that the "Dont come closer..." verse refers to McCandless' sister)not to worry about where his spirit has passed onto, and not to worry that he died in vain. That he is at peace. This song is so sweet and peaceful and yet so wistful and longing and haunting.