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There's a light, when my baby's in my arms.
There's a light, when the window shades are drawn.
Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her.
Wash it off cause this feeling we can share.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Byzantine is reflected in our pond.
There's a cloud, but the water remains calm.
Reaching in the suns fingers clutch the dawn to pass.
Even out, it's a precious thing to bear.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
It's not in my past to presume.
Love can keep on moving in both directions.
How to be happy and true is quest we're taking on together.
Take it on, on, on, on, on.
Take it on, on, on, on, on.
There's a light when my baby's in my arms.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart.
There's a light, when the window shades are drawn.
Hesitate when I feel I may do harm to her.
Wash it off cause this feeling we can share.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Byzantine is reflected in our pond.
There's a cloud, but the water remains calm.
Reaching in the suns fingers clutch the dawn to pass.
Even out, it's a precious thing to bear.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
It's not in my past to presume.
Love can keep on moving in both directions.
How to be happy and true is quest we're taking on together.
Take it on, on, on, on, on.
Take it on, on, on, on, on.
There's a light when my baby's in my arms.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
And I know she's reached my heart in thin air.
Yes I know she's reached my heart.
Lyrics submitted by Trent
Track duration: 03:33
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Ed said it in an interview it was about Stone experiencing love?
"Young Love" b/c Ed himself was at that time in a 17 yr relationship so he said that he couldn't have written it. Had that perspective.
"She's reached my heart in thin air"
A gal has touched Stone's heart but is gone (not a part of his life). She's disappeared.
I'd consider it a hopefully love song about lost love.
They guy is hopeful she will return.
He's optimistic.
I wonder whom Stone was involved with in the late 90s?
She probably is the inspiration.
Such a beautiful song. On several of my bootlegs for the 2000 tour Ed states that "This is a song about young love". Basically that is what is is. STRANGELIFE wrote the perfect description from Stone himself.
I still don't understand what is it that makes it different from all the others.
It makes me happy. I want to scream , to laugh, to cry, to jump.
I don't know why but I feel that people who don't listen to PJ are in a way losing something that they didn't even know existed, by not hearing this song .
People who listen to their music are rewarded by knowing this beautiful song. It's like a hidden treasure.
Vedder: I appreciated the fact that it was a song about new love. I couldn't have written that song. Because my love is actually really very, very old. It's on a whole other spectrum.
Sonicnet: Because you've known [wife] Beth [Liebling] since high school?
Vedder: Seventeen years. So, to hear this one, and know that that stuff is true ... I responded to the apprehension that was in there. I thought it was beautiful.
Vedder: I might ask them a little bit. My only question to Stone on "Thin Air" is, "Do you want to sing it?"
Gossard: Every night? No.
Vedder: Actually, when he said yes, I was pretty happy. I turned around and said, "Yeah! Great!"
Gossard: You don't know what it's like to be in a band with a singer that's open to looking at somebody else's songs and saying there's value in that. That's what gives life to this band, and what will sustain it, the idea that if everybody just writes two to three good songs a year. And usually it's the ones you don't even think that anyone will respond to that everyone responds to.
You come in with your A-list, and you think, "I got this one surefire." But, by the end of the day, everyone is like, "You know that one on the second side? That kinda weird one? That's the one we should do." That's great. That's such a great process — to be in a collaboration where people are pulling stuff, and responding to your music in a way that you don't expect.
EV: Actually, that was one of my favorite ones during the beginning of the recording process, which made me want to write 2 or 3 ones that were better. Yeah! It's a good song.
Knowing Pearl Jam's love of The Who, and Quadrophenia in particular, I can't ignore the melodic similarity between the line "Take it on, on, on, on, on" and The Punk and the Godfather, which is a debate between two different generations. It seems to me that the person he is singing to is from another generation, so quite possibly his daughter.