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Oceans
Pearl Jam Lyrics

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Glide me towards you
know something's left
And we're all allowed
To dream of the next
Oh,
oh the next, time we touch

Uh huh, uh huh

Uh huh, uh huh

You don't have to stray
The oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring
The sea will rise
Please stand by the shore
Oh, oh, oh, I will be
I will be there once more

Uh huh, uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh
Uh huh, uh huh

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Jeyson Fernandez

5y↑640

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Guide me towards you
Know something's left
And we're all allowed to dream
Of the next time we touch..........

You don't have to stray
The oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts
Hold tight the ring...
The sea will rise...
Please stand by the shore...
I will be...
I will be...
There once more.........

Maya

5y↑5

Angie Falber

3y↑8

Oceans
Pearl Jam
LYRICS:

Hold on to the thread
The currents will shift
Glide me towards
You know something's left

And we're all allowed
To dream of the next
The next time we touch

You don't have to stray
The oceans away
Waves roll in my thoughts

Hold tight the ring
The sea will rise
Please stand by the shore
I will be, I will be there once more

Songwriters: Eddie Jerome Vedder / Jeffrey Allen Ament / Stone
C. Gossard
Oceans lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

All comments from YouTube:

agunZagun

7y↑524

Too awesome and too short. Listening over and over again...

Jarrod El-Khouri

Over and over again just like ocean waves.

Carlos alberto Cagliari

11w

@Jeanie h476uúúý787

Erin Allen

30w

Me as well.

A Perfumosa

39w

So I am not weird, because it´s the 3rd time I´m listening to it repeatedly! :D

Unstable Alchemist

hem de agunzagun, sadece adını duydum ama sırf müzik zevkinden dolayı abonesi olabilirim

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Conchesumother

5y↑2K

Ten is a perfect album

Michael Williams

Had it on today for the first time in 15 or 20years quality

Martin Montti

Absolutly bro!!!!!!

Jarrod El-Khouri

I give it a 3 out of 3

the Brown

16w

Esse álbum é incrível mesmo 🇧🇷

Steve Oates

18w

It's up there with appetite for destruction for me...

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Philip Squire

2y↑358

Haven't listened to PJ in a while. It's like... coming home. Hard to explain.

Beth Thompson

11w

......yet completely understand!

Deftones Dsm

29w

@Jungle Bunny yeah my family has nothing from that time anymore. So no place i can go thatd give me that "feeling"

Thursten Howell

36w

I feel you. 1 million percent.

Philip Squire

39w

@Alejandra S. I'm 59.

soymatadora

39w↑1

beautifully put.

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FF

5y↑1.3K

This is what heaven sounds like

Yair Gamboa Flores

41w

@Alex Malch no

Alex Malch

43w

This is what Oceans sounds like lol

Wallyman53

44w

You nailed it...

Lucas Phillips

Whammy Bard I love u2 and Pearl Jam

Jon Jonzz

@jf-3k especially all the songs they stole. They're great!

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Eric MLJ

5y↑1.6K

This song always reminds me. It was October 31st in Corpus Cristi Texas. I sat on the monkey bars, dressed as a Marine Corps Werewolf. Next to me, my first love, Amanda. We plotted our trick or treat course. I brought my tape player. We sat side by side, listening to Ten. I got my first kiss to Oceans, as that south Texas sun sank into Halloween night. I can relive that day anytime. It was...perfect.

Naromecuás

4w↑1

A perfect day of childhood is maybe all the education people need...

krisdood

25w↑1

What a coincidence. I came here for the song, but didn't realise it was Halloween. Nice...

krisdood

25w

@Voltage90e r/youngpeopleyoutube

emanuela carta

27w

Eric meravigliosa storia ❤️ grazie per averla condivisa

Justin B.

36w

Sounds nice

61 More Replies...

Tank Engine

5y↑325

The way he uses his voice as an instrument in this song rather than to get across an actual message adds this beautifully eerie ambiance to it. Truly astounding.

Justin K

48w

Yes! He does that a lot. Especially on the song The Wolf from the Into the Wild album. Another one of my faves

KAL

Ditto. I love that too. And a great observation.

Sirena Mermaid

2y↑4

Smart observation......... songs with meaning, for the soul :)

Jeyson Fernandez

5y↑640

Brenda

40w↑1

Thanks❤

Thiago Dx

1y↑1

Ooooooooooooooo ooooooo

Laura Marie

2y↑5

@Joe Garagozzo i cry too dont worry it's fckin beautiful 😪

Laura Marie

2y↑2

@Blind Mirror you forgot me ooooooo to that

lpuig73

2y↑2

Perfect!

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Abraham Mercado

4y↑456

Oceans and Black are some really underrated songs I've ever heard. You can tell they put so much meaning and thought into those songs, overall Ten was a great album.

Martin Montti

Yeah baby!!!!!

[d a n]

14w↑1

Why go and Garden are underrated

Snowsong Video Pix

29w

Black & Oceans are two of my favorites also, but they are all good for sure.

Quinn Mitchel

37w↑2

Black was one of their biggest hits not underrated

Carlos Marquez Romero

1y↑1

Black underrated?

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valentina liendo

6y↑892

This song is not grunge, this song is beyond that.

Despain's Comics

11w

I hear The Who influences. Eddie is a fan.

Golden Ticket

45w

GRUNGE IS NOT A GENRE

Ludovic De-Backer

The year of Nevermind album of nirvana and Smashing pumpkin's

A. Cavalieri

Grunge music never existed

Brian McNamara

1y↑1

Keven Klayne they’re all grungy angsty music...often down tuned minor chords used. That’s good enough for me.

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Octavio Alamilla

4y↑93

If PJ is a drug...please, never, ever take me to rehab!!!

ca294

Do you have some more Pearl Jam 😁?

Buck Sawyer

Octavio Alamilla right

September Porras

8y↑4

So much black and white. So much shirtless Pearl Jam. So much ocean. So much cute smiles. Not enough.

ilikebaklava

6y↑251

I love how almost half the comments on Pearl Jam videos are in a non-English language. They seem to have a universal appeal.

Mario Siddhartha Portugal Ramírez

A fan from Bolivia since the 90s

Natalia T

17w

Dude I'm from Argentina (Latinoamérica) and the first time I listened to Pearl Jam was in 1996. The fact is that nowadays people in the USA don't know this band.

Palmer Eldritch

18w

Germany here. Pearl Jam is an exceptional band. Absolutely beautiful in every possible way.

Pietro Oliveira

25w

@Random Guy Aí é que você se engana, meu caro!

The Fog

29w

@luz luz Spoken and understood by all ! It's wonderful to see all the comments from all the Pearl Jam fans around the world. Once again it is music that brings us together ❤

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Gökhan Yücel

7y↑442

One of the most underrated song ever. Specially for this album.

Osman Adem

41w↑1

6 yıl geçmiş ama ben de geldim selamlar

Marco Llobet

1y↑1

Even underrated by the band as well.

carlos terán

2y↑1

underrated ?? maybe for you..I'm 44..........

Andres Weiland

Pearl Jam have lots of great songs hiden in the studio albums, underrated. Like "You Are", In Hiding, Indeference, etc.

Stale Strings

3y↑2

@Meaty Potatoes haha yeah, well a lot of people tend to call songs underrated because they aren't really mentioned a lot of the time.

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Aura Barrales

3y↑15

Nuestro querido amigo Israel Barrales tenía pensado asistir al próximo show de Pearl Jam en Barcelona, de hecho, tenía ya todo su viaje preparado pero su plan se frustró debido a la operación de la que a la postre no sobrevivió. Como tributo a un gran amigo y fan de la banda, solicitamos su ayuda para que hagamos el hashtag #PlayOceansForIsrael algo viral y que este mensaje llegue hasta la banda y lograr que dediquen Oceans, su canción favorita, como homenaje a Israel.

Muchas gracias a todos de parte de todos los que formamos parte del equipo de esta comunidad y de los que tuvimos la fortuna y el honor de conocer a un gran jammer y muchísimo mejor ser humano.

fenderchick2010

7y↑79

This music video feels like a really good Saturday with people you care about.

Philip Squire

2y↑1

What a wonderful comment.

hayden hollenbaugh

6y↑2

well put. Lots of good feels in this song.

Kayla Simon

5y↑310

God, Eddie is beautiful 😍

Marcela Azuosed

Agree

MrBusticador

45w↑1

I'm better (but I'm not famous)

Dena Meneades

1y↑3

The most beautiful man on earth, inside & out.

Kat Winchester

2y↑3

Stone is to. Always had a crush on Stone. 🤓

Born Too Loose

2y↑1

Everyone is beatiful

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mh7667

4y↑135

Oceans is a hidden gem among the other hits from Ten. Love this song so much

Susy Orrego

5y↑73

If someone is looking for peace, you need to hear this song...

Alien Sukuran

33w↑5

Metallica.sepultura.nirvana.pearjam and many more. 90s kid are very lucky this kind of music trend back then.

John Aristotle

1y↑32

And we're all allowed to dream of the next
oh, oh the next, time we touch

Coronavirus will be defeated

BurningMask

3y↑8

Every song on Ten is worthy of being a single, you can't narrow it down. They're all masterpieces.

Andrew Masc

1y↑30

This has to be the most chill song ever

Buck Futtler

1y↑45

almost 30 years later....still one of the most BEAUTIFUL songs ever put to airwaves. simply stunning! the image of the 2 older gentlemen fading away into a wave is just....emotional . in a great way....we will all fade away eventually. dust to dust.

Julia Silva

3y↑15

2:03 melhor parte do clipe ,esse olhar do Eddie 😍😍😌

Isaiah Daniels

8y↑1

It almost feels like this song was made for nostalgia. Hell, this video even depicts the passing of time and the similarities between generations enjoying the same things, such as the ocean. And no matter how old I get, Ill always enjoy Pearl Jam.

Fredrik Häll

5y↑285

Alien Dude: Need Two tickets to Pearl Jam!

gitano xd

FREAKN

Maxime Prometheas

Earthlings get first dibs...

billy joe joe

Fredrik Häll

trey burke

5y↑8

+Fredrik Häll simpsons

01V70T5 4LIFE

1y↑4

Turned 18 in 1990. Not sure if I appreciated it as much as I should have. Oh, my personal PJ favorite, right here, kids. Enjoy. Let music be your time machine, my sweet children!

Nately22

7w↑2

Like a spiritual call to arms, not meant to be of this earth. Sublime.

Cameron Dutton

4y↑27

first song im gonna learn to play on guitar.

Josh Gibson

2y↑2

It's in open D tuning, but it's VERY easy to play

odinson99m

5y↑77

"...woooooooo-oooooo...wooooooo-oooooooo..."

Jambra

11w

My favorite part!

Cookie Wookie

4y↑89

His face 2:02 - Melts me every single time

Kimberly Strong

Made me 👀 👍

Kelkel Walton

Joebewonkenobe holy crap yes

Muse Russell23

Joebewonkenobe long hair eddie

soleil

2y↑3

Ten is the album!

#Sertão Abençoado#

18w

Quem Está Ouvindo Em 2020 Está Aqui Sucesso Total Show😎💥👏🏻✌🏻

Ana Clara

Nossa eu amo o Pearl!!!Acho artistas mais antigos incríveis!!Pearl é talentosíssimo e muito criativo.Oceans me lembra muito de uma época mais feliz e me dá muita vontade de chorar.Obrigado Pearl por me trazer momentos tão incríveis e maravilhosos, quanto esses que eu passo com suas lindas músicas.Você é fera e arraza no que faz.Sou sua fã!!Todas as letras de todas as suas canções são profundas e carismáticas........................................................................

Enrique Rick Ramirez

5y↑6

The 90,s Had Epic Music And Pearl Jam Was Beyond That...

Antuanet

6y↑80

Never gets old...

Mahadi Arfa

34w

it Won't!!!!!!!!

Citizen Cyx

Only thing wrong with this song is it is entirely too short...

ca294

I agree

Calo Kusa

6y↑1

+GinkoMasterMushi you're right... it doesn't.

Jonas Queiroz

5y↑61

Someone from Brazil? This song reminds me my childhood.

Margarida Mira

Yesssss

carlos b.

49w↑1

Sim

Sudbury Granite

2y↑1

boa infancia/juventude a sua. :-)

Rosemary Ribeiro

2y↑1

tmj

Julia Silva

3y↑2

Here

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bluesugar58

6y↑22

I can listen to this song on an endless loop, it's so relaxing.

Taynan Lage

3w↑2

Ten é uma obra prima! Perfeito!!! Amo Pearl Jam!!!!

The Fog

29w↑4

Ten is perfection from start to finish
All killer no filler !

mat11trick

4y↑15

Love Jeff's bass in this song.

Apoorv Mishra

2y↑1

Their is something strange about this song , something magical.

Baby jipa

2y↑7

"...woooooooo-oooooo...wooooooo-oooooooo..."
This song is not grunge, this song is beyond that.

Octavio Alamilla

5y↑24

This song tells me to ENJOY LIFE and that's what I've been doing..

Chris Nation

34w↑7

Every kid in every generation has a soundtrack from their life. For me and a lot of others it is Ten. The defining years for me were my early 20's and Pearl Jam wrote my soundtrack. I feel an emotional connection to Ten and get a sense of nostalgia for a time that can never come again.
Thank you PJ

jellieman575

44w↑1

This song is gritty yet beautifully dreamlike at the same time.

MegaFrankyX

5y↑8

This song and Black is simply why my favorite album of all time is Ten. I absolutely love this band and Eddie Vedder man his voice is just too majestic and hypnotic especially in this song.

aphrospice

5y↑7

I had a bunch of bootleg cassettes and this was one of the best songs they ever played live. Its simply sublime.

kakuzu 456

It's funny because Eddie had a hard time writing music at a beach/by an ocean. He said it was just too quiet and peaceful. But he still managed to cough up this phenomenal song.

Deborah Jacob

42w↑7

Essa música, esse clipe...Eddie Vedder...Como não amar?❤

Paul Naughton

5y↑3

How could there be so many dislikes WTF.One of the best albums of all time

deceiver

23w↑1

That song couldn't be more beautiful if it wanted to.

Paul Nutoba

39w↑11

Saudades desta época, adolescência, assistia a este Clip na MTV.

Rossana Patricia Rocha

23w

Põe saudade nisso ! Pearl jam The Best !

civonamdar

6y↑6

ten is a masterpiece ...

Tremor Christ

I prefer Rearview mirror and VS. but ten really is a great album, Also I love that it comes with a poster

Sandy Tootsies

4y↑17

Will always love Pearl Jam 💜

Lytton Martin

6w↑1

I've always felt that Ocean's is the best song on Ten. It's very emotive and spiritual. Even not fully knowing what Vedder is saying it's still an emotionally powerful song. I especially love the use of the timpani. This song is the rock equivalent to a tone poem in my book. THANK YOU PJ!

Chema

2y↑1

This album is a ten out of ten

Maisie Chatfield

10w↑1

I listen to this song almost every day and I can't explain how much I get lost in it... it's honestly like I just disappear into the song and then it's over in the blink of an eye

Alvin Gomes

yes me to thank you

Angie Falber

3y↑5

This is one of my all time favorite songs ever, not just from PJ... It reminds me of when I was in high school, and we'd meet up at "The Rocks", this area near Sandy Hook/ Sea Bright, NJ, right at the beginning of the Jersey Shore, around where the bay meets the ocean. We'd go there after big things - like shows, prom, stuff like that. We'd pile up in cars, drive down to the shore, climb up the rocks, wrap our selves in blankets, and wait to cheer on the sunrise. Ten came out right before my senior year started (I graduated H.S. in June of 1992). This song is truly special... for reasons I'll always hold to my heart... Especially now... being married to the love of my life! We snuck there on one of our first dates... on the beach... after hours... and now we've been together for nearly 15 years, married nearly 13 years... Where has the time gone? Lol! This video is my happy place... especially that smile at 2:02! Wow!

Maya

5y↑5

Todd Witbrodt

1y↑1

Ten is one of the best albums of all time. From first song to the last. There are only a handful of albums ever made that you can say every song is great!

sean roche

34w↑1

I remember listing to pearljam unplugged at 12 years old eating valium and drinking around Christmas time. God i miss the unplugged sessions of the 90s and early 2000s.

Jason Rowsell

32w↑1

Jeff Ament.. so underrated.. what a sound. So distinct..

Fabio Renato

35w↑6

Alguém por aqui?
Linda demais essa música!

Geovana aparecida

27w

Euu

Bargain Spotter

33w↑3

There are not enough shots of Eddie with his shirt off in this video for me. The most gorgeous and beautiful song that you don't want to ever end. Can you imagine being sung to by Eddie just with his "ohing" part at the end of this song? Complete heaven.

The atheistic, skeptical, theistic agnostic

5y↑70

Nothing matters more than to understand the nature of yourself and what life really is. Because if we dont understand what we`re doing and why things are the way they are then we arent really separate from other animals. We developed a rational mind so we can understand our environment and we need to use it constructively to learn from past mistakes and to learn how to live in the best way possible. Currently we are nothing but "smart" and dangerous animals and it need to change NOW. Google Truthcontest and read The Present. You may be offended that you havent learned the things from the book at school.

Keith Wallace

4y↑1

"Religioncontest", who can write the best one? A more fitting name and description for the supposed truthcontest, I wish somebody would have saved me the time on that one.

milkminotaur

5y↑2

+Seek Truth do shut up!

Luiza Marins

5y↑12

foda

diogo paulo de oliveira

30w↑1

👍

mark c

2y↑1

Luiza Marins you're hot

Kevin L

4y↑6

Ten. First CD I ever bought. Was 11 years old. Can still remember the first time hearing the album which started my love affair with Pearl Jam.

Zdenko Novak

6y↑6

What can I say... It's painfull and nostalgic in the same way. It's magical becouse of the drums and overall mood allmost like a ritual of some kind. This song can freez you and melt just like someone sad before " on a endless loop". I soo love this early album.

Angie Falber

3y↑8

Arik Levi

7y↑5

ten ,best album ever.

Thomas Henderson

51w↑3

I don’t care how much time has gone by, how much people talk about it or how popular it got... it’s always shocking to revisit this album and remember how perfect it is.

rintitin vasconcelos

una de las mejores canciones de menos de 3 minutos

Μοναχικος Τζουτζουκος

2y↑2

This is like a hidden masterpiece

Michael Hale

51w↑1

This is actually beautiful music

Marco ACA

Essa musica nunca saiu da minha cabeça...ela é eterna!!!

Lukies

To people who say the sex drugs and alcohol are the only things to sing about anymore, I tell them to look at this song, Eddie wrote a song about his surfboard and it's magnificent.

Mel Ferreira

Nessa música, ele diz que as correntes irão mudar, o deslize em sua direção. 🎶👀

Space Ballz

7w↑2

I remember getting this cd and loving every song.

Fudgey Bu

5y↑2

Right now this was as powerful and wonderful as when I first heard it 20 years ago.

Manolo Urruticoeticocheaburun

49w↑8

Everybody got really emotional about this song, great tune. But did you know that this lyrics were written by Vedder to his surfboard, yes this song is dedicated to his passion for surfing. He even makes a comment at the end of the song during the recording of their MTV Unplugged... One of the best things of this album is if you pay attention to the end of the song "Release", the full CD track you will hear the sounds and textures of the beginning of the song "Once", it means to be a sonic loop.

MrJo826

How is a song about Eddie Vedder's surfboard able to communicate so many feelings inside me?

Darren

21w↑1

This beautiful song will be 30 years old next year wow!

Blended Cellar

2y↑3

My favorite video from PJ. A video us fans were lucky to get. The song writing by ED is beyond amazing.

Marlene McGovern

7y↑19

Perfect 😎
Mahalo Pearl Jam💛

Marlene McGovern

6y↑1

Mind your manners. Aloha 😚👌

eric the gamer

yooo wtf

Marlene McGovern

@eric the gamer Aloha✌😆 Blessings, peace & Love 🌻

eric the gamer

hey watsup u got a kik or snapchat or naw

Flávia Cruz

34w↑4

Jeff's smile. 0:38 always makes my heart skip a beat.

Denise Freitas

21w↑1

This song is a masterpiece! From an epic album.

Jason James

7y↑2

Absolutely beautiful.

Joseph Telegen

My biggest memory of this song is singing it while trying not to die of boredom in an adolescent psychiatric ward. Even now, I am taken right back there in my mind whenever I hear it.

SheUser

Im never ever ever ever gonna get bored of this song

The Wall Deco

39w↑3

This video is a piece of art

marc boyles

5y↑1

you don't have to stray the oceans away, waves roll in my thoughts

BigPete S

1y↑1

What an unbelievable song!! Ten may be the best album in the history of music!! Lol NOT ONE bad song on the whole track!!! Unreal! VS is also unbelievable!! 👍🔥🔥

BigPete S

2y↑2

What a great song album and band!!! Classic and legendary!! 👍👍🔥🔥

rodman93diogo

I always expect Porch to come up right after this song.

Transcendence

The only song that can always make me feel something...

ronnie lerma

7y↑11

love this song it always gets a smile on my face.

Virginia knighten

34w↑2

My first time seeing this video...Love it so much. The Boys are so young and so adorable.

Fábio Ferreira

2y↑8

Eu, hoje, com 39 anos, comprei uma camisa do Pearl Jam está tarde 😌

Lucilia Guimaraes

Perfeito! Cresceu ouvindo PJ.

Lance Hillis

This song should be hours long.

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