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4 Alive Lyrics: I was born in a thunderstorm / I grew up overnight / I played alone, I played on my own / I survived / I wanted everything I never had / Like the love that comes with light / I

It appears on the band’s debut album, Ten (1991).











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Vocalist Eddie Vedderobtained a copy of the tape and wrote lyrics that describe a somewhat fictionalized account of the time when he was told that the man … The man who brought us "Red Skies" and "Saved By Zero" is now an organic farmer in France.



Some of the 40,000 people in the crowd began singing "I'm still alive," unaware that the event had turned tragic.
5 Vedder's lyrics are about a boy who finds out his father is actually his stepfather, and that his real father is dead. “Alive” is Pearl Jam’s first single and the first song they ever played together.







"Alive" is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam.







"Alive" is the debut single from the band's debut album "Ten".

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It was filmed at a Pearl Jam concert at the club RKCNDY in Seattle on August 3, 1991.





It was part of a three-song instrumental demo they made at London Bridge Studio in Seattle while looking for a vocalist and drummer.The instrumental demo of this song was titled "Dollar Short."
Time zone: Son, she said, have I got a little story for you What you thought was your daddy was nothin' but a While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen Your real daddy was dyin' Sorry you didn't see him



He took over after Pearl Jam's first album, but left soon after to join the Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready based his guitar solo on the one In 2000, the band was playing the Roskilde Festival in Denmark when nine fans were crushed to death in the mosh pit.

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Vedder's lyrics went in a direction the band didn't expect, but they loved what they heard and quickly agreed that he should be their lead singer - only one other guy had been auditioned.

Written by guitarist Stone Gossard, "Alive" originated as an instrumental titled "Dollar Short" and was included on a demo tape … "Everybody writes about it like it's a life-affirmation, thing - I'm really glad about that,' he says with a rueful laugh "It's a great interpretation. '"Regarding the live video, Ament said, "Initially, it was a problem in terms of talking the record company into taking it seriously...That people didn't think we could pull it off made us want to do it even more.