“Mind Your Manners” is a song by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam. It was released on July 11, 2013 as a Digital Download as the lead single from their tenth studio album Lightning Bolt. Writing for the The Globe and Mail, Brad Wheeler said the song was “lean, swift and punishing”.[5] Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready said “It’s my attempt to try to make a really hard edge-type Dead Kennedys-sounding song”. The song was played live for the first time at their show in London, Ontario on July 16, 2013. The video for the song directed by Danny Clinch was released on August 23, 2013. Wikipedia®.
Pearl Jam – Mind Your Manners (Official Music Video)
With nine studio albums, hundreds of live performances, and hundreds of live concert bootleg releases, Pearl Jam continues to be a major force in rock and roll today.
Pearl Jam – Mind Your Manners Lyrics:
I’ve got an unfortunate feelin’
I’ve been beatin’ down
I feel I don’t believe and now the truth is comin’ out
What they take is
More than a vow
They’re takin’ your innocents [plural of “an innocent,” as in a person who is innocent – makes “them” in next line make sense]
and then the throw them on a burnin’ pile
And all they say is
“Mind your manners”
I caught myself believin’
That I needed god
And if it’s out there somewhere we sure could use it now
Try my patience
My patience tried
This world’s no longer good enough
Makes me want to cry
And all they say is
“Mind your manners”
That’s all they’re sayin’
Self-realized and then I’m physically redeeming
I’d live another life and
I’d solve all mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky, or
We could something else . . .
You know that all they’re sayin’ [is]
“Mind your manners.”
Always prayin’!
Self-realized and then I’m physically redeeming
I’d live another life and
I’d solve all mystery
Right around the corner
Could be bigger than ourselves
We could will it to the sky, or
We could something else . . .
Go to heaven!
That’s swell!
How do you like it
Livin’ in hell?
Go to heaven!
That’s swell!
How do you like it
Livin’ in hell?
Go to heaven!
That’s swell!
How do you like it
Livin’ hell . . .
Livin’ hell!
