Pearl Jam will release their new album Gigaton on Friday, and many fans have speculated that “Comes Then Goes” is about the death of Chris Cornell. JamieAdamsLive wrote out the lyrics on the Pearl Jam Reddit page.
High or low? Where’d you go? Are you stuck in the middle, a spectral invisible ghost
I’m here juxtaposed
Like images of angels in the snow
Our courage melts away, it comes and goes.
Where you been? Cannot find.
A glimpse of my friend, don’t know where or when,
One of us left
The other behind
Divisions came and troubles multiplied
Incisions made by scalpel blades of time.
Comes then goes.
Comes then goes.
Cannot say, “how you been?”
I can guess and conjecture my altered perceptions unclear
Please interfere.
Sadness comes within a sea of tears
Would some love be best had it not appeared?
Is this you? Here I stand.
Intense recollections of pain self neglecting again
Like you I keep it in
Thought you found a game where you could win
Yeah, it’s all vivisection in the end.
Comes then goes.
Comes then goes.
Comes then goes.
High or low? Try again.
She fell off the altar of vision, you caught her, but then
A wood cut in red
I wish it was not you that she had left
Selfish navigation with no end.
Where’d you sleep? Cannot find
A deeper connection in the face of rejection, I’m tryin’
I’m trying
Evidence in the echoes of your mind
Leads me to believe we missed those signs
Can I try…one last time?
We could all use a savior from human behavior sometimes
And the kids are alright
The queen of collections took your time
Sadness comes cause some of it was mine
Comes then goes.
Comes then goes.
Comes then goes.
Comes then goes.
