No Ceiling

Comes the morning
When I can feel
That there's nothing left to be concealed
Moving on a scene surreal
No, my heart will never, will never be far from here

Sure as I am breathing
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
And there's a reason I'll be, a reason I'll be back

As I walk the hemisphere
I got my wish to up and disappear
I've been wounded, I've been healed
Now for landing I've been, for landing I've been cleared

Sure as I am breathing
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
This love has got no ceiling


It may be a bit early for an Into the Wild SOTM, but I didn’t feel like writing about Deep this morning, and for me at least, No Ceiling is a SOTM in the truest sense of the term—the Pearl Jam related song that is most immediate in my life at this moment.

I LOVE this song. I love it every time I hear it. Almost everything about it is perfect. The music conveys the sense of expansive freedom found in movement, discovery, and love that animates the song , from the opening banjo notes to the music underneath it (I love the slide guitarish sound that keeps accenting the song under the melody), even down to the simple drumming that gives the song an innocence and freshness to it. It is joyful music for a joyful song. Others can speak more meaningfully on the music then I can though

Vocally Eddie nails this one. His voice doesn’t soar the way it does in Hard Sun but the song doesn’t call for it, and Eddie gives the song exactly what it needs. You can hear how powerful the sentiment is and how much he means it, but it is so deeply felt that there is no need to oversell it. It is full of the confidence and conviction that comes with believing something so deeply that you have the desire to share it without feeling the need to shout it out because you truly believe the message can stand on its own

Lyrically No Ceiling is good. It’s not his best work but the lyrics are solid. It’s a song about the discovery of truth, where most of Pearl Jam’s work is about the search, not the discovery. No Ceiling is about waking up one morning and realizing that you’ve finally made sense of the world around you and your place in it. The song is a celebration of how grounding and centering yourself makes everything around you come into focus seemingly for the first time (like the morning after you discover you’re in love). The world has a clarity it didn’t before, and for at least a time we are able to leave behind the existential dread, doubt, and uncertainty that poisons so much of our waking hours. In that way No Ceiling is a song about healing—the sigh of relief you can finally let out once you lift a huge weight from your chest. And this is what comes out in the final lyric of the song. For at least a little time we are finally able to open ourselves up to ourselves, to others, to the world, and lose ourselves in the love and beauty in life that is so often hidden to us. And for as long as that feeling lasts this love has got no ceiling…

My one complaint with the song is that it is too short. This is not the same thing as saying that it needed to be longer. It doesn’t. It works beautifully at a minute and a half. But Eddie really tapped into something important and elemental in this work, and I would have loved to see him stay with the idea even longer.

5 Stars. Had it been longer, and had the quality stayed at this level this could quite possibly be my favorite pearl jam song. I guess I’ll see over time if this is really just a current infatuation with the song.

i gave it 4 stars. i may actually like this most on the album.

I haven't even listened to this record yet. Are we going to do SOTMs for Three Fish and Brad?

I think we should in some capacity.

NO CEILING
4stars

I agree with Stip, but the shortness bothers me. Not because it's 1:36 or whatever, I think it actually ends abruptly. The song is moving a long...and it's over...the last line sound abrupt and jarring which drops it to 4 stars

This is one of the better songs on the album, no doubt. But it's too short and abrupt for me to really love it; as others have said, it ends before it can really get going, which overall weakens it. I haven't listened to it enough yet to give it a star rating...I think it's a little early to have this as a SOTM, Stip. Plus there are other Pearl Jam songs that haven't been done yet...

there are...but I also don't really want to be in a position where we do all of into the wild in a row. But fair enough. I think it'll be a while before we do another one of these--I've just been really into it lately

And Sunny---an Eddie Vedder song is a pearl jam song in a way that a brad or 3 fish song is not. But if you want to write one of those up just let me know.

Probably my favorite Into the Wild track. Agree that it's short but I just hit repeat on this one each time.
It's so good it almost brought me to tears on one listen.

5 stars.

I love this song, and I agree that it ends to soon and leaves you wanting more. I want to give it 5 stars but the shortness keeps at a high 4 stars.

I gave it 5. Of course, it is too short, but it's short and sweet. Ed did a great job with the bass line. I love it.

Ummm, so yeah...this isn't a Pearl Jam song.

4 Stars. One of the best compared to the rest of the album.

Can't really compare it to Even Flow, which IS a Pearl Jam song coincidentally...but IF you could compare the two as PJ songs, Even Flow would obviously win. By a lot. Duh.

I really like it but like everyone else it's too short and leaves you wanting.
I'd give it 4 but have to take 1 out because of it.

after reading stips post, i had to throw this song on. really a standout track.

I love it...it lifts me whenever i listen to it, the melody and the hooks carry it so well. So far it's only grown, i hope it doesn't begin to tire.

yeh 5 stars. i love it, again only complaint is length

That's exactly what your girlfriend said.

Ba-doom Tisk!

all correct except from the girlfriend bit,,. she was a whore

yeah she was
no ceiling 5 stars because very few songs on ITW will get below that from me due to the subject matter of the book/movie and the way Ed captured all of this in his music and lyrics...personally i believe writing these songs was very easy for him...for those who have read the book and felt an immediate connection with chris as i did i think you know what im talking about...if i were better at writing poetry/lyrics/music i'd be able to sit down after having read the book and just let the words and music write itself too...just like Penn felt when all he saw was the cover of the book amongst many on the shelf and Ed after reading it the connection was made to everything in a sense which made it possible to tap into areas of your/their mind and the world that otherwise may have laid dormant...
chris' semi-spontaneous journey and idealistic outlook struck a cord in so many that in this music it is shared from a space that is not just Ed's, Chris' or Penns but a universal space that we all share and relish in at times in the hope that one day we too will be brave enough or "free" enough to experience for ourselves what chris intended for himself sans the terrible outcome...i can only hope to once again find either in a woman or at the very least within myself a love that has got no ceiling...

....ill keep this wisdom in my flesh.