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I'm thinking about getting a tattoo, and I want it to be a memorable line from a song. I was thinking "I Am Mine" or maybe "Given To Fly". So basically I am asking what your favourite lines/quotes are from the band (original songs only).
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I've got 8 lines from I Am Mine....the north is to south to i am mine. I've also got 8 lines from indifference.....i will hold the candle to i won't change my mind. I've always liked the line "Change don't come at once, it's a wave building before it breaks". I think I'm going to put that around my ankle under my wave sleeve. I don't know if this helps at all.
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If I knew where it was I would take you there. There's much more than this
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Four or Five virgins and a pelican.
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Like Pilate i have a dog
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i got a stickman when i was 17-lesson! DONT EVER go into a TATTOO parlour at 5 on a friday..hell take your carefully copied exact to the mm design, give it to the flunky door guy who does the effing outline in 10 seconds(literally) and then ye get a really rushed crappy tattoo that you were too afraid of saying 'no it's not exact enough' shit bothers me to this day..but tere the stickman sits & those songs mostly mean nothing to me now..you grow up, you change (your favourite band releases crap like Avacdo'nt' and you find yourself not believing in them as feircely as you once you swore you always would.
a cautionary tale. give it loadsa think before you get the ink.
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Lyrics are probably worse over the long term than images.
A cool stickman logo can be a cool to look at - and is more open to being perceived to be a fun tattoo.
Getting lyrics inked on implies something more along the lines of a personal dogma - which is a double edged sword. If, over time, your dogma changes, that implies personal growth (hopefully not regression) - but now your ink is obsolete. If you don't change over the long term, your ink may still be cool to you, but you probably haven't experienced personal growth either.
I'm a laser physicist and right now certain sectors of my industry are booming because lots of people want their ink removed. I can tell you it is a hell of a lot more expensive to get them removed than it was to put them there.
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"I said i dont want a whale in a box or a bag". "Make me fries"
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dimejinky99 wrote:
pearl jam tattoos? who would've thunk it.. it's tacky as fuck and you'll probably regret it. Think long and hard before gettin yer ink done.
I agree completely. I was just thinking of some ideas. All part of a long process. Once i have sorted through ideas im going to keep a picture of the tattoo in my wallet, or somewhere were i will be looking at it everyday. Do that for 6 months - a year, and if i dont get sick of it or end up hating it i might get it. I think that as long as the tattoo isn't huge, overstated or overtly cliched it could work nicely. something that doesnt nessicarily tell everyone that its about pearl jam, i.e. stickman or something with the words pearl jam in it. Just a line from a song, or a little logo/emblem. its not going to be big. But thanks for the advice keep it coming
_________________ Vedder’s sticking with the underdog, McCready’s classicist rock solo, Gossard, Ament, and Abbruzzese’s solid yet organic and rootsy rhythm section. It’s earnest, it’s got tension, and that nod to classic rock. It’s Pearl Jam.
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meditron wrote:
Lyrics are probably worse over the long term than images.
A cool stickman logo can be a cool to look at - and is more open to being perceived to be a fun tattoo.
Getting lyrics inked on implies something more along the lines of a personal dogma - which is a double edged sword. If, over time, your dogma changes, that implies personal growth (hopefully not regression) - but now your ink is obsolete. If you don't change over the long term, your ink may still be cool to you, but you probably haven't experienced personal growth either.
I'm a laser physicist and right now certain sectors of my industry are booming because lots of people want their ink removed. I can tell you it is a hell of a lot more expensive to get them removed than it was to put them there.
Thanks mate, that's food for thought
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meditron wrote:
Lyrics are probably worse over the long term than images.
A cool stickman logo can be a cool to look at - and is more open to being perceived to be a fun tattoo.
Getting lyrics inked on implies something more along the lines of a personal dogma - which is a double edged sword. If, over time, your dogma changes, that implies personal growth (hopefully not regression) - but now your ink is obsolete. If you don't change over the long term, your ink may still be cool to you, but you probably haven't experienced personal growth either.
I'm a laser physicist and right now certain sectors of my industry are booming because lots of people want their ink removed. I can tell you it is a hell of a lot more expensive to get them removed than it was to put them there.
to play devils advocate to this....couldn't you say you always need some constant in your life? the lyrics to a song could be that constant.
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punkdavid wrote:
Man, you're like the people in the trading forum looking for a video of a show the day after.
Lyrics are probably worse over the long term than images.
A cool stickman logo can be a cool to look at - and is more open to being perceived to be a fun tattoo.
Getting lyrics inked on implies something more along the lines of a personal dogma - which is a double edged sword. If, over time, your dogma changes, that implies personal growth (hopefully not regression) - but now your ink is obsolete. If you don't change over the long term, your ink may still be cool to you, but you probably haven't experienced personal growth either.
I'm a laser physicist and right now certain sectors of my industry are booming because lots of people want their ink removed. I can tell you it is a hell of a lot more expensive to get them removed than it was to put them there.
to play devils advocate to this....couldn't you say you always need some constant in your life? the lyrics to a song could be that constant.
Getting a tattoo of that crutch is a separate argument altogether.
To your point, though: Some people need that crutch, others don't - just like religion. But, if you hold on too tightly to that crutch you may miss out on a potential enlightenment.
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