Eddie Vedder
Corduroy (Live 2017)
[Verse 1]
The waiting drove me mad
You're finally here and I'm a mess
Take your entrance back
Can't let you roam inside my head
[Chorus]
I don't want to take what you can give
I would rather starve than eat your bread
I would rather run, but I can't walk
Guess I'll lie alone just like before
[Verse 2]
I'll take the varmint's path
Oh, and I must refuse your test
Push me and I will resist
This behavior's not unique
[Chorus 2]
I don't want to hear from those who know
They can buy but can't put on my clothes
I don't want to limp for them to walk
Never would have known of me before
I don't want to be held in your debt
I'll pay it off in blood, let I be wed
I'm already cut up and I'm half dead
I'll end up alone like I began
Hey!
[Interlude: Eddie Vedder & (Audience)]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah, yeah-ey, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Hey, hey
(Hey, hey)
Hee, hee, hee
(Hee, hee, hee)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, eah, yeah)
[Bridge]
Everything has chains
Absolutely nothing's changed
Take my hand, not my picture
Spilled my tincture
[Chorus 3]
I don't want to take what you can give
I would rather starve than eat your bread
All the things that others want for me
Can't buy what I want because it's free
Can't buy what I want because it's free, said
Can't be what you want because I-
[Outro]
Oh, ain't it supposed to be just fun?
Never to be judged, or be the judge
I figured we'll all be damned
Oh, alone like I began
[Guitar Solo]