Eddie Vedder - "Someday We'll Go All The Way" Sep18 '08

I was informed of a song performed by Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam frontman) while he was in Chicago recently. The song has to do with the Cubs, and it's called, "Someday We'll Go All The Way."

As soon as I heard the title, I knew it would be a classic Vedder piece. I've always known he was a Cubs fan, and to combine his deep vocals and feel-good strumming with a Cubs theme (a more hopeful, "our day will come" theme), I knew it would be a wonderful listen.

Sure enough, I couldn't hold back some tears from forming, especially with the season the Cubs are having, and how close it all seems to actually happening.

The song sounds great in a live setting, with the crowd chanting during the refrain. Sounds very Irish, but maybe that was intentional?

You can download the song at the Pearl Jam web site.

Here's the lyrics, to the best of my hearing. I've included my own comments in some spots (that are crossed-out) where I think the lyrics should be changed.

It's kind of long, but worth it if you're a Cubs fan. Easy to relate.

Don't let anyone say that it's just a game.
For I've seen other teams and it's never the same.
When you're born in Chicago, you're blessed and you're healed.
First time (every time!) you walk into Wrigley Field.

Our hero's wear pinstripes; hero's in blue.
They give us the chance to feel like hero's too.
Whether we'll win, and if we should lose,

We know someday we'll go all the way.
Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

We are one with the Cubs, with the Cubs we're in love.
Yeah hold our head high as the underdog.
We are not fair weather but foul weather fans!
We're like brothers in arms in the streets and the stands.

There's magic in the ivy and the old scoreboard.
The same one I stared at as a kid keeping score.
A world full of greed I could never want more.

Someday we'll go all the way.
Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

[Instrumental bridge]

And here's to the men and the legends we've known.
Teaching us faith and giving us hope.
United we stand and united we'll fall
Down to our knees the day we win it all.

Yeah Ernie Banks said, "Oh let's play two."
Or did he mean 200 years?
In the same ballpark, our diamond, our jewel.
The home of our joy and our tears.

Keeping traditions and wishes made new.
The place where our grandfathers' fathers they grew.
A spiritual feeling if I ever knew.
And if you ain't been I am sorry for you.

And when the day comes, when that last winning run,
And I'm crying and covered in beer.
I'll look to the sky and know I was right.

To think someday we'll go all the way,
Yeah! Someday we'll go all the way.

[Continue refrain]

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