Pearl Jam Nothing As It Seems Lyrics

Don't feel like home,
He's a little out.
And all these words elope,
It's nothing like your poem.

Putting in, inputting in,
Don't feel like methadone.
A scratching voice all alone,
It's nothing like your baritone.

It's nothing as it seems,
The little that he needs is home.
The little that he sees,
Is nothing he concedes is home.

One uninvited chromosome,
A blanket like the ozone.

It's nothing as it seems,
All that he needs is home.
The little that he frees,
Is nothing he believes.

Saving up a sunny day,
Something maybe two tone.
Anything of his own,
A chip off the corner stone.

Who's kidding?, rainy day,
A one way ticket headstone.
Occupations overthrown,
A whisper through a megaphone.

It's nothing as it seems,
The little that he needs is home.
The little that he sees,
Is nothing he concedes is home.

And all that he frees,
A little bittersweet, it's home.
It's nothing as it seems,
The little that you see is home.

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Jeff Ament about "Nothing As It Seems":

Ament revealed that he wrote "Nothing as It Seems" about his childhood growing up in a rural area of Northern Montana. In one interview, he called it "a dark, heavy tale" and stated, "For me, it's a song about judgment and not always understanding what is going on with another person."

In another interview Jeff Ament said:

It's a little bit reflecting on where I came from...I grew up in really rural area in Northern Montana, and ["Nothing As It Seems" is] looking back at [that]. I think until two or three years ago, I looked back at my childhood as being a fairly utopian situation where I had the freedom to ride my bike around town when I was five years old, and my parents didn't have to worry about anybody taking me and killing me or whatever. In the last couple of years...there have been some things that have kind of allowed some darker things to come to the surface of my childhood, seeing things that I had kind of selectively forgotten for my own mental health or whatever. I had just seen Affliction and I had just read Nine Below Zero by this guy, Kevin Canty, all very kind of rural things that unearthed a lot of stuff. ["Nothing As It Seems"] is just kind of what came out. I'm just now starting to actually really a___yze what I was talking about...because I still don't really have a grip on that.