I Got ID/Long Road

Pearl Jam

In December 1995 Pearl Jam released a two-song single packaged under the title Merkin Ball . The songs were "I Got ID" (or "I Got Sh*t) and "Long Road." Neil Young appears on the single and Merkin Ball was a companion to Young's album Mirror Ball.

"I Got ID/Long Road" by Pearl Jam

Lyrics: 

My lips are shaking, my nails are bit off
Been a month since I heard myself talk
All the advantage this life's got on me
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea

And I fight back in my mind
Never lets me be right
I got memories, I got sh*t
So much it don't show

I walked the line
When you held me in that night
I walked the line
When you held my hand that night

An empty shell seems so easy to crack
Got all these questions don't know who I could even ask
So I'll just lie alone and wait for the dream
Where I'm not ugly and you're looking at me

And I'll stay in a bed
Oh, blue eyes, I've seen them
If just once I could feel loved
Oh, stare back at me

But I walked the line
When you held me in that night
I walked the line
When you held my hand that night
I walked the line
When you held me close that night
I paid the price
Never held you in real life

My lips are shaking


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