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Insignificance Tab

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Author/Artist: Pearl Jam 
Title: Insignificance 
Album: Binaural 
Transcribed by: Evan Cowan and Chris Wilson 
Email: ecowan@uclink4.berkeley.edu 

Stone - G1 
Mike - G2 
I think there's 3 guitars in this song, I've tried to combine 
the third part into the other two parts 

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1 All in all it's no one's fault excuses turn to carbon wall                 

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 G1 Blame it all on chemical intercourse                                       

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 G1 The swallowed seeds of arrogance breeding in the thoughts of ten           

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 G1 Thousand fools that fight irrelevance                                      

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1+G2 The full moon is dead skin                                              

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 G1+G2 The one down here's wearing thin                                        

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 G1 -stilled                  to  wanna live                                   

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1 In - sig - nif       -      icance                                         

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1                               Turn the jukebox up he said                  

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1 Dancing in irreverance        Play C3     let   the   song                 

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1 Protest                         The plates began to shift                  

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1+G2                               Perfect lefts come rolling                

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 G1+G2 In                             I was alone and far away                 

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 G1+G2 Hey               when I                                                

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 G1+G2  Heard   the         band       start          playing                  

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 G1+G2 On a    lip        late       take       off                            

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1 -stilled                 to wanna live                                     

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1                                          Feel like res-                    

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1  -onance of    distance                               In   the  blood      

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 G2                                                                            

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 G1  The  iron     lies                                                        

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 G1                                                                            

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 G2                                                                            

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Josh Average	#1 by Josh Duncan at May 24, 1973 at 9:45 AM EST
	This song is incredable simply because the pre-choras actually sounds like a bomb is being dropped, and things are going nuts.

No Picture keith Lead Player	#2 by keith at Jul 26, 1977 at 11:52 AM EST
	Can someone explain "the full moon is dead skin" part?

No Picture Manu Professional Badass	#3 by Manu at Dec 28, 1983 at 7:41 AM EST
	in slovenia (former yugoslavia) ed was talking about slobodan milosevic being an asshole & he then introduced this song by saying that it was about "being a human & being part of a town, and having nothing in common with the decisions your political representatives may be making on your behalf"...

No Picture Sarah McKagan Musical Genius	#4 by Sarah McKagan (AKA - Lady Rock 'n' Roll) at Jan 27, 1984 at 1:28 AM EST
	In Adelaide on the 16th of February 2003 Eddie said something to the effect of; "this songs about a small town where we come from, there's a plant that a lot of people are employed by. They make planes and some of the planes are used for the military. It's Boeing, so it was written about what it is to work at Boeing but not to know or care that what you make is going to end up killing people" So I guess that's it, could look pretty insignificant/innocent to sweep up parts at a plane factory but is it right to contribute to a company that contributes towards war?

No Picture Kubota35 Professional	#5 by Kubota35 at Jun 10, 1989 at 12:17 PM EST
	kinda remids you of the situation today in Iraq... "Bombs dropping down Please forgive our hometown In our insignificance"

No Picture matt Average	#6 by matt spolsky at Dec 18, 1990 at 5:52 AM EST
	EDDIE VEDDER: "Insignificance." In the global scope of what it all means, we're really just passing through", Vedder says, philosophically. "I feel very insignificant---and I like that. It's pretty grounding. I mean, if I see a good pile of ants going---say they're trying to carry the corpse of a wasp out of a screen door---I'll take an hour and watch how they work. They're all working for one purpose. I feel like one of those little guys. It's like "Okay, at least I know what I'm doing here, and it's nothing too important". That's very calming. And you try to do a little bit of good within that. I'm happy trying to communicate as a small human with a fragile heart", he laughs, "and a questionable brain".

No Picture bogex Rhythm Player	#7 by bogex luna at Jan 9, 1993 at 10:37 AM EST
	I read somewhere as I was diving into this song that C3 is actually referring to the song Warehouse by Dave Matthews band ( I have no Idea what this song would be protesting but it was an interview with Eddie, unless it was completely falsified, at which point ignore the former) Insignificance shows how people building planes not even thinking about what they are doing affects the world... I've heard 2 takings on this song, 1. that Seattle is under attack because it is the home of the biggest Airplane factory 2. that it's some random place on the map and it's under attack by the planes made by boeing... I personally think the song is just about the relative indifference of the workers.. about how they don't really comprehend that what they are doing to make 40 bucks an hour ( god damn unions) could end up killing people one way or another....

No Picture nathan Average	#8 by nathan skidmore at Nov 15, 2001 at 10:52 AM EST
	people acting in rage to protest is immature and infantile. They laugh at their stupidity, while sitting in the corner of any bar playing the jukebox. "let the song protest." You are just making it worse. You are the America foreigners hate. I don't blame them.One's voice can be heard if done properly. It is simple. Think about it.

No Picture Stephen Average	#9 by Stephen Weber at Oct 31, 2003 at 3:51 PM EST
	This song just makes me want to boogie on down to the voting booth.. Lyrics are really cool. Ed's little solo in the bridge is f*ckin kickass, makes my hair raise every time. Ah, so "feel like resonance of distance" could mean that the workers feel the effects of their work (making bombs) "resonating" in a distant land (Iraq for example)..And the "iron" used to make the war machines really 'lies' in their 'blood', meaning it's their own will (or lack of it) that's causing the destruction...gotta love this song.

No Picture zach Wanna Be	#10 by zach lilly at Feb 26, 2006 at 5:11 PM EST
	fuck i didnt know it was that big. this song means quite a lot to me as a person and i think that it can have any meaning if you think about it for long enough. i once got it toyally off the subject of war