Into the wild

Music for the motion picture, Into the Wild.

All songs written and performed by Ed Vedder
except as noted*

*Hard Sun written by Gordon Peterson
Hard Sun background vocal by Corin Tucker
*Society written by Jerry Hannan
Society guitars and background vocal by Jerry Hannan

Recorded by Adam Kasper
Mixed by Adam Kasper and Eddie Vedder
Engineered by John Burton and Sam Hofstedt
Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Instrument Technician George Webb III
Assistant Mike Kutchman

Recorded at Studio X in Seattle, WA

Produced by Adam Kasper and Eddie Vedder

Album Concept by Jerome Turner
Layout and Design by Brad Klausen and Eddie Vedder
Artistic Facilitator Sato Masuzawa

Location Shots and Photos
of Emile Hirsch by Chuck Zlotrick and Francois Duhamel

Back Cover Silhouette Photo
of Eddie Vedder by Anton Corbijn

With Thanks to Jon Krakauer and the McCandless Family,
Emile Hirsch and Brian Dierker

Special Thanks to Sean Penn

In Memory of Christopher J. McCandless



Eddie Vedder - Setting Forth lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Setting Forth


Be it no concern
Point of no return
Go foward in reverse

This I will recall
Everytime I fall

Ahh-oohhh
Setting forth in the universe

Ahh-oohhh
Setting forth in the universe

Out here, realigned
A planet out of sight

Nature drunk and high
Ahh-oohhh

(random Eddie moans)
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Eddie Vedder - No Ceiling lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: No Ceiling


Comes the morning
When I can feel
That there's nothing left to be concealed
Moving on a scene surreal
No, my heart will never
Will never be far from here

Sure as I am breathing
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
And there's a reason I'll be
A reason I'll be back

As I walk
The Hemisphere
Got my wish
To up and disappear

I been wounded
I been healed
Now for landing I been
Landing I been cleared

Sure as I'm leaving
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom
In my flesh

I leave here believing
More than I had
This Love has got
No Ceiling
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Eddie Vedder - Far Behind lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Far Behind


Take Leave
the conscious mind
Found myself
to be so inclined

Why sleep
in discontent?
Oh the price
of companionship

My shadow runs with me
underneath the Big Wide Sun
My shadow comes with me
as we leave it all
we leave it all Far Behind

Empty pockets will
Allow a greater
Sense of wealth

Why contain yourself
Like any other
Book on the shelf

My shadow lays with me
underneath the Big Wide Sun
My shadow stays with me
as we leave it all
we leave it all Far Behind

Subtle voices in the wind,
Hear the truth they're telling
A world begins where the road ends
Watch me leave it all behind

Far Behind

Far Behind
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Eddie Vedder - Rise lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Rise


Such is the way of the world
You can never know
Just where to put all your faith
And how will it grow

Gonna rise up
Burning black holes in dark memories
Gonna rise up
Turning mistakes into gold

Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
Suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold

Gonna rise up
Find my direction magnetically
Gonna rise up
Throw down my ace in the hole

(Thanks to mania for these lyrics)
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Eddie Vedder - Long Nights lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Long Nights


Have no fear
For when I'm alone
I'll be better off than I was before

I've got this light
I'll be around to grow
Who I was before
I cannot recall

Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
Ah...

I'll take this soul that's inside me now
Like a brand new friend
I'll forever know

I've got this light
And the will to show
I will always be better than before

Long nights allow me to feel...
I'm falling...I am falling
The lights go out
Let me feel
I'm falling
I am falling safely to the ground
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Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Hard Sun


When I walk beside her
i am the better man
when I look to leave her
I always stagger back again
once I built an ivory tower
so I could worship from above
and when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

when she comes to greet me
she is mercy at my feet
when I see her pin her charm
she just throws it back again
once I sought an early grave
to find a better land
she just smiled and laughed at me
and took her blues back again

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

when I go to cross that river
she is comfort by my side
when I try to understand
she just opens up her eyes

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

once I stood to lose her
when I saw what I had done
bound down and flew away the hours
of her garden and her sun
so I tried to warn her
i'll turn to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights
and it's still coming down on me

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world

there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
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Eddie Vedder - End Of The Road lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: End Of The Road


I won't be the last
I won't be the first
Find a way to where the sky meets the earth
It's all right and all wrong
For me it begins at the end of the road
We come and go...

(Thanks to Louie for these lyrics)
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Eddie Vedder - Society lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Society


hmmm ooh hooo hooo

It's a mistery to me
we have a greed
with which we have agreed

You think you have to want
more than you need
until you have it all you won't be free

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have
you think you need
and when you think more than you want
your thoughts begin to bleed

I think I need to find a bigger place
'cos when you have more than you think
you need more space

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

there's those thinking more or less less is more
but if less is more how you're keeping score?
Means for every point you make
your level drops
kinda like its starting from the top
you can't do that...

society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me

society, have mercy on me
I hope you're not angry if I disagree
society, crazy and deep
I hope you're not lonely without me
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Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed lyrics
Artist: Eddie Vedder
Album: Into The Wild
Year: 2007
Title: Guaranteed


On bended knee is no way to be free
lifting up an empty cup I ask silently
that all my destinations will accept the one that's me
so I can breath

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole
half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know
got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul
so it goes...

Don't come closer or I'll have to go
Holding me like gravity are places that pull
If ever there was someone to keep me at home
It would be you...

Everyone I come across in cages they bought
they think of me and my wandering
but I'm never what they thought
got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts
I'm alive...

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere
underneath my being is a road that disappeared
late at night I hear the trees
they're singing with the dead
overhead...

Leave it to me as I find a way to be
consider me a satelite for ever orbiting
I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me
guaranteed...
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