This past weekend, we went up north to see them at one of our favorite venues: Shoreline Amphitheater. This trip up to the San Jose/San Francisco area has been a yearly tradition for about…11 years already! But I’m sad to say, this may have been our last show for a while. Next year, the band announced that they will be taking a much deserved break after 20 straight years of touring. Good for them, sad for me!
I’ll tell you what, though. They went out with a bang. The show was incredible. So energetic with a great mix of old stuff and new stuff. I was sitting there, singing along, wishing it wouldn’t end. To commemorate one of the best shows ever, I wanted to post the set list along with some of my favorite lyrics from the songs. I know this is boring to most people, but honestly, these songs are really close to my heart. So it’s for my own entertainment.
The Last StopWar, the only way to peace, well I don’t fall for that
Watch as we nail God to a tree and then we say “Forgive me, forgive me”
Seek Up
Look at me in my fancy car and my bank account, how I wish I could take it all down to my grave, God knows I’d save and save. In the end it all piles up so tall to one being nothing at all.
Forget about being guilty, we are all innocent instead, and soon we will all find out lives swept away
One Sweet World
Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace, upon this watered one, so much we take for granted
Stay or Leave
Wake up naked drinking coffee, making plans to change the world, while the world is changing us, it was good good love. We used to laugh under the covers, maybe not so often now. The way I used to laugh with you was loud and hard
Crush
Crazy how it feels tonight, crazy how you make it all alright love, You crush me with those things you do, I do for you anything too
Seven
Baby when I think about you, all I wanna do be by your side, take a little ride
Pantala Naga Pampa
Come and relax now, put your troubles down, no need to bear the weight of your worries here, let them all fall away
Rapunzel
I think the world of you, all of my heart I do, Blood through my veins for you, you alone have all of me, I give my world to you and to you I will be true
Digging a Ditch
Where all these troubles that weigh down on me will rise
Where all these questions spinnin’ around my head will die
#41
I came in praying for you, why won’t you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over over you
Write a Song
I want to write a song that’ll get you high, I want to find the words that’ll make everything feel alright now, So in another world and another time, I’ll be the kind of man that’ll do you right
Spaceman
I’m not all bad but I’m a faithful sinner, I might get lost but I’ll be home for dinner, If God don’t like me he can send me to hell, but I love the way you love me
Cornbread
It soars inside my soul because of you, all this innocence that you inspire, You know you are as heaven intended you
Jimi Thing
Lately I’ve been feeling low, a remedy is what I’m seeking
What I want is what I’ve not got, but what I need is all around me
Shake Me Like a Monkey
God or the devil alone could not have made you up, the two must have worked as one together, So good just wanna eat you up, nothing like that real thing
Shake Me Like a Monkey
God or the devil alone could not have made you up, the two must have worked as one together, So good just wanna eat you up, nothing like that real thing
You and Me
Wanna pack your bags, something small, take what you need and we disappear, Without a trace we’ll be gone gone, the moon and the stars follow the car, And then when we get to the ocean we gonna take a boat to the end of the world
Time Bomb
Baby when I get home I wanna pick up the pieces, Hammer in the final nail, lean me up against Jesus
When everything starts to fall, so fast that it terrifies you, When will you hit the wall? Are you gonna learn to fly?
All Along the Watchtower
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke, But you and I we’ve been through that and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late
ENCORE:
Sister
I hope you always know it’s true I would never make it through, You could make the sun go dark just by walking away, Playing like we used to play, like it would never go away, I feel you beating in my chest, I’d be dead without Sister
Two Step
Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain
And there we have it. The show was over 3 hours, so we got lots of goods. An incredible band that never disappoints.
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I loved reading this. I’ve only sen them a couple times, but they never disappoint.
sounds AWESOME!!! and 3 hours!! love it 🙂