Last Kiss - Pearl Jam

Simplesmente fantástica esta musica. A letra baseia-se em uma história real. Ela foi escrita por Wayne Cochran em 1962 e originalmente tocada por Wayne Cochran & the C.C. Riders.

Cochran baseou-se em um acidente no qual diversos adolescentes foram mortos e dois seriamente feridos quando o carro em que andavam bateu em um caminhão que transportava madeira. Jeanette Clark, de 16 anos de idade, morreu em Barnesville, Georgia, em 22 de Dezembro de 1962, no sábado antes do Natal. Ela estava com um grupo de amigos em um Chevrolet 1954. J. L. Hancock, também 16, estava dirigindo o carro com tráfego intenso e, quando andava pela Highway 341, colidiu com o caminhão. Jeanette, J.L. Hancock e o amigo Wayne Cooper morreram instantaneamente. Os dois outros amigos que estavam com eles, Jewel Emerson e Ed Shockley, sobreviveram com graves ferimentos.

O baterista da banda de Wayne Cochran estava namorando a irmã de Jeannette Clark na época do acidente. Cochran decidiu escrever uma música e dedicou-a a Jeanette Clark.

Last Kiss
Pearl Jam


Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car,
We hadn't driven very far.
There in the road straight ahead,
A car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right,
I'll never forget the sound that night.
The screaming tires, the busting glass,
The painful scream that I heard last.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.



When I woke up, the rain was pouring down,
There were people standing all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes,
But somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said;
"Hold me darling just a little while."
I held her close I kissed her - our last kiss,
I found the love that I knew I had missed.
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight,
I lost my love, my life that night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.