Nothing As It Seems Lyrics

"Nothing As It Seems" is the first single from Pearl Jam's sixth studio album, Binaural (2000). The single was released on April 25, 2000 and peaked at number three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song also appears on Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003). The song was composed by bassist Jeff Ament. Ament plays upright bass on the song giving it a very atmospheric feel. Guitarist Mike McCready used a Fender Pedal for the song which provided the song with its distorted sounds.[1] The song was recorded using binaural recording techniques, and was produced by Tchad Blake. Ament on the song: "It was just a little ditty on a demo that I kind of played some hand drums on, and had this little song. Actually, I spent quite a bit of time with the lyrics, and I think Stone initially said, 'Let's try that one.' There were little sections of the song [where] I definitely heard Mike doing his thing, so I kinda said, 'Hey, man, you need to write a theme for these little sections.' It's pretty cool to see a little song that I wrote being played by everyone. I mean, I can almost kind of stand back and just watch this great band play a song...and take it to a completely different level. Mike and Ed [Vedder], they have that ability where they can really raise the level of anything that they play."[2]