2002Released
3:35

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Interesting facts and trivia about I Am Mine. By Songfacts®.

Eddie Vedder wrote "I Am Mine" in reaction to the June 30, 2000 Roskilde Festival in Denmark, where nine fans were crushed to death while Pearl Jam was playing. It threw the band into a funk - even though they did nothing wrong, they were horrified by the event and struggled to find a way forward. Eddie Vedder wrote the song in his Virginia Beach hotel room during a rainstorm on August 2, 2000, the night before their first show after the incident. He was hoping that something positive could come of the catastrophe, and saw it as a reminder to cherish the lives we've been given: I know I was born and I know that I'll die The in-between is mine

The song wasn't released until 2002, two years after the Roskilde Festival, so many fans believed it was about a more recent tragedy, the September 11 attacks, especially the line, "And the meaning it gets left behind, all the innocence lost at one time."

In Pearl Jam's compilation Twenty, Eddie Vedder shared his thoughts on moving forward from the Roskilde tragedy. "In order to honor all the lives that were lost, you do something positive with it, and I think that's what some of the families have done, and that's what we tried to do," he said. "It made you appreciate your situation in life. It made you appreciate families who lose their kids as soldiers in war, because you felt it up close. You knew how it affected this immense multitude of people that were family and friends."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of I Am Mine.
GKey
MajorMode
3/4Time Signature
162BPM

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Released By

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Epic
(P) 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

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