The first taste of new Pearl Jam music has finally arrived. The band has shared the first single from their upcoming album Gigaton, "Dance of the Clairvoyants."

This marks Pearl Jam's first new song since the 2018 release of the politically charged "Can't Deny Me," which we know will not be included on Gigaton since the track listing was revealed yesterday (Jan. 20). That being said, it's their first album single since Lightning Bolt came out in 2013, which makes the anticipation for the upcoming record that much more real.

The song has a more electronic feel overall, showing some musical evolution. The track also finds Eddie Vedder increasing the intensity in his vocal as the verse progresses. Bassist Jeff Ament says of the track, "'Dance' was a perfect storm of experimentation and real collaboration, mixing up the instrumentation and building a great song, and Ed writing some of my favorite words yet, around Matt’s killer drum pattern. Did I mention Mike’s insane guitar part and that Stone is playing bass on this one? We’ve opened some new doors creatively and that’s exciting."

Lyrics for the song can be viewed below:

Confusing it is to commotion
What love is to our devotion
Imperceptibly big
As big as the ocean
And equally hard to control

So save your predictions
And burn your assumptions
Love is friction
Ripe for comfort
Endless equations
And tugging persuasions
Doors open up
To interpretation

[Chorus]
Expecting perfection
Leaves a lot to ignore
When the past is the present
And the future's no more
When every tomorrow
Is the same as before

[Verse 2]
The looser things get
The tighter you become
The looser things get
Tighter

Not one man can be greater than the sun
It's not a negative thought
But positive, positive, positive

Falling down, not staying down
Coulda held me up, rather than tearing me down
Drown in the river

[Chorus]
Expecting perfection
Leaves a lot to ignore
When the past is the present
And the future's no more
When every tomorrow
Is the same as before

[Verse 3]
Numbers keep falling off the calendar's floor
We're stuck in the boxes
When it's open no more
Could’ve lifted up they’re forgetting us
Not recalling what they're for
I'm in love with clairvoyants
'Cause they're out of this world

[Verse 4]
I know the girls wanna dance
Fall away their circumstance
I know the boys wanna grow
Their dicks, and fix and file things

I know the girls wanna dance
Clairvoyants in a trance
I know the boys wanna grow
Their dicks and fix and file things

[Outro]
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back

(I know the girls wanna dance away their circumstance)
(I know the boys wanna grow, their dicks and fix and file things)

Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes
Stand back when the spirit comes

Listen to "Dance of the Clairvoyants" below and if you like what you hear, the song is now available at this location. Pre-orders for the Gigaton album are currently being taken here.

Pearl Jam fans will likely get a chance to hear "Dance of the Clairvoyants" when the group returns to the road this spring. Their North American tour starts March 18 in Toronto. See all dates and get ticketing info here.

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