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"I Am Mine"
Single by Pearl Jam
from the album Riot Act
B-side(s)	"Down"
Released	October 8, 2002
Format	CD single, Vinyl
Recorded	February 2002 at Studio X, Seattle, Washington
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:35
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Eddie Vedder
Producer(s)	Adam Kasper, Pearl Jam
Chart positions
# 2 Canadian Singles Chart # 12 Australian Singles Chart # 26 UK Singles Chart # 43 US The Billboard Hot 100 # 6 US Modern Rock Tracks # 7 US Mainstream Rock Tracks # 60 German Singles Chart
Pearl Jam singles chronology
"Light Years" (2000)	"I Am Mine" (2002)	"Save You" (2003)
Riot Act track listing
"Ghost" (Track 5)	"I Am Mine" (Track 6)	"Thumbing My Way" (Track 7)

"I Am Mine" was the first single from Pearl Jam's 2002 album, Riot Act. The single features the B-side "Down". Some versions of the single also contain "Bu$hleaguer" and "Undone". The song was released in October 2002 and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The band played this song when they appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman to support the album. The song was included on Pearl Jam's greatest hits album, Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003.

Contents 1 Lyrical meaning 2 Music video 3 Formats and track listing 4 Sample clip 5 References 6 External links

The song was written by Eddie Vedder in a hotel room before the band's first show after the Roskilde tragedy in 2000.^[1] At the band's July 8, 2003 show at Madison Square Garden Vedder stated, "This song’s about personal safety, and the feeling of being secure, and even free."^[2]

A music video directed by James Frost was filmed for the song at Seattle's Chop Suey club in September of 2002, though it was merely a live performance rather than a conceptual video. It was one of five videos shot at the club to promote Riot Act (including "Save You", "Love Boat Captain", "Thumbing My Way", and "1/2 Full"). Up to that point the band had not made any music videos since 1998's "Do the Evolution".

Compact Disc Single (US, Austria, and Canada)

1. "I Am Mine" (Vedder) – 3:35
2. "Down" (Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:17
   • Previously Unreleased

Compact Disc Single (Europe and Australia)

1. "I Am Mine" (Vedder) – 3:35
2. "Down" (Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:17
   • Previously Unreleased
3. "Bu$hleaguer" (Gossard, Vedder) – 3:57
4. "Undone" (Vedder) – 3:08
   • Previously Unreleased

Compact Disc Single (UK)

1. "I Am Mine" (Vedder) – 3:35
2. "Bu$hleaguer" (Gossard, Vedder) – 3:57
3. "Undone" (Vedder) – 3:08
   • Previously Unreleased

7" Vinyl Single (Australia/New Zealand, Europe, US, and UK)

1. "I Am Mine" (Vedder) – 3:35
2. "Down" (Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:17
   • Previously Unreleased

• Music video for "I Am Mine" at Google Video
• Lyrics

Pearl Jam
Jeff Ament | Stone Gossard | Mike McCready | Eddie Vedder | Matt Cameron
Boom Gaspar | Dave Krusen | Matt Chamberlain | Dave Abbruzzese | Jack Irons
Discography
Albums: Ten | Vs. | Vitalogy | No Code | Yield | Binaural | Riot Act | Pearl Jam
Live Albums and Compilations: Live on Two Legs | Official Bootlegs | Lost Dogs | Live at Benaroya Hall | Rearviewmirror: Greatest Hits 1991-2003 | Live in NYC 12/31/92 | Live at Easy Street
Videos: Single Video Theory | Touring Band 2000 | Live at the Showbox | Live at the Garden
Singles: "Alive" | "Even Flow" | "Jeremy" | "Oceans" | "Go" | "Animal" | "Daughter" | "Dissident" | "Spin the Black Circle" | "Immortality" | "Not For You" | Merkin Ball | "Who You Are" | "Off He Goes" | "Hail, Hail" | "Given to Fly" | "Wishlist" | "Last Kiss" | "Nothing As It Seems" | "Light Years" | "I Am Mine" | "Save You" | "Love Boat Captain" | "Man of the Hour" | "World Wide Suicide" | "Life Wasted"
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