Of their 9th studio album, Backspacer, Amongst The Waves is Pearl Jam’s continuing love for the ocean and the waters of the world. Lyrically, the song kind of runs a ‘surfing-as-life-metaphor’. Slightly anthemic the song was written by guitarist Stone Gossard and the lyrics written by the ‘voice of a generation’, Eddie Vedder and was released on June 21, 2010 as the third single from that album.