 Genius Lyrics
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Chris Cornell – Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / I know what you're looking for / You've looked in these eyes before / And all you saw was blue green water / Searching for a mirror / That would show the world not who
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Chris Cornell – Mission
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[Verse 1] / Pulled through you and drowning in your swirl / Circling, unfolding in your will / I'm gonna glide on the winds of your breathing / And alight on your guarded heart / I
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Chris Cornell – Patience
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[Verse 1] / Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you / I'm still alright to smile / Girl, I think about you every day now / Was a time when I wasn't sure / You set my mind at ease
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Chris Cornell – Today
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[Verse 1] / I have an injury / It's there for all to see / They pay to watch as the blood pours out / And it's my priviledge / [Chorus] / Cause I'm in danger / Yeah I'm in danger
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Chris Cornell – Killing Birds
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[Verse 1] / I learned long ago / 'Bout a better way of killing birds / And what it means when they die in my hands / Like a strangled heart / It never made much sense to me / Why I
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Chris Cornell – Moonchild
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[Verse 1] / Open your arms to the lonely shine / Lonesome as gold in the poor man's smile / See how the moon is full / Follow the push and pull / Follow the ebb and flow in the
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Chris Cornell – Wide Awake
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[Verse 1] / You can a look a hurricane right in the eye / 1200 people dead or left to die / Follow the leaders, were it an eye for an eye we'd all be blind / Deaf or murdered, and
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Chris Cornell – Cleaning My Gun
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[Verse 1] / You and I went gently, you and I went far and wide / You and I went deeply, you and I went for a ride / But somewhere in the ashes of this burning lovers' game
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Chris Cornell – Time
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[Verse 1] / We don't talk like we used to / The perfect present is no longer the future / And I can't find it, trust me I looked around / Seems like all the sand is at the bottom
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Chris Cornell – Through the Window
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Clouds have gathered turned to rain / Candle on your sill burned out / Weather on your face / Timed to match the mood outside / Reading the poems that you saved / They make the
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Chris Cornell – Safe And Sound
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[Verse 1] / Think of a time when morning will come / And you will wake up without the feeling / That half the world has gone insane / You'll open your eyes, reading your paper, or
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Chris Cornell – Poison Eye
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[Verse 1] / I heard the sound bite / I read your words right / I saw the light / I heard you singing / I know this song / It's my turn to write / I put this hook inside / So you
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Chris Cornell – Preaching the End of the World
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[Verse 1] / Hello, I know there's someone out there / Who can understand and who's feeling the same way as me / I'm 24 and I've got everything to live for / But I know now that it
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Chris Cornell – Never Far Away
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[Verse 1] / You are the road that I will travel / You are the words I write / You are the ocean I will swallow / You are the wind I ride / You are the cause to keep my head up high
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Chris Cornell – Redemption Song
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Oh pirates, yes, they rob I / Sold I to the merchant ships / Minutes after they took I / From the bottomless pit / My hand was made strong / By the hand of the All Mighty / We
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Chris Cornell – You Never Knew My Mind
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In 1996, Johnny Cash recorded a cover of Soundgarden’s hit “Rusty Cage,” written by frontman Chris Cornell, on his Grammy-winning album ‘Unchained.’ Twenty years later, Cornell
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Chris Cornell – Footsteps
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Don't even think about reachin' me / I won't be home / Don't even think about stoppin' by / Don't think of me at all / [Hook 1] / I did a what I had to do / If there was a reason
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Chris Cornell – Get Up
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[Verse 1] / You've got a faded sky / You've got no breathing room / You got a wasted life / You got nothing to do / [Chorus] / Get up, get off the floor / I said get up, do
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Chris Cornell – Watching the Wheels
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[Verse 1] / People say I'm crazy / Doin' what I'm doin' / Well, they give me all kinds of warnings / To save me from ruin / [Refrain] / And when I say that I'm okay / They look at
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Chris Cornell – Only These Words
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In a castle down a long road / A little girl was born to a king and to a queen / And her mother’s eyes welled up tears of joy / Staring at the tiny face of a miracle she made / She
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Chris Cornell – Scar On The Sky
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[Verse 1] / As I fall I leave this scar upon the sky / A simple note for you, I'll wait for your reply / And in your answer I'll regain my will to try / [Chorus] / So hover in the
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Chris Cornell – Bend In the Road
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[Verse 1] / Put a bend in the road / I’m too lost and tired / To see where I’m going / What I left behind / And I’m moving so slow / Don’t know when I’ll arrive / So put a bend in
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Chris Cornell – Better Man
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Waitin', watchin' the clock / It's four o'clock / It's got to stop / Tell him / Take no more / She practices her speech as he opens the door / She rolls over / Pretends to sleep as
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Chris Cornell – She'll Never Be Your Man
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[Verse] / The A.M. finds me home alone, awake in bed / Morning blinds me, had that dream of you again / Fog is lifting, I realize that you're not here / And how you left me, life
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Chris Cornell – Steel Rain
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[Verse 1] / And so we start another day together / You and I and the million miles between us / I train my moods to bloom like flowers unfolding / Instead of fluttering around and
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Chris Cornell (Ft. Timbaland) – Part Of Me
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[Verse 1: Chris Cornell] / Little girl, I love when she talks to me / Got the smile, when she walks that walk with me / I want the girl, but I want a lot / Might cross my mind, but
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Chris Cornell – Our Time In the Universe
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Waiting upon the dunes of earth and sand / In the morning, the flame appears upon your hand / Swallow the fears of empty-promise hearts / And remember we only just got to the stars
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Chris Cornell – Watch Out
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[Intro] / Wake up! / [Verse 1] / Hey hey / Watch out! / She keep on going when the light turns red / Watch out! / Three in the morning she ain't never going to bed / Watch out
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Chris Cornell – Sad Sad City
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[Verse 1] / Been getting tired of my motor running / Feeling overheated 'cause my life keeps coming / My heart's been troubled by the speed of love / Searching these streets for a
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Chris Cornell – Flutter Girl
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[Verse 1] / I'm drinking dust with eyes of rust / Tonight my tears might stain your wings / So flutter home because you're better off alone than with me / [Verse 2] / So hide your
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Chris Cornell – Get It While You Can
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[Verse 1] / In this world where people are fighting with each other / And there's no one you can count on / Not even your own brother / [Chorus] / So if someone comes along / And
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Chris Cornell – Let Your Eyes Wander
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When you find love / And it gets away / If it comes back to you / Then it will stay / Well maybe it’s true / As dumb as it sounds / I ain’t gonna stop you / From looking around
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Chris Cornell – Pillow of Your Bones
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[Verse 1] / The embers of the saint inside of you / Are growing as I'm bathing in your glow / I'm swallowing the poison of your flower / And hanging on the rising of my low / [
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Chris Cornell – You Know My Name
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“You Know My Name” is the theme song to the 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale, which rebooted the franchise.
The song is written from the perspective of M, who, as the head of
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Chris Cornell – A Day In The Life
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I read the news today oh boy / About a lucky man who made the grade / And though the news was rather sad / Well I just had to laugh / I saw the photograph / He blew his mind out in
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Chris Cornell (Ft. Joy Williams) – Misery Chain
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[Verse 1: Chris Cornell] / Won't you take one link from this misery chain? / Keep it to remind you of a long forgotten time or a place / So that you recognize its shape when it's
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Chris Cornell – Follow My Way
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[Verse 1] / Little one, don't be a fool / I'm a wreck when I look mighty / In euphoria, I'm bruised / In confusion, next I'm lightning / In complacence, I am small / Through
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Chris Cornell – Nothing Compares 2 U (Live at SiriusXM 2015)
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[Verse 1] / It's been seven hours and sixteen days / Since you took your love away / I go out every night and sleep all day / Since you took your love away / Since you've been gone
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Chris Cornell – Wave Goodbye
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Cornell wrote this song as a tribute to his friend, the late Jeff Buckley.
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Chris Cornell – Seasons
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Chris Cornell has never really said on record what this song is about. Not until in 2012 a fan attending his concert in Paris asked him “What is Seasons about Chris?”
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