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Soundgarden – Kickstand
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[Verse 1] / Kickstand, you got loose, and I threw up / Yeah, kickstand, you got the juice to fill my cup / My mother says that it's all right / My mother says that's the only life
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Soundgarden – Kickstand (Live At Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Wantagh, NY / 1993)
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[Intro] / Thank you! / Sorry about the weather / This follows us wherever we go / Last time we were here, we couldn't even play / This is a makeup show / [Verse 1] / Kickstand, you
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Metal Up Your Podcast – Kickstand
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[Verse 1] / Kickstand, you got loose and I threw up / Kickstand, you got the juice to fill my cup / My mother says that it's alright / My mama says that's the only life / [Chorus
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Soundgarden – Superunknown
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The title track to Soundgarden 1994’s album got its name before the lyrics were written. Chris Cornell stated in a 1994 interview for Pulse! magazine that the inspiration for the
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Soundgarden – Ghostmotorfinger
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[Instrumental] / [Outro: Chris Cornell] / What are we doing?
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Soundgarden – Ruff Riff-Raff (Rehearsal Version)
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[Instrumental] / It's coming together / Yeah
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Soundgarden – Fell on Black Days
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“Fell on Black Days” is a song about futility, depression, and frustration, but with subtle hints at hope despite one’s struggles with such feelings. According to Songfacts, singer
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Soundgarden – Like Suicide (Acoustic Version)
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[Verse 1] / Heard it from another room / Eyes were waking up just to fall asleep / Love's like suicide / Dazed out in a garden bed / With a broken neck lays my broken gift / Just
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
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“Black Hole Sun” is the 7th track and 3rd single from Soundgarden’s hit 1994 album Superunknown. It is one of their biggest hits, reaching #1 of the US Billboard Mainstream Rock
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Soundgarden – Superunknown (Demo Version)
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Demo version of Superunknown
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Soundgarden – Spoonman (Steve Fisk Remix)
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[Female voice] / Do you have any space to put this in? / This is a present for you from all of us / [Chris Cornell] / Come on / Come on / Come on / Come on / Come on / Come on
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Soundgarden – Beyond The Wheel (Live At Exibition Stadium, Toronto / 1993)
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[Intro] / Okay / Far beyond the road / Between your house and home / There is a churning storm / Of hailing burning bones / [Verse] / Tiny baby cries / Little, tiny pawn / In a
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Soundgarden – Like Suicide (Rehearsal Version)
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[Intro] / [?] this part? / Heard it from another room / Eyes were waking up just to fall asleep / Love's like suicide / Dazed out in a garden bed / With a broken neck lays my
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Soundgarden – Head Down (Rehearsal Version)
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[Spoken: Chris Cornell] / Come on, do the cymbal bell thing... / [Verse 1] / I see that smile / I see that smile / I see that smile on your face / We hear you cry / We hear you
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun (Rehearsal Version)
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[Intro] / Get [?] / [Verse 1] / In my eyes, indisposed / In disguises no one knows / Hides the face, lies the - [laugh] / [Restart] / In my eyes, indisposed / In disguises no one
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Soundgarden – Spoonman (Demo Version)
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Demo version of Spoonman
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Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose (Live At Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, SD / 1993)
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[Verse 1] / You stare at me / In your Jesus Christ pose / Arms held out / Like you've been carrying a load / And you swear to me / I would never feed you pain / But you're staring
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Soundgarden – Bing Bing Goes To Church (Rehearsal Version)
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Bing Bing goes to church / Bing Bing goes to church / In the tinkle rain of the twinkle star / Bing Bing goes to church / Not very far from where I went to Kindergarten / Tinkle-
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Soundgarden – Head Down
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[Verse 1] / I see that smile, I see that smile / I see that smile on your face / We hear you cry, we hear you wail / We see that smile on your face / [Verse 2] / We see you laugh
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Soundgarden – Let Me Drown (Demo Version)
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Demo version of the song Let Me Drown
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Soundgarden – 4th of July
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Chris Cornell, from an interview with RIP magazine, April 1994 : “One time I was on acid, and there were voices ten feet behind my head. The whole time I’d be walking, they’d be
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Soundgarden – My Wave (Live At Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Wantagh, NY / 1993)
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[Verse 1] / Take, if you want a slice / If you want a piece / If it feels all right / Break, if you like the sound / If it takes you up / If it gets you down / Pray, if you want to
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Soundgarden – Limo Wreck (Rehearsal Version)
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[Intro] / Check / [Verse 1] / -of the feeble / Mouths of the slaves / Skin of the mothers / And mouths of the babes / Building the towers / Belongs to the sky / When the whole
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Soundgarden – Birth Ritual (Original Demo Version)
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[Verse 1] / Lying like needles on forest earth / Euphoric rush, trees bend to pray for us / I'm sputtering like cold machines / Late for the birth ritual / Ritual, ritual, ritual
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Soundgarden – Mailman
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Chris Cornell on Mailman.
“This next one is about killing your boss. It’s about coming to work early one morning cause you have a special agenda and you’re going to shoot him in
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Soundgarden – Like Suicide
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“Like Suicide” is the 15th song from Soundgarden’s Superunknown.
The song was inspired by a robin that crashed into one of his house’s windows while recording the song.
Vocalist
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Soundgarden – Black Days III
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An early demo/ early version of “Fell on Black Days”, named Fell on Black Days
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Soundgarden – Let Me Drown (Rehearsal Version)
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[Intro] / Try it a little bit faster / I felt like on my take, it was probably a little bit slow / 2, 3, 4 / [Verse 1] / Doo doo over my skin / Stretch the skin over my hand / I'm
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Soundgarden – My Wave (Rehearsal Version)
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[Intro] / Thank you / Oh / Uh / Eeee / Go! / Try, if you want to try / If you, makes you feel / If it feels all right / Shake, if it makes you brown / If it lies you down / If it
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Soundgarden – Let Me Drown
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“Let me Drown” is the first track on the Superunknown album.
The song lyrics describe a willing embrace of selfish, evil desires – and above all, death.
“Let Me Drown” is about–I
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Soundgarden – Fresh Tendrils (Rehearsal Version)
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[Chorus 1] / Long time coming / Seemed to get me by / Long time coming / It seemed to satisfy / Long to taste the shame / That everybody tries / [Verse 1] / Long time coming / It
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun (Demo Version)
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Demo version of [Black Hole Sun](https://genius.com/Soundgarden-black-hole-sun-lyrics}
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Soundgarden – The Day I Tried To Live (Rehearsal Version)
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[Intro] / Let's try it with guitar, um, alone first / And then come in on, like / Have the guitar play the riff once, quiet / Then the drums and bass come in, still quiet / And
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Soundgarden – Half
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[Intro] / (One, two, three, four) / [Verse 1] / When I hand my love in, I'll be done / A handed glove hides the door / [Chorus] / Half a chance, half a chance / We still have half
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Soundgarden – My Wave
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[Intro] / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Take / If you want a slice / If you want a piece / If it feels right / Break / If you like the sound / If it gets you up / If it takes you down / Share
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Soundgarden – The Date I Tried To Leave (Rehearsal Version)
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I took it to the roller rink / I took it to the thirteen coins / And I bought you some fuzzy drinks / With a lime and a twist and shit / And you got the skipper's platter / So
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Soundgarden – Fell on Black Days (Video Version - Alternate Mix)
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[Intro] / "This is master number three" / "Roll cameras" / ... / [Verse 1] / Whatsoever I feared / Has come to life / Whatsoever I've fought off / Became my life / Just when every
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Soundgarden – The Day I Tried to Live
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“The Day I Tried to Live” is a somewhat fatalistic song about trying to do one’s best and failing, despite having the best intentions. It does contain undercurrents of optimism; as
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Soundgarden – She Likes Surprises
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[Verse 1] / Girlie dress and making her best / She makes up her hair for the '90s / Dirty shoes and hiding her blues / She's dying to lose what she's finding / [Pre-Chorus] / It's
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Soundgarden – Limo Wreck
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[Instrumental Intro 00:00-00:38] / [Verse 1] / Tears of the feeble, hands of the slaves / Skin of the mothers, mouths of the babes / Building the towers, belongs to the sky / When
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