We came up with that just kind of having this riff and some changes, just kind of jamming on it. I had the main riff and came up with some chord changes. That song was originally played slower, so it had this heavy riff. And the focus went from that to this noisy, chaotic, kind of jazzy solo. And that was the song, and then we filled it in with these chords and stuff. At the end, we needed an ending, and I thought, “Well, maybe when we record it and we’ll just have it fade out on the groove.” And Matt came up with the idea of ending that in the way it does, in kind of a rhythmic fashion, to complete it. (…) And then Chris wrote the lyrics. I think he might have had lyrics laying around, and he just got in front of the mic and tried them out. It felt great, it was dynamic, and that’s how that worked.

–Kim Thayil