Rhinosaur

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This second Track on Down On The Upside is not featured as it’s own single but does appear on the “Ty Cobb” single as a B-Side. It is unclear whether “rhinosaur” is meant… Read More

May. 21, 19961 viewer7.5K views

Rhinosaur Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Standing with my enemy
Hung on my horns
With haste and reverie
Killing with charm

[Chorus]
Only happy when you hurt
Only deadly in a swarm
Only healthy in the dirt
Only empty in your arm

[Verse 2]
I play, I'm sick and tame
Drawing the hordes
I wait and show the lame
The meaning of harm
The skull beneath my feet
Like feathers in sand
I graze among the graves
A feeling of peace

[Chorus]
Only bending when you break
Only feeding when you're cold
Only healing when you ache
Only feeling when you don't

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
Only bending when you break
Only feeding when you're cold
Only healing when you ache
Only feeling when you don't

[Guitar Solo]

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This second Track on Down On The Upside is not featured as it’s own single but does appear on the “Ty Cobb” single as a B-Side.

It is unclear whether “rhinosaur” is meant as a different spelling of “rhinoceros” or is something else entirely. Nonetheless, the song likens depression to a beast while personifying it at the same time.

The song also topped “Ty Cobb” on the charts peaking at number 19 on US Mainstream Rock, mainly because of “Ty Cobb’s” use of “fuck” not getting airplay. When Cornell wrote this he didn’t have a specific group or people that this song could be meant for he said on the 1997 July issue of “CMJ’s Music Monthly.”