 Genius Meanings
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Soundgarden – Boot Camp
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Apparently, this is a song about muting your dreams, your personal views and opinions, your own initiative—in the end, to deny your willing to be yourself for the sake of being
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Soundgarden – Boot Camp (Live)
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[Verse] / I must obey the rules / I must be tame and cool / No staring at the clouds / I must stay on the ground / In clusters of the mice / The smoke is in our eyes / Like babies
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Soundgarden – Helter Skelter (Live)
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Do you, don't you want me to make you? / Coming down fast, but don't ever break you, hey / Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer / 'Cause you may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer
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Soundgarden – Rusty Cage (Live)
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[Verse 1] / You wired me awake / And hit me with a hand of broken nails / You tied my lead and pulled my chain / To watch my blood begin to boil / [Chorus] / But I'm gonna break
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Soundgarden – Ty Cobb (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I'm sitting in a magic hat with smoke and mirrors / And tire rubber fires watch me disappear, yeah / What made it slow you down sucking on a ball and chain / Another
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Soundgarden – Outshined (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I got up feeling so down / I got off being sold out / I've kept the movie rolling / But the story's getting old now / Oh yeah / I just looked in the mirror / Things
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Soundgarden – 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 as a
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Soundgarden – Spoonman (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Feel the rhythm with your hands / (Steal the rhythm while you can) / Spoonman / Speak the rhythm on your own / (Speak the rhythm all alone) / Spoonman / [Chorus
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Soundgarden – Burden In My Hand (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Follow me into the desert / As thirsty as you are / Crack a smile and cut your mouth / And drown in alcohol / Cause down below the truth is lying / Beneath the riverbed
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Soundgarden – Dusty (Live)
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[Intro] / Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy / [Verse 1] / I think it's turning back around / And I think I like it / I think it's turning back around / Though I don't know why it is / I think it's
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Soundgarden – Nothing To Say (Live)
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[Intro] / Nothing, nothing, nothing but the one thing / [Verse 1] / Someone said my words are out of balance / Nothing to say, you've got nothing to say / Dying words I bury
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Soundgarden – Applebite
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The ninth song on Down on the Upside, “Applebite” introduces the psychedelic undertone that’s present for much of the second half of the album.
The title is likely a reference to
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Soundgarden – Zero Chance
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The third track on Down on the Upside, “Zero Chance” touches on depression, specifically the pain that is left for others when someone ends their life. The title “Zero Chance
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Soundgarden – Blow Up the Outside World
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[Verse 1] / Nothing seems to kill me / No matter how hard I try / Nothing is closing my eyes / Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight / No / [Verse 2] / And nothing
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Soundgarden – Pretty Noose
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Pretty Noose is about an opportunity that looks good at first, but actually turns out to be disastrous.
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Soundgarden – Ty Cobb
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The last single off Down on the Upside, released shortly before the band first broke up, “Ty Cobb” is an fast-paced and heavy song featuring mandolins and copious swearing
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Soundgarden – Fell On Black Days (live)
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[Verse 1] / Whatsoever I feared / Has come to life / Whatsoever I've fought off / Became my life / Just when every day / Seemed to greet me with a smile / Sunspots have faded / And
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Soundgarden – Never the Machine Forever
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Kim Thayil wrote this tune “about a life-and-death match between an individual and a less specifically defined entity. And, yes, it’s based on personal experience.”
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Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun (Live)
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[Verse 1] / In my eyes, indisposed / In disguises no one knows / Hides the face, lies the snake / The sun in my disgrace / Boiling heat, summer stench / 'Neath the black the sky
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Soundgarden – Slaves and Bulldozers (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Every word I said is what I mean / Every word I said is what I mean / Everything I gave is what I need / Virgin eyes and dirty looks on / What I have and why I took
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Soundgarden – Tighter & Tighter
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[Verse 1] / Shadow face / Blowing smoke and talking wind / Lost my grip / Fell too far to start again, start again / A sudden snake / Found my shape and tells the world / Remember
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Soundgarden – Burden in My Hand
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Guitarist Kim Thayil considered it “the contemporary ‘Hey Joe.’ I thought there was something to the melody, the lyric, and the feel — the overall emotive sort of discomfort and
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Soundgarden – An Unkind
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[Verse 1] / We see the vipers of distance / Crawl into our lives everyday / Breeding our Edens of hatred / Pathetically stupid and unkind / [Pre-Chorus 1] / We couldn't look the
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Soundgarden – Never Named
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[Verse 1] / I had a dog, he was a mix / He loved me like a God / But I was just a kid / The kind mother likes / Now I'm big like the sky / But I'm downsized inside / [Chorus] / I'
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Soundgarden – Searching With My Good Eye Closed (Live)
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[Intro] / This is my good eye / Do you hear a cow? / A rooster says / Here is a pig / The devil says / [Verse 1] / Painted blue across my eyes and tie the linen on / And I'm on my
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Soundgarden – Overfloater
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[Verse 1] / Come on in and take me on an override / Stuck inside and up all night at Dave's / Trouble's far away / Mother's in her cage / Nothing's gonna pinch this nerve of mine
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Soundgarden – No Attention
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[Verse 1] / I've got war on my mind, blood on my hands / And love on my head / So open your hands, open your mouth / Let it be said / You know I've got it made in my mind / Don't
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Soundgarden – Dusty
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[Refrain] / Heeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy... / [Verse 1] / I think it's turnin' back around / And I think I like it / I think it's turnin' back around / Though I don't know why it is / I think
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Soundgarden – Switch Opens
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[Verse 1] / Hey, you slaves, go hang your owners / Draw your names among their ashes / Lay your children on their thrones / Gather round and fall right down / [Bridge 1] / Here at
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