 Genius Meanings
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Soundgarden – Outshined
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One of Soundgarden’s earliest songs to achieve mainstream success, “Outshined” was the band’s first to appear on the US Rock chart back in early 1992. Chris Cornell wrote it about
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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 – Slaves & Bulldozers
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Slaves and Bulldozers is the third track on the band’s 1991 album Badmotorfinger.
The song drop-tuned guitars and Chris Cornell’s iconic loud vocals display the heaviest and most
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Stone Sour – Outshined
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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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Kaleb Russell – Morgue
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Got my wheels rolling / Got my gears turning / Got me in my feelings / No more time for stealing / When have I ever / When have I ever / When have I ever not let you down / Oh not
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Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose
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The lead single off Badmotorfinger is a mocking portrait of musicians using crucified poses:
You just see it a lot with really beautiful people, or famous people, exploiting that
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Soundgarden – Rusty Cage
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This Chris Cornell penned song was released as the third single from Soundgarden’s third studio album, Badmotorfinger. The song became an instant hit peaking at #41 in the UK and
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Soundgarden – Flower (Live from the Artists Den)
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[Intro] / Thank you very much / This is a song that goes all the way back to our SST Record / This is called "Flower" on a album called Ultramega Ok / [Chorus] / Along her vain
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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 – I Don't Care About You
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I say / Down on South Street Philadelphia / I'm from Avenue C / I saw fear in his eyes / He was ready to freeze / From the Valley Hotel! / I don't care about you! / I don't care
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Soundgarden – Bones of Birds (Live from the Artists Den)
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Time is my friend / Till it ain't, and runs out / And that is all / That I have, till it's gone / Tried to build on bones of birds / Singing in the cold and fall to earth / Hey
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Soundgarden – Face Pollution (2016 Remaster)
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[Intro] / Woooh! / [Verse 1] / And I can count it on my fingers / I have all my reasons not to feel / I'm numb as rigor mortis / Scared by monkey faces / Drowned in shark fins / [
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Soundgarden – Drawing Flies (2016 Remaster)
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[Intro] / Flies / [Verse 1] / Sitting here like uninvited company / Wallowing in my own obscenities / I share a cigarette with negativity / Sitting here like wet ashes with X's in
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Soundgarden – Room a Thousand Years Wide
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[Verse 1] / Listen, hear, he is inside / One who lives while others lie / I close my eyes and walk a thousand years / A thousand years that aren't mine / Hey / [Verse 2] / It seems
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Soundgarden – Holy Water
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[Verse 1] / Holy water on the brain, and I'm losin' sleep / Holy Bible on the nightstand next to me / As I'm raped by another monkey circus freak / Tryin' to take my indignance
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Soundgarden – 4th of July (Live from the Artists Den)
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[Intro: Chris Cornell] / This is called 4th of july and it's not actually about the / Um, America's Independence Day it's about being / Really, really, really, really fucked up on
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Chris Cornell – One
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Chris Cornell wanted to perform U2’s “One”, and searched “One lyrics”. The top Google result was actually for Metallica’s song of the same name. So he decided to create this mash-
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Soundgarden – Slaves & Bulldozers (Live from the Artists Den)
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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 / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Virgin eyes and dirty looks on / What I have
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Twiztid – Death Day
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[Intro] / For the next 24 hours / Any and all murder, madness, and mayhem / Will be legal in all states across our glorious America / We can only hope that the bloodshed will help
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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 – 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 – Blind Dogs (Live from the Artists Den)
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[Spoken] / Alright we're doing uh / We're going to do a song we've actually never played in front of people before, ever / That was written a long time ago / And um / I know we're
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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 – Face Pollution
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[Intro] / Woooh! / [Verse 1] / And I can count it on my fingers / I have all my reasons not to feel / I'm numb as rigor mortis / Scared by monkey faces drowned in shark fins / [
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Soundgarden – Search And Destroy (Live)
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I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm / I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb / I am a world's forgotten boy / The one who searches and destroys / Honey gotta
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Soundgarden – Searching with My Good Eye Closed
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[Intro] / This is my good eye / Do you hear a cow? (Moo) / A rooster says (Cock-a-doo) / Here is a pig (Squeal) / The devil says (Demonic roar) / [Verse 1] / Painted blue across my
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Soundgarden – Mind Riot
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Written after the death of singer Chris Cornell’s friend Andrew Wood.
Interestingly, every guitar string is tuned to E. According to Kim Thayil, Jeff Ament “said to Chris, ‘Hey
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Soundgarden – Birth Ritual
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“Birth Ritual” was based on a riff written by drummer Matt Cameron, and saw its original appearance in the 1992 movie Singles – both its soundtrack and one scene where Soundgarden
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Soundgarden – New Damage
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[Intro] / Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah! / [Verse 1] / When new damage comes / It's a faceless poison / A new world order / It's new damage done / [Chorus] / The wreck is goin' down, get out
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Soundgarden – Somewhere
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[Intro] / I wish to wish, I dream to dream / I try to try, and I live to live / And I die to die, and I cry to cry / But I know why / [Verse 1] / I wish to wish, and I dream to
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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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