Soundgarden Songs - Like Suicide Lyrics

Soundgarden - Like Suicide

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Album: Superunknown
Released: 1994

Like Suicide Lyrics

Heard it from another room
Eyes were making up just to fall asleep
Love's Like Suicide
Dazed out in a garden bed
With a broken neck lays my broken gift
Just like suicide

And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her
Finish her

Bit down on the bullet now
I had a taste so sour
I had to think of something sweet
Love's like suicide
Safe outside my gilded cage
With an ounce of pain
I wield a ton of rage
Just like suicide

With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you

She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died
Just like suicide

Writer/s: CHRIS CORNELL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Chris Cornell was writing the music for this song in his basement when he heard a thump on his front door. When he opened the door, he saw a robin writhing around on the ground, it had obviously flown into the window and broken its neck: "Dazed out in a garden bed with a broken neck lays my broken gift." So he grabbed a brick and smashed the bird with to put it out of its misery: "And my last ditch was my last brick lent to finish her." Then he went back downstairs and wrote the lyrics. (thanks, Kurt - Downers Grove, IL)

Despite the title, this song has nothing to do with suicide. The album was released about a month before Kurt Cobain took his own life, leading many listeners to analyze his lyrics for premonitions. Chris Cornell was sometimes asked about this, and he made it clear that looking for suicidal thoughts in song lyrics was hopeless.

An all-acoustic version of this song can be found on Alive In The Superunknown. (thanks, Adrian - Brookings, SD)

This is the last song on the US version of the album. On other versions, the last song is "She Likes Surprises."