Soundgarden Songs - The Day I Tried To Live Lyrics

Soundgarden - The Day I Tried To Live

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Album: Superunknown
Released: 1994

The Day I Tried To Live Lyrics

I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger,
Drop the blade
And watch the rolling heads

The Day I Tried To Live
I stole a thousand beggar's change
And gave it to the rich

The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
Singing

One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
Might make it
One more time around
Might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones
Inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere
But dead

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed

The day I tried to win
I walled in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you

Writer/s: CHRIS CORNELL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Day I Tried To Live

Written entirely by Chris Cornell, the Soundgarden lead singer considers this a companion song to "Fell On Black Days," which also deals with ennui and depression. Speaking about "The Day I Tried To Live" with Entertainment Weekly, Cornell said: "The attitude I was trying to convey was that thing that I think everyone goes through where you wake up in the morning and you just don’t know how you are going to get through the day, and you kind of just talk yourself into it. You may go through different moments of hopelessness and wanting to give up, or wanting to just get back into bed and say f--k it, but you convince yourself you’re going to do it again. And maybe this is the last time you’re going to do it, but it’s once more around."