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Soundgarden - Down On The Upside lyrics



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01. Pretty Noose

I caught the moon today
Pick it up and throw it away, all right
I got the perfect steal
A cleaner love with a dirty feel all right

Fallout and take the bait, eat the fruit
And kiss the snake goodnight
Common ruse, dirty face
Pretty noose is pretty hate

And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from

Let your motor race
Pick it up and get this mother gone
Out from and far away, the wooden stake
This thing has got me on

Diamond rope silver chain
Pretty noose is a pretty pain

And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from

Common ruse, dirty face
Pretty noose is pretty hate
I don't care what you got
I don't care what you need, I don't want anything

And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from

And I don't like what you got me hanging from
And I don't like what you got me hanging from

02. Rhinosaur

Standing with my enemies
Hung on my horns
With haste and reverie
Killing with charm

Only happy when you hurt
Only deadly in a swarm
Only healthy in the dirt
Only empty in your arms

I plain, 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

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

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

03. Zero Chance

I think I know the answer
I stumbled on and all the world fell down
And all the sky went silent
Cracked like glass and slowly
Tumbled to the ground

Say if you look hard
Find your way back home
Born without a friend
And bound to die alone

I'm thinking of your highness
And crying long upon the loss
I've found and on the plus and minus
Zero chance of ever turning this around

Why doesn't anyone believe
In loneliness
Stand up and everyone will see
Your holiness

They say if you look hard
You'll find your way back home
Born without a friend
And bound to die alone

04. Dusty

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 turning back on me
I'm down on the upside
I think it's turning back on me
Now I'm on the good ride

And nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around, turning back around

I think it's coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think it's coming on the wind
And I'm gonna let it

I think it's turning back on me
Everything's easy
I think it's turning back on me
Everything's real to me

Nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around, turning back around
Turning back around

I think it's coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think it's coming on the wind
And I'm gonna let it

Nothing's gonna put me out
It's backing down and under
I'm down on the upside now
It's turning back around, turning back around
Turning back around, turning back around

(Turning, turning, turning, turning)
Turning back around
(Turning, turning, turning, turning)
Turning back around

(Turning, turning, turning, turning)
Turning back around
(Turning, turning, turning, turning)
Turning back around

05. Ty Cobb

I was sittin' in a magic hat
With smoke and mirrors
And tire rubber fires watch me disappear

And what made it slow you down
Sucking on a ball and chain
Another motherfucker goes down the drain

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hot rod death toll

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hot rod death toll

Sick in the head sick in the mouth
And I can't hear a word you say
Not a bit, and I don't give a shit

I got the glass, I got the steel
I got the love to hate
And all I need is your head on a stake

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hot rod death toll

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hot rod death toll

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all

Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hot rod death toll
Hot rod death toll
Hot rod death toll
Hot rod death toll
Hot rod death toll

06. Blow Up The Outside World

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
And nothing seems to break me
No matter how hard I fall, nothing can break me at all
Not one for giving up, though not invincible, I know

I've given everything I need, I'd give you everything I own
I'd give in, if it could at least be ours alone
I've given everything I could, to blow it to hell and gone
Burrow down in and blow up the outside
And blow up the outside, blow up the outside world

Someone tried to tell me something
Don't let the world bring you down
Nothing can do me in before I do myself
So save it for your own and the ones you can help

I've given everything I need, I'd give you everything I own
I'd give in, if it could at least be ours alone
I've given everything I could, to blow it to hell and gone
Burrow down in and blow up the outside
And blow up the outside, blow up the outside world

Wanna make it understood, wanting though I never would
Trying though I know it's wrong, blowing it to hell and gone
Wishing though I never could and blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside world

Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside world
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside

Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside

Blow up the outside, blow up the outside
Blow up the outside, blow up the outside

07. Burden In My Hand

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
So quench yourself and drink the water
That flows below her head

Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine
The sun is mine, sun is mine

I shot my love today
Would you cry for me
I lost my head again
Would you lie for me

Close your eyes and bow your head
I need a little sympathy
'Cause fear is strong and love's for everyone
Who isn't me

Kill your health and kill yourself
And kill everything you love
And if you live you can fall to pieces
And suffer with my ghost

I shot my love today
Would you cry for me
I lost my head again
Would you lie for me

I left her in the sand
Just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again
Would you cry for me

Just a burden in my hand
Just an anchor on my heart
It's just a tumor in my head
And I'm in the dark

So follow me into the desert
As desperate as you are
Where the moon is glued
To a picture of heaven
And all the little pigs have God

Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine
The sun is mine, the sun is mine

I shot my love today
Would you cry for me, yeah
I lost my head again
Would you lie for me

I left her in the sand
Just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again
Would you cry for me
Would you cry for me

08. Never Named

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 when I'm downsized inside

I'll lay this all to rest
I'm just a baby who looks like a boy
I'm getting all depressed
I'm just a baby who looks like a boy

I got my father's sense and my big brother's pants
And I look like a man and I feel like an ant
Just a speck on the ground
Growing like a weed, a fleck of a seed
I'll put my hand in flames

I'm just a baby who looks like a boy
I feel like I'm born again
I'm just a baby who looks like a boy

I'll put this all to rest
I'm just a baby who looks like a boy
I'm getting all depressed
I'm just a baby who looks like a boy
I'm just a baby who looks like a boy

And I'll keep hanging from your hair
And I'll keep playing in the sand
Just as long as I can

09. Applebite

No one can save
The pure of the brave
No one can save them at all
Grow and decay
Grow and decay
It's only forever

Loosely or tightly
Everything fits
Even the wrist on your arm
Grow and decay
Grow and decay
It's only forever

10. Never The Machine Forever

I can't live when it lives
It won't live if I die
Machine has no heart to give
Heart it takes could be mine

Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide

Follows me down the river
Shadows me through the sky
A sideways glance in the mirror
Stalemate machine in a tie

Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life

Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything

I fashion will and desire
Always I and I survive
Mercurial mind the fire
Ferrivorous direction and drive

Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life

Presently, I see myself clearer
Why time I visualize
I spy device in the mirror
Checkmate watch machine die

11. Tighter & Tighter

Shadow face
Blowing smoke and talking wind
Lost my grip
Fell too far to start again
A sudden snake
Found my shape and tells the world
Remember this
Remember everything is just black
Or burning sun

And I hope it's a sweet ride
Sleep tight for me
Sleep tight for me I'm gone

Warm and sweet
Swinging from a windows ledge
Tight and deep
One last sin before I'm dead
A sucking holy wind
Will take me from this bed tonight
And bloody wits
Another hits me and I have to say goodbye

And I hope it's a sweet ride
Here for me tonight
Cause I feel I'm going
Feel I'm slowing down

12. No Attention

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 waste my time, it's not going to change
So say what you want, spit it out loud
Into my face

Now I'll pay no attention
No attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention

They're gonna tell you where to walk
When to smile and just what to say
They say, have your own fall, make your own mind
But don't make no waves

And if you got a handful of change
Don't throw it away it's gonna come
So say what you want, suck all my lies
Suck on my brain

And I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention

I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention

I'll pay no attention, no attention
No attention, no attention
No attention, no attention

No attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention

I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
No attention
I'll pay no attention
No attention

I'll pay no attention
No attention
No attention
No attention
No attention
No attention
No attention
No attention

They're gonna tell you where to walk
When to smile and just what to say
They say, have your own fall, make your own mind
But don't make no waves

And if you got a handful of change
Throw it away it's gonna come
So say what you want, suck all my lies
Suck on my brain

And I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention

I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention
I'll pay no attention

13. Switch Opens

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

Here at sundown
Nothing is when everything is all right
Switch opens
Opening around and let's the garden rise

Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on

Hey you patients, where's your surgeon?
Left with your insides open
Left your heart out on the table
Gather 'round and fall right down

Feel the air now
Stumbling and wander in the moonshine
Switch opens
Opening around and let's the garden rise

Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on, switch is on
Switch is on

Switch is on
Switch is on

14. Overfloater

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 the cage
Nothing's gonna pinch this nerve of mine

I wanna make it right
I wanna make it right

Close the door and pull the shades and climb the walls
Feel medicine heal the lines of age
I'm here and now I'm gone, I'm there and far beyond
Nothin's gonna pinch this nerve of mine
And nothing's gonna pinch this nerve of mine

I wanna make it right
I wanna make it right

I'm on the wire, over and higher
Over the pretense, over the spire
On and connected

I'm overfloating now
I'm overfloating now
I'm overfloating now
I'm overfloating

Alone, alone, alone, alone
Alone, alone, alone, alone
Alone, alone, alone, alone

Breathe and take in and gently blow it on
Drink it down and swallow hard and gaze
Hold the potion up, stare your shadow down
Remember to forget and then rename your shame

I wanna make it right
I wanna make it right

I wanna make it right
I wanna make it right

I'm on the wire, over and higher
Over the pretense, over the spire
On and connected

I'm overfloating now
I'm overfloating now
I'm overfloating now
I'm overfloating

Alone, alone, alone, alone

15. An Unkind

We see the vipers of distance
Crawl into our lives everyday
Breeding our Edens of hatred
Pathetically stupid and unkind
We couldn't look a saint in the eyes

On the storm
It's time to go
On the storm
It's time to go

Marching in lines of contradiction
Forgetting the history we make
Loving our hangmen as the
Penultimate joke
We lack the Moses...to look
A saint in the eye

16. Boot Camp

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 on display
Like Angels in a cage

I must be pure and true
I must contain my views
There must be something else
There must be something good far away
I'm far away from here

Far away, I'm far away from here
Far away, I'm far away from here
Far away, I'm far away from here
Lonely is the bird
Boot camp