Soundgarden
Album • 1991
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 But I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run Too cold to start a fire I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones I'll take the river down to still water And ride a pack of dogs I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run Hits like a Phillips head into my brain It's gonna be too dark to sleep again Cutting my teeth on bars and rusty chains I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run When the forest burns along the road Like God's eyes in my headlights When the dogs are looking for their bones And it's raining icepicks on your steel shore I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025
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 Counting all the hands I shook Now I know why you've been shaking Now I know why you've been shaking So bleed your heart out There's no more rides for free Bleed your heart out I said what''s in it for me Everything I've held is what I've freed Everything I've held is what I've freed Everything I've shown is what I feel Buying lies and stealing jokes And laughing every time I choke Biding all the time you took Now I know why you've been taken Now I know why you've been taken So bleed your heart out There's no more rides for free Bleed your heart out I said what's in it for me
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
I can count it on my fingers I've got all my reasons not to feel I'm numb as rigor mortis Scared by monkey faces Drowned in shark fins But I don't feel like feeling Feeling like you Now I'm in the mirror Now it's getting clear I fear that I''m in you Now I'm into plastics Now I've made a mask It looks like fish heads But I don''t feel like feeling Feeling like you Face pollution Face pollution Face pollution Face pollution
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025
Painted blue across my eyes And tie the linen on And I'm on my way Looking for the paradigm So I can pass it off Is it on my side Is it to the sky Looking to the sky and down Searching for a ground With my good eye closed If I took you for a ride Would you take it wrong Or would you make it right Looking for a pedestal That I can put you on And be on my way Is it to the sky Looking to the sky and down Searching for a ground With my good eye closed Stop you''re trying to bruise my mind I can do it on my own Stop you're trying to kill my time It's been my death since I was born I don''t remember half the time If I'm hiding or I'm lost But I'm on my way
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
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 It seems he's near me as I walk One who loved what love denied He lives these years that I walk blind All these years cannot be mine Tomorrow begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow A thousand doors a thousand lies Rooms a thousand years wide He walks in the cold sun and wind All these years will not begin Tomorrow begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow
Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025
I was slipping through the cracks of a stolen jewel I was tightrope walking in two ton shoes Now somebody is talking about a third world war And the police said this was normal control And the candle was burning yesterday Like somebody's best friend died And I've been caught in a mind riot I was crying from my eye teeth and bleeding from my soul And I sharpened my wits on a dead man's skull I built an elevator from his bones Had to climb to the top floor just to stamp out the coals And the candle was burning yesterday Like somebody's best friend died And I've been caught in a mind riot I'm tied within I'm luck's last match struck In the pouring down wind
Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025
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 my eyes And drawing flies Bathed in perspiration drowned my enemies Used my inspiration for a guillotine I fire a loaded mental cannon to the page Leaning on the pedestal that holds my self denial Firing the pistol that shoots my holy pride Sitting here like wet ashes with X's in my eyes And drawing flies Hey what you yellin'' about Conditions, permission, mirrored self-affliction Hey what you yellin'' about Sadists'' co-addiction, perfect analogies Hey what you yellin'' about Conditions, permission, mirrored self-affliction Leaning on the pedestal that holds my self denial Firing the pistol that shoots my holy pride Sitting here like wet ashes with X's in my eyes And drawing flies
Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 26, 2025
Holy water on the brain and I'm losing sleep Holy bible on the night stand next to me As I'm raped by another monkey circus freak Trying to take my indignance away from me Holy water is rusting me Bloody murder is the best I've heard her scream Holy devil in the flesh some might believe And they take thine majesty so seriously It's the big lies that are more likely to be believed Holy water is rusting me Damn the water if it's life you want to drink Mind your mother if it makes you feel at ease As you're raped by another monkey circus freak It's the big lies that are more likely to be believed
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
When new damage comes It's a faceless poison A new world order It's new damage done The wreck is going down Get out before you drown The wreck is going down Get out before you drown When new damage comes It's a new word for plague A new world order A new word for hate The wreck is going down Get out before you drown The wreck is going down
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
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