Soundgarden

Down on the Upside - 1996

1. Pretty Noose
2. Rhinosaur
3. Zero Chance
4. Dusty
5. Ty Cobb
6. Blow up the Outside World
7. Burden in my Hand
8. Never Named
9. Applebite
10. Never the Machine Forever
11. Tighter and Tighter
12. No Attention
13. Switch Opens
14. Overfloater
15. An Unkind
16. Boot Camp



1. 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 donīt 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 pretty pain
And I donīt like
What you got me hanging from

I donīt care what you got
I donīt care what you need
I donīt want anything
And I donīt like what
You got me hanging from



2. 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 play, Iīm sick and tame
Drawing the hordes
I wait, and show the lame
The meaning of harm
The skulls beneath my feet
Like feathers in sand
I graze among the graves
A feeling of peace

Only bending when you break
Only feeding when youīre cold
Only healing when you ache
Only feeling when you donīt



3. 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
They say if you look hard
Youīll find your way back home
Born without a friend
And bound to die alone

Iīm thinking of your highness
And crying long upon the loss
Iīve found
And on the plus and minus
Zero chance of ever
Turning this around

Why doesnīt anyone believe
In loneliness
Stand up and everyone will see
Your holiness

Why doesnīt anyone believe
In loneliness
Stand up and everyone will see
Your holiness

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



4. Dusty


I think itīs turning back around
And I think I like it
I think itīs turning back around
Though I donīt know why it is
I think itīs turning back on me
Iīm down on the upside
I think itīs turning back on me
Now Iīm the good ride

And nothingīs gonna put me out
Itīs backing down and under
Iīm down on the upside now
Itīs turning back around
Turning back around

I think itīs coming on the wind
Just like you said it
I think itīs coming on the wind
And Iīm gonna let it

I think itīs turning back on me
Everythingīs easy
I think itīs turning back on me
Everythingīs real to me



5. Ty Cobb


Iīm sittinī in a magic hat
With smoke and mirrors
And tire rubber fires
Watch me disappear
What made it slow you down
Sucking on a ball and chain
Another motherfucker goes down the drain
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it up to the hod rod death toll

Sick in the head sick in the mouth
And I canīt hear a word you say
Not a bit, and I donīt give a shit
I got the glass, I got the steel
I got the love to hate
All I need is your head on a stake
Hard headed fuck you all
Just add it on the hot rod death toll



6. 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

Iīve givinī everything I need
Iīd give you everything I own
Iīd give in if it could at least be ours alone
Iīve given everything I could
To blow it to hell and gone
Burrow down in and
Blow up the outside world

Someone tried to tell me something
Donīt let the world bring you down
Nothing will do me in before I do myself
So save it for your own and the ones you can help

Want to make it understood
Wanting though I never would
Trying though I know itīs wrong
Blowing it to hell and gone
Wishing though I never could
Blow up the outside world



7. 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

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

Close your eyes and bow your head
I need a little sympathy
Cause fear is strong and loveīs for everyone
Who isnīt me
So 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
Just a burden in my hand
Just another anchor on my heart
Just a tumor in my head
And Iīm in the dark



8. 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 Iīm big like the sky
And Iīm down sized inside
Iīll put this all to rest
Iīm just a baby who looks like a boy
Iīm getting all depressed
Iīm just a baby who looks like a boy

I got my fatherīs sense
And my big brotherīs 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

Iīll put my hand in flames
Iīm just a baby who looks like a boy
Feels like Iīm born again
Iīm just a baby who looks like a boy
Iīm just a baby who looks like a boy

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



9. Applebite


No one can save
The pure or the brave
No one can save them at all
Grow and decay
Grow and decay
Itīs only forever

Loosely or tightly
Everything fits
Even the wrists on your arm
Grow and decay
Grow and decay
Itīs only foreve



10. Never the Machine Forever


I canīt live when it lives
It wonīt 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 and 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 itīs a sweet ride
Sleep tight for me
Sleep tight for me Iīm gone

Warm and sweet
Swinging from a windows ledge
Tight and deep
One last sin before Iīm 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 itīs a sweet ride
Here for me tonight
Cause I feel Iīm going
Feel Iīm slowing down



12. No Attention


Iīve 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 Iīve got it mad in my mind
Donīt waste my time itīs not going to change
So say what you want spit it out loud
Into my face

And Iīll pay no attention

Theyīre gonna tell you where to walk
When to smile and just what to say
They say have your own fun
Make your own mind
And donīt make no waves
But if you got a handful of change
Donīt throw it away itīs gonna come
So say what you want, suck all my
Suck on my brain

And Iīll pay no attention



13. Switch Opens


Hey you slaves go hang your owners
Draw your names among their ashes
Put your children on their thrones
Gather īround and fall right down

Here at sundown nothing is when
Everything is all right
Switch opens
Opening around and letīs the garden rise
Switch is on

Hey you patients
Whereīs your surgeon
Left with your
Insides open
Hung your hearts out

On the table
Gather īround and fall right down

Feel the air now
Stumbling and wander in the moonshine
Switch opens
Nothing is when everything is all right
Switch is on



14. Overfloater


Come on in and take me on an override
Been stuck inside and up all night at Daveīs
Now troubleīs far away, and mother in her cage
And nothings gonna pinch this nerve of mine

I wanna make it right

Close the door and pull the shades
And climb the walls
Feel medicine heal the lines of age
Iīm here and now Iīm gone
Iīm there and far beyond
And nothingīs gonna pinch this nerve of mine
Nothingīs gonna pinch this nerve of mine

I wanna make it right

Iīm on the wire over and higher
Over the pretense over the (spire) why
On and connected Iīm overfloating now
Iīm overfloating alone

Hold the potion up
Remember to forget and then rename your shame

I wanna make it right

Iīm on the wire over and higher
Over the pretense over the (spire) why

On and connected Iīm overfloating now
Iīm overfloating 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 couldnīt look a saint in the eyes
On the storm
Itīs time to go
On the storm
Itīs 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


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