RUSTY CAGE 

    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

    (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)

OUTSHINED 

    I got up feeling so down
    I got off being sold out
    I've kept the movie rolling
    But the story's getting old now
    I just looked in the mirror
    Things aren't looking so good
    I'm looking California
    And feeling Minnesota
    So now you know, who gets mystified
    Show me the power child
    I'd like to say
    That I'm down on my knees today
    It gives me the butterflies
    Gives me away
    Till I'm up on my feet again
    I'm feeling outshined
    Someone let the dogs out
    They'll show you where the truth is
    The grass is always greener
    Where the dogs are shedding
    I'm feeling that I'm sober
    Even though I'm drinking
    I can't get any lower
    Still I feel I'm sinking
    So now you know who gets mystified
    Show me the power child
    I'd like to say
    That I'm down on my knees today
    It gives me the butterflies
    Gives me away
    Till I'm up on my feet again
    I'm feeling outshined

    (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)

SLAVES & BULLDOZERS 

    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

    (Music: Shepherd,Cornell; Lyrics: Cornell)

JESUS CHRIST POSE 

    And you stare at me
    In your Jesus Christ pose
    Arms held out
    Like you've been carrying a load
    And you swear to me
    You don't want to be my slave
    But you're staring at me
    Like I need to be saved
    In your Jesus Christ pose
    Arms held out
    In your Jesus Christ pose
    Thorns and shroud
    Like it's the coming of the Lord
    And I swear to you
    That I would never feed you pain
    But you're staring at me
    Like I'm driving the nails
    In your Jesus Christ pose
    And you stare at me
    In your Jesus Christ pose
    Arms held out like it's
    The coming of the Lord
    And would it pay you more to walk on water
    Than to wear a crown of thorns
    It wouldn't pain me more to bury you rich
    Than to bury you poor
    In your Jesus Christ pose

    (Music: Cameron,Shepherd,Thayil,Cornell; Lyrics: Cornell)

FACE POLLUTION 

    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

    (Music: Shepherd; Lyrics: Cornell)

SOMEWHERE 

    I wish to wish I dream to dream
    I try to try and I live to live
    And I die to die and I cry to cry
    But I know why
    Somewhere in my dreams
    Things that should
    Still the willow weeps
    On roses for the dead
    In laughs of love
    From the likes of her
    To the time of me
    Like to moon to earth
    Or the sky to sea
    Only we're no longer
    Allowed to be, to be
    Somewhere in the dreams
    Of those who should
    Live in all the keeps
    Echo all the worlds
    In laughs of love
    For times that pass my life
    I'll search for the sky
    That she wanders by
    Somewhere in the dreams
    That the skies hold
    Still the willow weeps
    On roses for her bed
    In laughs of love

    (Music/Lyrics: Shepherd)

SEARCHING WITH MY GOOD EYE CLOSED 

    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

    (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)

ROOM A THOUSAND YEARS WIDE 

    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

    (Music: Cameron; Lyrics: Thayil)

MIND RIOT 

    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

    (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)

DRAWING FLIES 

    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 sadist's
    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

    (Music: Cameron; Lyrics: Cornell)

HOLY WATER 

    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
    (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)

NEW DAMAGE 

    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

    (Music: Thayil,Cameron; Lyrics: Cornell)








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