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Favourite Chris Cornell Lyric?

HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,338
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Listening to TOTD right now and Wooden Jesus came on. I absolutely love the lyric "I'll cut you in on 20% of my future sins".

What are your faves?
"Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
-EV  8/14/93




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  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,330
    HughFreakingDillon said:

    Listening to TOTD right now and Wooden Jesus came on. I absolutely love the lyric "I'll cut you in on 20% of my future sins".

    What are your faves?

    As a whole I think his lyrics on the Temple record are amazing. There are a bunch from Superunknown that I can't think of off the top of my head because I'm listening to the Allman Brothers at the moment. Will post back later...
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  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    By no means are theses my favorite Cornell lyrics, but his solo "Scream" song (produced by Timbaland) has been stuck in my head the last few days. The video makes me laugh a little, and it's just completely different than anything he's ever done before. I watched his acoustic version of that song yesterday and I just can't get these lyrics out of my head.

    "Silence is golden
    I used to think that silence was golden"
  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    Okay..here are a few of my actual favorites. It takes a while to figure it out, there are just so many good ones.

    Rhinosaur
    "Only bending when you break"
    "Only healing when you ache"

    By Crooked Steps
    "I'm addicted to feeling. Stealing love isn't stealing . Can't you see that I understand your mind!"

    Dusty (All the lyrics in this song are uplifting to me. It sounds like it's about someone coming out of a funk or depression, and is looking at the brighter side)

    "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."

    Slaves and Bulldozers
    "What's in it for meeeee????!!!!!!"

    And yes, I agree, most of the TOTD lyrics are totally on point.
  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    And then there's:

    Black Saturday

    Don't wait 'til tomorrow
    Kill me right away if I start to listen
    To the voices
    Telling all the mouths what they need to swallow

    And my most recent favorite,

    Halfway There

    I get an itch and when I am scratching
    Everything can go to hell
  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    Roll me on your frozen fields
    Break my bones to watch them heal
    Drown me in your thirsty veins
    Where I'll watch and I'll wait
    And pray for the rain

    The Last Remaining Light - Audioslave
  • buck502000buck502000 Birthplace of GIBSON guitar Posts: 8,951
    I am not your rolling wheels – I am the highway.
    I am not your carpet ride – I am the sky.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    And I'm lost behind
    Words I'll never find
    And I'm left behind
    As seasons roll on by

    Simple, yet absolutely crushing.....
  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    Bump
  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    hauntingfamiliar said:
    Okay..here are a few of my actual favorites. It takes a while to figure it out, there are just so many good ones. Rhinosaur "Only bending when you break" "Only healing when you ache" By Crooked Steps "I'm addicted to feeling. Stealing love isn't stealing . Can't you see that I understand your mind!" Dusty (All the lyrics in this song are uplifting to me. It sounds like it's about someone coming out of a funk or depression, and is looking at the brighter side) "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." Slaves and Bulldozers "What's in it for meeeee????!!!!!!" And yes, I agree, most of the TOTD lyrics are totally on point.
  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    facepollution said:
    And I'm lost behind
    Words I'll never find
    And I'm left behind
    As seasons roll on by

     Simple, yet absolutely crushing.....
    +1. Have played this many times today. 
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,310
    Say Hello To Heaven is haunting
    severed hand thirteen
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  • DM156980DM156980 Posts: 1
    "I've got room to spread my wings and my messages of love. Love was my drug, but that's not what I died of. So don't you think of me crying louder than some billion dollar baby...I wanna rest. I wanna rest. I wanna rest..."
  • pledgeagrievancepledgeagrievance Posts: 2,861
    There must be something else, there must be something good, far away, far away from here - Bootcamp 
  • 2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,330
    Lyrics from Be Yourself struck me this morning
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  • doomponydoompony Wellington, NZ Posts: 4,501
    Dark as roses and fine as sand. Feel your healing and your sting again. I hear you laughing and my soul is saved. 
  • bertanbertan Posts: 266
    I know these are some of his more straightforward lyrics, but they are profoundly beautiful and helped me out at a dark point of my life.

    But if somebody left you out on the ledge
    If somebody pushed you over the edge
    If somebody loved you and left you for dead
    You've gotta hold on to your time and break
    Through these times of trouble
    "hey na na na na hey that's something"

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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,338
    'lighter than breath from a dove' always gets me. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,491
    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

    Good Eye Closed

    SVRDhand13 said:
    Say Hello To Heaven is haunting

    Yes it is...
  • Glorified_NGlorified_N Posts: 57
    I wish that I could find a seed
    And plant a tree that grows so high
    So that I could climb
    And harvest the ripe stars
    For you and I to drink
    And spit the ashes from our mouths
    And put the grey back in the clouds
    And send them packing with our bags
    Of old regrets and sorrows
    'Cause they don't do a thing but drag us down
    So far down
    The past is like a braided rope
    Each moment tightly coiled inside

    Through the window from higher truth 
  • SmallestOceansSmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    edited May 2017
    The grass is always greener
    Where the dogs are shittinggg!!!! 

    ...Couldn't be any truer. Lol
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    Trieste 14, Vienna 14, Gdynia 14, Leeds 14, Milton Keynes 14, Denver 14
    Central Park 15
    Fort Lauderdale 16, Miami 16, Tampa 16, Jacksonville 16, Greenville 16, Hampton 16, Columbia 16, Lexington 16, Philly1 16, Philly2 16, NYC1 16, NYC2 16, Quebec City 16, Ottawa 16, Toronto1 16, Toronto2 16, Fenway1 16, Fenway2 16, Wrigley1 16, Wrigley2 16


  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    SmallestOceans said:
    The grass is always greener
    Where the dogs are shittinggg!!!! 

    ...Couldn't be any truer. Lol
    So now you know, whooooo gets mystified!
  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Sitting here like uninvited company
    Wallowing in my own obscenities
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,578
    I can't get past this one right now...

    "Heaven sent hell away
    No one sings like you anymore"
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • jeff2040jeff2040 Des Moines, IA Posts: 1,602
    goldrush said:
    I can't get past this one right now...

    "Heaven sent hell away
    No one sings like you anymore"
    I have been thinking about that one lately as well. There really isn't anyone that sings like him anymore. 
    Sometimes you find yourself
    Having to put all your faith
    In no faith
  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 37,338
    that line has been everywhere, and it's crushing. 
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • THE LOOKTHE LOOK Posts: 324
    "And I caught some blessing on the wind I'm
    Feeling lighter than a whisper from a dove"

    Reach Down
    Bigfoot is blurry.
    - Mitch Hedberg
  • hauntingfamiliarhauntingfamiliar Wilmington, NC Posts: 10,217
    Moving is breathing and breathing is life
    Stopping is dying
    You'll be alright
  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,215
    edited May 2017
    "I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota"
     
    I loved that since my ears were first blessed with those words... Still do to this day. Just something real and beautiful/haunting about it. Definitely my favorite SG album.

    Post edited by Attaway77 on
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    2012 Missoula (9/30) 2013 Chicago (7/19) Pittsburgh (10/11) Buffalo (10/12) Baltimore (10/27) Dallas (11/15)
    2014 Austin (10/12) Memphis (10/14) St. Paul (10/19) Milwaukee (10/20) Denver (10/22)
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  • goldrushgoldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,578
    Attaway77 said:
    "I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota"
     
    I loved that since my ears were first blessed with those words... Still do to this day. Just something real and beautiful/haunting about it. Definitely my favorite SG album.

    "looking california, feeling minnesota" was my MySpace profile name many years ago (remember MySpace?!?)

    I've always loved that line too 
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • pljampljam Posts: 387
    I DON'T MIND STEALING BREAD
    FROM THE MOUTHS OF DECADENCE
    BUT I CAN'T FEED ON THE POWERLESS
    WHEN MY CUP'S ALEADY OVERFILLED 
     
    Also

     AND THEY'RE FARMING BABIES
    WHILE THE SLAVES ARE WORKING

    TOTD - HUNGERSTRIKE      Powerful lyrics
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