Released: October 8, 1991
Songwriter: Chris Cornell Matt Cameron
Producer: Soundgarden Terry Date
[Intro]
Flies
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
Hey! What you yelling
About conditions, permission, mirrored self-affliction
Hey! What you yelling
About sadists, co-addiction, perfect analogies
Hey! What you yelling
About conditions, permission, mirrored self-affliction
[Verse 3]
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
Flies
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
Hey! What you yelling
About conditions, permission, mirrored self-affliction
Hey! What you yelling
About sadists, co-addiction, perfect analogies
Hey! What you yelling
About conditions, permission, mirrored self-affliction
[Verse 3]
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
- Black Hole Sun
- Fell on Black Days
- The Day I Tried to Live
- Spoonman
- Outshined
- 4th of July
- Burden in My Hand
- Rusty Cage
- Blow Up the Outside World
- Like Suicide
- Pretty Noose
- Jesus Christ Pose
- Slaves & Bulldozers
- Mailman
- Superunknown
- Let Me Drown
- My Wave
- Head Down
- Limo Wreck
- Searching with My Good Eye Closed
- Hands All Over
- Big Dumb Sex
- Live to Rise
- Room a Thousand Years Wide