Soundgarden

Released: June 21, 1996

Songwriter: Ben Shepherd

Producer: Soundgarden

[Verse 1]
We see the vipers of distance
Crawl into our lives everyday
Breeding our Edens of hatred
Pathetically stupid and unkind

[Pre-Chorus 1]
We couldn't look a saint in the eyes
We couldn't look a saint in the eyes

[Chorus]
On the storm
It's time to go
On the storm
It's time to go

[Verse 2]
Marching in lines of contradiction
Forgetting the history we make
Loving our hangmen as the penultimate joke

[Pre-Chorus 2]
We lack the Moses
To look a saint in the eyes

[Chorus]
On the storm
It's time to go
On the storm
It's time to go

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
On the storm
It's time to go
On the storm
It's time to go

One of the biggest rock bands out of Seattle, Soundgarden was formed in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Matt Cameron became the band’s full-time drummer in 1986, while bassist Ben Shepherd became a permanent replacement for Yamamoto in 1990. While one of the creators of the Grunge alternative rock and the first to sign to a major label, they only rose to stardom once the genre was popularized by Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains in the early 90s. After achieving great success with 1994’s Superunknown, the band decided to call it quits three years later due to internal squabbles. Eventually they reunited in 2010, releasing new album King Animal two years later. Frontman Chris Cornell committed suicide in a Detroit hotel room on May 17, 2017. He was 52 years old.

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