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AttritionSoundgarden

Released: November 13, 2012

Songwriter: Ben Shepherd

Producer: Soundgarden Adam Kasper

[Verse]
Lay here under bombast and gloom
A parade of ghouls marches by
Headed down to Nero's tomb
Raising flags and burning rights

[Verse]
Warm yourself by a god-made fire
Pinocchio with spinning eyes
Laugh aloud under bomb-lit skies
A victim's smile never lies

[Bridge]
You have always lived your life like a joke with no time
What you going to do about it until you get the punchline right?

[Verse]
On the cliff above stormy waves
Can't decide to climb or drown
Up is folly and down disgrace
Under thumbs over-written
The ladder is poison have to find a new way around

[Outro]
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
You have always lived your life like a joke with no time
You have always lived your life like a joke with no time

Soundgarden

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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