Soundgarden

Released: July 19, 2019

Songwriter: Ben Shepherd

Producer: Mark Lieberman

[Spoken]
Alright we're doing uh
We're going to do a song we've actually never played in front of people before, ever
That was written a long time ago
And um
I know we're filming tonight you see cameras and stuff, but that's not why we're doing it
Uh, we were going to do it yesterday and we, we didn't
It just didn't come together
So we're just doing it today
This song was written for a film called Basketball diaries
Which is uh, more of less memoirs of a very amazing street poet
If you haven't seen it you should
This is called Blind Dogs

His name was Jim Carroll

Run away, now it's Halloween
Shave your head and burn your sheets
Evil could be right next door
That's what blind dogs believe
But I don't want to know

Blind following blind

Run away, now it's Halloween
The safe bet is on your knees
Bow your head to the Trinity
That's what blind dogs believe
But I've heard that before

Blind following blind

Dead on my feet while my nightmare walks
I fell asleep where the freeway talks
Suffer to swim and dying to sink
These things in the air they will make you think
Make you think, make you think

[Spoken]
First time for everything
Really we did that for our friend Ross [?]
Because he's annoyingly asking about it for years every time we would see him
And he kept reciting the lyrics and I had no idea what the fuck he was talking about 'cause he had it wrong
Which is normal 'cause if you google even your own lyrics from an album you printed your own lyrics on that everyone can read and you take it off the internet, it's always wrong
So, that one was for you Ross
But, hopefully he'll always still remember it wrong
There is no wrong, really, in the interpretation of the listener

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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