Songwriter: Chris Cornell
Producer: Soundgarden
[Verse 1]
Shower in the dark day
Clean sparks diving down
Cool in the waterway
Where the baptized drown
Naked in the cold sun
Breathing life like fire
Thought I was the only one
But that was just a lie
[Chorus]
Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July
[Verse 2]
Yeah, yeah
Pale in the flare light
The scared light cracks & disappears
And leads the scorched ones here
And everywhere no one cares
The fire is spreading
And no one wants to speak about it
Down in the hole
Jesus tries to crack a smile
Beneath another shovel load
[Chorus]
And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July
I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July (July, July, July)
[Verse 3]
Now I'm in control
Now I'm in the fallout
Once asleep, but now I stand
And I still remember
Your sweet everything
Light a Roman candle
And hold it in your hand
[Chorus]
Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July
I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July
Shower in the dark day
Clean sparks diving down
Cool in the waterway
Where the baptized drown
Naked in the cold sun
Breathing life like fire
Thought I was the only one
But that was just a lie
[Chorus]
Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July
[Verse 2]
Yeah, yeah
Pale in the flare light
The scared light cracks & disappears
And leads the scorched ones here
And everywhere no one cares
The fire is spreading
And no one wants to speak about it
Down in the hole
Jesus tries to crack a smile
Beneath another shovel load
[Chorus]
And I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July
I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July (July, July, July)
[Verse 3]
Now I'm in control
Now I'm in the fallout
Once asleep, but now I stand
And I still remember
Your sweet everything
Light a Roman candle
And hold it in your hand
[Chorus]
Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July
I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
I thought it was the 4th of July
Superunknown: Super Deluxe Edition
- Kickstand (Live At Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Wantagh, NY / 1993)
- My Wave (Live At Jones Beach Amphitheatre, Wantagh, NY / 1993)
- Jesus Christ Pose (Live At Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, SD / 1993)
- Birth Ritual (Original Demo Version)
- Fell On Black Days (Live At Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston, MI / 1993)
- Beyond The Wheel (Live At Exibition Stadium, Toronto / 1993)
- Like Suicide (Demo Version)
- Half (Demo Version)
- 4th Of July (Demo Version)
- Fresh Tendrils (Demo Version)
- Spoonman (Demo Version)
- Black Hole Sun (Demo Version)
- Black Hole Sun (Rehearsal Version)
- Bing Bing Goes To Church (Rehearsal Version)
- Half (Instrumentally) (Rehearsal Version)
- The Day I Tried To Live (Rehearsal Version)
- The Date I Tried To Leave (Rehearsal Version)
- Spoonman (Rehearsal Version)
- Ruff Riff-Raff (Rehearsal Version)
- Like Suicide (Rehearsal Version)
- Fresh Tendrils (Rehearsal Version)
- My Wave (Rehearsal Version)
- Limo Wreck (Rehearsal Version)
- Let Me Drown (Rehearsal Version)
- Kyle Petty, Son Of Richard (Rehearsal Version)
- Head Down (Rehearsal Version)
- Superunknown (Demo Version)
- Fell On Black Days (Demo Version)
- Let Me Drown (Demo Version)
- Limo Wreck
- Spoonman
- Head Down
- Superunknown
- Mailman
- Fell on Black Days
- My Wave
- Let Me Drown
- Like Suicide
- 4th of July
- The Day I Tried to Live
- Kickstand
- Fresh Tendrils
- Half
- Fell on Black Days (Video Version)
- Spoonman (Alternate Steve Fisk Remix)
- The Day I Tried To Live (Alternate Mix)
- Like Suicide (Acoustic Version)
- Spoonman (Steve Fisk Remix)
- Black Days III
- Ghostmotorfinger
- Jerry Garcia’s Finger
- Exit Stonehenge
- Kyle Petty, Son Of Richard
- She Likes Surprises
- Black Hole Sun
- 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