[Verse 1]:
Lying like needles on forest earth
Euphoric rush trees bend to pray for us
I'm sputtering like cold machines
Late for the birth ritual
Ritual, ritual, ritual
[Verse 2]:
You can drive my tail to watch the circus
A birth ritual, a birth of idiots
Now I woke up blessed and good strives for heartache
Marked for the death ritual
Ritual, ritual
[Chorus]:
As you start the song and face this garden
I light a cigarette before the execution
And now you see your crime for every miracle
Add another drug at every birth ritual
[Verse 3]:
I took the drug to make me stay
Now everything dies in shyness
The snake retreats
Admits defeat
And waits for the birth ritual
Ritual, ritual
[Chorus]
[Bridge]:
Shining light
Child's highs
Mark his sides
Bright until the newness wears off
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Ritual, ritual
Lying like needles on forest earth
Euphoric rush trees bend to pray for us
I'm sputtering like cold machines
Late for the birth ritual
Ritual, ritual, ritual
[Verse 2]:
You can drive my tail to watch the circus
A birth ritual, a birth of idiots
Now I woke up blessed and good strives for heartache
Marked for the death ritual
Ritual, ritual
[Chorus]:
As you start the song and face this garden
I light a cigarette before the execution
And now you see your crime for every miracle
Add another drug at every birth ritual
[Verse 3]:
I took the drug to make me stay
Now everything dies in shyness
The snake retreats
Admits defeat
And waits for the birth ritual
Ritual, ritual
[Chorus]
[Bridge]:
Shining light
Child's highs
Mark his sides
Bright until the newness wears off
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Ritual, ritual
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