Released: March 8, 1994
Songwriter: Chris Cornell
Producer: Soundgarden Michael Beinhorn
[Verse 1]
I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said, "Seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade and watch the rolling heads"
[Chorus 1]
The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggars' change
And gave it to the rich
The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
[Post-Chorus]
Singing, one more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around I might make it
The day I tried to live, yeah
[Verse 2]
Words you say
Never seem to live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead
[Chorus 2]
The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs
[Post-Chorus]
Singing, one more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around I might make it
The day I tried to live, yeah
I tried
[Verse 3]
I woke the same as any other day
You know why I should have stayed in bed
[Chorus 3]
The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs
And I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
[Post-Chorus]
Singing, one more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around I might make it
The day I tried to live, yeah
[Outro]
Just like you
Just like you
One more time around
One more time around
I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said, "Seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade and watch the rolling heads"
[Chorus 1]
The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggars' change
And gave it to the rich
The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
[Post-Chorus]
Singing, one more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around I might make it
The day I tried to live, yeah
[Verse 2]
Words you say
Never seem to live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make
Never seem to ever get us anywhere but dead
[Chorus 2]
The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs
[Post-Chorus]
Singing, one more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around I might make it
The day I tried to live, yeah
I tried
[Verse 3]
I woke the same as any other day
You know why I should have stayed in bed
[Chorus 3]
The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud
With all the other pigs
And I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
I learned that I was a liar (One more time around)
[Post-Chorus]
Singing, one more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around I might make it
The day I tried to live, yeah
[Outro]
Just like you
Just like you
One more time around
One more time around
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- Creepin’
- Do Me a Favor
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- Disposable Teens
- The Fight Song
- mOBSCENE
- Higher Ground
- The One I Love
- Sing
- Hammer to Fall
- I Want to Break Free
- Shiny Happy People
- Stache (High Princess)
- Man in the Box
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Eye of the Tiger
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- First Date
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- I Want You to Know
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- Nothing But a Good Time
- Children of the Night
- Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World
- Don’t Be Cruel
- Working for the Weekend
- Rock the Night
- Love Me
- Let’s Go
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- Irresistible
- Blaze of Glory
- Because We Can
- I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
- Jessie’s Girl
- Left Hand Free
- Chasing the Sun
- Centuries
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- Something in the Water
- Famous
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- Dangerous
- Hanging on the Telephone
- Erase Me
- Oh Love
- Before He Cheats
- Under Cover of Darkness
- Fat Bottomed Girls
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- Live While We’re Young
- Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)
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- Them Bones
- Black Hole Sun
- I Want It All
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- Lust for Life
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- Let It Rock
- The Lazy Song
- All the Small Things
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- Losing My Religion
- Freak on a Leash
- Reptilia
- Livin’ on a Prayer
- American Idiot
- We Are the Champions
- Good Girl
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- Sweater Weather
- Two Princes
- Dammit
- Monster
- We Built This City
- Going Under
- The Reason
- The Day I Tried to Live
- Black Rain
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Duality
- Taken for a Fool
- Don’t You (Forget About Me)
- The Kids Aren’t Alright
- Counting Stars
- My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light ’Em Up)
- Hangar 18
- Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)
- Rock of Ages
- Valentine’s Day
- What About Love?
- Before I Forget
- Still into You
- Let Her Go
- Iris
- Chocolate
- Stone
- Guitar Hero Live GHTV Soundtrack
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- The Day I Tried To Live (1994)
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- Like Suicide
- Pretty Noose
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- My Wave
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- Limo Wreck
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