------------------------------------------------------- Rusty cage / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) You wired me awake And hit me with a hand of broken nails You tied my lead and pulled my chain To watch my blood begin to boil But I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run Too cold to start a fire I'm burning diesel burning dinosaur bones I'll take the river down to still water And ride a pack of dogs I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run Hits like a Philips head Into my brain It's gonna be too dark To sleep again Cutting my teeth on bars And rusty chains, I'm gonna break my Rusty cage and run When the forest burns Along the road Like God's eyes In my headlights When the dogs are looking For their bones And it's raining icepicks On your steel shore I'm gonna break I'm gonna break my I'm gonna break my rusty cage and run ------------------------------------------------------- Outshined / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) I got up feeling so down I got off being sold out I've kept the movie rolling But the story's getting old now I just looked in the mirror Things aren't looking so good I'm looking California And feeling Minnesota So now you know, who gets mystified Show me the poor child I'd like to say That I'm down to my knees today It gives me the butterflies Gives me away Till I'm up on my feet again I'm feeling outshined Someone let the dogs out They'll show you where the truth is The grass is always greener Where the dogs are shedding I'm feeling that I'm sober Even though I'm drinking I can't get any lower Still I feel I'm sinking So now you know who gets mystified Show me the poor child I'd like to say That I'm down on my knees today It gives me the butterflies Gives me away Till I'm up on my feet again I'm feeling outshined ------------------------------------------------------- Slaves & bulldozers / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) Every word I said is what I mean Every word I said is what I mean Everything I gave is what I need Virgin eyes and dirty looks On what I have and what I took Counting all the hands I shook Now I know why you've been shaking Now I know why you've been shaking So bleed your heart out There's no more rides for free Bleed your heart out I said what's in it for me Everything I've held is what I've freed Everything I've held is what I've freed Everything I've shown is what I feel Buying lies and steeling jokes And laughing everytime I choke Biding all the time you took Now I know why you've been taken Now I know why you've been taken So bleed your heart out There's no more rides for free Bleed your heart out I said what's in it for me ------------------------------------------------------- Jesus Christ pose / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) And you stare at me In your Jesus Christ pose Arms held out Like you've been carrying a load And you swear to me You don't want to be my slave But you're staring at me Like I need to be saved In your Jesus Christ pose Arms held out In your Jesus Christ pose Thorns and shroud Like it's the coming of the lord And I swear to you That I would never feed you pain But you're staring at me Like I'm driving the nails In your Jesus Christ pose And you stare at me In your Jesus Christ pose Arms held out like it's The coming of the lord And would it pay you more to walk on water Than to wear a crown of thorns It wouldn't pain me more to bury you rich Than to bury you poor In your Jesus Christ pose ------------------------------------------------------- Face pollution / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) I can count it on my fingers I've got all my reasons not to feel I'm nub as rigot mortis Scared by monkey faces Drowned in shark fins But I don't feel like feeling Feeling like you Now I'm in the mirror Now it's getting clear I fear that I'm in you Now I'm into plastics Now I've made a mask It looks like fish heads But I don't feel like feeling Feeling like you Face pollution Face pollution Face pollution Face pollution ------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) I wish to wish I dream to dream I try to try and I live to live And I die to die and I cry to cry But I know why Somewhere in my dreams Things that should Still the willow weeps On roses for the dead In laughs of love From the likes of her To the time of me Like to moon to earth Or the sky to sea Only we're no longer Allowed to be, to be Somewhere in the dreams Of those who should Live in all the keeps Echo all the worlds In laughs of love For times that pass my life I'll search for the sky That she wanders by Somewhere in the dreams That the skies hold Still the willow weeps On roses for her bed In laughs of love ------------------------------------------------------- Searching with my good eye closed / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) Painted blue across my eyes And tie the linen on And I'm on my way Looking for the paradigm So I can pass it off Is it on my side Is to the sky Looking to the sky and down Searching for a ground With my good eye closed If I took you for a ride Would you take it wrong Or would you make it right Looking for a pedestal That I can put you on And be on my way Is it to the sky Looking to the sky and down Searching for a ground With my good eye closed Stop you're trying to bruise my mind I can do it on my own Stop you're trying to kill my time It's been my death since I was born I don't remember half the time If I'm hiding or I'm lost But I'm on my way ------------------------------------------------------- Room a thousand years wide / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) Listen, hear, he is inside One who lives while others lie I close my eyes and walk a thousand years A thousand years that aren't mine It seems he's near me as I walk One who loved what love denied He lives these years that I walk blind All these years cannot be mine Tomorrow begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow A thousand doors a thousand lies Rooms a thousand years wide He walks in the cold sun and wind All these years will not begin Tomorrow begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow Begat tomorrow ------------------------------------------------------- Mind riot / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) I was slipping through the cracks Of a stolen jewel I was tightrope walking in two ton shoes Now somebody is talking about a Third world war And the police said this was normal control And the candle was burning yesterday Like somebody's best friend died And I've been caught in a mind riot I was crying from my eye teeth and Bleeding from my soul And I sharpened my wits on a dead man's skull I build an elevator from his bones Had to climb to the top floor just To stamp out the coals And the candle was burning yesterday Like somebody's friend died And I've been caught in a mind riot I'm tied within I'm luck's last match struck In the pooring down wind ------------------------------------------------------- Drawing flies / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) Sitting here like uninvited company Wallowing in my own obscenities I share a cigarette with negativity Sitting here like wet ashes With X's in my eyes and drawing flies Bathed in perspiration drowned my enemies Used my inspiration for a guillotine I fire a loaded mental cannon to the page Leaning on the pedestal that holds my self denial Firing the pistol that shoots my holy pride Sitting here like wet ashes with 's in My eyes, and drawing flies Hey what you yellin' About, conditions, permission, mirrored self affliction Hey what you yellin' about sadist's Co-addiction, perfect analogies Hey what you yellin' about conditions Permission mirrored self affliction Leaning on the pedestal that holds my self denial Firing the pistaol that shoots my holy pride Sitting here like wet ashes with X's in my eyes And drawing flies ------------------------------------------------------- Holy water / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) Holy water on the brain And I'm losing sleep Holy bible on the night stand Next to me As I'm raped by Another monkey circus freak Trying to take my Indignance away from me Holy water is rusting me Bloody murder is the best I've heard her scream Holy devil in the flesh Some might believe And they take thine Majesty so seriously It's the big lies That are more likely to e believed Holy water is rusting me Damn the water if it's life You want to drink Mind your mother if It makes you feel at ease As you're raped by another Monkey circus freak It's the big lies that are More likely to be believed ------------------------------------------------------- New damage / Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger) When new damage comes It's a new faceless poison A new world order It's new damage done The wreck is going down Get out before you drown The wreck is going down Get out before you drown When new damage comes It's a new word for plague A new world order A new word for hate The wreck is going down Get out before you drown The wreck is going down Get out before you drown