King Animal Plus

Soundgarden King Animal Plus Lyrics
1.Been Away Too Long(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd

You can't go home, no I swear you never can
You can walk a million miles and get nowhere
I got no where to go and it seems I came back
Just filling in the lines for the holes, and the cracks

Hey, no one knows me
No one saves me
No one loves or hates me
I've been away for too long
This place has a secial kind of falling apart
Like they put the whole thing together in the dark
No one knows where the edge of the knife is
And no one knows where intelligent life is

Hey, no one knows me
No one saves me
No one loves or hates me
Going straight
I only ever really wanted a break
I've been away for too long
No I never really wanted to stay
I've been away for too long
I've been away for too long
I've been away for too long
Keyholes, trough key holes
Where those
I am still hiding
Everyone inside
Tank girls and fly guns and silver boots on my way home

Going straight
I only ever really wanted a break
I've been away for too long
No I never really wanted to stay
Going straight
I only ever really wanted a break
I've been away for too long
No I never really wanted to stay
I've been away for too long


2.Non-State Actor(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil

Caught in every pocket, from miles to fill
So weak in the land, strong in the will
I'll be your beast and butter
I'm there to see
I'll bring you were here, feel your disease
I drink dirty water and make it clean
With you I am the cure, I am the drug

And we settle for a little bit more than everything
We're not elected but we will speak
We're not the chosen, but we believe
And we settle for a little bit more than everything

Bullets guided missiles in sync
Yeah motherless country only I've seen
You are the taken rockets, I am the bomb
I'll teach you a lesson, so far up in
Breathe in, turn the pages, just a real man
You are I am the poor

And we settle for a little bit more than everything
We're not elected but we will speak
We're not the chosen, but we believe
And we settle for a little bit more than everything

I'm a non-state actor
I'm a non-state actor
I'm a non-state actor
I'm a non-state
I'm a non-state actor

And we settle for a little bit more than everything
We're not elected but we will seak
We're not the chosen, but we believe
And we settle for a little bit more than everything
a little bit more
a little bit more
a little bit more
a little bit more


3.By Crooked Steps(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron

I'm addicted to feeling
Steeling love isn't steeling
Can't you see that I understand your mind?

I'm a walking believer
I'm a ghost of the healer
I'm the shape of the hole exile your heart

Now I'm looking for a battle side
Crooked steps will take me higher
I don't care if you wanna cry

I'm a soldier for hire
Killing all you admire
And you're living around the purple chain

Now I'm looking for a battle side
Crooked steps will take me higher
I don't care if you wanna cry

Bombs waiting down
You cut so deep, deep river
And, and we're diving
And we're diving

My crooked steps will burn you (will burn you)
My crooked steps will burn you (will burn you)
My crooked steps will burn you (will burn you)
My crooked steps will burn you (will burn you)
My crooked steps will burn you (will burn you)
My crooked steps will burn you (will burn you)

I'm a walking believer
I'm a ghost of the healer
Can't you see that I understand your mind?
Can't you see that I understand your mind?

My crooked steps will burn you
My crooked steps will burn you
My crooked steps will burn you
My crooked steps will burn you
My crooked steps will burn you
My crooked steps will burn you
My crooked steps will burn you


4.A Thousand Days Before(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil

Life
A thousand days ago
I was
Sinking in a hole
Try
To melt into all the walls
Now
I am here inside the cold

Here in the dark
Where no one stayed beside me

Now
A thousand days before
Again
Like the sun and moon at war
And
Give or take a thousand more

Here in the dark
Where no one stayed beside me
I'll be on my own side
You know where to find me
You know where to find me

Here in the dark
Where no one stayed beside me
I'll be on my own side
You know where to find me
You know where to find me

On
With a thousand needles
And
A tear to fill up everyone

A thousand days before
I'll be on my own side
I'll be on my own side
I'll be on my own side


5.Blood On The Valley Floor(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil

All turns around
All together we stumbled
In there, a million pounds
Everyone with a raise around

And the smoke lies
On the valley floor
And the blood dries
While we spill some more

Once we were at the end
The end of a long road
Living to the skies
All the other remained crowns

And the smoke lies
On the valley floor
And the blood dries

In the summer these days
Children are alone
All alone with the point

Hey
Heeeeey
Hey
Heeeeey

Mountains are around
All together we tumbled down

And the smoke lies
On the valley floor
And the blood dries
While we spill


6.Bones Of Birds(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell
Writer(s):Chris Cornell

Time is my friend,
Till it ain't, and runs out
And, that is all, that I have,
Till it's gone.

Tried to build the home, bones of birds,
Singing in the cold and fall to earth.

Hey! Sometimes she won't cry
When the smallest one is drowned,
Too weak to survive

Probably... maybe.

Tried to look out,
Through a hole in a bag
Circle above, looking down,
Bird of prey.

Tried to build the home, bones of birds,
Singing in the cold and fall to earth.

Hey! Sometimes she won't cry
When the smallest one is drowned,
Too weak to survive. Too weak to survive!
Too weak to survive!

Probably... maybe.

Tried to build on bones of birds,
Singing in the cold and fall to earth.

Hey! Sometimes she won't cry
When the smallest one is drowned,
Too weak to survive.
Probably...

Hey! Sometimes she won't cry
When the smallest one is trapped!
Too weak to survive!
Too weak to survive!
Too weak to survive!

Maybe...


7.Taree(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd

Though I can't put my hands on you
I can feel you now
And the bones and the blood flowing
Needles on the ground

In the ether I sail to you
Floating on the fumes
Run aground on the shore for you
Simple wreakage
Taree walk out and raise the road
To my guilty shado
I only know I made it home
When I drive in your ghost light
Yea, yea

Though I can't put a name on you
I will cry it out
In my heart I will hold what my
Bloody hands have dropped
Run a ground all on the floor for you
Simple record

Til me walk down and raise the road
To my tilted show
I only know I made it home
When I drive
In your ghost light
In your ghost light

Taree walk out and raise the road
To my guilty shadow
I only know I made it home
When I drive
In your ghost light
Yea, yea
Yea, yea
In your ghost light

Taree
Taree


8.Attrition(Album Version)

Lyricist:Ben Shepherd
Writer(s):Ben Shepherd

Laid here on the bone nasty gloom
Renegoons marches by
Hit it down in neurons too
Raising flags and burned rights

War supper, I got made fire
And I'll be out spinning knives
Level out on the born blue skies
A victim smile never lies

You have always lived your life like a joke
With no time
Watch you gonna do about it
Take it, punch line right

On the cliff, on much stronger waves
Can't decide to climb or drown
I was falling down disgrace
On your thumbs, all written
The ladder is poisoned, had to find a new way around

What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?
What you gonna do about it?

I always loved you like I'm down with no time
I always loved you like I'm down with no time


9.Black Saturday(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell
Writer(s):Chris Cornell

Promise something
Kill me right away if I start to get slow
Don't remember
How to separate the one from the apple

Don't wait till tomorrow
Kill me right away if I start to listen
To the voices
Telling all the mouths what they need to swallow

Do that for me
It's the least that you can do
Don't be afraid
I would do the same for you
Burn out any memory of me ever breathing
Till I'm born again

I was thirsty
I remember that you gave me some water
I was angry
Everything at once you gave me no trouble
I was crying
I remember that you gave me your shoulder

Do that for me
It's the least that you can do
Don't be afraid
I would do the same for you
Burn out any memory of me ever breathing
Till I'm born again

Born again

Do that for me
It's the least that you can do
Don't be afraid
I would do the same for you
Burn out any memory of me ever breathing
Till I'm born again

Born again
Born again
Born again


10.Halfway There(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell
Writer(s):Chris Cornell

I woke up with my feet nailed down
And my head moving the speed of sound
Had a dream I was caught in a maze
And I couldn't find my way back out

Some are born to move mountains around
And some to rot away in jail
I can admit that when I am scared
Sing everything can go to hell

And how far is halfway there?
I didn't see you on the trail now
But almost become I'm good enough
Should a good life be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams have become?

Sometimes, when you're shooting an arrow
It can fly across the sky so proud
Well I would go all the way to the sun
If I didn't have to come back down

And how far is halfway there?
I didn't see you on the trail now
But almost become I'm good enough
Should a good life be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams have become?

Have become
Yea

If you got a car and somewhere to sleep
Someone who loves you and something to eat
I would say you're doing better than most
But maybe not as well as some

And how far is halfway there?
I didn't see you on the trail now
But almost become I'm good enough
Should a good life be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams have become?

Is that what our dreams have become?


11.Worse Dreams(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell
Writer(s):Chris Cornell

Let's run around you now and let it fall apart
Put it back again and find never it beats but it's not the same
And you've never been this sure just how it looked when it
started
Turned around again now and do it all over and over

I get down
From a bad dream
When it's gone
Worse dreams are born

Spinning you around in a fire
By the old one and free

Everybody in sit down and keep on holding on
Throw your arms around, black clouds round them up
Raise walking bodies in the ground right now bounce it up
Feeling warm and hanging on the tail of the sunrise that you
can't let go

I get down
From a bad dream
When it's gone
Worse dreams are born

I get down
From a sad dream
When it's gone
Worse dreams are born

I get down
From a bad dream
When it's gone
Worse dreams are born

I get down
From a sad dream
When it's gone
Worse dreams are born

Worse dreams are born
Worse dreams are born
Worse dreams are born

Let's go around
Let's go around


12.Eyelid's Mouth(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Matt Cameron
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Matt Cameron

In the eyelid's mouth
Only hour is tone
When its crawls down
All dignity is one
Only the chilled one

Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?

Through the eyelid combs
Of the magic eye
I remember some
Only the rivers run
But never hide

Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the water run down?
Eyelid's mouth
Who let the river run dry?

Eyelid's mouth
Eyelid's mouth
Eyelid's mouth
Eyelid's mouth


13.Rowing(Album Version)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Moving is breathing and breathing is life
Stopping is dying
You'll be alright
Life is a hammer waiting to drop
Drifting the shallows and the rowing won't stop

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Can't see the sky, nothing's on the horizon
Can't feel my hands and the water keeps risin'
Can't fall asleep 'cause I wake up dead
I just keep pulling, I just keep rowing

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Rowing is living and living is hard
But living beats losing all that we are
All that we know of, and all that we feel
All we remember, imagined or real
All we remember, imagined or real

HEY

I heard an echo but the answer had changed
From the word I remembered
That I started out sayin'
Living is cheating if you're not pulling oars
The current is leaving,
I'll get mine
You get yours

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

HEY

Rowing is bleeding, bleeding is breathing
Breathing is feeling, running, and freezing
Keep getting dirty but I started out clean

Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on pulling and
Keep on pulling and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing
Keep on rowing

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row


14.Taree(Live From The Artists Den)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd

Though I can't put my hands on you
I can feel you now
And the bones and the blood flowing
Needles on the ground

In the ether I sail to you
Floating on the fumes
Run aground on the shore for you
Simple wreakage
Taree walk out and raise the road
To my guilty shado
I only know I made it home
When I drive in your ghost light
Yea, yea

Though I can't put a name on you
I will cry it out
In my heart I will hold what my
Bloody hands have dropped
Run a ground all on the floor for you
Simple record

Til me walk down and raise the road
To my tilted show
I only know I made it home
When I drive
In your ghost light
In your ghost light

Taree walk out and raise the road
To my guilty shadow
I only know I made it home
When I drive
In your ghost light
Yea, yea
Yea, yea
In your ghost light

Taree
Taree


15.Blind Dogs(Live From The Artists Den)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Kim A. Thayil
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Kim A. Thayil

Run away, now it's Halloween
Shave your head and burn you sheets,
evil could be
right next door
What do blind dogs believe?
I don't want to know
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,
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


16.Rowing(Live From The Artists Den)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Moving is breathing and breathing is life
Stopping is dying
You'll be alright
Life is a hammer waiting to drop
Drifting the shallows and the rowing won't stop

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Can't see the sky, nothing's on the horizon
Can't feel my hands and the water keeps risin'
Can't fall asleep 'cause I wake up dead
I just keep pulling, I just keep rowing

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Rowing is living and living is hard
But living beats losing all that we are
All that we know of, and all that we feel
All we remember, imagined or real
All we remember, imagined or real

HEY

I heard an echo but the answer had changed
From the word I remembered
That I started out sayin'
Living is cheating if you're not pulling oars
The current is leaving,
I'll get mine
You get yours

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

HEY

Rowing is bleeding, bleeding is breathing
Breathing is feeling, running, and freezing
Keep getting dirty but I started out clean

Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on pulling and
Keep on pulling and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing and
Keep on rowing
Keep on rowing

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row

Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row
Don't know where I'm going I just keep on rowing
I just keep on pulling, gotta row


17.Non-State Actor(Live From The Artists Den)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, Kim Thayil

Caught in every pocket, from miles to fill
So weak in the land, strong in the will
I'll be your beast and butter
I'm there to see
I'll bring you were here, feel your disease
I drink dirty water and make it clean
With you I am the cure, I am the drug

And we settle for a little bit more than everything
We're not elected but we will speak
We're not the chosen, but we believe
And we settle for a little bit more than everything

Bullets guided missiles in sync
Yeah motherless country only I've seen
You are the taken rockets, I am the bomb
I'll teach you a lesson, so far up in
Breathe in, turn the pages, just a real man
You are I am the poor

And we settle for a little bit more than everything
We're not elected but we will speak
We're not the chosen, but we believe
And we settle for a little bit more than everything

I'm a non-state actor
I'm a non-state actor
I'm a non-state actor
I'm a non-state
I'm a non-state actor

And we settle for a little bit more than everything
We're not elected but we will seak
We're not the chosen, but we believe
And we settle for a little bit more than everything
a little bit more
a little bit more
a little bit more
a little bit more


18.A Thousand Days Before(Live From The Artists Den)

Lyricist:Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil
Writer(s):Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil

Life
A thousand days ago
I was
Sinking in a hole
Try
To melt into all the walls
Now
I am here inside the cold

Here in the dark
Where no one stayed beside me

Now
A thousand days before
Again
Like the sun and moon at war
And
Give or take a thousand more

Here in the dark
Where no one stayed beside me
I'll be on my own side
You know where to find me
You know where to find me

Here in the dark
Where no one stayed beside me
I'll be on my own side
You know where to find me
You know where to find me

On
With a thousand needles
And
A tear to fill up everyone

A thousand days before
I'll be on my own side
I'll be on my own side
I'll be on my own side


19.Halfway There Live And Acoustic On 89X CIMX FM Detroit / Windsor

Lyricist:Chris Cornell
Writer(s):Chris Cornell

I woke up with my feet nailed down
And my head moving the speed of sound
Had a dream I was caught in a maze
And I couldn't find my way back out

Some are born to move mountains around
And some to rot away in jail
I can admit that when I am scared
Sing everything can go to hell

And how far is halfway there?
I didn't see you on the trail now
But almost become I'm good enough
Should a good life be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams have become?

Sometimes, when you're shooting an arrow
It can fly across the sky so proud
Well I would go all the way to the sun
If I didn't have to come back down

And how far is halfway there?
I didn't see you on the trail now
But almost become I'm good enough
Should a good life be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams have become?

Have become
Yea

If you got a car and somewhere to sleep
Someone who loves you and something to eat
I would say you're doing better than most
But maybe not as well as some

And how far is halfway there?
I didn't see you on the trail now
But almost become I'm good enough
Should a good life be so hard won?
Is that what our dreams have become?

Is that what our dreams have become?