Say Hello To Heaven (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)Please, mother mercy / Take me from this place / And the long winded curses / I keep hearing in my head / Words never listen / And teachers never learn / Now I'm warm from the candle / But I feel too cold to burn / He came from an island / And he died from the street / He hurt so bad like a soul breaking / But he never said nothing to me / So say hello to heaven
New like a baby / Lost like a prayer / The sky was your playground / But the cold ground was your bed / Poor stargazer / She's got no tears in her eyes / Smooth like whisper / She knows that love heals all wounds with time / Now it seems like too much love / Is never enough, you better seek out / Another road 'cause this one has / Ended abrupt, say hello to heaven
I never wanted / To write these words down for you / With the pages of phrases / Of things we'll never do / So I blow out the candle, and / I put you to bed / Since you can't say to me / Now how the dogs broke your bone / There's just one thing left to be said / Say hello to heaven
Reach Down (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)
I had a dream the other night / You were in a bar in the corner on a chair / Wearing a long white leather coat / Purple glasses and glitter in your hair / And you said hey this is where I'm gonna sit / And buy you a drink someday / You were going to the dog shows / But you kinda lost your way / You say now I got all this room / And no money to decorate it, so some / Local customer put me in touch with the man / Upstairs, he said little man you got no / Business gettin' frustrated, you gotta rest / You gotta rest you gotta reach down
And pick the crowd up / Carry back in your hands / To the promised land
Now I had some angel shine my wings, she said / Nothin' but the best for the golden boy / She made me promise not to tell I had her under / A spell singing golden words in a broken voice / And I caught some blessing on the wind I'm / Feeling lighter than a whisper from a dove / I've got no hands to tie behind my back / And I'm sparking like a heart attack, now I've got / Room to spread my wings and my messages of / Love, yes love was my drug, but that's not / What I died of, so don't think of me / Crying louder than some billion dollar baby / Cause I gotta rest I gotta rest I gotta
Reach down and pick the / Crowd up, carry back in my / Hand to the promised land
Hunger Strike (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)
I don't mind stealing bread / From the mouths of decadence / But I can't feed on the powerless / When my cup's already overfilled / But it's on the table / The fire is cooking / And they're farming babies / While the slaves are working / The blood is on the table / And their mouths are choking / But I'm growing hungry
Pushin' Forward Back (Music: Gossard, Ament; Lyrcs: Cornell)
Mother mother found me on her step / Gracious mother held me to her breast / Until the day I started pushin' / Too late to cry she turned away / I started pushin' / I saw no future in this lack / I started pushin' forward back
Baby brother clinging to her hair / Gracious mother pleading not another / Soul to bare he started pushin' / All my kings have fallen down / I started pushin' / Fallen heroes feed the ground / I started pushin' forward back
Falling down, now I know her / I know I'll never drown
I was pushin' forward back
Call Me A Dog (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)
You call me a dog well that's fair enough / 'Cause it ain't no use to pretend / You're wrong / When you call me out I can't hide anymore / I have no disguise you can't see through
Well you say it's bad luck / To have fallen for me / Well what can I say to make it good for you / You wore me out like an old winter coat / Trying to be safe from the cold
But when it's my time to throw / The next stone / I'll call you beautiful if I call at all
You tell me I'm low 'cause I've slept on the floor / And out in the woods with the badgers & wolves / You threw me out 'cause I went digging for gold / And I came home with a handful of coal
But when it's my time to throw the next stone / I'll call you beautiful if I call at all / And when it's my time to call your bluff / I'll call you beautiful or leave it alone / You call me a dog / Well that's fair enough / It doesn't bother me as long as you know / Bad luck will follow you / If you keep me on a leash and / You drag me along
Times Of Trouble (Music: Gossard; Lyrics: Cornell)
When the spoon is hot / And the needle's sharp / And you drift away / I can hear you say / That the world in black / Is upon your back / And your body shakes / So you ditch away / And you close the shades
Don't try to do it / Don't try to kill your time / You might do it / Then you can't change your mind / You've got a hold on to your time / Till your break through these / Times of trouble
When you try to talk / And the words get hard / And they put you down / Don't you stay / Don't you ditch away
I saw you swinging / Swinging your mother's sword / I know you're playing but / Sometimes the rules get hard / But if somebody left you out on a ledge / If somebody pushed you over the edge / If somebody loved you and left you for dead / You got to hold on to your time till you break / Through these times of trouble
Wooden Jesus (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)
Wooden Jesus where are you from / Korea or Canada or maybe Taiwan/ I didn't know it was the Holy Land / But I believed from the minute / The check left my hand, and I pray
Can I be saved, I spent all my money / On a future grave / Wooden Jesus I'll cut you in / On twenty percent of my future sin
Porcelain Mary her majesties pure / Looking for virgin territory / Coat hanger halos don't come cheap / From television shepherds with living room / Sheep, and I pray
Can I be saved, I spent all my money / On a future grave / Wooden Jesus I'll cut you in / On twenty percent of my future sin
Your Savior (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)
People like you, I know myself / Walk in the shoes of somebody else / Whisper to me, my tragic fate/ Whisper to me, my tragic end / But don't give me your savior
People I choose, life on my own / Burn me your fuse, throw me your stones / Give me your brand, burn on my hand / Whisper to me, my tragic end / But don't give me your savior
People I choose, I know myself / Lay my need out, give you my help / But you give me your blues / And you whisper my fate / But don't give me your savior
Four Walled World (Music: Gossard; Lyrics: Cornell)
Well she cried, and she cried / All night to the sound of the freeway hum/ And she swears she'll be gone/ When the sun hits the ground / And she ain't coming back to my cell
Well she's tired and she's tired / Of this life she's been leading too long/ And the times turns around/ Through the walls that surround / To the chimes of a jailor's song
In my four walled world
Well she tries and she tries / But my feet just won't leave the ground / And I'm tired and I'm tired / Of this prisoners life, and these chains / That drag me down
In my four walled world
And now the sun is low / And these walls try to break my soul / And now the moon is full / And I won't see nothing tonight / But the tears in her eyes and / My four walled world
All Night Thing (Music/Lyrics: Cornell)
She motioned to me / That she wanted to leave / And go somewhere warm / Where we'd be alone / I do not know, what's going on / But I'm guessing it's an all night thing
If it's an all night thing / Nobody is gonna make it end / And if it doesn't begin / Don't worry that I'll that offense / And if it's an all night thing / And we fall like a tear falling / To the ground / I'll never come around / And you'll never hear a word from me / If it's an all night thing
I walked along, feeling at ease / And falling like rain / Into her scheme / She won't let on what that will be / But I'm guessing / It's an all night thing
If it's an all night thing / Nobody is gonna make it end / And if it doesn't begin / Don't worry that I'll take offense / And if it's an all night thing / And we fall like a tear falling / To the ground / I'll never come around / And you'll never hear a word from me / If it's an all night thing