Like Suicide

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"Like Suicide"
Song by Soundgarden
from the album Superunknown
Released	March 8, 1994
Recorded	October - November 1993
Genre	Grunge
Length	7:01
Label	A&M
Writer(s)	Chris Cornell
Producer(s)	Michael Beinhorn, Soundgarden
Superunknown track listing
Half (14)	"Like Suicide" (15)	She Likes Surprises (16)

"Like Suicide," the last track off of Soundgarden's Superunknown was inspired when Chris Cornell was in his basement trying to write songs. He heard a 'thump' that came from the ground floor. When he opened the front door to investigate he saw a bird had flown into the door and had nearly killed itself. He subsequently put the bird out of its misery. The lyrics are almost literally what happened.

Heard it from another room/ Eyes were waking up just to fall asleep/ Love's like suicide/ Dazed out in a garden bed/ With a broken neck lays my broken gift/ just like suicide/ / And my last ditch/ Was my last brick/ Lent to finish her/ Finish her

The song goes on but this is the primary part that pertains to the bird.

Soundgarden
Chris Cornell | Kim Thayil | Matt Cameron | Ben Shepherd
Scott Sundquist | Hiro Yamamoto | Jason Everman
Discography
Albums and extended plays: Screaming Life | Fopp | Ultramega OK | Flower | Louder than Love | Screaming Life/Fopp | Badmotorfinger | Superunknown | Songs from the Superunknown | Down on the Upside | A-Sides
Singles: "Hunted Down" | "Flower" | "Loud Love" | "Hands All Over" | "Room a Thousand Years Wide" | "Jesus Christ Pose" | "Outshined" | "Rusty Cage" | "Spoonman" | "Black Hole Sun" | "Fell on Black Days" | "My Wave" | "The Day I Tried to Live" | "Superunknown" | "Pretty Noose" | "Burden in My Hand" | "Blow Up the Outside World" | "Ty Cobb" | "Bleed Together"
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