Like Suicide
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| Song by Soundgarden | ||
| from the album Superunknown | ||
| Released | March 8, 1994 | |
| Recorded | October - November 1993 | |
| Genre | Grunge Alternative Rock |
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| Length | 7:01 | |
| Label | A&M | |
| Writer(s) | Chris Cornell | |
| Producer(s) | Michael Beinhorn, Soundgarden | |
| Superunknown track listing | ||
| Half (Track 14) |
"Like Suicide" (Track 15) |
She Likes Surprises (Track 16) |
"Like Suicide" is a song by Seattle grunge band Soundgarden. It appears as the last track (or, as the second-last track on international versions) of their 1994 album Superunknown. Frontman Chris Cornell was inspired to write the song when a bird flew into the window at his house. He heard the sound, and expecting a burglar, instead found the small creature suffering. He subsequently put the bird out of its misery. Cornell has been quoted saying the bird inspired him to "write a song about the harshness of love."
The lyrics are almost a literal retelling of the story, for example the following lines:
"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 was recorded as an electric and an acoustic version. The electric version of the song was released on Superunknown and the acoustic version was released on the singles Black Hole Sun and The Day I Tried To Live, and the EP Songs from the Superunknown
| Soundgarden |
| Chris Cornell | Kim Thayil | Matt Cameron | Ben Shepherd |
| Scott Sundquist | Hiro Yamamoto | Jason Everman |
| Discography |
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| 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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