Like Suicide is the 15th and final
track on Soundgarden's 1994 album Superunknown, despite its title, it is not literally about suicide, but is instead about a bird that flew into Chris Cornell's house window while he was recording a demo of the song, Chris noticed the bird had
broken her neck and decided to put the bird out of its misery with a brick. The song is the longest
track on the album at 7 minutes and 3 seconds in length.
Like Suicide
Lyric Breakdowns:
"Heard it from another room": Chris hearing the bird
fly into the window
"Dazed out in a garden
bed, with a broken neck, lays my broken gift": The bird laying, dying in his garden with a broken neck
"When my last
ditch, was my last brick, lent to finish her": Chris Cornell put the bird out of its pain by killing it with a brick
"She lived like a murder how she'
d fly so sweetly": A flock of Crows is called a Murder, and birds are known for flying
"Bit down on the bullet now, had a taste so sour, had to think of something
sweet": Chris Cornell making up his mind to end the birds suffering, but cannot do it without thinking of something else first
"With an ounce of pain, I wield a ton of rage": The bird likely weighed an ounce and was in severe pain, and Chris being angry about the way the bird died
"With eyes of blood, and bitter
blue": The injuries to the bird likely could have caused it to bleed from the eyes
"How I feel for you, I feel for you": Chris feels
bad for the bird
