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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.
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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
