Soundgarden's Smelly Synchronicty

I regressed to grungerdom today. I listened to Soundgarden's Superunknown LP on the way to work and turned the volume up louder than my iPod has ever been. It's such a great album and Chris Cornell's voice is so sexy. The standout track for me on this album was always "The Day I Tried To Live" but my copy of the CD had a big scratch through that track so I haven't heard it for years and years. On Saturday I was lucky to pilfer it (and lots of other cool music) from Lloyd's iTunes library.

Its amazing how a song (or a smell) can take you back in time. The first track, "Let Me Drown" transported me back to when I was 14 listening to this album, rocking out (as Homer would say) at home, I reminisced about how simple life was back then. It didn't take me long to realise I was romanticising about my past and how much being a teenager sucked. Recently I listened to "Smash" by The Offspring and by the time I got to work I felt like something was missing, I later realised what was missing was a few "hits from the bong".

Just when I was really enjoying listening to "The Day I Tried To Live" I caught a smell in the air that took me back to my days at Alfred Johns. It instantly reminded me of getting caught singing that same song by Amy. Talk about synchronicity.


"The Day I Tried To Live"

I woke the same as any other day
Except a voice was in my head
It said seize the day, pull the trigger
Drop the blade, and watch the rolling heads

The day I tried to live
I stole a thousand beggars change
And gave it to the rich

The day I tried to win
I dangled from the power lines
And let the martyrs stretch
Singing

One more time around might do it
One more time around might make it
One more time around might do it
One more time around
The day I tried to live

Words you say never seem
To live up to the ones inside your head
The lives we make never seem
To ever get us anywhere but dead

The day I tried to live
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

I woke the same as any other day you know
I should have stayed in bed

The day I tried to win
I wallowed in the blood and mud with
All the other pigs

And I learned that I was a liar
Just like you