Album: Down On The Upside (1996)

Charted: 40

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• Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try
  Nothing is closing my eyes
  Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight
  And nothing seems to break me
  No matter how hard I fall
  Nothing can break me at all
  Not one for giving up though not invincible I know
  
  I've givin' everything I need
  I'd give you everything I own
  I'd give in if it could at least be ours alone
  I've given everything I could
  To blow it to hell and gone
  Burrow down in and blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside world
  
  Someone tried to tell me something
  Don't let the world bring you down?
  Nothing will do me in before I do myself
  So save it for your own and the ones you can help
  
  I've givin' everything I need
  I'd give you everything I own
  I'd give in if it could at least be ours alone
  I've given everything I could
  To blow it to hell and gone
  Burrow down in and blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside world
  
  Want to make it understood
  Wanting though I never would
  Trying though I know it's wrong
  Blowing it to hell and gone
  Wishing though I never could
  
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside world
  
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside world
  Blow up the outside
  
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside
  Blow up the outside Writer/s: CHRIS CORNELL
  Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Yourlocalmichigander from Grand Rapids MiThis song is absolutely beautiful. I feel it is really foreshadowing to his death, especially ‘Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard i try’ Genuinly heart wrenching if you think about it deeply.
• Kevin from Cleveland OhioI was lucky enough to see Sound Garden at the Columbus Ohio Lollapalooza concert just before they broke up. Blow Up The Outside World was played, and it was fantastic. Chris died way to early in a time ware good music is getting very scares, and will be sourly missed.
• Daniel from Indianapolis, InMy favorite soundgarden song.
• Dewayne from EnglandIts about the feeling of wanting to forget about the world outside and create your own world in your head where you feel safe. Like me, Cornell had social anxiety, depression and insecurity. One way people deal with these things is to retreat into whatever makes them feel safe and relaxed, the intense chorus is reflective of putting all your effort to blocking out everything else outside your comfort zone, almost begging to run away.
• Audra from Columbus, FlI thought this song was about not caring about what the world thought about you, and just ignoring all the ignorance, and bad things in this world.
• Joe from Hobart, AustraliaAs a teenager, Chris Cornell suffered from hardcore depression and isolated himself from everyone and everything after a bad drug trip. It was then when he discovered music and started playing drums and guitar. This song could be referring to a reoccuring depression and uncomftorble view on society and people, where you feel the only solution is destruction, be it self-destruction(nothing can do me in before i kill myself) or otherwise.
• Marco from Stanfield, United Stateswell i dont know it might have alot to do with them breaking up, since that was happening as they made the video. but another thing to think about is that he might be talking about the media. in the video they have cornell straped to a chair making him watch his own video (portraying how they over play songs and videos) andmoments of his own life good and bad (people exploiting the lives of celeberaties and making documentaries about them on tv) but in the end everything is blown up and chris is smiling meaning that he liked it even when he was forced to watch. saying that there is little music out there that is good and meaningful and his own is not one of them...
• Kurt from Downers Grove, IlActually they broke up several months after this video was made; they still had a tour after the video. Ben Shepherd was a big part why they broke up; he was somewhat volatile during their live shows and I think he actually walked out on one right before they split.
• Travis from Blicksburg, Vawell the song is about isolating yourself from the world: so its kinda ironic that they broke up in the middle of this video

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