I can't get past this song... I've been absolutely obsessed with it for months. I've been listening to it for years but never really payed closed attention. I really love it when I unearth hidden meaning in a song I've been listening to forever.
I read the lyrics and realized they were saying "she lived like a murder" not "she lived like a martyr" which caused me to become perplexed. I searched and was absolutely flabbergasted on the meaning of the song that I had been enjoying for long was so far off the mark. I thought the song was just an abstract song, but it has an extremely specific meaning: The song writer is awoken from a nap by a loud noise. He goes to his back door to discover a crow has flown into a window / glass door and clearly broken it's neck. The song is about the intense emotion he feels as he decides to mercy kills it with a brick. A flock of crows is called a 'murder', hence "she lived like a murder, how she flew so sweetly", and the crow "died just like suicide" because it flew itself into a window.
This song really represents to me the bittersweet beauty of the human condition.
It speaks so deep to me because once when I was delivering pizza to an apartment complex in the early evening many years ago, I happened across a stray cat that was just skin and bones. The poor thing had patches of fur missing all over it's body... It was all I could do to restrain myself from killing it to relieve it's suffering. I couldn't believe it was even still clinging to life it was in such a bad condition. I didn't because I had very little time and I was afraid someone catch me and report me to the police or something. It was an extremely busy Friday night (and I was still basically a kid) so I didn't have time to call the humane society or anything.
I read the lyrics and realized they were saying "she lived like a murder" not "she lived like a martyr" which caused me to become perplexed. I searched and was absolutely flabbergasted on the meaning of the song that I had been enjoying for long was so far off the mark. I thought the song was just an abstract song, but it has an extremely specific meaning: The song writer is awoken from a nap by a loud noise. He goes to his back door to discover a crow has flown into a window / glass door and clearly broken it's neck. The song is about the intense emotion he feels as he decides to mercy kills it with a brick. A flock of crows is called a 'murder', hence "she lived like a murder, how she flew so sweetly", and the crow "died just like suicide" because it flew itself into a window.
This song really represents to me the bittersweet beauty of the human condition.
Soundgarden - Like Suicide Wrote:Heard it from another room
Eyes were making 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
She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died just like suicide
Bit down on the bullet now
I had a taste so sour
I had to think of something sweet
Love's like suicide
Safe outside my gilded cage
With an ounce of pain
I wield a ton of rage
Just like suicide
With eyes of blood
And bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you
She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died just like suicide
Yeah
And my last ditch
Was my last brick
Lent to finish her finish her
With eyes of blood and bitter blue
How I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel for you
I feel, oh
I feel for you
Ah ah yeah (I feel, I feel)
She lived like a murder
How she'd fly so sweetly
She lived like a murder
But she died just like suicide
It speaks so deep to me because once when I was delivering pizza to an apartment complex in the early evening many years ago, I happened across a stray cat that was just skin and bones. The poor thing had patches of fur missing all over it's body... It was all I could do to restrain myself from killing it to relieve it's suffering. I couldn't believe it was even still clinging to life it was in such a bad condition. I didn't because I had very little time and I was afraid someone catch me and report me to the police or something. It was an extremely busy Friday night (and I was still basically a kid) so I didn't have time to call the humane society or anything.