Chords for Chris Cornell Pt 1 - Drug Use, Reuniting Soundgarden

_ _ _ [Db] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[Ab] _ _ _ I wrote _ things drunk before.
I just made sure nobody ever heard them or saw the lyrics.
You know, his daughter is sort of singing back to him.
That one gets me every time.
You'll hear about famous people, whether it's actors, you know, if it's Mel Gibson or Britney
Spears, because they're [D] famous.
You know, you're not going to hear about a carpenter
who ODs at home because he shoots up too much smack.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] And [C] it was awesome. _
[D] Check [Bb] it out.
Chris Cronin out.
_ _ [Ab] _ [G] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I think alcoholism is a form of expressionism, which is it kind of relieves you of your fear.
You become less inhibited.
But then for me, for some reason, whatever that door is that
needs to open to [Ab] where it becomes almost like I'm the conduit to something else.
It's not
just a construct that just doesn't open up.
I think alcohol just sort of dumbs that, whatever
that is, down or shuts that down.
And other drugs, too.
And nothing ever made me _ more
inspired or more able or capable as a songwriter.
It's not that I didn't try.
I wrote things
drunk before.
I just made sure nobody ever heard them or saw the lyrics.
I would destroy
it.
You'll hear about famous people, whether it's [Cm] actors, you know, if it's Mel Gibson
or Britney Spears or Layne Staley, because they're famous.
[N] You know, you're not going
to hear about a carpenter who ODs at home because he shoots up too much smack because
nobody knows who that guy is.
If the if the rock singer shows up drunk, he's not going
to lose his job.
And in fact, not only are you not going to lose your job, people kind
of expect it and people kind of like it because to a degree, the rock star is sort of you're
living vicariously to that person, that danger of that person's lifestyle and sort of the
more tumultuous, the better in a way.
It's almost supported.
And I think that that's
where guys like, you know, like Lane kind of got into trouble because, you know, if
if you're about to lose your job and you don't have any other prospects and you don't have
any money and you're sleeping on somebody's couch, that's those are all like really hugely
motivating factors to like cleaning up your act.
But if you don't have any of those concerns,
you know, what is your motivating factor?
Because it's a tough thing to get over.
I'm
not going to ask you whether or not Soundgarden is going to get back together because everybody
asks that.
My question is this.
If you ever did [B] decide to get back together for you, would
that be a [Eb] personal decision or more of a business [Ab] decision?
Well, definitely like a personal
decision, but it wouldn't it, you know, it would [Cm] be [Bb] I don't know how to put it, but it
would [Ab] sort of have to be a unanimous decision, too.
So it'd be like, you know, what my my
[C] participation would be definitely personal [Bb] as far as the business side of it.
I don't
[C] think Soundgarden [Ab] ever did anything for a business decision, really.
I mean, our decisions _
[Bb] that included business because it was necessary to continue on [E] as a band to make records and
produce them.
And we always [Eb] considered that to [Fm] be sort of, which I still do, the only
negative aspect of what it is that [Eb] we do.
But you [Ab]
can't you can't be naive and not realize
that it's a business.
But, you know, we never made any creative decisions based on business
ever.
It was actually kind of tough to sing the first couple of times when I was recording
it because of the you know, you can't you [Bb] sort of feel the weight of the subject matter. _ _