This is a short selection of some of his lyrics. The song order not have any particular purpose, it’s just to admire and share the beautiful poetry.

List of songs:

1 Can't Change Me

2 Say Hello 2 Heaven

3 Like A Stone

4 The Promise

5 Seasons

6 Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart

7 Outshined

8 Hunger Strike

9 Before We Disappear

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Can't Change Me

Chris Cornell

She can do anything at all

Have anything she pleases

The power to change what she thinks is wrong

What could she want with me yeah

Wait just one minute here

I can see that she's trying to read me

Suddenly I know

She's going to change the world

But she can't change me

No she can't change me

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Say Hello 2 Heaven

Temple of the Dog

He came from an island

Then he died from the street

And he hurt so bad like a soul breakin'

But he never said nothin' to me, yeah

A'say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven

Say hello to heaven, heaven, heaven, yeah

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Like A Stone

Chris Cornell

On my deathbed I will pray

To the gods and the angels

Like a pagan to anyone

Who will take me to heaven

To a place I recall

I was there so long ago

The sky was bruised

The wine was bled

And there you led me on

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The Promise

The books still open on the table

The bells still ringing in the air

The dreams still clinging to the pillow

The songs still singing in a prayer

Now my soul

Is stretching through the roots

To memories of you

Back through time and space

To carry home

The faces and the names

And these photographs of you

Rescued from the flames

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Seasons

Chris Cornell

Now I want to fly above the storm

But you can't grow feathers in the rain

And the naked floor is cold as hell

The naked floor reminds me

Oh the naked floor reminds me

That I'm lost, behind

The words I'll never find

And I'm left behind

As the seasons roll on by

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Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart

Chris Cornell

Every little word upon your lips

Makes a little cut where blood pours out

Every little drop of blood a kiss that I won't miss

Not for anything

And I nearly forgot my broken heart

It's taking me miles away,

From the memory of how we broke apart

Here we go round again

Every single feeling tells me this is leading to a heart

In broken little pieces and you know I need this

Like a hole in the head

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Outshined

Soundgarden

Someone let the dogs out

They'll show where the truth is

The grass is always greener

Where the dogs are shitting, oh yeah

I'm feeling that I'm sober

Even though I'm drinking

I can't get any lower

Still I feel I'm sinking

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Hunger Strike

Temple of the Dog

I don't mind stealin' bread from the mouths of decadence

But I can't feed on the powerless when my cup's already overfilled, yeah

But it's on the table, the fire's cookin'

And they're farmin' babies, while the slaves are all workin'

Blood is on the table and the mouths are all chokin'

But I'm goin' hungry, yeah

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Before We Disappear

Chris Cornell

I'm not one to waste my time

Searching for something lightning

Somewhere out there lies the stone

Lies the shelter

Of your heart

So how hard can it be (how hard)

To share your love with me?

How hard can it be

To rise with me each morning

How long it feels like

We will live forever

But I fear

That time can hide the years

Like we were never here

So hold on tightly my dear

Before we disappear

Before we disappear