Birth Ritual - Soundgarden

Lying like needles on forest earth

Euphoric rush trees bend to pray for us

I’m sputtering like cold machines

Late for the birth ritual

Ritual, ritual, ritual

You can drive my tail to watch the circus

A birth ritual, a birth of idiots

Now I woke up blessed and good strives for heartache

Marked for the death ritual

Ritual, ritual

As you start the song and face this garden

I light a cigarette before the execution

Now you see your crime for every miracle

Add another drug at every birth ritual

I took the drug to make me stay

And now everything dies in shyness

The snake retreats, admits defeat

And waits for the birth ritual

Ritual, ritual

Shining light

Child’s highs

Mark his sides

Bright until the newness wears off

Ritual, ritual, ritual