written by Kim Thayil
Inspiration: Greg Gilmore
I can't live when it lives
It won't live if I die
Machine has no heart to give
Heart it takes could be mine
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Follows me down the river
Shadows me through the sky
A sideways glance in the mirror
Stalemate machine in a tie
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up Get off
Get on with your life
Forever means all is not seen
Never means forever brings everything
I fashion will and desire
Always I and I survive
Mercurial mind the fire
Ferrivorous direction and drive
Come on
Come down
Come out from where you hide
Get up
Get off
Get on with your life
Presently, I see myself clearer
Why time I visualize
I spy device in the mirror
Checkmate watch machine dieChorus:
Well just today i was forced to say
I'm goin' on a permanent holiday
I'll drop what i'm doin', it's okay
I'm goin' on a permanent holiday
Well I left a note sayin' i'll be gone for a long time
Yeah a long long time
It's gonna take a lot to bring me back now
Won't spend another day in this heart attack city
It's messed up here and everything's money
Those well heeled boys that think they're so funny
I left a note sayin' i'll be gone
Chorus
Well told them all i wasn't comin' back for a long time
Yeah, a long long time
Well everything's fad and as for the fame
Well everything's got it's fifteen minutes
No idea where it all went bad
But I guess you can't tell it till you get down in it
Told them all I wasn't coming back
Well maybe i'll go to France or maybe Spain
Cuz the work that they do here is the kind that numbs my brain
I need to get away and i'm never coming back
Cuz my mind just turned off and my body's out of whack
Hey!
Va-ca-tion!
Just today I was forced to say
I'm going' on a permanent holiday
I'll drop what i'm doin' it's okay
I'm going on a permanent holiday
Repeat
Well I left a note sayin' i'll be gone for a long time...