Superunknown – English Lyrics

• By: Soundgarden

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

( hard rock intro )

♪♪ IF THIS ISN'T WHAT YOU SEE ♪♪

♪♪ DOESN'T MAKE YOU BLIND ♪♪

♪♪ AND IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU FEEL ♪♪

♪♪ DOESN'T MEAN YOU'VE DIED♪

♪♪ WHERE THE RIVER'S HIGH ♪♪

♪♪ WHERE THE RIVER'S HIGH ♪♪

♪♪ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SEEN♪

♪♪ WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIDE♪

♪♪ AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE ♪♪

♪♪ THEN YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRY ♪♪

♪♪ TO FEEL ALIVE ♪♪

♪♪ YEAH ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND AND THEN IT STEALS YOUR... ♪

♪♪ IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU FREE ♪♪

♪♪ DOESN'T MEAN YOU'VE DIED♪

♪♪ IF THIS DOESN'T TAKE YOU DOWN ♪♪

♪♪ IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE HIGH ♪

♪♪ IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU SMILE ♪♪

♪♪ YEAH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CRY ♪

♪♪ IF THIS ISN'T MAKING SENSE ♪♪

♪♪ IT DOESN'T MAKE IT LIES ♪

♪♪ OH ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND AND THEN IT STEALS YOUR... ♪

♪♪ SOUL ♪♪

♪♪ OH ♪♪

♪♪ GET YOURSELF AFRAID ♪♪

♪♪ GET YOURSELF ALONE ♪♪

♪♪ GET YOURSELF CONTAINED ♪♪

♪♪ GET YOURSELF CONTROL ♪♪

♪♪ OH-OH ♪♪

♪♪ OH ♪♪

♪♪ WHOA ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

♪♪ FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND AND THEN IT STEALS YOUR... ♪

♪♪ FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND AND THEN IT STEALS YOUR... ♪

♪♪ FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND AND THEN IT STEALS YOUR... ♪

♪♪ SOUL. ♪♪

[Captioned by The Caption Center WGBH Educational Foundation]

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
alive /əˈlaɪv/ A1	adjective - living; not dead
steal /stiːl/ A2	verb - to take something without permission
mind /maɪnd/ A2	noun - the part of a person that thinks and feels
soul /soʊl/ B1	noun - the spiritual part of a person believed to live on after the body dies
superunknown /ˌsuːpərʌnˈnoʊn/ C1	adjective - completely unknown or beyond comprehension
blind /blaɪnd/ A1	adjective - unable to see
river /ˈrɪvər/ A1	noun - a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel
hide /haɪd/ A1	verb - to put something in a place where it cannot be seen
believe /bɪˈliːv/ A2	verb - to accept that something is true
try /traɪ/ A1	verb - to attempt to do something
free /friː/ A1	adjective - not imprisoned or enslaved
high /haɪ/ A1	adjective - great in vertical extent
smile /smaɪl/ A1	verb - to have one’s mouth curve upward, especially as an expression of amusement or pleasure
cry /kraɪ/ A1	verb - to shed tears, often as an expression of distress or sorrow
sense /sɛns/ A2	noun - a faculty by which outside stimuli are perceived
contained /kənˈteɪnd/ B1	verb - to have something within limits
control /kənˈtroʊl/ A2	noun - the power to influence or direct people’s behavior or the course of events

Key Grammar Structures

• ♪♪ IF THIS ISN'T WHAT YOU SEE ♪♪

  ➔ Conditional Sentence (Type 1)

  ➔ The structure 'If + present simple, ...' is used to talk about possible situations and their likely results.

• ♪♪ DOESN'T MAKE YOU BLIND ♪♪

  ➔ Negative Contraction

  ➔ 'Doesn't' is a contraction of 'does not', used to negate the verb 'make'.

• ♪♪ WHERE THE RIVER'S HIGH ♪♪

  ➔ Relative Pronoun ('where')

  ➔ 'Where' is used to introduce a clause that describes a place.

• ♪♪ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SEEN ♪♪

  ➔ Negative Verb in Conditional

  ➔ The negative form 'don't want' is used in a conditional sentence to express a hypothetical situation.

• ♪♪ ALIVE IN THE SUPERUNKNOWN ♪♪

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase

  ➔ 'In the Superunknown' is a prepositional phrase that indicates location or existence within a particular state.

• ♪♪ FIRST IT STEALS YOUR MIND AND THEN IT STEALS YOUR... ♪

  ➔ Sequential Conjunction ('first... then')

  ➔ 'First... then' is used to show the order of events.

• ♪♪ GET YOURSELF AFRAID ♪♪

  ➔ Reflexive Pronoun ('yourself')

  ➔ 'Yourself' is a reflexive pronoun used when the subject and object of the verb are the same.