Chords for Soundgarden - Sometimes they come back

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Chris, _ _ [Eb] what does the single mean, Been Away Too Long?
_ _ It means that [A] _ a group, in this case personified by [Am] Soundgarden, _ has been away,
[Em] and the length [G] of that away time has [F] suddenly become [A] maybe [D] overextended.
_ _ So, Been [Ab] Away Too Long, like, [E] thank God we're back [A] now,
it seems like it [G] might have been [Em] a little bit too long for us to be gone.
[A] Now what do we do, though?
Do we tour [B] again or put out the [C] record?
I think we just do all the things that [G] a band does,
[Bm] all the things that a rock band [E] does, in [C] writing songs, recording, playing shows,
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being in taxi cabs from the [Gb] train station.
The reasons why we broke [Em] up?
I think we broke up because [C] we were sort of bored of the [G] periphery.
All of the things that [A] are outside of the band playing [Em] music,
writing songs, playing shows, [C] that part got really boring.
_ [G] _ _ The part that was [Em] outside of writing songs and playing shows.
So it wasn't the Soundgarden thing, [A] it was the outside [Em] of Soundgarden.
It kind of, [G] _ [F] the circle around it got strangle-held around Soundgarden.
It was like, ugh, [B] the island is dwindling, let's get out of here while we can.
[Bb] Yeah, the making records part and the playing shows part was fun.
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ Like the [E] sun we [D] will live to [E] rise
[A] Like [Em] the sun _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] we'll ignite [B] again
[D] Like the [Em] sun we [A] will live [C] to rise
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_ Our writing process didn't change at [B] all, really.
[E] The only thing that was different this time that had never occurred [C] before
was that we [G] had _ a person [A] there, _ in [Em] this case, _ Josh Evans,
who [C] recorded all of our rehearsals.
And [G] that was just kind of a tool, in a sense.
_ [Em]
So if something happened, you could refer back to [Am] it
and [Em] _ _ [A] use it, in a sense, [F] as a way to organize those [E] ideas.
[D] To me, personally, I hope that they feel as young as I do.
[E] _ [A] Like a 34-year-old [Em] still [Gb] feeling 16, [Em] that's how I feel.
I still feel 16 and [E] 34 [Bm] and 44.
_ [C] _ That's how I think of it.
It's [G] like, you can be [B] any age that [Em] you are and younger [A] at any time.
[C] You can be two right now if you want.
We [Eb] just think you're being infantile and weird.
[Em] _ You can't be older than 34, _ because you haven't been there yet,
but you can be every age you've ever been at any time.
[E] So doing music and being creative, in [A] any way, no matter what you do [C] creatively,
you are ageless.
You're ancient and [A] you're young at the same time.
And if you're a fan of music, any particular kind [D] of music, too,
it doesn't really matter how [Dm] old you get.
You can still _ be [C] a fan the same way you were at any [A] particular age.
[D] _ That's part of the [Gb] magic of it.
Exactly.
_ [E] And also [D]
music being important to someone.
_ The key thing that I think [E] sometimes changes,
and I see it inside _ [Em] rock bands as well and _ with musicians [C]
and recording artists,
that sometimes [Em] as they age, music maybe becomes less of a part of their life
and they're maybe not as [A] passionate about it.
[E] Sometimes music [D] fans are that way as well.
_ [E] _ _ Have you ever noticed that?
When you get music back in your life, you feel better about things?
It feels better, like it's relaxing.
[B] When you get away from music and then you go back to it, [A] you're like, wow.
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_ [G] _ I always expected [Bm] that after we [E] broke up, or even maybe before we broke up,
that there should be or would [Bm] be _ [E] some really vital [A] scene
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[Em] _ numerous _ [C] interesting rock bands that are kind of taking [G] _ the [E] history of rock music
and making it their own and updating it and making it sort of a new [C] vital thing,
like a child with a new toy.
[Eb] I always felt like _ _ [E] if [C] I looked back at all these different individuals throughout [D] history
that made rock music _ _ _ special, [D] it was really who they were as a person.
Jimi Hendrix kind of always came to mind [E] because he would do a lot of cover songs
because he played music all the time.
And if you heard him do Wild Thing, for example, by the Trogs,
it didn't sound like the Trogs and it was his own complete invention.
But a lot of it, I think, just came naturally [Em] from him, the way that he was and who he was.
And [B] _
I still, [D] I suppose, [E] expect _ _ [A]
that new kid to have been [Em] born
and be kind of picking up an instrument [E] without copying [A] anyone. _ _
_ [E] His [Gb] record collection [E] translates through him into something new that's never happened before.
And I'm kind of surprised [G] that _ [C] in _ the [G] world of rock,
[B] that hasn't really happened that much [E] lately.
So I see it on a musical level, [Em] _ like Chris was talking about,
the rock or [E] record collection filtering through someone or their [Gbm] musical influences
[C] and picking up the mantle or the baton and going.
[G] But I also see it in [B] the market sense.
I _ think Radiohead and Queens of the Stone Age stepped in where there was nothing else around.
Foo Fighters, too.
_ _ And now, I don't know what's [F] going on with the music world.
It's all like everybody's kind [N] of at the same, _ _ like spread out.
I think the Internet has a hell of a lot to do with that
and how people _ [E] just isolatedly are connected to each other.
_ I just want to _ [A] know [C] you again _ _ _
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