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Room a Thousand Years Wide

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I really liked the music to the song and it needed words, and since no one else pursued it, I decided to. It's not really about things that have actually happened to me. It's more about experience in general. I've heard a lot of good ideas from people telling me what it's about. They said it's about
40: 363:"Room a Thousand Years Wide" was released as a single in 1990 with a previously unreleased B-side titled "H.I.V. Baby". It was released as a 7" through 1216: 1221: 1226: 797: 17: 751: 1231: 1073: 573: 1236: 861: 244: 1246: 375:. The original version recorded for Sub Pop appears on the Deluxe Edition of the band's 2010 compilation album, 737: 966: 744: 315:"Room a Thousand Years Wide" is one of the few Soundgarden songs written without any input from frontman 1211: 354:
God, Satan, Jesus, Satan, both, it's religious, it isn't religious ... The truth is, it's just me.
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featuring Scott Granlund (saxophone) and Ernst Long (trumpet). The song is in 6/4 time.
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Index

Room A Thousand Years Wide

Single
Soundgarden
B-side
Badmotorfinger
Genre
Alternative metal
doom metal
Label
Sub Pop
A&M
Songwriter(s)
Matt Cameron
Kim Thayil
Producer(s)
Terry Date
Soundgarden
Hands All Over
Jesus Christ Pose
rock
Soundgarden
Kim Thayil
Matt Cameron
Sub Pop
Badmotorfinger
Chris Cornell
Kim Thayil
Matt Cameron
Ben Shepherd

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