Getaway Car

i will never forget walking through the rain and listening to this song on my mp3 player . . . sounds like a really corny scene from a shitty movie but it really was a moment from my life. a great song for rainy days.

I think it's more about telling somebody that they need to spend some time by themself, all alone, before they get in to a relationship.

It's about hoping someone will learn to love themself for who they are, and to do that they need to spend some time alone. Just like when you're driving in the car all by yourself, your the only person you have to talk to, even though you're surrounded by other people.

And he wants to help this person become more self respecting.

I think I remember reading that Chris wrote the lyrics about his then wife, Susan Silver, while going through a divorce. Silver was an early manager of Soundgarden, as well as other Seattle bands such as Alice In Chains. She is also the person whom Krist Novocelic, Nirvanas bassist, attributes to their “proper introduction to the music industry.” After frustrations stemming from Nirvanas lesser known debut album Bleach received limited promotion from Sub-Pop, she referred them to A&R reps from larger labels and suggested hiring a lawyer in order leave the Sub-Pop.

This song slaps. Beautiful. Man I miss Chris. And Kurt. And Layne. I was the only middle schooler I knew in early 2000s rocking audioslave tees and fighting the power ✊

This is probably my favorite song, It has kinda a blues feel to it. And I think its: The sidewalk barely touched your feet Live moves to slowly to hold you down Instead of: the sideway belly touched your feet black moons to slowly to hold you down

love this song, makes me depressed for some reason

A lot of Audioslave songs have this theme.. If anything it reminds me of the same situation in "i am the highway"... He is with someone who doesnt treat him like an equal.. Or someone is playing with his head, trying to get sympathy, using him dry.. And he is stating that he will leave, if she doesnt change her attitude..

my favorite on the cd. i love the chorus of this song. i never noticed it, but it does have a bluesy feeling...

It's all about having that secret garden, that special place or possesion that you have only for yourself - 'get yourself a car, ride it all alone' - and this way, you can 'settle down' and think over what is important to you by listening to yourself... blocking out others in your 'car'.

He also says something like, i'm not afraid to hit the highway and i think this is because he knows already who he is and what is important to him and doesn't need to have people around him cuz everything he is is in his car.

'I'll help you find something to drive BEFORE YOU DRIVE ME INSANE' is basically helping another dude to find his passion and who he is becuase... people who don't know themselves are quite... well, i can't find the word but it's definetely not pleasant.

One more point: That guy from AudioSlave is incredibly hot and I heard that the lead guitarist is a harvard graduate! That's so intense... sigh

Yeah...that incredibly hot guy from Audioslave is Chris Cornell he sang in a little band called SOUNDGARDEN. That lead guitarist or only guitarist is Harvard educated and also played in a little band called RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.

I just discovered this song. I never really went passed Track 8, I was too in love with the first half of the CD, lol.