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| Audioslave – Like a Stone Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[evilisbeautiful:6682] It's not a love song and not about a girl, it's about someone waiting for death and hoping that there is an afterlife that is governed by a forgiving deity. A member of the band has stated this after he talked to his bandmate and the guy that wrote the song regarding its meaning. |
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| Audioslave – Like a Stone Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[tdlg0:6681] Awesome take, and your last comment is exactly what I love about rock music and what I hate about so much of the pop garbage that passes for music these days. Lyrics are supposed to make us think, feel, speculate, dream, etc. Much of today's pop needs no interpretation, no introspection or understanding, it just rhymes or pathetically copies phrases that have been used before or worse it repeats idiotic pop culture sayings that are both disgusting and ridiculous. However, your idea that a pagan can't read the bible is not realistic as anyone can read anything and choose to believe it or not. He was saying that his willingness to pray to anyone or beseech anyone for redemption is akin to the actions of a pagan. A pagan is often thought of as someone who prays to multiple deities and is willing to incorporate a number of different beliefs into their own ideals to give themselves a greater chance of a true and fulfilling afterlife. I applaud your analysis of this song and its meaning and I agree that many people commenting on here have made great points. I do think that your belief may have clouded your ability to understand the possible ideas here though, because you are very clearly a Christian who has trouble understanding that anyone could see the bible differently than you or interpret it in a negative way. |
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| Audioslave – Like a Stone Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[dookiedude8:6680] Great analysis, but it's entirely possible that the cobweb is a descriptive term that simply enhances the overall image of a barren room. A room with a man inside waiting to die and nothing else. It could also be interpreted as a kind of metaphor for the unremarkable day that he is describing, as in life the day we day may not be symbolic or meaningful at all save for the fact that it is the day of our demise. I completely agree with your take on his relationship with God or spirituality in general, and the cobweb afternoon also potentially adds to the idea of a guy whose life has been empty of such meaningful things to that point. He has been devoid of something to believe in, and therefore the afternoon of his death is empty, the room or place where he is waiting to die is empty, and he waits alone because he hasn't committed himself to anything with enough sincerity to warrant any company as he waits for death to find him. He waits, hoping for death to bring with it redemption and a passage to a place akin to heaven, but his desperation is readily apparent and the only thing he is certain of is that death is coming. This in itself is very deep but unfortunately both poignant and thoroughly depressing. It encourages the idea of belief in the spiritual without the need to be given proof while at the same time reminding us that without such belief the only thing all of us can be completely certain of in this life is that it will end. Cornell is not only the greatest singer in rock music because of his absolutely phenomenal vocal range, but he is also a wordsmith whose ability to create meaningful and haunting verse is spectacular. |
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