well too bad it's not a love song...
not every single song is about love or drugs..
Tim Commerford of Audioslave talks about Chris Cornell's lyrical style and explains Like a Stone on the Audioslave DVD:
"He's [Cornell] a poet, and he fooled me with a lot of his songs and that like a song like "Like A Stone", I thought it was a love song. The chorus is "I'll wait for you there like a stone, I'll wait for you there alone." And I was like "Yo, bro what are you waiting for?" And he's like "Waiting to die." And I just went "Oh, okay." laughs That changes everything. I went back and looked at the song and I..I got kind of saddened by what he's singing about is like a guy waiting alone in a house of death, and all his friends are dying and he's just waiting there, and I'm picturing this man in a rocking chair like waiting to die. It changed everything for me. That made me go back and look at all the songs, and maybe go back and look at Temple of a Dog songs, and Soundgarden songs, and everything, and I started going "Okay, I get Cornell now, and he's a genius." He..He fooled me for..for 15 years, you know? Where maybe I thought some of the things he was singing about were slightly trivial, but they're never trivial, he's deep...he's really deep."
Maybe that was a little much but I'm sick of hearing about this song as a love song...listen to the lyrics!!
@blind_rockstar My God. I did not know that. I knew Chris Cornell was a genius writer and great singer, but the meaning of the song really did change the game. Now I got to go back to reading more of his lyrics to get the real meanings behind it. Thanks for that story.
@blind_rockstar My God. I did not know that. I knew Chris Cornell was a genius writer and great singer, but the meaning of the song really did change the game. Now I got to go back to reading more of his lyrics to get the real meanings behind it. Thanks for that story.
@blind_rockstar I think he is in a hotel room, alone reading a bible, and wondering where he is going to go when he dies. " In your house I long to be (Gods house) Next he\'s thinking about all he has done in life.... ( for all that I\'ve blessed, for all that I\'ve wronged) He will dream of these things until "my death" He wonders the earth, waiting for the day when he dies alone. I wait for you there. Well that\'s what I get out of it.
@blind_rockstar I think he is in a hotel room, alone reading a bible, and wondering where he is going to go when he dies. " In your house I long to be (Gods house) Next he\'s thinking about all he has done in life.... ( for all that I\'ve blessed, for all that I\'ve wronged) He will dream of these things until "my death" He wonders the earth, waiting for the day when he dies alone. I wait for you there. Well that\'s what I get out of it.
well too bad it's not a love song... not every single song is about love or drugs.. Tim Commerford of Audioslave talks about Chris Cornell's lyrical style and explains Like a Stone on the Audioslave DVD: "He's [Cornell] a poet, and he fooled me with a lot of his songs and that like a song like "Like A Stone", I thought it was a love song. The chorus is "I'll wait for you there like a stone, I'll wait for you there alone." And I was like "Yo, bro what are you waiting for?" And he's like "Waiting to die." And I just went "Oh, okay." laughs That changes everything. I went back and looked at the song and I..I got kind of saddened by what he's singing about is like a guy waiting alone in a house of death, and all his friends are dying and he's just waiting there, and I'm picturing this man in a rocking chair like waiting to die. It changed everything for me. That made me go back and look at all the songs, and maybe go back and look at Temple of a Dog songs, and Soundgarden songs, and everything, and I started going "Okay, I get Cornell now, and he's a genius." He..He fooled me for..for 15 years, you know? Where maybe I thought some of the things he was singing about were slightly trivial, but they're never trivial, he's deep...he's really deep."
Maybe that was a little much but I'm sick of hearing about this song as a love song...listen to the lyrics!!
@blind_rockstar this song had me fooled for so long! I, like many others, thought it was about love. Only when I ready this did all the dots connect.
@blind_rockstar this song had me fooled for so long! I, like many others, thought it was about love. Only when I ready this did all the dots connect.
@blind_rockstar My God. I did not know that. I knew Chris Cornell was a genius writer and great singer, but the meaning of the song really did change the game. Now I got to go back to reading more of his lyrics to get the real meanings behind it. Thanks for that story.
@blind_rockstar My God. I did not know that. I knew Chris Cornell was a genius writer and great singer, but the meaning of the song really did change the game. Now I got to go back to reading more of his lyrics to get the real meanings behind it. Thanks for that story.
@blind_rockstar I think he is in a hotel room, alone reading a bible, and wondering where he is going to go when he dies. " In your house I long to be (Gods house) Next he\'s thinking about all he has done in life.... ( for all that I\'ve blessed, for all that I\'ve wronged) He will dream of these things until "my death" He wonders the earth, waiting for the day when he dies alone. I wait for you there. Well that\'s what I get out of it.
@blind_rockstar I think he is in a hotel room, alone reading a bible, and wondering where he is going to go when he dies. " In your house I long to be (Gods house) Next he\'s thinking about all he has done in life.... ( for all that I\'ve blessed, for all that I\'ve wronged) He will dream of these things until "my death" He wonders the earth, waiting for the day when he dies alone. I wait for you there. Well that\'s what I get out of it.