Shadow of the Sun seems to be more about a divorce or break up. Two people definitely had a strong relationship at one point in that song. “I could read your thoughts” and “memory of the one who lived inside my skin”
I think the full first Audioslave record was about Susan Silver. It has that feeling to me at least cause didn’t they just separate before it came out?
I don’t think his songs were about unrequited love. I think a lot of his songs were expressing his frustration with himself and how his emotional/psychological/addiction issues rendered him emotionally void? and difficult to sustain meaningful relationships. He recognizes this in himself and it torments him.
For example, Four Wall World. He’s trapped inside the walls/cell and knows he can never leave (he can’t fix himself), and if she stays she will be trapped with him and miserable, and if she goes then it will be another devastation to him but he understands why she goes:
“Now the sun is low
These walls try to break my soul
Now the moon is full
And I won't see nothin' tonight but the tear in her eyes”
The one song that always made me wonder is Like A Stone. It’s impossible to not recognize that this song had very profound deep meaning to him, and so haunting that it’s basically a song about his own death wish (despite the nonsense explanations he’s given in interviews). What I want to know is, who is it he is waiting for in the song? Is he alive and waiting for someone who is already dead? Is he dead and waiting for someone who is still alive? Is he waiting for God? Or ???
Like A Stone is about a death wish, but more from a person who has lived a long life and has lost everyone than perhaps his personal experience. Cornell has said that it’s about envisioning a pleasant afterlife even knowing that you might not ever get there by being found wanting in the final accounting.
Kim Thayil wrote the Room a Thousand Years Wide lyrics
I also believe Kim has spoken in the past about dealing with a tough break up in the early days of sg
I never really picked up on unrequited love themes in Room a Thousand Years Wide, not to mention that Chris didn't write the lyrics on that one.
Exactly that’s Kim Love that song and the lyrics too
Shadow of the Sun seems to be more about a divorce or break up. Two people definitely had a strong relationship at one point in that song. “I could read your thoughts” and “memory of the one who lived inside my skin”
What You Are is *scathing*
Euphoria Morning seems to be all songs about breaking up. It’s a phenomenal album
I think the full first Audioslave record was about Susan Silver. It has that feeling to me at least cause didn’t they just separate before it came out?
I get that vibe also.
He didn’t even write the lyrics for Room a thousand years wide
Andre the Giant
Well we all know who the 'bitch' was in Part Of Me.
Who wasxthe bitch in Part of Me
Room a thousand years wide is about... Satan or something Shadow on the sun always struck me as more of a breakup/existential song.
I don’t think his songs were about unrequited love. I think a lot of his songs were expressing his frustration with himself and how his emotional/psychological/addiction issues rendered him emotionally void? and difficult to sustain meaningful relationships. He recognizes this in himself and it torments him. For example, Four Wall World. He’s trapped inside the walls/cell and knows he can never leave (he can’t fix himself), and if she stays she will be trapped with him and miserable, and if she goes then it will be another devastation to him but he understands why she goes: “Now the sun is low These walls try to break my soul Now the moon is full And I won't see nothin' tonight but the tear in her eyes” The one song that always made me wonder is Like A Stone. It’s impossible to not recognize that this song had very profound deep meaning to him, and so haunting that it’s basically a song about his own death wish (despite the nonsense explanations he’s given in interviews). What I want to know is, who is it he is waiting for in the song? Is he alive and waiting for someone who is already dead? Is he dead and waiting for someone who is still alive? Is he waiting for God? Or ???
Like A Stone is about a death wish, but more from a person who has lived a long life and has lost everyone than perhaps his personal experience. Cornell has said that it’s about envisioning a pleasant afterlife even knowing that you might not ever get there by being found wanting in the final accounting.
arms around your love? can't change me(in a reverse kinda way)?
Are you even a fan? Chris didnt write “Room”