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...

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!!

I think this song is about sociopaths or the like and the effect they have on you if you let them. I think people who are less sensitive to guilt or remorse have a far better understanding of how to manipulate the human mind. And people usually think it's a complicated game they play, but really all they do is hide in plain site. And in hindsight it's always so obvious the way you were manipulated, often to the point of feeling deep shame and loss of confidence (and hair lmao). But often people's insecurities keep them blind, and sociopaths...

I think this song is about sociopaths or the like and the effect they have on you if you let them. I think people who are less sensitive to guilt or remorse have a far better understanding of how to manipulate the human mind. And people usually think it's a complicated game they play, but really all they do is hide in plain site. And in hindsight it's always so obvious the way you were manipulated, often to the point of feeling deep shame and loss of confidence (and hair lmao). But often people's insecurities keep them blind, and sociopaths know how to exploit those things on a primal level. IMHO, I think sociopaths have an important place in the world to teach people these kinds of lessons. Also sociopathy is always caused by trauma or something cliche and tragic so try not to be too hard on them, fair consequences aside. But the word fair is a made up word and sociopaths know this. Also I think everyone's wrong on the paying attention lyrics, I think it's "Because yeah I might be paying attention". I think the only way you ever really get a leg up on some sociopath who's doggin on you in a situation where you're forced to be around them is playing dumb and paying attention to everything they do. But if you don't have to be around these sociopaths, and you never really do, better not to get involved. Radiohead poggers, first concert I ever saw

Commenting on this song in 2025 feels a little cringy, but Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s cover just popped out in my YouTube feed and I was struck by the feelings and images that the first lines of the chorus recall, and which I never thought of when listening to this song as a kid. The lines are of course “I used to think that the day will never come, I’d see the light in the shade of the morning sun”. Unlike most of the interpretations I read, I believe this is not a metaphor. While - like Bernard - I was never...

Commenting on this song in 2025 feels a little cringy, but Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s cover just popped out in my YouTube feed and I was struck by the feelings and images that the first lines of the chorus recall, and which I never thought of when listening to this song as a kid. The lines are of course “I used to think that the day will never come, I’d see the light in the shade of the morning sun”. Unlike most of the interpretations I read, I believe this is not a metaphor. While - like Bernard - I was never a smackhead, I did live my early twenties as a night creature in the early 90s. The night was a kind of parallel world where real life commitments could be ignored. The biggest fear then was being caught by the first light of the day, which would break the spell and reveal how my life was actually being wasted in pursuing meaningless excitement. We used to live as if the night would never end (“used to think that the day would never come”) and like vampires never allowed the sun to fully rise before retiring in our coffins, at the most I would only see the twilight of down (“the shade of the morning sun”). Glimpsing the world awakening with the morning light was a mixed feeling of anguish and hope, the fear of real life knocking at my door, and the awareness that it was actually the way out of a self-destruction spiral, where the actual morning sun had been replaced by artificial ones (“my morning sun is the drug…”). That hope and awareness is the “true faith” which helped me survive till the end of the tunnel.

This song is about a boy named Jeremy Wade Delle, 16, who shot himself in front of his 30 classmates in his 2nd period English class. To know a bit about the background and history of Jeremy. He attended Richardson Highschool in Texas and his English teacher was Faye Barnett. Jeremy had only been at Richardson for a little more than 3 months before his death, he had some problems at his previous school and was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Apparently the insurance money ran out at the hospital and he was deemed as "cured" and released. Subsequently he...

This song is about a boy named Jeremy Wade Delle, 16, who shot himself in front of his 30 classmates in his 2nd period English class. To know a bit about the background and history of Jeremy. He attended Richardson Highschool in Texas and his English teacher was Faye Barnett. Jeremy had only been at Richardson for a little more than 3 months before his death, he had some problems at his previous school and was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Apparently the insurance money ran out at the hospital and he was deemed as "cured" and released. Subsequently he went to live with his dad and was trasferred to Richardson HS. Shortly after arriving at Richardson Jeremy's locker was searched and some controversial but not illegal religeous items were found. Also, Jeremy had made some statements regarding two Richardson faculty members that may have gone over the line. As a result, they placed him in ISS (In School Suspension. You have to believe that being moved around like this and immediately being labeled a trouble maker would have a profound effect on a 16 year old. They pretty much put him in ISS because of the locker search and because of his stay at the psychiatric hospital, were I understand he was happier and got along with the other patients. In the ISS program he had been in contact with a girl, Lisa Moore, and they had become friends. Lisa stated that Jeremy wanted to discuss the boy she was dating and also mentioned he was having trouble with one of his techers. She was probably the closest person to Jeremy at the time. Anyway, he was assigned to the ISS program and from what I've read the ISS was pretty bad. It was pretty much solitary confinement, they didn't talk to you and you couldn't talk. Considering Jeremy was described as a quiet, lonely and distant boy, isolation was the last thing he should've been given. Lisa and Jeremy would secretly write notes back and forth at ISS and he would alway write "Write Back" on the bottom of each note. On Monday January 7th, he wrote "Later Days".

On the Tuesday morning of January 8th, 1991 Jeremy was supposed to be in ISS the day he attended Faye Barnett's class and Faye knew he was supposed to be there. She told Jeremy that he needed a pricipal's pass to even be in her room. By this time Jeremy's life was in turmoil and he was unhappy, his parents divorced at an early age and his Dad barely knew he was even there. His school life was no better. Plus I believe there may have been underlying psychiatric problems.

Jeremy got out of his seat and was gone for less than 10 minutes, Instead of going to the pricipals' office he went to his locker and retrieved a .357 magnum and hid it under his shirt. When he returned to Barnett's class he quietly entered the classromm and walked to the front. With no emotion he said, "Miss, I got what I really went for". He placed the barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger before anyone could react.

It's a really sad and tragic story, and I think it just really hit Eddie Vedder prompting him to write the song.