| Soundgarden – Like Suicide Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Everyone always thinks Chris' songs are about love. Well they are, but not THAT kind of love... This one's about a crow. A crow that flies smack into Chris' window in the morning, breaking its neck in the process, and forcing him to finish it off with a brick in order to spare it additional pain. A flock of crows is called a MURDER (yeah, a murder of crows; cool, no?). Hence, he sings, "She lived like a murder how she'd fly so sweetly... but she died just like suicide." Let me explicate further: "Heard it from another room, eyes were waking up, just to fall asleep." It's early and he's sleeping; he hears the crow smack into his window, from the other room. "Dazed out in a garden bed with a broken neck lays my broken gift." He finds the wounded crow outside, like an odd little gift, lying dazed in the garden bed below the window. "Bit down on the bullet now, had a taste so sour, had to think of something sweet... with an ounce of pain, I wield a ton of rage... and my last ditch was my last brick, leant to finish her." He bites the bullet and decides, out of humanity, to finish the crow off and end its suffering; he picks up a brick from the garden and does it. "With eyes of blood and bitter blue, how I feel for you." He feels really, really, really bad. And decides to write a song about it. |
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| Audioslave – Like a Stone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Chris is singing this song to GOD, not a girl, and not a dead friend/lover. "In your house I long to be" means that he longs to be in the house of the lord... to go to heaven. At the beginning of the song, he's reading the bible ("a book full of death") and realizing his fate as a sinner... "Reading how I'll die alone." For the rest of the song, Chris plays with the question of whether or not he has actually atoned for his sins and is worthy of redemption, or whether he's still just as sinful as ever, but wants to get into heaven anyway. At one point he says, "I stand in regret of all the things I've done," sounding quite sincere. But at another point, he says "On my deathbead, I will pray to the gods and the angels, like a pagan, to anyone who will take me to heaven." So ultimately, he seems almost as sinful and heathen as ever, but still needs god to forgive him and take him into heaven. Hence, "I'll wait for you there, like a stone." He's weighed down by sin and waiting for god's forgiveness. |
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