Getaway Car

i will never forget walking through the rain and listening to this song on my mp3 player . . . sounds like a really corny scene from a shitty movie but it really was a moment from my life. a great song for rainy days.

I think it's more about telling somebody that they need to spend some time by themself, all alone, before they get in to a relationship.

It's about hoping someone will learn to love themself for who they are, and to do that they need to spend some time alone. Just like when you're driving in the car all by yourself, your the only person you have to talk to, even though you're surrounded by other people.

And he wants to help this person become more self respecting.

I think I remember reading that Chris wrote the lyrics about his then wife, Susan Silver, while going through a divorce. Silver was an early manager of Soundgarden, as well as other Seattle bands such as Alice In Chains. She is also the person whom Krist Novocelic, Nirvanas bassist, attributes to their “proper introduction to the music industry.” After frustrations stemming from Nirvanas lesser known debut album Bleach received limited promotion from Sub-Pop, she referred them to A&R reps from larger labels and suggested hiring a lawyer in order leave the Sub-Pop.

This song slaps. Beautiful. Man I miss Chris. And Kurt. And Layne. I was the only middle schooler I knew in early 2000s rocking audioslave tees and fighting the power ✊

So this is way after the fact but I really love this song since the beginning. And it really has me digging deeper to find meaning as I'm learning to play it.

Obviously the idea of the getaway car is purposeful have a vehicle to escape the scene of the crime, the conversation to me almost seems like a dialogue that he's translating, like it's from The Muse and talking about this relationship of oh we were just exchanging some words and some pleasantries I never thought that you'd wind up chasing me though. And if you keep pursuing me this way you're going to destroy both of us with this endless Rants and unraveling and you're always coming to me with this sorrow, you need to detach yourself from that and realize who you are cuz you're driving me insane.

I am confused cuz he really could sing anything and make it sound incredible I'm not sure if it falls a little bit short but I haven't quite landed on the depth of truth in song.

There is this theme of the highway and sinking like a stone in the getaway car throughout the album and if you think to where Chris's success with Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine and their success that they both had and sort of falling apart for different reasons and meeting with the convergence of this music in mind of this musical Brotherhood and this vocal songwriting genius and just kind of magically spontaneously erupted from the music itself and creation. I heard where they had a lot of the music written already and they brought him into the studio to kind of audition or whatever and he would just sit there and listen to it for a few minutes as they played through it and get the vibe and basically on the spot improvise or just create and compose the song in real time almost to its complete extent.

Even if no one ever raises it's cool that people were thinking about this song and that it reaches Us in different ways and means different things. Obviously it was definitely a collaboration of these musical Geniuses in these rock and roll powerhouses. I think especially for that first album we saw what they really had and they sort of put all the cards out there, as much as the whole group was invested in it I really think they all had at least one foot in the grave already because they had stepped away from their true love and this was who they were now and they were there for each other this bandmates and collaborators with the same time there was this need for autonomy and that spark of individual creativity, but collectively in some way like this song was the getaway car for them it was the escape from this reality. That you can't own anything or hold anything for too long that's meant to be free or it'll destroy the both of you.

This is probably my favorite song, It has kinda a blues feel to it. And I think its: The sidewalk barely touched your feet Live moves to slowly to hold you down Instead of: the sideway belly touched your feet black moons to slowly to hold you down

love this song, makes me depressed for some reason

A lot of Audioslave songs have this theme.. If anything it reminds me of the same situation in "i am the highway"... He is with someone who doesnt treat him like an equal.. Or someone is playing with his head, trying to get sympathy, using him dry.. And he is stating that he will leave, if she doesnt change her attitude..

my favorite on the cd. i love the chorus of this song. i never noticed it, but it does have a bluesy feeling...

It's all about having that secret garden, that special place or possesion that you have only for yourself - 'get yourself a car, ride it all alone' - and this way, you can 'settle down' and think over what is important to you by listening to yourself... blocking out others in your 'car'.

He also says something like, i'm not afraid to hit the highway and i think this is because he knows already who he is and what is important to him and doesn't need to have people around him cuz everything he is is in his car.

'I'll help you find something to drive BEFORE YOU DRIVE ME INSANE' is basically helping another dude to find his passion and who he is becuase... people who don't know themselves are quite... well, i can't find the word but it's definetely not pleasant.

One more point: That guy from AudioSlave is incredibly hot and I heard that the lead guitarist is a harvard graduate! That's so intense... sigh

Yeah...that incredibly hot guy from Audioslave is Chris Cornell he sang in a little band called SOUNDGARDEN. That lead guitarist or only guitarist is Harvard educated and also played in a little band called RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE.