"Out of Exile" as written by and Chris/commerford Cornell....
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TOM MORELLO RULES!!!!!!!!!!!
BEST GUITAR PLAYER EVER!!!
Obviously you could take it as he has found his love and blah blah blah, but I'll try for something underneath it.
It's obvious that Cornell dating back to his Soundgarden days has never been the most upbeat guy. But you can tell from this album that he has more positive things to write about and it proves that life gets better with age.
I think this song talks about his life as a musician, how it may have saved him from a lot of bad things, how it has become one incredible journey, and how "the blessings on my table multiply and divide" now that he has made it in the industry for the SECOND time.
Perhaps her is the music, I could be off, but it's worth a shot.
And this is the best song on the album.
oh and
Heavons dead
I thought Chris Cornell was married though and has kids. Like after Soundgarden broke up, he went solo and "went into exile" so to say, as the first verse says "When I first came to this island, that I called by my own name." I see that as him going solo.
Maybe the song is about his marriage and then having kids and stuff, getting him out of exile, and not lonely. Or maybe the whole wedding reference is just a metaphor and maybe it's about him meeting up with the guys from Rage and making this fresh new band.
Seriously look around and listen.... we are in the midst of some of the best music to be coming out since the ninties....
Audioslave, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Staind, Pearl Jam (hopefully) I know i am forgetting alot of them but I am so fucking happy..... Audioslave Rocks my Fucking Socks!!!!
It is clear the singer is in exile... either in seclusion from others or just simply in exile within himself (mentally I guess).
The part that I am trying to pick at to further understand the song is when he mentions "labor" and being saved by it. I started to consider possible analogies between birth itself and these lyrics, but I couldn't get very far with that. Hopefully more people post on this song soon.
FYI: spires and gables are structures or formations, such as a steeple, that tapers to a point at the top.
(I would think he is somehow referencing Churches there.)