@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Follow me into the desert
As thirsty as you are
Crack a smile and cut your mouth
And drown in alcohol
'Cause down below the truth is lying
Beneath the riverbed
So quench yourself and drink the water
That flows below her head
Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine the sun is mine
The sun is mine
I shot my love today would you cry for me?
I lost my head again would you lie for me?
Close your eyes and bow your head
I need a little sympathy
'Cause fear is strong and love's for everyone
Who isn't me
Kill your health and kill yourself
And kill everything you love
And if you live you can fall to pieces
And suffer with my ghost
I shot my love today would you cry for me?
I lost my head again would you lie for me?
I left her in the sand just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again would you cry for me
Just a burden in my hand
Just an anchor on my heart
Just a tumor in my head
And I'm in the dark
So follow me into the desert
As desperate as you are
Where the moon is glued to a picture of heaven
And all the little pigs have God
Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine the sun is mine
The sun is mine
I shot my love today would you cry for me yeah?
I lost my head again would you lie for me?
Left her in the sand just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again would you cry for me, yeah
Would you cry for me?
As thirsty as you are
Crack a smile and cut your mouth
And drown in alcohol
'Cause down below the truth is lying
Beneath the riverbed
So quench yourself and drink the water
That flows below her head
Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine the sun is mine
The sun is mine
I shot my love today would you cry for me?
I lost my head again would you lie for me?
Close your eyes and bow your head
I need a little sympathy
'Cause fear is strong and love's for everyone
Who isn't me
Kill your health and kill yourself
And kill everything you love
And if you live you can fall to pieces
And suffer with my ghost
I shot my love today would you cry for me?
I lost my head again would you lie for me?
I left her in the sand just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again would you cry for me
Just a burden in my hand
Just an anchor on my heart
Just a tumor in my head
And I'm in the dark
So follow me into the desert
As desperate as you are
Where the moon is glued to a picture of heaven
And all the little pigs have God
Oh no there she goes
Out in the sunshine the sun is mine
The sun is mine
I shot my love today would you cry for me yeah?
I lost my head again would you lie for me?
Left her in the sand just a burden in my hand
I lost my head again would you cry for me, yeah
Would you cry for me?
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Great version of a great song,
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Chris Cornell's lyrics never make sense. He's said multiple times in multiple interviews that he has a general feeling for a song, and then he picks words that fit that meeting and sound cool when he sings them. Just look at blackhole sun, or worse, any of his audioslave stuff. It's intelligible gibberish that rymes. Which is fine, but trying to find meaning in chris cornell lyrics is just a exorcise in futility.
What are you talking about? The character he's singing as shot and killed his love and hid her body in the riverbed. It's pretty straightforward in this case.
What are you talking about? The character he's singing as shot and killed his love and hid her body in the riverbed. It's pretty straightforward in this case.
@charliemopps He's also said in an interview that most his lyrics are existential based. He sings a lot about the pain of just existing, and if you don't understand that, then you really haven't took much of a look inside. Just because you think they're gibberish don't mean they are...take for example "like a stone" or "i am the highway" in audioslave. Like a stone is about all of the people around him dying while he's still alive (he said so himself) and I am the highway is like every man's ambition for others to believe and see himself as God, the "I am" in man (well maybe not every man...just most). Black hole sun...is the wish to take away all of the bullshit, all of the subtle want and can't have, all of that which is life but for that which one doesn't have the courage to take his own life, wishing the world would just end, and wash away the pain. I personally think there's meaning in all his lyrics, but maybe not everyone can relate. <br /> <br /> Burden in my hand the way I take it is, He hurts everyone and only the people he loves the most, yet he's trying to convince that he's right in doing so...though he knows somewhere that he's wrong. Deep shit, not gibberish, but to each his own.
Freaking hilarious.<br /> Why?<br /> Because this is one of Chris Cornell's most straight-forward tunes. It is about what it sounds like it's about.<br /> And you still don't get it and call it gibberish.<br /> And people agree with you.<br /> Extremely funny in a tragic sort of way.
@BurningOldSage Read his own words dumbass: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_Sun
@charliemopps <br /> LOL- Slow down, Tex.<br /> Lad, <br /> Since you're a fan of Wikipedia read the page about this song. If you aren't familiar with the song "Hey Joe" listen to Jimi Hendrix's version.<br /> THEN- Look into Freud quotes:<br /> "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar", Charlie.<br /> Yes, Chris, like many songwriters, often crafts his songs based on lyrical imagery or aesthetic resonance - Jon Anderson (Yes), Peter Sinfield (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) and Prince are just a few others- and there IS plenty of that going on here. However- That's not "gibberish". WRONG word.<br /> But there is also a straight-forward story: Guy kills girlfriend. Looks for a way to rationalize or explain it away. The end.<br /> Charlie- This is NOT "Black Hole Sun", or "4th of July". <br /> It's far closer to "Call Me A Dog", which is a song about a guy trying to talk things out with a judgmental girl(friend).<br />