No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue The bereavement is causing the persona so much grief that he wants black, the colour of death, mourning, funerals, to replace all the other colours, especially warm, lively red. But the sea is different. Its colour depends on the colour of the sky: a green sea is what you see under a cloudy sky, and therefore on a cold day, so bathing is unpleasant. When the clouds go away and the sky is blue, the sea turns a deep shade of blue and also warmer, and becomes perfect for happy...

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue The bereavement is causing the persona so much grief that he wants black, the colour of death, mourning, funerals, to replace all the other colours, especially warm, lively red. But the sea is different. Its colour depends on the colour of the sky: a green sea is what you see under a cloudy sky, and therefore on a cold day, so bathing is unpleasant. When the clouds go away and the sky is blue, the sea turns a deep shade of blue and also warmer, and becomes perfect for happy holiday activities - swimming, surfing, sailing, but he can't enjoy that or anything, so as far as he is concerned, the sea is an unhappy, cold green for ever.

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!!