TerryB wrote:The Venerable Bogatir X wrote:TerryB wrote:I fucking hate Chris Cornell.
Total garbage.
Wow.
I don't pretend to be even a pseudo-musical mind but would have never thought that guy's voice and his lyrics, were anything less than the tippity top of the rock n' roll foodchain. But hey, I though Amy Winehouse was absolutely brilliant, too, so what do I know...........
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, spoonman
Speak the rhythm on your own
Speak the rhythm all alone, spoonman
Spoonman, come together with your hands
Save me, I'm together with your plan
Save me
All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown and red, spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones, spoonman
Feel the rhythm with your hands
Steal the rhythm while you can, spoonman
No one bats a thousand. This is their grand slam, IMO, on the surface you might think it a love song, but I think the narrator is the last to die among those he's cared about and vice versa, and is 'marking time' vs. whacking himself.
"Like A Stone"
On a cob web afternoon,
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages of a book full of death;
Reading how we'll die alone.
And if we're good we'll lay to rest,
Anywhere we want to go.
In your house I long to be;
Room by room patiently,
I'll wait for you there like a stone.
I'll wait for you there alone.
And on my deathbed I will pray to the gods and the angels,
Like a pagan to anyone who will take me to heaven;
To a place I recall, I was there so long ago.
The sky was bruised, the wine was bled, and there you led me on.
In your house I long to be;
Room by room, patiently,
I'll wait for you there like a stone.
I'll wait for you there alone, alone.
And on I read until the day was gone;
And I sat in regret of all the things I've done;
For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged.
In dreams until my death I will wander on.
In your house I long to be;
Room by room, patiently,
I'll wait for you there like a stone.
I'll wait for you there alone, alone.
