When a brooding rocker gets introspective, you get a haunting melody that's as heavy as, well, a stone. "Like a Stone" is Audioslave's melancholic musing on mortality and the quest for redemption. It's like a grim fairytale for adults, with the protagonist lost in the pages of life's book – and it isn't exactly a sunshine-and-rainbows kind of read. There's hope though, in the form of an ethereal house where our rockstar yearns to be (probably not your typical suburban semi-detached). He'll wait there patiently 'like a stone', which either means he's really committed or just too lazy to move. The song is essentially about life regrets and seeking solace in whatever form it may come - even if it means chilling like an immovable rock!
Like a Stone
Lyrics
On a cobweb 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
Writer(s): Timothy Commerford, Chris Cornell, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group
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