Many people would prefer to not think too much about the whole background behind a favourite song of a favourite singer, I would try my best interpretation based on what I know.
Like A Stone of Audioslave by Chris Cornell quotes:
“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”
Perhaps the meaning is a real journey through depression fighting with own demons of drug abuse, loneliness and seeking for ways to communicate publicly and share the message in a powerful way that Like A Stone may be part of your personal troubles and die alone.
Trying to see this from another perspective, the main singer and my favourite performer Chris Cornell at the time of writing this song in 2002 during a rehab of drugs and probably unhappy prior separation from his first wife the following year 2003.
In other words, music is art that heals people and shares messages of personal journeys with some stories of compassion for ourselves and others and hope that the future is better.
We don’t need to feel alone and isolated as the main character of the son but the answer and the change is personal and we can inspire others one day at a time.
https://youtu.be/7QU1nvuxaMA?si=8FI7kegxMQ0MnVq2
Also Chris’ honesty as performer and composer is alive always everywhere.
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