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by The Ancient Shimmering Wyrm of The Seeker of Power. . 15 reads.

Ele's EMC: Like a Stone


ELEGARTH'S ENGLISH MUSIC COLLECTION


Like a Stone - Audioslave

Song Details



Album: Audioslave
Release Date: January 2003

Commentary



Did you really had to go, Chris?

What is man without belief and faith? What is man without deities? A man is, always a man. Mr. Cornell said the song was about the afterlife as we want it to be, and not as the most famous religions in the world have tried to sell it to all of us. An afterlife usually filled with regret, perhaps?

As a man of science and little to no faith - I identify as an atheist after all - I do not fear death or the after life. Whatever is beyond the veil of light, in my eyes, is what we leave on this land of the living. Our legacy. My daughters and whatever values I am able to pass down unto them. Be good, but not for an eternal prize, but because it is the right thing to do. The correct thing to do.

I'll wait for you there like a stone
I'll wait for you there alone, alone

The song hits right this never. The one that feels that, should I be wrong and there be an afterlife, it is based upon doing the right thing and not follow dogmas or codes, impositions from men who don't know better of my life than I do.

I'm the indisputable owner of my life, anyway I want it...

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 wanna 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


All text by Elegarth, The Seeker of Power, except the lyrics, owned by their respective Copyright owners. Format by Elegarth. March, 2019.

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