Audioslave: Like a Stone Meaning

Song Released: 2003

Like a Stone Lyrics

on a cold wet 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

(chorus)
in your...

1. anonymous

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   Jan 30th 2007 !⃝

   The lyrics added to this page are wrong.
   http://www.lyrics007.com/Audioslave%20Lyrics/Like%20A%20Stone%20Lyrics.html
   
   Yes, of course it's about a man waiting to die, but the theme of the song is an impossible love. In a motelroom, reading the bible he realises that there is only one way he can ever be with who he wants to be, and this is death. He is desperate to return to this one moment in his life where everything was perfect.
2. anonymous

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   Oct 10th 2006 !⃝

   I was watching an audioslave dvd and the actual meaning is just a guy waiting to die.
3. anonymous

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   Aug 22nd 2006 !⃝

   Wtf is up with the lyrics? Where's the part where he says "i'll wait for you there like a stone." whoever is responsible for the lyrics needs to get their sh** together.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
4. LG1980

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   Nov 17th 2005 !⃝

   This is simple and plain.
   
   He is simply waiting for death.
5. Sarkamen

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   Oct 5th 2005 !⃝

   Cornell's vision, or perhaps experience, of himself sitting in a car, motel, or some other such thing along a freeway, reading the bible. I'm not very familiar with Cornell's history, but I'll suggest that he was raised to be religious (catholic is my guess, I could be wrong), but strayed away from this path, most likely during his teenage years. Now however that he's older and more experience, he regrets his rashness as a youth, and his assoreted sins as a man, and wonders if that'll prohibit him from entering heaven (his father's house).
   
   I'll suggest that the song appears to be a prayer in itself, as the "you" in this case represents God, and Cornell's sense of abandonment, and an expression of his desire for God (or perhaps religion as an abstract concept) to come back to him. He even expresses that he's no longer as impatient as when he was young ("Room by room patiently").
6. soad interpreter

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   Aug 26th 2005 !⃝

   This song is about not living a moral life and sitting in a hotel room reading the Bible, a book full of death as the song puts it, and thinking about heaven and all the things he has done and he longs to be in that "house", meaning heaven, and when he is there he'll wait for you there like a stone.

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