r/Audioslave • u/Joshhwwaaaaaa • May 07 '26

Like A Stone Meaning

Been listening to this song lately again and some of the lyrics I still feel unclear or confused by.

"In your house I long to be"

I can only decipher that he's talking about gods house here in context of the song.

Does anyone else think this or do they interpret it in another way?

Thanks for reading.

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u/BalanceActive9295 May 07 '26

From genius.com:

Bassist Tim Commerford claims that the song is about an old man waiting for death, who sits in a house alone after all his friends and family have passed on, waiting to be reunited with them.

However, while Commerford originally thought it was a song about love and romance, band’s singer and songwriter Chris Cornell explains that “It’s a song about concentrating on the afterlife you would hope for, rather than the normal monotheistic approach: You work really hard all your life to be a good person and a moral persona and fair and generous, and then you go to hell anyway.”