 Genius Lyrics
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Audioslave – Be Yourself
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An anthem for the people who are searching for themselves, “Be Yourself,” as the title suggests, revolves in finding happiness in yourself. The song got released as the lead single
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Audioslave – Cochise
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“Cochise” was released as Audioslave’s first single. The song was named after an Apache Indian chief who declared war on the Southwest and drove out thousands of settlers. Cochise
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Audioslave – Gasoline
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[Verse 1] / House is haunted / I just want to go for a ride / Out and on / Before I set this room alight / Left alone / Forever, and for crimes unclear / With my patience gone
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Audioslave – Out of Exile
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The title track off of Audioslave’s second album was produced by the legendary Rick Rubin.
According to the Revelations bonus DVD and an interview with Yahoo Music, Chris Cornell
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Audioslave – Dandelion
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[Verse 1] / Settle down now and sit with me / Let me tell you how this all came to be / A yellow flower with your petals to the air / And flying on paper wings that brought you
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Audioslave – The Curse
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“The Curse” originated as an unreleased demo Cornell recorded for the 1992 Cameron Crowe film Singles titled “Ferry Boat #3”. The lyrics remain mostly unchanged, but the chord
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Audioslave – Moth
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[Verse 1] / Thought I was different, it seems I'm just the same / As again I put my hand over the flame / I thought, I was smarter as I flew into the sun / But it turned out the
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Audioslave – Revelations
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[Verse 1] / You know what to do, you know what I did / Since you know everything, just clue me in / I am such a wreck, I am such a mess / I know what I know, why don't you fill in
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Audioslave – Show Me How to Live
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This song is telling the classic story of Frankenstein’s Monster, in which Dr. Victor Frankenstein steals pieces from fresh corpses to create a man. When the being comes to life
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Audioslave – Like a Stone
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[Verse 1] / 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'
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Audioslave – Getaway Car
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[Verse 1] / The first time I saw you / You were chasing down / A cyclone / All alone in a field / With rail yards and clovers / I kept rolling on and never thought / You'd wind up
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Audioslave – What You Are
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[Verse 1] / And when you wanted me, I came to you / And when you wanted someone else, I withdrew / And when you asked for light, I set myself on fire / And if I go far away, I know
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Audioslave – I Am the Highway
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This fourth single from the band’s debut album peaked at 66 on Billboard. It is about escaping a one-sided relationship and escaping from it. Most people speculate that it is
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Audioslave – Original Fire
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[Chorus] / The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on / The original fire has died and gone but the riot inside moves on / [Chorus] / The original fire has
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Audioslave – Shadow on the Sun
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[Verse 1] / Once upon a time / I was of the mind / To lay your burden down / And leave you where you stood / You believed I could / You'd seen it done before / I could read your
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Audioslave – Sound of a Gun
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[Verse 1] / In the here and now I wait / Down among the young and the old / With the moon and the ground I play / With my children in my home / This is for the daughters and sons
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Audioslave – Doesn't Remind Me
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This slow-burning ballad morphs into a heavy rock song propelled by a fiery guitar solo from Tom Morello, as singer Chris Cornell reflects on the things that he’s lost and
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Audioslave – #1 Zero
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[Verse 1] / Listen now and let me speak / I will be the dog at your feet / Come along when you call / Be the little bird in your straw and sing you a song / I'll be there to take
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Audioslave – The Worm
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[Verse 1] / Was a time early in life / When I hated everything / Born too young, top of my lungs / Sitting on the bottom rung / Took advice from the wrong shoulder / Took a lot of
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Audioslave – Hypnotize
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[Verse 1] / Well if you set your mind upon it, I know that you can / You've got everything you wanted / You've done everything you planned / So let me make an offer / I'm only
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Audioslave – Bring Em Back Alive
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Like many songs on Audioslave, “Bring ‘Em Back Alive” depicts a part of Cornell’s journey in leaving the Catholic faith.
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Audioslave – Exploder
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[Verse 1] / I met a man locked away for things he hadn't done / Innocence on ball and chain / He'll never feel the sun / Again on his face, or roses in his hands / But when he
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Audioslave – Wide Awake
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[Verse 1] / You can look a hurricane right in the eye / 1200 people dead or left to die / Follow the leaders, were it an eye for an eye / We'll all be blind, deaf or murdered, this
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Audioslave – Yesterday to Tomorrow
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[Verse 1] / Beauty is what eyes behold / And you burn brighter than most / I chased you through the midnight streets / To be where I could speak freely / I didn't care what
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Audioslave – We Got the Whip
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Ooh / Ooh / [Verse 1] / Long days and nights you fought for truth / Gotta hand it to you / Uprise and paid for in blood / Only to love / We're gonna hang you up / You've got balls
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Audioslave – Shape of Things to Come
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[Verse 1] / Well, it's late in the hour / And a few more grains of sand will fall / On the colorful flowers / Grown upon the dust and moss / Now I feel the worst is near / I hold
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Audioslave – Light My Way
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[Verse 1] / In my hour of need / On a sea of grey / On my knees I pray to you / Help me find the dawn / Of the dying day / [Chorus] / Won't you light my way / Won't you light my
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Audioslave – Somedays
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[Intro] / Somedays, somedays / Somedays just ain't so easy / [Verse 1] / Wake up, look around / Just before your feet hit the ground / Where they make the oil and street / Is where
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Audioslave – Super Stupid
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Super stupid bought a nickel bag / Thought it was coke but it was skag / Super stupid did a one on one / Then his eyes were full of water and his nose began to run / Oh, stupid
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Audioslave – One and the Same
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[Verse 1] / Well, they don't hate you, you know they love you / But they're going to come, kill you / They don't mean you any harm / It's just what they do / Could be your mother
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Audioslave – Your Time Has Come
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The song was inspired by the 1980s song “People Who Died,” by The Jim Carroll Band, an emotional salute to the casualties of New York drug culture written by poet and singer Jim
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Audioslave – Until We Fall
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[Verse 1] / I walk the streets without I regret / I stood alone and watched myself fall apart / Answered the voices in my head / Slipped through the chainlink of a broken heart / [
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Audioslave – Save Yourself
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[Verse 1] / Well I've been watchin' / While you've been coughin' / I've been drinking life / While you've been nauseous / And so I'll drink to health / While you kill yourself
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Audioslave – The Last Remaining Light
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[Verse 1] / Roll me on your frozen fields / Break my bones to watch them heal / Drowned me in your thirsty veins / Where I'll watch and I'll wait / And pray for the rain / Curl
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Audioslave – Heaven's Dead
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[Verse 1] / Anchor the night, open the sky / Hide in the hours before sunrise / Pray for me not, I won't lose sight / Of where I belong and where you lie / [Chorus] / Well, Heaven'
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Audioslave – Set It Off
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[Verse 1] / He was standing at the rock, gathering the flock / And getting there with no directions / And underneath the arch it turned into a march / And there he found the spark
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Audioslave – Seven Nation Army
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I'm gonna fight 'em off / A seven nation army couldn't hold me back / They're gonna rip it off / Takin their time right behind my back / And I'm talkin to myself at night / Because
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Audioslave – Man or Animal
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[Verse 1] / You give me a heart attack / You look like the summertime / You call me an artifact / But I'll save that for another time / I could be rich or poor / I don't need
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Audioslave – Hunger Strike
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I don't mind stealing bread / From the mouths of decadence / But I can't feed on the powerless / When my cup's already overfilled / But it's on the table / The fire's cooking / And
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Audioslave – Broken City
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[Verse 1] / My city sleeps by the side of a freeway / A city of scraps / In the winter time she wore a yellow coat / Now there's nothing on her back / If a building falls you
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Audioslave – Jewel of the Summertime
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[Verse 1] / When I was 18 / I didn't know pain when the sun was high / Burnt face, shadow's erased / And I knew I'd be alright / Left that behind me, uh huh / Something blinded me
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Audioslave – Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye
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[Verse 1] / Just like a rescue of a stray dog in the rain / I was hungry when you found me / And you could tell by my tail and my rib cage / What was once around me / [Chorus] / I'
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Audioslave – Turn To Gold
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SHINE! / I don't know why / All the fiction of your sleeping / Doesn't visit you awake / I don't know how to get your storybook sunrise / To follow you above your cloudy day / All
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