세기말을 지배했던 두 대형 밴드, 레이지 어게인스트 더 머쉰과 사운드가든의 주축 멤버들이 의기투합한 초유의 슈퍼그룹으로서 세계 록 씬의 기대를 한 몸에 받고 데뷔한 지 어언 4년... 천재 프로듀서 릭 루빈과 손잡고 내놓은 1집 [AUDIOSLAVE]’02, 2집 [OUT OF EXILE]’05이 연거퍼 밀리언 셀러를 기록하였을 뿐 아니라 2집의 경우, 빌보드 앨범차트 1위 데뷔까지 기록하는 경이로운 상업적 성취와 더불어, 날로 가벼워져만 가는 록 음악계의 세태 속에서도 꿋꿋이 중량감 있는 정통 하드 록 사운드를 선보여 온 대그룹 오디오슬레이브. .... ....
Help me, I don't know what I'm doing Help me before I fall to ruin And if I'm blind, I will lead you on Come, follow me now before our time is gone
And as you're laughing at this fool tonight Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up And as I'm howling at the moonlight Don't you kid yourself, I will be your luck And never be your curse Never be your curse
Help me, I don't know what I'm saying Sometimes this tongue can be betraying And if I'm wrong, is that such a crime? And if you want, you can set my words to right
And as you're laughing at this fool tonight Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up And as I'm howling at the moonlight Don't you kid yourself, I will be your luck
And if your eyes forget to well And if your lies forget to tell And if our paths forget to cross It doesn't mean you're lost
So as you're laughing at this fool tonight Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up And as I'm howling at the moonlight Don't you kid yourself, I will be your luck
As you're laughing at this fool tonight Let me rid myself of any line that I might use to trip you up And as I'm howling at the moonlight Don't you kid yourself, I will be your luck Even at my worst I will be your luck Never be your curse
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 want to 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
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
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
And with early dawn Moving right along I couldn't buy an eyefull of sleep And in the aching night under satellites I was not received Built with stolen parts A telephone in my heart Someone get me a priest To put my mind to bed This ringing in my head Is this a cure or is this a disease
(Chorus) Nail in my hand From my creator You gave me life Now show me how to live
And in the after birth On the quiet Earth Let the stains remind you You thought you made a man You better think again Before my role defines you
(Chorus) Nail in my hand From my creator You gave me life Now show me how to live
And in your waiting hands I will land And roll out of my skin And in your final hours I will stand Ready to begin
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 the rest I will bring you down, I will make it bad While you’re feelin’ proud, why don’t you help me Such a shame that I wouldn’t know by now Your revelations Let me in I don’t want to live without Your revelations You know what to say, you know what I said You know what I dream sleeping in my bed You hold all the keys, you know all the roads Why don’t you guide me in if I’m such a lost soul I’m spinning ’round, I will make you ill Since I’m so broken down, why don’t you fix me Such a shame that I wouldn’t know by now (I wouldn’t know by now) Your revelations Let me in I don’t want to live without (Don’t want to live without) Your revelations (Solo) I am haunted when I am sleeping Try to give without recieving It’s in the applebite, it’s in the days and nights In the afterlife we’ll reap Such a shame that I wouldn’t know by now (I wouldn’t know by now) Your revelations Let me in I don’t want to live without (Don’t want to live without) Your revelations Such a shame, such a shame That I wouldn’t know by now Cut me in I don’t want to live without (Don’t want to live without) The revelations, revelations
Well they don't hate you, you know they love you But they're gonna come kill you They don't mean you any harm It's just what they do Could be you're mother Could be you're father Or you're best friend in the world
But just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Yeah, yeah, yeah
You wear a mask with a target Keep you're enemies closer You fall in love from a great height, now the easy part's over Choose you're battles, not you're soldiers You know they'll show their colors
But just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Just like blood and rain, love and pain are one and the same (One and the same) Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey!
In the here and now I wait Among the young and the old Between the moon and the ground I play With my children in my home This is for the daughters and sons Of forgotten ones Learning how to stand This is for the innocent unknowns Buried in the sand
Running from the sound of a gun And you’re weary Running from the sound of a gun
In the crack of the blackness I wake It’s getting closer every night My city playground is a battleground Between the wrong and the right I could run free as a child I was safe and wild Naked and unarmed Now I’m grown and safe in my home But some will never stop
Running from the sound of a gun Til’ you’re weary Running from the sound of a gun
The open mouth of the city Swallowed the town With that same old concrete That I still walk down And it seems they put a shine On this place when I was young But baby I just don’t see it now
Running from the sound of a gun Til’ I’m weary Running from the sound of a gun
I walked the streets without regret I stood alone and watched myself fall apart Answered the voices in my head Slipped through the chain link of a broken heart
When I'm tired and I'm feeling black Spread the wings upon your back Take us high above it all Stroke your feathers until we fall
Back down again
But everything that's any good I understand that I've been misunderstood When I'm tired and I'm feeling black Spread the wings upon your back Take us high above it all Stroke your feathers until we fall
Until we fall, until we fall Back down again
Yeah, back down again
Do you see before you blink Do you feel before you think Who do you battle in your dreams Who strokes your feathers until you scream
When I'm tired and I'm feeling black Spread the wings upon your back Take us high above it all Stroke your feathers until we fall
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 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
With a pen in one hand, taking us and burned on kerosine Headed for a fire would find us something to believe Wallowing round with dirty hands on wires Singing songs in dischord choirs Screaming in brail, no temptress prize Could ever yield anything so real
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
Golden soldiers born much older than they'll ever live to be Diving into a sea of hands in a long forgotten city When the rain falls ever after The swinging vines hang dead in rafters Blood rush to (here?) your head induces of laughter endlessly
The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on The original fire has died and long gone, but the riot inside moves on
Can't explain it, it was something to see Can't contain something ethereal Ethereal
Can't explain it, it was something to see Can't contain something so ethereal Ethereal
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 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
My city sleeps by the side of a freeway, the city scraps And winter time she wore a yellow coat Now there's nothin' on her back If a building falls you wouldn't care to notice unless you were in it Then no one cares about climbin' stairs, nothin' at the top no more
Outside trippin' in the broken city Outside trippin' in the broken city, I watch a building crack Outside trippin' in the broken city Outside kickin' in the broken city, there's nothin' wrong with that Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Now the snow falls down like it's fallin' on an ocean Dead and empty by the railroad tracks where they used to go and come Now they don't come back You can heal the rust, goin' up the throughways Down the alleys where they stole this town from the frontier I can see 'em tryin' to steal it back
Outside trippin' in the broken city (Outside trippin' in the broken city) Outside trippin' in the broken city, I watch a building crack Outside kickin' in the broken city (Outside trippin' in the broken city) Outside trippin' in the broken city, there's nothin' wrong with that Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Now the sun won't shine on this part of the map Anymore When it's cold outside I see it hide behind the smokestacks No thin roses, no goldrush, no miner, no revolution they'd hire And the shipyard is a graveyard, no one will be trying to find him
Outside trippin' in the broken city (Outside trippin' in the broken city) Outside kickin' in the broken city, I watch a building crack Outside trippin' in the broken city (Outside trippin' in the broken city) Outside kickin' in the broken city, there's nothin' wrong with that Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo (There's nothin' wrong with that) Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo do (Outside trippin' in the broken city) Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo
Wake up, look around Just before your feet hit the ground Where they meet, the oil and street Is where you stand and where you sleep
Black and whites along the lights Plainclothes and Miranda Rights At the right place but in the wrong life Somedays just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (somedays) just ain't so easy Somedays, somedays, somedays (somedays), somedays (somedays) Just ain't so easy
It's not the fault of anyone As we revolve around the sun We sleep beneath the same sky But we all see it through different eyes
So if you go or if you stay Standin' still or if you walk away If you bend or if you break Somedays just ain't so easy
Somedays, somedays, somedays (somedays) just ain't so easy Somedays, somedays, somedays (somedays), somedays (somedays) Just ain't so easy, they just ain't so easy Oh, yeah
Nobody say it's so easy, yeah I don't care for somedays
Someone may have done you right or done you wrong Or kept you down from the day you were born There's no need to apologize for the riot in your eyes Somedays just ain't so easy Hey! Hey! Hey!
Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays) just ain't so easy Somedays, somedays, somedays (Somedays), somedays (Somedays) Just ain't so easy
Listen now, let me speak I will be the dog at your feet And come along when you call Be the little bird in your straw and sing you a song I'll be there to take the fall Though you tread upon me for no reason at all
[Chorus] But just when you think you've left me blind I will keep you in the corner of my eye
I will never leave your side Though you call me your number one zero your nevermind I'll be your king, I'll be your pawn I will builid a pedestal and put you upon it
[Chorus] But just when you think you've left me blind I'll be creeping right up behind Cause if I need to I will keep you in the corner of my eye corner of my eye
Down on the street, over your night Out of your sleep, out of your sight if I need to, if I need to Out of your mouth, in every word Down in your ego one thing is sure I will keep you, I will keep you
[Chorus] But just when you think you've left me blind I will be creeping right up behind Cause baby if I need to Lord, I will keep you in the corner of my eye I will be the bird in your straw But you won't get far I will keep you in the corner of my eye
You can look a hurricane right in the eye Twelve hundred people there are left to die Follow the leaders, where it an night For an eye you'd all be blind Therefore murder--this I'm sure In this uncertain time
So come pull a sheet over my eyes So I can sleep tonight Despite what I've seen today I find you guilty of the crime Of sleeping at a time When you should have been wide awake
Down on the road the world is floating by The poor and undefended, left behind While you're somewhere trading lives for oil As if the whole world were blind, hey
So come pull a sheet around my eyes So I can sleep tonight Despite what I've seen today I find you guilty of the crime Of sleeping at a time When you should have been wide awake
So come pull a sheet over my eyes So I can sleep tonight Despite what I've seen today I find you guilty of the crime Of sleeping at a time When you should have been wide awake
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
I've been chased by a rain cloud I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around But now I'm found and I won't run away
Bless your heart you gave me a home and a new start And I will leave you never Sleep at your feet and stand guard at your front door I will keep this together
I've been chased by a rain cloud I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around But now I'm found and I won't run away
I killed myself Threw away my mental health but Nobody was blinking an eye Backyard, basement Falling on the pavement Nothing left to say but goodbye Nothing left to say but goodbye
It's true I ran away before but be sure I am no tail-chaser I know a good thing when it throws me a bone I'm your best friend forever
I've been chased by a rain cloud I was lost and nearly drowned and kicked around But now I'm found and I won't run away
Thought I was different, it seems I'm just the same As a game I put my hand over the flame Thought I was smarter as I flew into the sun But it turned out the way it does with everyone
Ah, ah
I don't fly around your fire anymore I don't fly around your fire anymore Burned and fallen down so many times before I don't fly around your fire anymore
I love the heat, I love the things that I forgot I love the strings that tied me down and cut me off I was a king, I was a moth With painted wings made of cloth When did the flame burn so high and get so hot?
Ah, ah
I don't fly around your fire anymore I don't fly around your fire anymore Burned and fallen down so many times before I don't fly around your fire anymore
I don't fly around your fire anymore I don't fly around your fire anymore Burned and fallen down so many times before I won't fly around, fly around
I won't fly around your fire anymore I don't fly around your fire anymore Burned and fallen down so many times before I don't fly around, fly around
Once upons a time I was of the mind To lay your burden down And leave you where you stood And you believed I could You'd seen it done before I could read your thoughts Tell you what you saw And never say a word Now all that is gone Over with and done- never to return
(chorus 1) I can tell you why People die alone I can tell you I'm A shadow on the sun
Staring at the loss Looking for a cause And never really sure Nothing but a hole To live without a soul And nothing to be learned
(chorus 2) I can tell you why People go insane I can show you how You could do the same I can tell you why The end will never come I can tell you I'm A shadow on the sun
Shapes of every size Move behind my eyes Doors inside my head Bolted from within Every drop of flame Lights a candle in Memory of the one Who lives inside my skin
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 want to 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
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
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
과연 누가 기뻐라 했을까. 과연 누가 이런 일이 일어날 것이라 예상했을까. 잭 드 라 로차(Zack De La Rocha)의 빈자리를 크리스 코넬(Chris Cornell)이 메우다니. RATM에 크리스 코넬이 가입하는 모양새 전혀 다름없었던 2001년 5월, 크리스 코넬의 행보는 이해할 수 없는 것이었다. 솔로 앨범 내겠다고 어이없게 사운드가든(Soundgarden)을 해체하더니, 그럼 자기 앨범이나 만드시지 왜 그러는지. 이 상황을 영국에 빗대어보자면 솔로 앨범 내겠다고 버브(The Verve)를 해체한 리처드 애쉬크로프트가 노엘과 리엄이 대판 싸우고 리엄이 오아시스(Oasis)를 나가자 거기 싱어자리를 꿰차고 앉은 것에 다름 아니지 않는가. 톰 모렐로와 크리스 코넬, 알아주던 독불장군 두 명이 한 밴드...
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