Like a Stone

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"Like a Stone"
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from the album Audioslave
ReleasedApril 2003[1]
Recorded2001–2002
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"Like a Stone" is a song by the American rock supergroup Audioslave, released as the second single from their eponymous debut studio album Audioslave in April 2003. The song topped both the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts, and reached number 31 on the Hot 100 chart, making it their biggest US hit.

Background and composition

Bassist Tim Commerford claimed 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.[5][6][7] However, while Commerford originally thought it was a song about love and romance,[5] the band's singer and songwriter Chris Cornell explained 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."[8]

The melancholy tone and certain parts of the lyrics of "Like a Stone" have prompted some to wonder if Cornell wrote the song about the late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, who died in April 2002. Cornell denied this, saying "No. I'm not one of those guys where, like, something happens and then I go run around, 'Ooh, 9/11, and now it's 9/12, let me write about that. I wrote the lyrics before he died. [...] You can misinterpret that stuff pretty easy, but I don't tend to sit down and plan on writing about a specific issue. They come up or they don't."[9]

Music video

The music video for "Like a Stone" was filmed in January 2003[10] and released on February 22, 2003.[11] It was conceived and directed by Meiert Avis, a Grammy-winner who also directed videos for State Radio, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, J-Lo and many others.[12] The video was produced by Oualid Mouaness, edited by Jim Rhoads and set in an old Spanish mansion in Silver Lake, Los Angeles where Jimi Hendrix once lived and wrote music in.[12] Commerford's then 1-year-old son, Xavier was featured in the video.[13] It shows the band performing inside the mansion where they also set up a recording booth.[14] According to Avis, the strange green/blue color palette of the video was to suggest bruising and abuse.[12]

The music video reached over 1 billion views on YouTube in October 2022.[15]

UK CD single: track listing

A CD single version of "Like A Stone" released in the United Kingdom in 2003 contained the following tracks.[16] All lyrics written by Chris Cornell; all music composed by Audioslave, except "Super Stupid" written by George Clinton, Eddie Hazel, Billy Bass Nelson and Tawl Ross.

  1. "Like a Stone" – 4:54
  2. "Like a Stone" (live on BBC Radio 1) – 4:58
  3. "Gasoline" (live on BBC Radio 1) – 4:45
  4. "Set It Off" (live on Late Show with David Letterman) – 4:01
  5. "Super Stupid" (live on BBC Radio 1)
  6. "Like a Stone" (music video)

Charts

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Certifications

Certifications for "Like a Stone"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[23] Gold 35,000 
New Zealand (RMNZ)[24] 4× Platinum 0 
Portugal (AFP)[25] Gold 0 
Spain (Promusicae)[26] Gold 0 
United Kingdom (BPI)[27] Silver 200,000 
United States (RIAA)[28] Gold 500,000 

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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