Like a Stone

playlist position: 44 - New Moon alternates (2b) #7
artist: Audioslave
album: Audioslave
track number: 5/14
year: 2002
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New Moon – Chapter 7
I didn't go any closer. I didn't want to look in the windows. I wasn't sure which would be harder to see. If the rooms were bare, echoing empty from floor to ceiling, that would certainly hurt. Like my grandmother's funeral, when my mother had insisted that I stay outside during the viewing. She has said that I didn't need to see Gran that way, to remember her that way, rather than alive.
But wouldn't it be worse if there were no change? It the couches sat just as I'd last seen them, the paintings on the walls--worse still, the piano on its low platform? It would be second only to the house disappearing all together, to see that there was no physical possession that tied them in anyway. That everything remained, untouched and forgotten, behind them.
Just like me.

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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

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 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
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 wonder 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
Alone