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Third chapter from Audioslave, after announcements of r'n'b influences, Earth Wind & Fire grooves, and a lot of Zeppelin-style hard rock, it must be said that this time they've done a good job.
Undoubtedly, you'll say the first one is the best, and I agree, but after the misstep of Out of Exile, this Revelations makes a much stronger impression. First of all, the lyrics are better than the previous one, which suffered from excessive lightness both in music and lyrics, and they talk about his experience as a father and maturity as a man. Also, the music is more powerful and in some episodes, refined.
Revelations: very nice, great powerful riff (even if it feels familiar) and great choruses with the new black nuances that Cornell's voice has acquired.
One And The Same: my favorite of this album, here you can really notice the seventies influence of Earth Wind & Fire and Led Zeppelin in the riffs and the chorus, which has a pleasant disco vibe.
Sound Of A Gun: also nice with typical RATM riffs but with a well-crafted arrangement with acoustic guitars
Until We Fall: a semi-acoustic ballad reminiscent of Doesn't Remind Me from last year. I heard a version of Until We Fall with just Cornell, voice, and guitar, which is much more beautiful.
Original Fire: the first single, much discussed by fans for its particular style, which nonetheless is not bad; here too, very Earth Wind & Fire with its hand-clapping rhythm
Broken City: the most unique song on the album that recalls something of Springsteen and glam, with a nice DU-DU-DU-DU
Somedays: powerful and beautiful intro reminiscent of Jane's Addiction with a screamed finale
Shape Of Things To Come: another well-arranged and hard mid-tempo but a bit monotonous
Jewel Of The Summertime: Low-fi voice, great vibrating riff
Wide Awake: the most political song ever composed by Audioslave talking about the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina and the Bush administration's lack of interest; musically beautiful and epic
Nothing Left To Say Goodbye and Moth: two ballads, the first bluesy, the second a bit more monotonous.
In conclusion, a good album with a varied and smooth first half, the second half a bit more predictable but not for this reason bad...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Revelations (04:12)
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
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without
Your revelations
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 spinnin' 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
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without (don't wanna live without)
Your revelations
I am haunted when I am sleeping
Try to give without receiving
It's in the applebite (applebite)
It's in the days and nights (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
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without (don't wanna live without)
Your revelations
Such a shame, such a shame that I wouldn't know by now
Cut me in, I don't wanna live without (don't wanna live without)
Your revelations
Revelations
02 One and the Same (03:38)
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 your mother
Could be your father
Or your 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 your enemies closer
You fall in love from a great height, now the easy part's over
Choose your battles, not your soldiers
You're never sure of 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!
03 Sound of a Gun (04:20)
In the here and the now I wait
Down among the young and the old
With the moon and the ground I play
Wwith 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
Burried in the sand
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun, till you're weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
From the crack in the blackness I wake
It's getting closer every night
In my city, the playground is a battleground
Between the wrong and the right
I could run as 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
Running from the sound of a gun, till you're weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
The open mouth of the city swallowed up 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
Maybe I just don't see it now
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun, till you're weary
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun, hey
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from the sound of a gun
Running from, running from the sound of a gun
04 Until We Fall (03:50)
I walk the streets where I regret, ah
I stood along and watched myself fall apart
Answered the voices in my head, ah
Slipped through the chain link of a broken heart
And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
Stroke your feathers 'til we fall back down again, ah
But everything that sounded good, ah
I understand that I've been misunderstood
And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
Stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Until we fall, until we fall back down again
Yeah, back down again
What do you feel before you think?
What do you see before you blink?
Who do you battle in your dreams?
Who strokes your feathers 'til you scream?
And when I'm tired of feeling black
Spread the wings upon your back
Take us high above it all
And stroke your feathers 'til we fall
Until we fall, until we fall back down again
Yeah, back down again
05 Original Fire (03:38)
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 drugged on kerosene
84 and 5 would find us something to believe
Right or wrong with dirty hands on wires
Singing songs in dischord choirs
Screaming in braille 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
Here the rain falls ever after
The swinging vines hang dead in rafters
Blood rush to your head induces 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 that it was somethin' to see
Can't contain somethin' ethereal
Ethereal
Hey
Can't explain it was somethin' to see
Can't contain somethin' 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
06 Broken City (03:48)
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 her bleed and 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 her bleed and 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
And nothing grows there, 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 her bleed and 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
07 Somedays (03:33)
Somedays, somedays, somedays just ain't so easy
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
08 Shape of Things to Come (04:34)
Well it's late in the hour
And a few more grains of sand will fall
On the colorful flowers
Grown up on the dust and moss
Now I feel the worst is near
I hold them close and count their years
Pray a ray of light appears
To shine down on us here
Break down, in the shape of things to come
But I'm moving on like a soldier
And I feel now, when all is said and done
It's not ours to break
The shape of things to come
There's a crack in the clouds
But only for a moment now
Like an owl looking out at the blue skies
As far as the roads we will go down
I wonder what they hold for us
I hold my family to my breast
I fear the worst and hope the best
Will come to see us blessed
Break down, in the shape of things to come
But I'm moving on like a soldier
And I feel now, when all is said and done
It's not ours to break
The shape of things to come
Hey, hey
Given one more try
Wonder what I'd change?
I won't deny
I thought it strange
I've done my best
And I will lay no blame on myself
Break down, in the shape of things to come
But I'm moving on like a soldier
And I feel now, when all is said and done
It's not ours to break
The shape of things to come
The shape of things to come
The shape of things to come
09 Jewel of the Summertime (03:53)
When I was eighteen
I didn't know pain when the sun was high
Burnt faced, shadows erased
And I knew I'd be alright
Left that behind me (Uh-huh)
Something blinded me (Uh-huh)
That reminded me (Uh-huh)
Of a better space and time
Miles away
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
When I turned twenty-one
I saw the sun pulling out of sight
All that I met were dark silhouettes
Stumbling in the night
But we collided (Uh-huh)
And I finally (Uh-huh)
Got a light on me (Uh-huh)
Now I'm bathing in the bright
Ultra-violet rays
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Time, time, time
I left that behind me (Uh-huh)
And something blinded me (Uh-huh)
Yeah reminded me (Uh-huh)
Of a better space and time
Miles away
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summertime
Jewel of the summer- time
10 Wide Awake (04:26)
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
Wide awake
Wide awake
Wide awake
Wide awake
11 Nothing Left to Say but Goodbye (03:32)
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
12 Moth (04:57)
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
Ah, ah
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