SONG ACTIVITY TEACHER

JANE QUEIROZ

Like A Stone Audioslave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=7QU1nvuxaMA
1 Number
the verses in correct order.

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By a freeway, I confess
On a cobweb afternoon
I was lost in the pages
In a room full of emptiness

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Reading how we'll die alone

Anywhere we want to go
And if we're good, we'll lay to rest
Of a book full of death

2 Fill in the blanks with the missing words

Chorus

In your house, I___________ to be

Room by room, ______________
I'll _____________ for you there, like a stone
I'll wait for you ______________ alone

3 Unscramble the words in parentheses.

On my _______________( dthaedeb), I will pray
To the gods and the __________ (lsgean)
____________ (Lkie) a pagan to anyone
Who __________ (lliw) take me to heaven?
To a ______________ (ecpla) I recall
I ____________ (saw) there so long ago
The ____________ (syk) was bruised, the wine was bled
And there you______ ( lde )me on
Repeat Chorus
4 Fill in the blanks with words from the box.
For gone- I've - sat - dreams - done wonder - on
And I _______ read
Until the day was _____________
And I ____________ in regret
For all the things I've _______________
_____ all that I've blessed
And all that ____________ wronged
In ____________ until my death
I will _______________ on
Repeat Chorus
Like A Stone - Audioslave
On a cobweb afternoon

"Like a Stone" is a song by American rock

band Audioslave, featured on their 2002
debut studio album Audioslave. When
released as the band's second single in
January 2003, the song topped both the
Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks
and Hot Modern Rock Tracks charts, and
reached #31 on the Hot 100 chart making
it their biggest US hit. "Like a Stone" has
been certified gold by the Recording
Industry Association of America. It
became 5th best performing alternative
song on the Alternative Songs chart of the
decade.
Bassist Tim Commerford claims 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.
However, while Commerford originally
thought it was a song about love and
romance, band's singer-songwriter Chris
Cornell explains 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."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_a_Ston
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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, alone
And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
For 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