Sunday Night Sample - Audio Slave - Your Time Has Come
"Your Time Has Come" is a song by the American hard rock band Audioslave. It was released in May 2005 as the second single from their second album Out of Exile.
The song was inspired by '80s song "People Who Died," by The Jim Carroll Band, an emotional salute to the casualties of New York drug culture written by poet and singer Jim Carroll, who also wrote the autobiographical "The Basketball Diaries".
In an MTV News interview, Chris Cornell said of this song: "It's a bunch of references to people that I knew that were younger than me who've been dead for years and years, up to a couple of years ago. And then just kind of that juxtaposition of, even though it seems a lot for one person, a young, healthy person, to have lost all these friends through various means of stupidity and other things, then making reference to the Vietnam War Memorial and the sheer numbers of dead. And remembering that and pointing out that each one of them has a family, each one of them has friends that are sitting around thinking about the same stuff that I did. But the numbers are astounding and, in a sense, kind of criminal. And that's what the song's about.
The lyrics also make a reference to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ("...I've seen fifty-thousand names all engraved on a stone..."). As Cornell has put it: "And then just kind of that juxtaposition of, even though it seems a lot for one person, a young healthy person, to have lost all these friends through various means of stupidity and other things, then making reference to the Vietnam War Memorial and the sheer numbers of dead. And remembering that and pointing out that each one of them has a family, each one of them has friends that are sitting around thinking about the same stuff that I did. But the numbers are astounding and, in a sense, kind of criminal. And that's what the song's about."
The bridge where Cornell sings, "I've seen 50,000 names all engraved on a stone" is a reference to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
'Your Time Has Come' has received much criticism from Metallica fans, who claim the main guitar riff is copied off 'Bad Seed' by Metallica. The band has not commented on this issue to date.
The riff has been compared even more similar to "Get On The Snake" by Soundgarden (Cornell's previous band). It can be described as being identical except for the time signature.
SAMPLE - Metallica - Bad Seed
"Your Time Has Come" has received much criticism from Metallica fans, who claim the main guitar riff is copied off 'Bad Seed' by
Metallica. The band has not commented on this issue to date.
The riff has been compared to be even more similar to "Get On The Snake" by Soundgarden (Cornell's previous band). It can be described as being identical except for the time signature.
SAMPLE - Soundgarden - Get On The Snake
As for the video,
"We had just played a free show in Havana, Cuba, so we thought we'd play a free show for our fans in Hollywood," guitarist Tom Morello explained, "The interesting thing though was when we played in Havana, the crowd of 70,000 was very peaceful, and so were the authorities. When we played on Hollywood Boulevard, the fans were very peaceful, and the authorities beat the crap out of them. So pick your own police state, whatever you want, that's cool with me."