Pop Song 584 of 1000 'Burden in my hand' Soundgarden 1996

Pop Song 584 of 1000 'Burden in my hand' Soundgarden 1996

Official MV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIqIVxUuKs
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Cornell was asked what the song had come to mean for him, years later. Cornell responded:

That was a song that really came from the guitar itself. It was mostly like the guitar was dictating what the lyrics should be and creating a mental image. The mental image was this sort of destitute guy. I guess he'd lost his cool if you want to put it that way. He's sort of coming to grips with what had happened and not necessarily feeling particularly emotional about it either way. He's trying to figure out how he would stand up and put one foot in front of the other—or not—and the song never really resolves any of that. It's just that moment of somebody sitting in the dirt. I had more moments like that after that song was written than I ever had before it was, so it means a lot more to me now than it did then.