Songs Dealing With Chris Cornell?

pleatherman

Here is a quick list with some details to follow:
1. Hunted Down (Cornell/Thayil)
2. Missing (Cornell)
3. I'm So Tired (MacKaye)
4. Brother The Cloud (Vedder, Klinghoffer, Smith, Wotman)
5. Comes Then Goes (Vedder)
6. Alright (Ament)
7. Get It Back (Cameron)
8. Untitled (McCready)
9. Save You (McCready, Gossard, Ament, Cameron, Vedder)
This might be a tricky subject for a couple reasons.  The first is not wanting to fall into the same trap as lazy journalists who tend to believe every other song Dave Grohl wrote is either about Kurt Cobain or Courtney Love.  The second reason is the band members may not explicitly state when a song is written about Cornell, perhaps out of respect.  That leaves some hopefully not misguided extrapolation on my part.
The obvious songs dedicated to Chris are the covers, "Hunted Down" and "Missing" from the 2018 Holiday single.
Another cover performed by Eddie in 2017, originally written by Ian MacKaye, "I'm So Tired", has some haunting resonance to Chris's passing.
Many, myself included, think the Vedder penned lyrics for "Brother the Cloud" and "Comes Then Goes" deal with his relationship to Chris.
Jeff has mentioned the song "Alright" concerns his response to those close to him recently dying from suicide.
Matt Cameron's song "Get It Back" offer many allusions that can pertain to his lost bandmate.  But again, these people live full lives outside of the public eye and are at an age where grieving for loved ones becomes, unfortunately, more common.  We are usually only aware of the famous ones.
The only PJ member who has gone on record earlier this year saying he is writing a song about Chris Cornell is Mike McCready, and that yet to be titled song has not been released.
However, the one song written decades earlier, "Save You", may also have been written for Chris.  It was created around the time Chris was in one of the darkest throes of his drug addiction.  I realize I am making a big assumption but when Eddie conceded the song was written about a person they did not save at a recent London concert, I couldn't help but wonder if the person "too important to us, we'd be lost without you" was directed towards their friend, Chris Cornell.

mookeywrench

More potential ammo for save you.

Audioslave released Cochise around the same time. Which was originally titled, Save Yourself and has simular themes in the lyrics.

lastexitlondon

I thought  cochise was about sobriety.  Brother the cloud is about his brother chris

trees

I always  thought  save you was about Layne  since he  passed in 2002.but it could be for multiple people  .peace to everyone 

Jimmydean55

Definitely think Get It Back is about Chris. Matt posted himself playing the guitar part from it on IG just a couple days ago and it had a text block mentioning CC’s bday. 

on2legs

Save You was for Mike, no?

PJNB

trees said:

I always  thought  save you was about Layne  since he  passed in 2002.but it could be for multiple people  .peace to everyone 

I think you are right about it being multiple people. Layne also had a song dedicated to him that year too by the band.

jgregory89

I always assumed Save You was somewhat about Layne Staley.  Didn't know that about Alright, thanks for the info. 

pleatherman

mookeywrench said:

More potential ammo for save you.

Audioslave released Cochise around the same time. Which was originally titled, Save Yourself and has simular themes in the lyrics.

Wow, I never made that possible connection between those two songs before.  
I knew Chris had a substance abuse problem around that time but didn't consider "Save You" was about him until Ed got a little choked up after performing it in London earlier this month and made this comment.  "I just realized that, we don't play that song that often, and I just realized that the person that was written about, yeah, we didn't get to save him (fuck).  Uh, you can only do so much.  They gotta see the opening and the light to save themselves."  

Jimmydean55 said:

Definitely think Get It Back is about Chris. Matt posted himself playing the guitar part from it on IG just a couple days ago and it had a text block mentioning CC’s bday. 

That's awesome, I had no idea.  Hopefully, one day I will be lucky enough to see the whole band play it live.

HughFreakingDillon

really think they should bust out Get It Back. it's a great track. 

1ThoughtKnown

Jeff said on the PJ Sirius/XM channel that Alright was inspired by the death of Mark Hollis from Talk Talk. Particularly in how he walked away from the music business. 

Tristelune

I don’t think save you was about Chris, the person passed away a while back in the 90’s as far as I can recall.

lastexitlondon

Johnny rammone maybe?

Tristelune

I don’t think either but that’s the idea of the timeline. (Late 90’s early 2000’s) could have been Dee Dee though.

HughFreakingDillon

lastexitlondon said:

Johnny rammone maybe?

I thought Life Wasted was about him (or more his young death at 55)

on2legs

https://community.pearljam.com/discussion/29096/save-you-about-who

HughFreakingDillon

there you have it. Cornell. 

PJNB

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/eddie-vedder-grunge-control/Y6WUVRHD6W4KZAPBYHG4E33TTI/?c_id=6&objectid=3002948

There is some info on Save You from a 2002 interview with Ed. 

HughFreakingDillon

sounds to me like he didn't want to say, since cornell was obviously still around.