Here’s something cool I just noticed on Chris Cornell’s site. You can hear the song on his site. The lyrics are written by one of his fans, Rory Dela Rosa. Now before everyone gets too jealous about how cool it must have been to write a song with one of rock’s most talented singer/songwriter’s, you should know something about Rory. In April, he lost his six year old daughter to cancer and then he got handed his own cancer death sentence a few months later. As much as I dig Chris’ stuff, I’d take life over collaboration in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, Rory doesn’t have the choice.
One of the coolest things about being an artist is that you get to record parts of you that will live on past your physical death. I’d say the belief I have in that is the closest thing I’ve ever had to a religion. It’s no small comfort to know that people will have your poetic best to remember you by. Hat’s off to Chris Cornell for taking the time and helping to make something beautiful out of such awful circumstances.
