“Your Time Has Come” by Audioslave

"Your Time Has Come" was the second single from Out of Exile, Audioslave's second album, landing in May 2005, and underneath its hard-charging groove it's a roll call of the dead. Chris Cornell, who wrote the words, took his cue from "People Who Died", Jim Carroll's salute to the casualties of New York's drug scene, and filled his own version with people he had known, younger than him, who were gone before their time.

Then he widens the lens to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and its sheer weight of names, setting one man's private losses against a nation's. Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk share the music credit with Cornell, and Brendan O'Brien mixed it and kept Cornell's howl right up front.

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