Your Time Has Come

Infobox Single
Name = Your Time Has Come


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Artist = Audioslave
from Album = Out of Exile
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 2005
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 4:15
Label = Interscope
Writer = Chris Cornell, Audioslave
Producer = Rick Rubin
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Be Yourself"
(2005)
This single = "Your Time Has Come"
(2005)
Next single = "Doesn't Remind Me"
(2005)
Misc =

"Your Time Has Come" is the second single by the American hard rock band Audioslave from their second album "Out of Exile". It was released in 2005.

The song is featured on the Soundtrack of the game "FlatOut 2".

Track listing

# "Your Time Has Come" - 4:15

ong meaning

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". As Chris Cornell explained: "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."it is also about people who killed themselves before their time has come." cite web|title=Blabbermouth.net - Chris Cornell Salutes Lost Loved Ones On New Audioslave Single|author=Moss, Corey|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1503321/20050601/audioslave.jhtml?headlines=true|accessdate=2005-06-01]

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."cite web|title=Blabbermouth.net - Chris Cornell Salutes Lost Loved Ones On New Audioslave Single|author=Moss, Corey|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1503321/20050601/audioslave.jhtml?headlines=true|accessdate=2007-05-20|date=2005-06-01]

Criticism

'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.

Music video

The band made a music video for the song. It consists of powerful scenes from their free live show in Cuba, which was the first time a rock band from the US played in Cuba. It was held in May of 2005, and also a DVD came out about this concert. Besides the concert footage moments from the life of Audioslave can be seen in the video (the band on the road, giving interviews, etc.).

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