Bones Of Birds

Album: King Animal (2012)
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  • Frontman Chris Cornell explained the song's dark subject matter. "It was sort of lyrically kind of inspired by being a father and having children and having that stress," he said. "You know, that stress about you don't want to see them lose their innocence; in a way that when children lose their innocence and sort of learn about the real world it's never a good thing - it's always because of loss, something bad happens, something they weren't expecting."

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