"Black Hole Sun" Jazz cover

Vicky Cornell, who was married to Chris from 2004, has recalls their first encounter. She writes of the couple meeting “on a starry Paris night” and remembers “being introduced to you and how your eyes pierced through me”.Of falling for Cornell, she writes: “I thought I needed to be careful and tried to distance my heart from falling in love with you… but you didn’t let that happen, and you zigzagged back and forth across the world to visit me. You were permanently jet-lagged because you couldn’t bear our time away from each other.”Describing how Cornell cried during their wedding, Vicky comments: “I had never met such a sensitive and special man”, adding: “We had our beautiful babies, and you were convinced we were soulmates, and that you had been looking for me. I’m so happy you found me. I’m so happy for the nearly 14 and a half years we spent together. We did everything together, literally, everything. You were my best friend, and when I wasn’t out on tour, we were on the phone at least 4 hours a day.”
Much of the song's tension seems to hinge on one lyric: "Times are gone for honest men." Cornell had a lot to say about that line in a 1995 interview:It's really difficult for a person to create their own life and their own freedom. It's going to become more and more difficult, and it's going to create more and more disillusioned people who become dishonest and angry and are willing to fuck the next guy to get what they want. There's so much stepping on the backs of other people in our profession. We've been so lucky that we've never had to do that. Part of it was because of our own tenacity, and part of it was because we were lucky.
Preston Murphy-Bass
Michael Stark-Guitar