Cochise (song)
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| Single by Audioslave | ||||||||||||||
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| Released | October 14, 2002 | |||||||||||||
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| Genre | Hard rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 3:42 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Epic | |||||||||||||
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"Cochise" is a song by American hard rock band Audioslave. Recorded with producer Rick Rubin, it was featured as the opening track on the band's 2002 self-titled debut album Audioslave. The song was also released as the first single from the album on October 14, 2002, reaching the top ten of both the United States Billboard Mainstream Rock and Alternative Songs charts.
Originally titled "Save Yourself" after a line in the song's chorus, "Cochise" is named after Cochise, an Apache Indian chief "who declared war on the Southeast and drove out thousands of settlers". Speaking about the eponymous subject, guitarist Tom Morello remarked that "Cochise the Avenger, fearless and resolute, attacked everything in his path with an unbridled fury", adding that the song "kinda sounds like that". Despite this, the song's lyrics are generally unrelated to Cochise, and instead feature a number of religious references.
"Cochise" was originally made available for online streaming on LAUNCHcast from September 25, 2002. The track made its live debut as the opening song of the band's debut performance, in New York City for the Late Show with David Letterman on November 25, 2002, and was subsequently performed as the closing song at the majority of shows on the album's promotional concert tour.
The song was later featured on a number of external media releases, including as a playable track on the 2005 music video game Guitar Hero, on the 2006 comedy film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, as a playable track on the Guitar Hero TV mode of 2015 music video game Guitar Hero Live, and in the trailer for 2015 wrestling video game WWE 2K16.
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