Burden in My Hand by Soundgarden (Saturday Night Live 1996) • The lyrics of "Burden in My Hand" suggest the song is about a man who murders a woman he is in a relationship with and leaves her in the desert, not without regret. Guitarist Kim Thayil called the song "the "Hey Joe" of the '90s." In a 2011 interview with ARTISTdirect.com, Cornell was asked what the song had come to mean for him, years later. Cornell responded: That was a song that really came from the guitar itself. It was mostly lik