LYRICS

FACELIFT

We die young
Man in the box
Sea of sorrow
Bleed the freak
I can't remember
Love, hate, love
It ain't like that
Sunshine
Put you down
Confusion
I know somethin (bout you)
Real thing




SAP

Brother
Got me wrong
Right turn
I am inside
Love song




DIRT

Them bones
Dam that river
Rain when I die
Down in a hole
Sickman
Rooster
Junkhead
Dirt
God smack
Hate to feel
Angry chair
Would?




JAR OF FLIES

Rotten apple
Nutshell
I stay away
No excuses
Whale & wasp *Instrumental
Don't follow
Swing on this




ALICE IN CHAINS

Grind
Brush away
Sludge factory
Heaven beside you
Head creeps
Again
Shame in you
God am
So close
Nothin' song
Frogs
Over now




UNPLUGGED

Nutshell
Brother
No excuses
Sludge factory
Down in a hole
Angry chair
Rooster
Got me wrong
Heaven beside you
Would?
Frogs
Over now
Killer is me




OTHERS

What the hell have I?
A little bitter






We die young

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Album: Facelift



Scary's on the wall
Scary's on he's way

Watch where you spit
I'd advise you wait until it's over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

And we die young
Faster we run

Down, down, down you're rollin'
Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer
Take another hit
And bury your brother

And we die young
Faster we run

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on he's way

Another alley trip
Bullet seek the place to bend you over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

Faster we run
And we die young






Man in the box

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Album: Facelift


I'm the man in the box
Buried in my shit
Won't you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in shit
Won't you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut






Sea of sorrow

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Album: Facelift


Mind of destructive taste
I choose... to stroll amongst the waste that was your heart
Lost in the dark
Call off the chase

Walls of thought, strong and high
As my castle crumbles with time... I think of you
Oh, yes I do
Such a crime

You opened fire... and your mark was true
You opened fire... aim my smilin' skull at you
You opened fire...

I live tomorrow
You I'll not follow
As you wallow
In a sea of sorrow

Lines cut across my face
Why you laugh at my disgrace, I'll never know
How far to go
To reach that place

You opened fire... and your mark was true
You opened fire... aim my smilin' skull at you
You opened fire...

I live tomorrow
You I'll not follow
As you wallow
In a sea of sorrow

You opened fire... and your mark was true
You opened fire... aim my smilin' skull at you
You opened fire...

I live tomorrow
You I'll not follow
As you wallow
In a sea of sorrow...






Bleed the freak

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Album: Facelift


My cup runnet over
Like blood from a stone

These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me

When the pig runs slower
Let the arrow fly
When the sin lies bolder
I'll pluck out thine eye

These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me

If you scorn my lover
Satan got your thigh
If you steal in hunger
I will kick you when you try

These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me

Bleed for me, bleed for me

These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me

These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me






I can't remember

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Album: Facelift


Turn around you say
'Scuse the 'tude but I haven't eaten today
And my eyes are turning grey
What's your name?

I can't remember
I can't remember

Bring me down you try
Feel the pain and keep it all in till you die
Without eyes you cannot cry
Who's to blame?

I can't remember
I can't...

Remember identity, the visions in my mind from screamin' at me
And mama, mama, ooh... my angry brains of infancy

Knocked down but I have enough hate to breathe
Down your throat and steal your energy
You took everyting but my will to be
Now the loss of your god won't make me bleed

I am alive






Love, hate, love

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Album: Facelift


I tried to love you I thought I could
I tried to own you I thought I would
I want to peel the skin from your face
Before the real you lays to waste

You told me I'm the only one
Sweet little angel you should have run
Lying, crying, dying to leave
Innocence creates my hell

Cheating myself still you know more
It would be so easy with a whore
Try to understand me little girl
My twisted passion to be your world

Lost inside my sick head
I live for you but I'm not alive
Take my hand before I kill
I still love you but, I still burn

Love, hate, love...






It ain't like that

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Album: Facelift


There I was, laid out on a table
Screamin' sweat and bare feet to the floor
In my life, I'd not soften
Things that cut, and burn so often
But I sit, think of somethin'
Scared to face, the dyin' nothin'

See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore

Where I go is when I feel I'm able
How I fight is why I'm feelin' sore
In my mind, not forgotten
Feel as though, a tooth were rotten
Behind the smile, a tongue that's slippin'
Buzzards cry, when flesh is rippin'

See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore

Here I sit writing on the paper
Trying to make the words you can't ignore
In my eyes, what I'm lacking
Score at face, a ten for slacking
Sign the deal, set in motion
Smaller fish, so huge the ocean

See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore
See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore






Sunshine

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Album: Facelift


Am I too contagious
Full of sick desire
Am I that I promise
Burning corpsed pyre

Then some dude came down to touch the Mother
Mother touched, and dude ain't here no more

Am I your reflection
Melting mirror smile
Am I worth the value
Do my love defile

Then some dude came down to touch the Mother
Mother touched and dude ain't here no more
Ain't no day the sun don't crack
Try brand some name across my back so you care?
Find someone to tell you

Sunshine... sweet love my labor
Don't mind... I don't care no more

Can you face the queston?
Is my soul entire?

Sunshine... sweet love my labor
Don't mind... I don't care no more
Sunshine... sweet love my labor
Don't mind... I don't care no more






Put you down

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Album: Facelift


Heatbreaker, feelin' alright
Body over... mind
It's slower, reduction is addictive too
Personality overview

I can see what the cost will be
You know I don't need you
I just can't put you down
I can see what it all means to me
Honey I don't need you
I just can't put you down
Can't put you down

Hard drinker... feelin' all right
Your maker... mine
It's slower... reduction is addictive too
Personality overview

I can see what the cost will be
You know I don't need you
I just can't put you down
I can see what it all means to me
Honey I don't need you
I just can't put you down


Put you down, down, down, gonna put you down, down
Put you down, down, down, gonna put you down, down
Put you down, down, down, gonna put you down, down
Put you down, down, down, gonna put you down, down

Everything you buy is for the jingle
Every time you lie it's all  the same
And if you need a rhyme to kill the singer
Shoot me dead before I may be through






Confusion

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Album: Facelift


There's no time to give at all
I cause you grief and blow my hatred
Further in your mind
You reach, I run, you fall
On skinned knees you crawl

I want to set you free
Recognize my disease

Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering
You're there crying, I feel not a thing
Drilling my way deeper in your head
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead

So you sit and think of love
I wait, hate all the more, I fall
On skinned knees I crawl

I want to set you free
Recognize my disease

Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering
You're there crying, I feel not a thing
Drilling my way deeper in your head
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead

Now there's time to give it all
I put my fears behind again
On skinned knees we'll crawl

I want to set you free
Recognize my disease

Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering
You're there crying, I feel not a thing
Drilling my way deeper in your head
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead
Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering






I know somethin (bout you)

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Album: Facelift


Why can't I take it all OK?
I like to dig and fuck around with your day
I'm gonna tell your mama
Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't now way you'll go without me
Every chance I'll make you pay

On your face, in my space, I tell you I know
Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin'
'Bout you, I know somethin'

Why can't I put your words away
I'd like to have more of you in my veins
I'm gonna tell your papa
Yeh I'm gonna try and ball your babe
Your gold key don't fit my crapper
Ain't got no shit today

On your face, in my space, I tell you I know
Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin'
'Bout you, I know somethin'
On your face, in my space, I tell you I know
Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin'
'Bout you, I know somethin'

I'm gonna tell your mama
Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't no way you'll go without me
Every chance I'll make you pay

On your face, in my space, I tell you I know
Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin'
'Bout you, I know somethin'
On your face, in my space, I tell you I know
Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin'
'Bout you, I know somethin'






Real thing

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Album: Facelift


I messed around as a little boy
I grew up, made the blade my new toy
Friends said boy with what you screwin' around I said
Don't concern yourselves and just
Gimme another blast yeah

Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt
Take it away, don't want no more
Even if you say just one more
I won't leave you alone

I grew up, went into rehab
You know the doctors never did me no good
They said son you're gonna be a new man
I said thank you very much and
Can I borrow fifty bucks?

Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt
Take it away, don't want no more
Even if you say just one more
I won't leave you alone

'Cause I'm goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Straight to nowhere
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Straight to nowhere


I messed around as a little boy
I grew up, made the blade my new toy
Friends said boy what you fucking around, I said
Oh my god you'll be goin down

Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt
Take it away, don't want no more, no more
Even if you say just one more
I won't leave you alone

'Cause I'm goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Straight to nowhere
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Straight to nowhere

Follow me down
Sexual chocolate babe






Brother

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Album: Sap, Unplugged


Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky
With some who say I've lost my mind
Brother, try and hope to find...

You, were always so far away
I know that pain
So don't you run away like you used to do

Roses in a vase of white
Bloodies by the thorns
Beside the leaves that fall because my hand is
Pulling them hard as I can

You, were always so far away
I know that pain
And I won't run away like I used to do

Pictures in a box at home
Yellowing and green with mold
So I can barely see your face
Wonder how that color taste

You, were always so far away
I know the way
So don't you run away like you used to do
Like you used to do






Got me wrong

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Album: Sap, Unplugged


Yeah it goes away
All of this and more of nothing in my life
No colored clay
Individuality not safe

As of now I bet you've got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong

I can't let go
Threadbare tapestry unwinding slow
Feel a tortured brain
Show your belly like you want me too

As of now I bet you've got me wrong
So unsure we reach for something strong

I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don't last forever
Something got to turn out right

You sugar taste
Sweetness doesn't often touch my face
Stay if you please
You may not be here when I leave

As of now I bet you've got me wrong
So unsure we reach for something strong

I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
Strong, I haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don't last forever
Something got to turn out right






Right turn

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Album: Sap


Inside, always tryin' to get back inside
But it's so hard to penetrate pig-thick skin

I'm 'bout as low as I can get
I'd leave but I can't forget
Still I wonder why 

It ain't right
It ain't right
It ain't right
It ain't right

As 'bout as low as she can get
She'd leave me but she won't forget
And she wonders why

She ain't right
She ain't right
It ain't right
She ain't right

Now we're as low as we can get
Can't leave and can't forget

We ain't right
We ain't right
We ain't right
We ain't right...

It's hard to believe some body tricked you
When you can see you were only high
It's all up to you so you gamble
Flat on your face and into the fire...






I am inside

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Album: Sap


Loneliness, it shadows me
Quicker than darkness
Crawls to the surface of my skin
Visibly surrounded by it

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

Surrounded by empty souls
Artificial courage used
And because so once was mine
I walk this maze alone

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

The man's beside himself
Man's below himself
Man's behind himself
Am I inside my self

Chaos and hate shadow me
Pain it fills me up
Only one thing makes me feel
Missing better half of me

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

Man's beside himself
Man's below himself
Man's behind himself
Am I inside my self






Love song

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Album: Sap


Love song take one

I love you, I'm not coming back bitch
I think I should say something
I can't see, I can't feel anything, I can't I can't

Wash my face, cut out my teeth and tell me to grin
MY GUMS ARE BLEEDING! MY GUMS ARE BLEEDING! 

I hate you, I hate you
Get a fucking haircut!
Go fuck yourself
Rae Dong Chung, Rae Dong Chung, Rae Dong Chung, Rae Dong Chung, Rae Dong Chung, 

Get something, get, get them, get them
Get the fuckin' midget
Get the midget, get the midget
Get the fuckin midget
Kiss the fuckin' midget
"Where the deer and antelope play..."
Kiss the midget, kiss the midget, kiss the midget, kiss the midget, 

"That was perfect, you guys, that was great!"






Them bones

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Album: Dirt


I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave

I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones
 
Dust rise right on over my time
Empty fossil of the new scene

I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones
 
Toll due bad dream come true
I lie dead gone under red sky

I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them...
I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them...
I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones






Dam that river

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Album: Dirt


I broke you in the canyon
I drowned you in the lake
You a snake that I would trample
Only thing I'd not embrace
 
Oh, you couldn't dam that river
And maybe I don't give a damn anyway
So you couldn't dam that river
And it washed me so far away
 
I pushed and then you stumbled
I kicked you in the face
You stare at me so hollow
Got to keep that killin' pace
 
Oh, you couldn't dam that river
And maybe I don't give a damn anyway
So you couldn't dam that river
And it washed me so far away
 
I burned the place around you
I hit you with a rake
You piss upon my candle
So proving you're a fake

Oh, you couldn't dam that river
And maybe I don't give a damn anyway
So you couldn't dam that river
And it washed me so far away






Rain when I die

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Album: Dirt


Is she ready to know my frustration?
What she slippin' inside, slow castration
I'm a riddle so strong, you can't break me
Did she come here to try, try to take me
 
Did she call my name?
I think it's gonna rain
When I die
 
Was it something I said, held against me?
Ain't no life on the run, slowly climbing
Caught in ice so she stares, stares at nothing
I can help her but won't, now she hates me

Did she call my name?
I think it's gonna rain
When I die

She won't let me hide
She don't want me to cry

Will she keep on the ground, trying to ground me
Slowly forgive my lie, lying to save me
Could she love me again, or will she hate me
Prob'ly not, I know why, can't explain me

Did she call my name?
I think it's gonna rain
When I die






Sickman

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Album: Dirt

 

What the hell am I?
Thousand eyes, a fly
Lucky then I'd be
In one day deceased
 
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
 
I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
 
Ahh, what's the difference, I'll die
Ahh, In this sick world of mine
 
What the hell am I
Leper from inside
Inside wall of peace
Dirty and diseased
 
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
 
I can see the end is getting near
I won't rest until my head is clear

Ahh, what's the difference, I'll die
Ahh, In this sick world of mine
 
Can you see the end?
Choke on me my friend
Must to drown these thoughts
Purity over rot

What the hell am I worn eroded pride
Saddened 10 mile wide
I'm gonna let it slide
 
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman

I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear

Ahh, what's the difference, I'll die
Ahh, In this sick world of mine
Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh






Rooster

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Album: Dirt, Unplugged

 

Ain't found a way to kill me yet
Eyes burn with stinging sweat
Seems every path leads me to nowhere
Wife and kids household pet
Army green was no safe bet
The bullets scream to me from somewhere
 
Yeah, they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah, here come the rooster
You know he ain't gonna die

Yeah, they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah, here come the rooster yeah
You know he ain't gonna die

Walkin' tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my home land
Gloria sent me pictures of my boy
Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death
My buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath
Oh god please won't you help me make it through

Here they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah, here come the rooster yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, you know he ain't gonna die






Junkhead

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Album: Dirt

 

A good night, the best in a long time
A new friend turned me on to an old favorite
Nothing better than a dealer who's high
Be high, convince them to buy
 
What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And I do it a lot
 
Seems so sick to the hypocrite norm
Running their boring drills
But we are an elite race of our own
The stoners, junkies, and freaks
 
Are you happy? I am, man.
Content and fully aware
Money, status, nothing to me
'Cause your life is empty and bare

What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And I do it a lot

You can't understand a user's mind
But try, with your books and degrees
If you let yourself go and opened your mind
I'll bet you'd be doing like me
And it ain't so bad

What's my drug of choice?
Well, what have you got?
I don't go broke
And I do it a lot
Say, I do it a lot!
I do it a lot!
I do it a lot!
Say, I do it a lot!
 






Dirt

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Album: Dirt


I have never felt such frustration
Or lack of self control
I want you to kill me
And dig me under, I wanna live no more
 
One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me
For me
 
I want to taste dirty, a stinging pistol
In my mouth, on my tongue
I want you to scrape me from the walls
And go crazy like you've made me

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me
One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me
For me

You, you are so special
You have the talent to 
Make me feel like dirt
And you, you use your
Talent to dig me under
And cover me with dirt

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me
One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me






God smack

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Album: Dirt

 

Care not for the men who wonder
Straw that broke your back, you're under
Cast all them aside who care
Empty eyes and dead end stare
 
Don't you know that none are blind
To the lie, and you think I don't find what you hide?
 
What in God's name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun
 
For the horse you've grown much fonder
Than for me, that I don't ponder
As the hair of one who bit you
Smiling bite your own self, too
 
And I think that you're not blind
To the ones you left behind
I'll be here

What in God's name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun
 
So be yearning all your life
Twisting, turning like a knife
 
Now you know the reasons why
Can't get high, or you will die
Or you'll die
 
What in God's name have you done?
Stick your arm for some real fun
So your sickness weighs a ton
And God's name is smack for some
Yeah






Hate to feel

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Album: Dirt

 

What's gone wrong, I can't see straight
Been too long, so full of hate
 
What the fuck will it take
Drown myself in my wake
Another shaggy D.A.
Now a dog, shake my leg
Plastic man, paper face
Candy heart, what a waste
Gotta change, set a date
Eat my cake, with my plate
 
Stare at me with empty eyes and point your words at me
Mirror on the wall will show you what you're scared to see
 
I can see,  -   (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel   -   (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)
 
So climb the walls,
Thin my blood now
And I crawl, back to bed now
 
What the hell, gotta rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, gotta get
Pin cushion medicine
Used to be curious
Now the shit's sustenance
 
All this time I swore I'd never be like my old man
What the hay it's time to face exactly what I am

I can see,  -   (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel   -   (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)

What the hell, gotta rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, gotta get
Pin cushion medicine
Used to be curious
Now the shit's sustenance

All this time I swore I'd never be like my old man
What the hay it's time to face exactly what I am

I can see,  -   (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel   -   (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)
I can see,  -   (wish I couldn't see at all)
I can feel   -   (wish I couldn't feel at all)
Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all)
Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)






Angry chair

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Album: Dirt, Unplugged

 

Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don't care
 
What do I see across the way
See myself molded in clay
Stares at me, yeah I'm afraid
Changing the shape of his face
 
Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
burning on the angry chair
 
Little boy made a mistake
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees, time to pray, boy
 
I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind,
I don't mind, yeah,
I don't mind,
Lost my mind, yeah
But I don't mind,
Can't find it anywhere
I don't mind
 
Corporate prison, we stay
I'm a dull boy, work all day
So I'm strung out anyway
 
Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze
Serenity is far away
 
Saw my reflection and cried
So little hope that I died
Feed me your lies, open wide
Weight of my heart, not the size

I don't mind, yeah
I don't mind,
I don't mind, yeah,
I don't mind,
Lost my mind, yeah
But I don't mind,
Can't find it anywhere
I don't mind

Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray, boy






Down in a hole

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Album: Dirt, Unplugged

 

Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers in a tomb... in bloom

Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man who won't let himself be
 
Down in a hole, feeling so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
I'd like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied
 
Down in a hole and they've put all the stones in their place
I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feeling so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
I'd like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb (Oh I want to be inside of you)
I give this part of me for you (Oh I want to be inside of you)
Sand rains down and here I sit (Oh I want to be inside of you)
Holding rare flowers in a tomb... in bloom (Oh I want to be inside)
 
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, out of control
 
I'd like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied






Would?

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Album: Dirt, Unplugged

 

Know me broken by my master
Teach thee on child of love hereafter
 
Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way
 
Drifting body it's sole desertion
Flying not yet quite the notion

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way
 
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home
Have I gone?
And left you here alone
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home
Have I gone?
And left you here alone
If I would, could you?






Rotten apple

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Album: Jar of flies

 

Hey ah na na
Innocence is over
Hey ah na na
Over
 
Hey ah na na
Ignorance is spoken
Hey ah na na
Spoken

Hey ah na na
Confidence is broken
Hey ah na na
Broken

Hey ah na na
Sustenance is stolen
Hey ah na na
Stolen

Hey ah na na
Arrogance is potent
Hey ah na na
Potent

What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey ah na na
I repent tomorrow
Hey ah na na
Tomorrow

Hey ah na na
Is suspended my sorrow
Hey ah na na
Sorrow, yeah

What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey ah na na
A romance is fallen
Hey ah na na
Fallen

Hey ah na na
Recommend you borrow
Hey ah na na
Borrow

What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start

Hey ah na na
Hey ah na na
Hey ah na na
Hey ah na na






Nutshell

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Album: Jar of flies, Unplugged


We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight, and yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find, yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead






I stay away

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Album: Jar of flies


Yeah, I want to travel south this year
Aaah, woah, woah won't prevent safe passage here

Why you act crazy
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes shade

Yeah, hey Yeah, tears that soak a callous heart

Why you act frightened
I am enlightened
Your weakness builds me
So someday you'll see

I stay away

Why you act crazy
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes shade

I stay away
I stay away
I stay away
I stay away






No excuses

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Album: Jar of flies, Unplugged


It's alright
There comes a time
Got no patience to search for peace of mind
Layin' low
Wanna take it slow
No more hiding or disguising truths I've sold

Everyday it's something hits me all so cold
You find me sittin' by myself no excuses, then I know

It's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny, well you're drowning in it too

Everyday it's something hits me all so cold
You find me sittin' by myself no excuses, then I know

Yeah, it's fine
Walk down the line
Leave our rain, a cold Trade for warm sunshine
You my friend
I will defend
And if we change, well I love you anyway

Everyday it's something hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself no excuses, then I know






Don't follow

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Album: Jar of flies


Hey, I ain't never coming home
Hey, I'll just wander my own road
Hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don't follow
Misery so hollow

Hey you, you're livin' life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can't shake me round now
I get so lost and don't know how
And it hurts to care, I'm going down

Forgot my woman, lost my friends
Things I'd done and where I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors cold
See my face it's growin' old
Scared to death no reason why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I said
Read the page it's cold and dead

Take me home
Yeah, take me home
Take me home
Take me home, yeah
Take me home

Say goodbye don't follow






Swing on this

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Album: Jar of flies


Mother said come home
Father said come home
Sisters said come home
So my friends said come home

I said
Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see, I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway

Then I heard a voice
Said "Son you have a choice"
I then slapped my face

Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway
It's too bright over here
I can shift, cannot steer
So I drive them away
For a while, then I stay
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway

Now I have to go home
Do as, when in Rome

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway
Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway






Grind

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Album: Alice In Chains


In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies
Come the morning light
It's a see-through show
What you may have heard and what you think you know

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

Sure to play a part
So you love the game
And in truth your lies become one and same
I could set you free
Rather hear the sound
Of your body breaking as I take you down

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside

In the darkest hole
You'd be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies

Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth won't grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside






Brush away

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Album: Alice In Chains


I could use some
Time to curl away
My aggression
Is where you stake your claim
Why I question
This curve on which you grade
My conception
A joke? Or latest craze?

I try to get away
And yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away
And brush away loose ground

My intention
Can I arrive at eight
Lie and dream some
Surprise you guys I'm late
All right, correction
Forgetting something wait

I try to get away
And yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away
And brush away loose ground

I try to get away
And yet I stick around
So fall and crawl away
And brush away loose ground

Brush away loose ground
Brush away






Sludge factory

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Album: Alice In Chains, Unplugged


You insult me in my home you're forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate you shake, and I'm high?
Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
20 hours won't print my picture milk carton size

Carton size
Carton size
Carton size

Call me up congratulations ain't the real why
There's no pressure besides brilliance let's say by day 9
Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time
By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way

Once again you see an in discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date...
For me

Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you'd not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay all who caused strife

Once again you see an in discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date, for me
Once again you see an in discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date...
For me






Heaven beside you

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Album: Alice In Chains, Unplugged


Be what you wanna be
See what you came to see
Been what you wanna be
I don't like what I see

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
And you think you have it still, heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
And I'm not blind
I'm just see-through faded,
Super jaded,
And out of my mind

Do what you wanna do
Go out and seek your truth
When I'm down and blue
Rather be me than you

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
And you wish you had it still, heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
I'm not blind
I'm just see-through faded,
Super jaded,
And out of your mind

Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
Like the coldest winter chill
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
Like the coldest winter will
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
And you know you have it still, heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's fucked up
But you're not blind
You're just see-through faded,
Overrated,
And out of your mind






Head creeps

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Album: Alice In Chains


No more time
Just one more time

So crazy, beat the strain
Too lazy, shake the gray
So, and she willed the drain
So let me be defamed
Your redundancy stains
Tired of infantile claims
Like puppets on their strings
Untangle you from me

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

No more time
Just one more time

Your redundancy stains
Tired of infantile claims
Live puppets on a string
Untangle you from me
So crazy, beat the strain
Too lazy, shake the gray
So, and she willed the drain
So let me be defamed

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

One day my plane leaves
Some way my head creeps
Some day my way leads
Some way my head creeps

No more time
Just one more time

Empty room sets the scene
Pick at me slow, pain fiend
Suck me through barbed screen
Anger becomes our Queen
Tongue whipping forked black
How long until you crack
Surprised and set back
Lackey's loose talk for fact

Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again
Time to call the doggies off
Tired of the shadowin'
Slide me to the side again
Slapped in the face again

One day my plane leaves
Some way my head creeps
Some day my way leads
Some way my head creeps
...Creeps

No more time
Just one more time

So crazy feel the hate
Yeah, I've got years to wait
I know it's not too late
Lending clean hands to fate
Rise from the dirt I'm in
Hide in another's skin
Stick black dress doll with pin
Your mouth takes on my grin






Again

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Album: Alice In Chains


Hey
Let them do it again, yeah
Hey
You said you were my friend
Hey
Turn me upside down, ooh
Hey
Feelin' so down
Hey
Hey...

Hey
I know I made the same mistakes
I
I won't do it again, no
Why,
Why you slap me in the face, ow
I
I didn't say it was okay, no
No
No...

Hey
You had time to think it out, yeah
Hey
Your weak will won't help her heal her heart
Hey
I'll bet it really eats you up...






Shame in you

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Album: Alice In Chains


When I awaken
And I'm achin'
Time for sleepin', yeah
When I'm sayin'
Time to go and
I've been hurtin', yeah
When I'm layin'
I'm still trying
Concentrating on dyin', yeah

You're right as rain
But you're wrong to blame
Agreed my crime's the same

My sins I'll claim
Give you back shed pain
Go find a place for own shame
So you can deal
with this thing unreal
No one made you feel any hurt, yeah

Body's movin'
Only provin'
No one needs to move
Still believin'
Yet mistaken
All God's children, yeah
And I must say
I was stupid
Selfishly she consumed, yeah

And you must change
Patterns all we trained
Or n'er regain peace you seek
Now you hear me
For the things I see
Yeah, I believe in inner peace, yeah

Throw out
Blow up
Hold in
Show fine
No signs
Grow blind






God am

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Album: Alice In Chains


Dear God, how have you been, then?
I'm not fine, fuck pretending
All of this death you're sending
Best throw some free heart mending
Invite you in my heart, then
When done, my sins forgiven?
This God of mine relaxes
World dies I still pay taxes

Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am

So Lord, I see you grinnin'
Must be grand always winning
How proud are you being able
To gather faith from fable

Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am
God am
My God am
God am
God

All the respect I'm giving
Shared strenght acquired by livin'
All bloomin' life you're feeding
Can't hide sick ones you're weeding

Can I be as my God am
Can you be as God am
Can I be as my God am
God of all my God am
God am
God am
God am
God am






So close

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Album: Alice In Chains


Why are we here again
It's the same ol' sit down roll around chewed up pen
Nothin' thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothin' thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothin' thrilling me too much, yeah
Nothing thrilling me

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Man, I nearly snapped my twig
Then again I nearly snapped a few of you
So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think highly now
So I hear you think

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Why?
Why?
Why?






Nothin' song

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Album: Alice In Chains


Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be workin' so late
Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be workin' so late
Wonder should I be workin' so late

Began this take at 7:38
Head hit the board, enough that it aches
Wonder should I be workin' so late
Wonder should I be workin' so late

The nothin' song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin' ever stays the same

Went outside to give all a break
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside, Sam throw away your cake
Went outside to give a break
Went outside to give a break
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside Sam, throw away your cake
Back inside Sam, throw away your cake

The nothin' song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin' ever stays the same
The nothin' song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin' ever stays the same

Nothin'
Yeah, nothin'
Ooh, Nothin'
Nothin'...

Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat or she spreads all the waste
Snap her neck or trade in for new make
Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat or she spreads all the waste
Snap her neck or trade in for new make
Snap her neck or trade in for new make

The nothin' song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin' ever stays the same
The nothin' song sticks to your mouth

Nothin'...






Frogs

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Album: Alice In Chains, Unplugged


What does friend mean to you?
A word so wrongfully abused
Are you like me, confused
All included but you

Alone...

The sounds of silence often soothe
Shapes and colors shift with mood
Pupils widen and change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way

Flowers watched through wide eyes blue
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way






Over now

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Album: Alice In Chains, Unplugged


Yeah, it's over now
But I can breathe somehow
When it's all worn out
I'd rather go without

You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right here
Look me straight in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime

Well it's over now
Yet I can see somehow
When it's all gone wrong
It's hard to be so strong

You know it's been on my mind
Could you stand right here
Look me straight in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime

Guess it's over now
I seem alive somehow
When it's out of sight
Just wait and do your time

You know it's been on my mind
Could I stand right here
Look myself in the eye, and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime






Killer is me

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Album: Unplugged


Don't need a gun
Pointed at me
No need to run
The killer is me
The killer is me

So the sun
Shines upon me
I'm havin' fun
The killer is me

Insane the mind
In the name of me
Can't find the time
To let things be
Insane the mind
In the name of me
Can't find the time
To let things be
Let things be

Oh yeah... Can I start over
Oh yeah... Can I start over
And get over it

So the sun
Shines upon me
I'm havin' fun
The killer is me
The killer is me
The killer is me

Oh yeah... Can I start over
Oh yeah... Can I start over
And get over it

Let things be






What the hell have I?

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The face before me flies
Laughs at me inside
Masks are made to hide the glow
Shining eyes
Distance 'tween us grows
feeding lies

It's hard to start things over
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

Something I should say
It takes you every day
What you give is not alive
Today
Your soul served on a plate
Throw it away

It's hard to start things over
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

It's hard to start things over
Oh yeah
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

It's hard to start things over
Oh yeah
You can feel the fire around us
All the time
Yeah

All the time

What the hell have I?
Little Pride






A little bitter

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How the mind does shout for rest
When the bodies shaken, yeah
Oh the tightness in my chest
Still your leaves I'm raking

Lord is this a test
Was it fun creating, yeah?
My god's a little sick
And he wants me crazy

Who
Are you
Who can say
It's ok to live through me?
Live to be
Part of me
You're a wrinkled magazine
Yeah

Was it something that I said?
Was it how they're breaking, yeah
I'm so selfish, paying your rent
While your blood I'm taking

You
Spend me
Like a tree
Dirty dollar bills for leaves
Dark in a sea
Of my seeds
And the tears on which you feed
You feed

The body is a temple
A dormant alter
To where infantile men lie around
Itching and nibbling
For a small piece of sanity
Of which you can not give

Shit!

Individuality
Buying pennies with my soul
And a little Heaven spent
While the Hell I'm taking

Thieves
Parasites
Hide from life
You know they'll remember me
They are abhored
In self-worth
All that matters much to me