Alice in Chains was and will always be one of my all-time favorite movies. Despite their ability to rock in the studio and beyond, I also admire some of their lyrics.
Here are some of my lyrics. Enjoy!
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I’m sitting here writing a paper
Trying to think of words you can’t ignore
What is missing in my eyes?
Eighty to face, ten to be relaxed
Sign the deal, in motion
Small fish, big ocean” (I don’t like that- Facelift)
“Feed my eyes, can you close them?”
Jesus Christ, deny your maker.
He who tries will perish
Feed my eyes you’re already sewn shut” (Man in a Box- Facelift)
“You opened fire and your signal was true
You opened fire … I mean my smile, at the skull
You opened fire…
I live tomorrow, I will not follow you
As you roll in sorrow” (Sea of Pain- Facelift)
“If you despise my lover”
Satan got your thigh
If they steal in hunger
I’ll kick you when you try” (Freak- Facelift)
“I want to save you, recognize my disease”
Love, sex, pain, confusion, illness
You cry there, I don’t feel it
Exercise goes deeper into the head
Drowning, drying, drowning, blood, dead” (Confusion- Facelift)
“No clay color
Unsafe Identification” (You Have Wrong- Sap)
“Roses in a white vase
Bloody thorns near the leaves
What has fallen is because it is my hand
pulling them as hard as I can” (Frather-Sap)
“Well, it’s hard to believe that someone cheated on you
When you can see you’re just at the top
It is up to you to play
Lean on your face and into the fire” (Right Turn-Sap)
“I feel like it’s all black, so this is how it feels to be free” (Inside-Sap)
“The Empty Fossils of the New Scene” (Bones- Dirt)
“I want to fly but my
Wings are so denied” (In Hole-Dirt)
“Rooster-Dirt”
“I can feel the wheel, but I can’t steer it.”
When my thoughts become my greatest fear” (Sickman- Dirt)
“But we are our own elite race
So it seems bad according to the standard of hypocrisy
Running boring drills…
You cannot understand a user’s mind
If you let yourself go and open your mind
But experiment with your books and steps
I bet you wanna do it” (Junkhead- Dirt)
“You’re so special
You have the talent to make me feel like dirt
But you use your intelligence to dig me under
And he will cover me with dirt.
The one who doesn’t care is the one who should be
I tried to hide myself from my iniquity” (Dirt- Dirt)
“No time for solitude
Pain is the field where I graze… Serenity is far away
He saw my thinking and cried” (Chair- Angry Dirt)
“Into the river again”
It was the same old way back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see my way once” (Should I? – Dirt)
“We follow a misprinted lie
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle is all alone
No one to cry out to
No place to call home…
And yet I find
Repetition in my head
If not mine
I’d like to feel better dead” (Nutshell- Jar Volcarum)
“Innocence is in…
Ignorance is called…
Faith is defeated…
Food is stolen…
Arrogance is powerful…
That I see is false
I wrote my part
Eat evil, so young
I’m starting to crawl…
I will regret it tomorrow…
Thank you for your support…
A romance happens…
I suggest you borrow…” (Full Apple- Jar Volcarum)
“You are my friend
I will defend
And if we change
Well I love you anyway” (Excuses- Jar of Flies)
“Forgetting my woman, my lost”
friends
What I did and where
I was
Sleep in sweat glasses
Cold
look at my face it’s grownin’
old
There is no reason to be scared to death
Why?
Anything to me
To think what I
He said
Read the Cold page
He’s dead” (Don’t Follow the Jar of Flies)
“In the murky hole, you’d be well advised”
Don’t my funeral before the body dies” (Grind- Alice in Chains)
“I couldn’t use any time to twist
My entry is where you say what you ask Why do I ask this curve what level are you on?
My guess, a joke or a crazier slow?
“Stay, I say, until it’s enough to pay all those who move the suit” (Sludge Factory- Alice in Chains)
“Like the coldest winter
Heaven with you, hell within” (Heaven Beside You – Alice in Chains)
“What is a friend to you?
The word is so unjustly abused
Are you confusing me?
Everything is included though
Alone” (Frogs- Alice in Chains)
