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Alice in Chains - Get Born Again

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Album: Nothing Safe: Best Of The Box
Released: 1999

Get Born Again Lyrics

Get Born Again

Layne Staley wrote this about being reborn and trying to live life anew.

Alice in Chains - Hate To Feel

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Album: Dirt
Released: 1992

Hate To Feel Lyrics

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
Got to change, set a date
Eat my cake, lick 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, yeah (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 walls
Thin my blood now
And I crawl, back to bed now

What the hell, got to rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, got to 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 hey it's time to face
Exactly what I am

I can see, yeah (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, got to rest
Aching pain in my chest
Lucky me, now I'm set
Little bug for a pet
New Orleans, got to 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 hey it's time to face
Exactly who I am

I can see, yeah (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, yeah (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)

Writer/s: LAYNE STALEY, MICHAEL STARR, SEAN KINNEY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Hate To Feel

This is one of the few Alice In Chains songs that Layne Staley wrote completely by himself. It's about how Layne's life problems resulted in him killing the pain with heroin.

Alice in Chains - Right Turn

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Album: Sap
Released: 1992

Right Turn Lyrics

Right Turn

This song on the album jacket is credited to a group called "Alice Mudgarden." The name is a combination of the band names "Alice In Chains," "Mudhoney" and "Soundgarden." The group itself is Alice In Chains with Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm and Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell.

Alice in Chains - Angry Chair

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Album: Dirt
Released: 1992

Angry Chair Lyrics

Angry Chair

Lead singer Layne Staley wrote this. It's about how his dad would sit him on timeout in a chair in front of a mirror when he would get in trouble.

Alice in Chains - Nutshell

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Album: Jar Of Flies
Released: 1994

Nutshell Lyrics

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

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

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

Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh

Writer/s: JERRY CANTRELL, MICHAEL INEZ, LAYNE STALEY, SEAN KINNEY
Publisher: FINTAGE PUBLISHING
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Nutshell

It's likely that this is about going through life's path: "We face the path of time," and believing things that aren't true at some point of our lives: "We chase misprinted lies." It is also saying that at one point or another, you could wind up without any friends: "And yet I fight, and yet I fight this battle all alone. No one to cry to, no place to call home." You will have to do some things in life without any guidance. (thanks, Billy Ross - Hagerstown, MD)

Alice in Chains - Phantom Limb

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Album: The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Released: 2013

Phantom Limb Lyrics

Phantom Limb

Alice in Chains singer William DuVall told Drowned in Sound the story of the song: "'Phantom Limb' was a musical demo that was sent to me, which I immediately reacted to, and within a day or so had written all the words for it," he said. "Within the first few minutes, I had a couple of lines for it, and over the next day or so, I refined it. All that stuff happened pretty quickly."

"Basically within 48 hours of them sending the musical demo, I sent them back a fully formed vocal track, pretty much what you here on the record," Duvall continued. "The actual recording was reproducing what I did at home. It never had a solo, so at one point where we were at Hanson, deep into recording, [Jerry] Cantrell asked me, 'Do you wanna play the solo on that, 'Cause I don't have anything.'"

Asked by Guitar Player magazine how he would characterize his guitar role in Alice in Chains, DuVall replied: "It's everything from writing riffs to providing counterpoint to what Cantrell is doing to doubling what he's doing to playing solos. I do the solo on 'Phantom Limb' on this new album. So, it's really everything that you would expect from a two-guitar band."

"My being in the group also gives the band another guitar player who can write things, and we've also turned into a bit more of a jamming outfit when we rehearse," he added. "I'm told they didn't really do a whole lot of that before. But that's sort of where I come from: a jamming background. I'll start up something and see where it goes in rehearsal. That's a different way of interacting, which is cool."

Alice in Chains - Down In A Hole

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Album: Dirt
Released: 1992

Down In A Hole Lyrics

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, feelin' 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, feelin' 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
Holding rare flowers
(Oh I want to be inside of you)
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, outta control
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Writer/s: JERRY CANTRELL
Publisher: FINTAGE PUB & COLLECTION B.V.
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Down In A Hole

Guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote this about the love of his life, Courtney Clarke. This song encompasses all of the insecurities and self-doubt inherent in a relationship.

With singer Layne Staley singing the lyrics, this could be seen as a foreshadowing of his death from a drug overdose. He had been fighting his addiction for years, and this song can be read as part of his struggle with that. (thanks Live Freak - Beirut, Lebanon)

This was released as a single with "Rooster," another song similar to it in style, in that they both feature harmonizing between Staley and Cantrell - the softer acoustic side of the band.

On most versions of the album, this is 4th on the track list. However, there are some versions on which it appears 12th, right before the album closer "Would?"

A version of this also appears on the Unplugged album that was recorded and released in 1996, after Alice In Chains' 3 year absence from live performances.

Alice in Chains - No Excuses

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Album: Jar of Flies
Released: 1994

No Excuses Lyrics

No Excuses Song Chart

This is about lead singer Layne Staley's battle to overcome his heroin addiction. The band became inactive 2 years later when his drug problems became too troublesome. Staley died of a drug overdose in 2002.

Jar of Flies was the first EP (extended play, like an LP except shorter) to ever top the Billboard charts. It debuted at #1.

Alice in Chains was the third band from the Seattle grunge scene to top the charts. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were the others.

This was not released as a single, but got a lot of airplay before the EP was released.

The title of the EP was taken from a high school science project done by guitarist Jerry Cantrell.