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The bearer of light was thus hurled to earth, cast out of paradise.
Layne screams: "Into the flood again, same old trip it was back then. So I made a big mistake trying to see it once my way".
He tried to see the world his way, but he made a grave mistake. As if he were that demon, once an archangel, trapped in the depths of the earth.
Nihilistic and powerless. Scourge of yourself. You feel the missed opportunities and the guilt striking your soul like poison to your senses, like a bell being punched.
And you feel it with the ultimate and fateful question: "Have I run too far to get home, have I gone and left you here alone?".
Jerry Cantrell wrote it for Andrew Wood, who died of an overdose some time before, and fate and needles drove frontman Layne Staley to hurl himself from the same cliff. It was also included in the Singles soundtrack alongside tracks by Pearl Jam and Soundgarden (in the writer's opinion, the song had little or nothing to do with the film in question) and it became also the destructive anthem of Alice, their trademark.
Trademark is a term that fits the song and the events that characterized the band's history like a glove. The same trademark that Layne would exactly ten years later tear from his body. He was neither a hero nor a martyr. Just a poor guy left at the mercy of himself and fed to his depression.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Man in the Box (04:46)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
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
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
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
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
03 Brother (04:28)
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
Bloodied 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
So 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
04 Right Turn (03:15)
Inside always trying 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, mmm it ain't right, oooh
Ain't right, mmm it ain't right, yeah
'Bout as low as she can get
She'll leave me but she won't forget
And she wonders why she ain't right, she ain't right
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
Not right, we ain't right
Well it's hard to believe that somebody 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
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