Alice in Chains Lyrics

Alice in Chains Lyrics by Albums

2006-04-07T09:20:00.000-07:00

Music Bank [1999]
01 I Can't Have You Blues
02 Whatcha Gonna Do
03 Social Parasite
04 Queen Of The Rodeo
05 Killing Yourself
06 Fear The Voices
07 Lying Season
08 What The Hell Have I
09 A Little Bitter
10 Died

MTV Unplugged [1996]
01 Nutshell
02 Brother
03 No Excuses
04 Sludge Factory
05 Down In A Hole
06 Angry Chair
07 Rooster
08 Got Me Wrong
09 Heaven Beside You
10 Would?
11 Frogs
12 Over Now
13 The Killer Is Me

Alice In Chains [1995]
01 Grind
02 Brush Away
03 Sludge Factory
04 Heaven Beside You
05 Head Creeps
06 Again
07 Shame In You
08 God Am
09 So Close
10 Nothin' Song
11 Frogs
12 Over Now

Jar Of Flies [1994]
01 Rotten Apple
02 Nutshell
03 I Stay Away
04 No Excuses
05 Whale & Wasp
06 Don't Follow
07 Swing On This

Sap [1992]
01 Brother
02 Got Me Wrong
03 Right Turn
04 Am I Inside
05 Love Song

Dirt [1992]
01 Them Bones
02 Dam That River
03 Rain When I Die
04 Sickman
05 Rooster
06 Junkhead
07 Dirt
08 God Smack
09 Hate To Feel
10 Angry Chair
11 Down In A Hole
12 Would?

Facelift [1990]
01 We Die Young
02 Man in the Box
03 Sea of Sorrow
04 Bleed the Freak
05 I Can't Remember
06 Love, Hate, Love
07 It Ain't Like That
08 Sunshine
09 Put You Down
10 Confusion
11 I Know Somethn' ('Bout You)
12 Real Thing

Music Bank [1999]

2006-04-07T09:17:00.000-07:00

I Can't Have You Blues
I can't have you blues
I got the I can't have you, I can't have you blues
I can't have you, I can't have you blues
I can't have you, I can't have you...
Nothings the same, need my fix of you
A crack in the mirror, pictures split in two
I can't believe you slipped away
I been drinking too much cause I'm trying to forget your face
And if I always try to do, all the things you want me to
I've been letting myself down to an early grave
And if I always try to do, all the things you want me to
I've been letting myself down to an early grave
Nothing stays the same, in this game
I can't have you, I can't have you blues
I can't have you, I can't have you...
Nothings the same, need my fix of you
A crack in the mirror, pictures blank too
I can't believe you slipped away
I been drinking too much cause I'm trying to forget your face
And if I always try to do, all the things you want me to
I've been letting myself down to an early grave
Nothing stays the same, in this game
I can't have you, I can't have you blues
I can't have you, I can't have you blues
I can't have you, I can't have you blues
I can't have you, I can't have you blues

Whatcha Gonna Do
Hey now baby whatcha gonna do when I go
Hey now baby who ya gonna do when I'm gone
As I watched you from above
Bodies glistened while I listened
To you screaming out his name in love
Oh no no
Hey now baby whatcha gonna do when I go
Hey yeah they say you love the girl
While I'm wasted as you taste it
Wicked pleasures, sins of flesh and blood
Woke up drunk in the morning
Sipping on my cup all day
Stone cold bitch you're ballin'
And I bet that you want to stay
Well you go down to the city
And you get yourself in line
Cause if I don't need you baby
I'll catch you another time
Get This!
Hey now baby
Whatcha gonna do when I go
Hey now baby
Who ya gonna do when I'm gone
Hey now baby
Whatcha gonna do when I go
Hey now baby
Who ya gonna do when I'm gone
I'm asking whatcha gonna do

Social Parasite
You say you don't like the way we look
Well fuck off
I ain't some dying dog that you can kick
So fuck off
It's so easy to fall into that hole
And you're the one who cast me in that role
If you loved me would you call me a social parasite
And who's the one to tell me whether it's wrong or right
You say you don't like the place I live
Well get out
There ain't no vacancy in my bed
So get out
It's so easy to fall into that hole
And you're the one who cast me in that role
If you loved me would you call me a social parasite
And who's the one to tell me whether it's wrong or right
If you loved me would you call me a social parasite
And who's the one to tell me whether it's wrong or right
(1, 2, 3, go...)
You say you don't like the way we look
Well fuck off
I ain't some dying dog that you can kick
So fuck off
It's so easy to fall into that hole
And you're the one who cast me in that role
If you loved me would you call me a social parasite
And who's the one to tell me whether it's wrong or right
If you loved me would you call me a social parasite
And who's the one to tell me whether it's wrong or right

Queen Of The Rodeo
My daddy was a trucker
Left home when I was three
He fell for some dude in austin
Then it was mom and me
She always wanted a daughter
Well look at what she got
A'hit me, beat me, a faggot I ain't
But a real man they say I'm not
I'm the queen, queen of the rodeo
Queen, queen of the rodeo
So cowboy, if you're lookin for lovin'
I ain't no queer, go fuck a steer
I think there's one over there...
I drink too much, I smoke too much
I'm a human waste
I buy a lot of cheap alcohol
But I'll tell ya honey, I really hate the taste
I dressed in drag, they call me a fag
But boy, I really don't care
Cause last night I met your girlfriend, sucker
And I hope ya like to share, cause she did
I'm the queen, queen of the rodeo
Queen, queen of the rodeo
So cowboy, if you're lookin to fight
I ain't no wimp, I scratch and bite
And I'm gonna kick your ass too...
Queen, queen of the rodeo
Fuck you!
Queen, queen of the rodeo
Queen, queen of the rodeo

Killing Yourself
Move up from the table
Stick her arm let her go
Dropped dime on me last time
By morning his blood turned bold
Runnin from the law since monday
'cause suzy went down on time
Got enough to last till sunday
So I'm burning on down that line
Killing yourself
Killing yourself
Killing yourself
K-k-k-killing yourself
Move up from the table
Fat man going down
Some run from the big gun
Some just run from the sound
Runnin from the law since monday
'cause suzy went down on time
Got enough to last till sunday
So I'm burning on down that line
Suzy was a bad child
Always on the wrong side
Ah, she was no good
She was bad, bad, bad with the bad cats
Always punching the needle in her arm
Ah, but when she's good, she's so damn good
Killing yourself
Killing yourself
Killing yourself
K-k-k-killing yourself
You're just killing yourself

Fear The Voices
Awww put our heads together
Because a signature could change our future
Uh-huh
For some wrote you a letter begging you to reconsider
Yeah

Yeah Yeah Yea

Put our heads together
Ahhhhhh Ahhh Ahhhh
Fear the voices you hear today
If you still have choices we'll blow you away

So they put number on the television Mr. Gardner
Oh yeah
A messed up generation put the pressure on you
You're a coward, uh-huh

Yeah Yeahey

A messed up generation
Ahhhhhh Ahhh Ahhhh
Fear the voices you hear today
If you still have choices we'll blow you away

We can see right through you, we're awake
Send your men and we are all awake
Awake, awake, awake, awake
Wake, awake, awake, awake

Fear the voices you hear today
If you still have choices we'll blow you away
Fear the voices, fear the voices, fear the voices, fear the voices

Lying Season
There's no reason
To deny
It's the season
Of the lie

Having someone
Grin at you
Look at little fingers
Pointing truth

Man it's a weight on my mind
And that's fine
But now we wade past the point of decline
There's no time

I'm a believer
In the new
Past receiver
All come true

Look to the east
Filled with hate
Neutral flashers
While we wait

Man it's a weight on my mind
And that's fine
But now we wade past the point of decline
There's no time

I'm an old lover
You're so sane
Who's the answer
Of what I mean

In this ocean
I fell into
Break me out of
The shell I grew

Man it's a weight on my mind
And that's fine
But now we wade past the point of decline
There's no time

There's no time
(There's no time)
There's no time
(There's no time)
No time
(There's no time)
No time
(There's no time)

What The Hell Have I
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
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

Died
I could climb until I reach where angels reside
Ask around to find out where the junkies applied
You just up and left me on this rock all alone
It's my fault for knowing now what I should have known

Ohhhh oh oh
My heart is tired of beating slow
Ohh ohh
It's been depleating since you died
Died
Since you died
You died

I could drop until I touch the sinister side
Visit all attractions flippin' back and aside
Still you leave me rotting on this rock all alone
It's my fault for knowing not what I should have known

Ohhhh oh oh
My heart is tired of beating slow
Ohh ohh
It's been depleating since you died
Died
Since you died
You died

Ohhh oh oh
My heart is tired of beating slow
Uhh ohh
It's been depleating since you died
Died
Since you died
You died

I could climb until I reach where angels reside
I could drop until I touch the sinister side

Ohhhh oh
My heart is tired of beating slow
Uhh ohh
It's been depleating since you died
Died
Since you died
You died
Died
You died
Died
You died

MTV Unplugged [1996]

2006-04-07T09:14:00.000-07:00

Nutshell
Lyrics by Layne Staley
Written by Mike Inez, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney

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

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

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

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

Brother
Music & lyrics by Jerry Cantrell

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
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

Layne: Thanks. We've been waiting a long time to play this show, and huh, I'd like to thank you all for coming out to see us, it means a lot to
us. We're gonna have a good time, play some good songs for you. This song is called No Excuses.

No Excuses
Lyrics & music by Jerry Cantrell

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

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

Yeah it's fine
We'll 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

Layne: Okay, now we're going to break to an LL Cool J video, so... [ short Enter Sandman intro by Metallica ]

Sludge Factory
Lyrics by Layne Staley
Music by Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney

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

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

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
.
Layne: This is called Down In A Hole...

Down In A Hole
Written by Jerry Cantrell

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, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, losin' control
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, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, losin' control
I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied

Oh I want to be inside of you

Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, out of control

I'd like to fly but my wings have been so denied

Angry Chair
Written by Layne Staley

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 grey
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees, time to pray boy

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

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, yeah
Lost my mind, yeah
Can't find it anywhere

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

Rooster
Written by Jerry Cantrell

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

Here they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster
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

Got Me Wrong
Music & lyrics by Jerry Cantrell

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's 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

Thank you. We've got a friend of ours today, Mr. Scotty Olson on guitar.

Heaven Beside You
Lyrics by Jerry Cantrell
Music by Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez

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
Put 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
But I'm not blind
I'm just see-through
Faded
Super jaded
Out of my 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
.
Layne: I would have to say that this is the best show we've done in three years.
Sean: Layne, it's the only one!
Layne: Huh! Well it's still the best!

Would?
Lyrics by Jerry Cantrell

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 its sole desertion
Flying not yet quite the notion

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home
Have I gone?
And left you here alone
If I would, could you?

Frogs
Lyrics by Layne Staley
Music by Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Inez

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

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

Jerry: Somebody's filming my ass, it's getting hot!

Over Now
Lyrics by Jerry Cantrell
Music by Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney

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

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

Layne: Thanks. I think that's it.
Crowd: No! No!
A guy: Booooh!
Layne: Hey fuck you man!
Crowd: Laughs, noise. Be good! Good boys.
Layne: Okay, one more!
Jerry: This is huh, something we were screwing around with at soundchecks, we're gonna just give it another shot here, try this out, see
how it sounds.
Goes something like this, wrote a song about it, wanna hear it? Here it goes!

"That senator don't love no drug program, he been a dopehead for thirty years... There ya go... The senator don't like no women, he prefers
young boys in leather..."
.
Jerry: It's called The Killer Is Me

The Killer Is Me
New song! By Jerry Cantrell
This track is incorrectly listed as "Killer Is Me" on the album, this is a misprint (it should read The Killer Is Me).

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

Jerry: Thanks, that was really fun!
Layne: I wish I could just hug you all! But I'm not gonna.

Layne Staley: vocals, additional guitar
Jerry Cantrell: guitars, vocals
Sean Kinney: drums, percussion
Mike Inez: bass, guitar
Scott Olson: additional guitars & bass

p l a t i n u m c h a i n s
The "Unplugged" album was certified platinum as of
September 19th 1996, with sales of over 1,000,000 copies!

Alice In Chains performed for MTV Unplugged at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York April 10th 1996.
Song list + comments by people who attented the show!
The album was released on July 30th.

Layne and Sean at the Unplugged show:
"This is the best show we've done in three years." - Layne
"This is the only show we've done in three years!" - Sean

Alice in Chains Unplugged has been released on VIDEO October 8th 1996

Alice In Chains [1995]

2006-04-07T09:12:00.000-07:00

Grind
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

Brush Away
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

Brush away loose ground
Brush away loose ground

Sludge Factory
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

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

Heaven Beside You
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 chill
Put 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 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
But you're not blind
You're just see-through
Faded
Overrated
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 winter will
Heaven beside you ...Hell within
And you know you have it still, heaven inside you

Head Creeps
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

Chorus

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

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

Chorus

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

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
Hey
Let them do it again
Yeah
Hey
You said you were my friend

Hey
Turn me upside down
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, no
Hey
I'll bet it really eats you up

Shame In You
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, yeah
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

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 this 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

So Close
Why are we here again
It's the same ol' sit down roll around
Chewed up pen

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

Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now

Why
Why
Why

Nothin' Song

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

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

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
Wearing cowhide, steak on a skate
Back inside Sam, throw away your cake
Back inside Sam, throw away your cake

Chorus

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

Frogs
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

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

Over Now
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

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

Jar Of Flies [1994]

2006-04-07T09:10:00.000-07:00

Rotten Apple
Hey Ah Na Na
Ignorance is spoken
Spoken

Confidence is broken
Broken

Sustenance is stolen
Stolen

Arrogance is 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
A romance is fallen
Fallen

I repent tomorrow
Tomorrow

Is suspended my sorrow
Sorrow

Recommend you borrow

Nutshell
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

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

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

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

I Stay Away
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

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

Everyday it's something
Hits me all so cold
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

Yeah, it's fine
We'll 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

Whale & Wasp
(Instrumental)

Don't Follow
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
Thinks 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

Swing On This
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 there
I can shift, cannot steer
So I drive them away
For a while, then I stay

(Solo)

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

Sap [1992]

2006-04-07T09:07:00.000-07:00

Brother
Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some say I've lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find

You were always so far away
I know that name so don't you run away
Like you used to to do

Roses in the place 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 and I won't run away
Like I used to to do

Pictures in a box I hold
Yellowing and green with mold
So I can barely see your face
Wonder how that collar tastes

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

Got Me Wrong
Lately it goes away
All of this and more of nothing in my life
No world color clay
Intervisual obscene not safe

As I fell I begged you got me wrong
So I'm sure you run from something strong

I can't let go
Fled the tapestry unwinding slow
See your tortured brain
Show your belly like you want me to

As I fell I begged you got me wrong
So I'm sure you run from something strong
I haven't felt this way in so long
Wrong
And it's since too far gone come undone
That don't last forever
Something's gotta 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 I fell I begged you got me wrong
So I'm sure you run from something strong
I haven't felt this way in so long
Wrong
And it's since too far gone come undone
Son
It hasn't been like this in so long
Wrong
And it's since too far gone come undone

Right Turn
Inside always trying to get back inside
But it's so hard to penetrate big thick skin
I'm 'bout as low as I can get
I'd leave but I can't forget
Still I wonder why I can't be right, be right, oooh
Be right, be right
B 'bout as low as I can get
She'll leave but she won't forget
And she wonders why, she ain't right, 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

It's hard to believe that somebody tricked you
when you can see as far as I have
It's hard to believe that someone you cared for
Put your face into the fire

Am I Inside
Loneliness it shadows me, quiker than darkness
Close to the surface of my skin, there's a place surrounded by it
Black is all I feel so this is how it feels to be free
Surrounded by empty souls, unefficient courage youth
Built because slow once was mine
I walk this maze alone

Black is all I feel so this is how it feels to be free
Miles beside himself, miles below himself
Miles behind himself, Am I inside myself

Chaos and hate shadow me, hate 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
Miles beside himself, miles below himself
Miles behind himself, Am I inside myself

Chaos and hate shadow me, hate it fills me up
Only one thing makes me feel, missing better half of me
OABlack is all I feel so this is how it feels to be free
Miles beside himself, miles below himself
Miles behind himself, Am I inside myself
ooh

Love Song
(this song is not listed as a track...)

Love song take one
Oooh, oooh
Auuugh!
I love you, and I'm coming back bitch

I think I should say something

I can't see you, I can't feel you, 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!
I got drunk, I got drunk, I got drunk, I got drunk

Get something new, get them, get them
Get them, fucking get them
Get them fuckers

Dirt [1992]

2006-04-07T09:05:00.000-07:00

Them Bones
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 wind 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 bones

Dam That River
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

Rain When I Die
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

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

Sickman
What the hell am I?
Thousand eyes, a fly
Lucky then I'd be
In one day deceased

Sickman, sickman, sickman

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

Ah, what's the difference, I'll die
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

Can you see the end?
Choke on me my friend
Must to drown these thoughts
Purity over rot

Yeah, though I walk through the valley of rape and despair
With head high and eyes alert
I tread on a plane of many

We who are of good nature and intention,
But cannot touch on the dark
Recesses of memory
And pain learned, so come walk
With me, feel the pain,
And release it

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, etc., etc.

Rooster
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

Here they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster
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

Junkhead
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

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

Say, I do it a lot!
Say, I do it a lot!
Say, I do it a lot!
Say, I do it a lot!

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, 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

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

God Smack
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

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

So your sickness weighs a ton
And God's name is smack for some

Hate To Feel
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

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 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

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

Corporate prison, we stay
I'm a dull boy, work all da y
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

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

Down In A Hole
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, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, losin' control
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

Oh I want to be inside of you

Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, out of control

I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Would?
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

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home
Have I gone?
And left you here alone
If I would, could you?

Facelift [1990]

2006-04-07T08:58:00.000-07:00

We Die Young
Scary's on the wall
Scary's on the wall

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

CHORUS
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

CHORUS

Scary's on the wall
Scary's on the wall

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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS
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

CHORUS

Sea of Sorrow
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

CHORUS
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

CHORUS

Bleed the Freak
My cup runnet over
Like blood from a stone

CHORUS
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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS
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?

CHORUS

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
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
Still love you, I still burn

Love, hate, love

It Ain't Like That
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'

CHORUS
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 sight, not forgotten
Feel as though, a tooth were rotten
Behind the smile, a tongue that's slippin'
Buzzards cry, when flesh is rippin'

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

Sunshine
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

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

Can you face the queston?
Is my soul entire?

CHORUS

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

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

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

CHORUS

Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Put you down, down, down, gon put you 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
there's no time to give at all
I cause yo grief and blow my hatred
Further in your mind
You ureach, I run, you fall
On skinned knees you crawl

CHORUS
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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

I Know Somethn' ('Bout You)
Why don'T I take it all OK?
I like to dig and fuck around with your day
I'm gonna tell your mamma
Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't now way you'll go without me
Every chance I'll make you pay

CHORUS
On your space, in my face, 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

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

Real Thing
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

CHORUS
Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt
Taake 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?

CHORUS

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

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

CHORUS

'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