A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Again
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
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 mistake
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
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
Am I Inside
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
Loneliness follows me
Quicker than darkness crawls, to the surface
Of my skin
Visibly surrounded by it
(pre-chorus)
Black is all I feel, so this is now it feels
To be free
Surrounded by empty souls
Artificial courage used, and because so once
Was mine
I walk this maze alone
(pre-chorus)
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
(pre-chorus)
(chorus)
Angry Chair
Music/Lyrics: 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 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
I don't mind, yeah
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 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
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray
Bleed the Freak
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
My cup runneth 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 sun 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
These stand for me
Name your God and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me
Brother
Music/Lyrics: 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
Brush Away
Music: Cantrell, Kinney, Inez
Lyrics: Staley
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
Confusion
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
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 your 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
Dam That River
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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
Go 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
Dirt
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell/Staley
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 feel like dirt
And you, you use your
Talent to dig me under
And cover me with dirt
Don't Follow
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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
Down In A Hole
Music/Lyrics: 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 know 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
Have 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
Frogs
Music: Cantrell, Kinney, Inez
Lyrics: Staley
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
Get Born Again
Sat suffering
I knew him when
Fair-weather friends of mine
Try not to think
I merely blink
Hope to wish away the lies...i..
Can you protect
Me when i'm wrecked
I pretend you're still alive
I....yeah....
(oooh....denied all....and tied all the lies)
I choose the day
One deepen grave
Thick fog to hide our smiles
Clear all your sins
Get born again
Just repeat a couple lines
I....lines....yeah
(oooh....denied all....and tied all the lies)
Can you protect
Me when i'm wrecked
I pretend you're still alive
I choose the day
One deepen grave
Thick fog to hide our smiles
Sat suffering
(oooh....denied all....and tied all the lies)
Get born again
(oooh....denied all....and tied all the lies)
God Am
Music: Cantrell, Kinney, Inez
Lyrics: Staley
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, ten
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
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
God of all my God am
God am
My God am
God am
God
All this respect I'm giving
Shared strength 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 Smack
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell, Staley
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 real fun
For the horse you've grown much fonder
That 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
Got Me Wrong
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
Yeh 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 be 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
Grind
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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
Sure to play a part
So you love the game
And in truth your lies
Become one and the same
I could se you free
Rather hear the sound
Or 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
We'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
Hate To Feel
Music/Lyrics: Staley
What's one 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
Head Creeps
Music/lyrics: Staley
No more time
Just one more time
So crazy, beat the strain
Too lazy, shake the gray
So, and she willed the rain
So let 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
Lackeys' loose talk for fact
Chorus
One day my plane leaves
Some way my head creeps
Some day my head 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
Heaven Beside You
Music: Cantrell, Inez
Lyrics: Cantrell
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
Geo 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
And I'm not blind
I'm 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 coldest winter will
Heaven beside you… Hell within
And you know you have it still, heaven inside you
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
I Can't Remember
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley, Cantrell
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
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 everything but my will to be
Now the loss of your God won't make me
Bleed
I am alive
I Know Something (Bout You)
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
Why don't I take it all okay?
I like to dig and fuck around with your day
I'm gonna tell your mamma
Yeh I'm gonna tell your mamma
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 space, in my face, I tell you I know
Something bout you, I know something bout you
In my space on your face, I tell you I know
Somethin
Bout you, I know something
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 space, in my face, I tell you I know
Something bout you, I know something bout you
In my space on your face, I tell you I know
Somethin
Bout you, I know something
I'm gonna tell your mamma
Yeh I'm gonna tell your mamma
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 space, in my face, I tell you I know
Something bout you, I know something bout you
In my space on your face, I tell you I know
Somethin
Bout you, I know something
On your space, in my face, I tell you I know
Something bout you, I know something bout you
In my space on your face, I tell you I know
Somethin
Bout you, I know something
I Stay Away
Music: Inez, Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
Yeah, I want to travel south
This year
Aaah, whoa, woah
Won't prevent safe passage here
Why you act crazy
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes shady
Yeah, hey yeah, years that soak
A callous heart
Why you act frightened
I am enlighten
Your weakness builds me
So someday you'll see
I stay awake
It Ain't Like That
Music: Cantrell, Starr, Kinney
Lyrics: Cantrell
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' nothing
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'
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 mind, 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
Junkhead
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell, Staley
A good night, the best in a long time
A new friend turned me on to an old favourite
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!
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
Love, Hate, Love
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
I tried to love you I though 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
Man in the Box
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
I'm the man in the box
Buried in my shit
Won't you come & 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 & 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
No Excuses
Lyrics/Music: 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
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
Nothin Song
Music: Cantrell, Kinney
Lyrics: Staley
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
Nothing ever stays the same
Nothing'
Yeah nothin'
Nothin'
Nothin'
Went outside to give all a break
Wearing cowhide steak on a skate
Back inside. Same 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 beck or trade in for new make
Gotta finish so I can awake
Feed the cat or she spreads all the waste
Snap her beck or trade in for new make
Snap her beck or trade in for new make
The nothing song sticks to your mouth
Like peanut butter on the brain
Nothin ever stays the same
The nothing song stick to your mouth
Nutshell
Music: Cantrell, Inez, Kinney
Lyrics: Staley
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 racked
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…
Over Now
Music: Cantrell, Kinney
Lyrics: Cantrell
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
Put You Down
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
Heartbreaker, 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
Hard drinker… Feelin' all tight
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, 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
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
Rain When I Die
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell, Staley, Kinney, Starr
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
Real Thing
Music: Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
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 going 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
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
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 going 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
Right Turn
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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
She's 'bout as low as she can get
She's leave me but won't forget
And she wonders why it ain't right
Now we're as low as we can get
Can't leave and can't Forget
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
Rooster
Music/Lyrics: 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 homeland
Gloria sent me pictures
Of my boys
Got my pills ‘gainst
Mosquito death
My buddy's breathin'
His dyin' breath
Oh God please won't you help
Me make it through
Rotten Apple
Music: Inez, Cantrell
Lyrics: Staley
Hey Ah Na Na
Innocence is over
Over
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 on 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 repeat tomorrow
Tomorrow
Is suspended my sorrow
Sorrow
Recommend you borrow
Sea of Sorrow
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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'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'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'll not follow
As you wallow, in a sea of sorrow
Sickman
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell, Staley
What the hell am I?
Thousands 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 would of mine
What the hell am I
Leper from inside
Inside wall of peace
Dirty and diseased
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 worm eroded pride
Saddened 10 mile wide
I'm gonna let it slide
Sickman, sickman, sickman
I can feel the wheel but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
Ahh, etc., etc.
Shame In You
Music: Cantrell, Kinney, Inez
Lyrics: Staley
When I waken
And I'm achin'
Time for sleepin', yeah
When I'm sayin'
Time to go and
I've been huntin', 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
Bodu's movin'
Only provin'
No one heeds to move
Still believin'
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
Sludge Factory
Music: Cantrell, Kinney
Lyrics: Staley
You insult me in my house
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 hang 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
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
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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
So Close
Music: Cantrell, Kinney
Lyrics: Staley
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 here you think
Yeah, so close now
Yeah, so close now
Why
Why
Why
Sunshine
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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
Memory… Please set me free
Mother please… Come for me
Can you face the question?
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
Swing On This
Music: Cantrell, Kinney, Inez
Lyrics: Staley
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
Them Bones
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
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 wind up a
Big ole pile a them bones
We Die Young
Music/Lyrics: Cantrell
Scary's on the wall
Scary's on his way
Watch where you spit
I'd advise you wait until it's over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better
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 his way
Another alley trip
Bullet's seek the place to bend your over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better
Faster we run
And we die young
Would?
Music/Lyrics: 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?