alice in chains unplugged complete Lyrics

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...

BROTHER

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
Like you used to do

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

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

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

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 cause strife

Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me

(spoken in backround)
"i bear true and an existing witness
To this barrel of monkeys.
A self proclaimed immoral success,
Perfected by each whereof
Individually deadly and equally so
And spread about the surrendered troops,
For even thousands of miles will not
Tear apart their communication, or the lack thereof.
Vultures, liars, thieves, each proclaim their innocence
In no suggestion or rhyme, your weapon is contained in
The wrecking of the keeping the desired effect.
The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being.
Your weapon is guilt, your weapon is guilt, your weapon is guilt.
Guilt."

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, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
I'd like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied

Down in a hole and they've put all
The stones in their place
I've eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more
Of my feelings beneath

Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied

Bury me softly in this womb
Oh i want to be inside of you
I give this part of me for you
Oh i want to be inside of you
Sand rains down and here i sit
Holding rare flowers (oh i want to be inside of you)
In a tomb...in bloom
Oh i want to be inside...

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

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, hey
See myself molded in clay, oh
Stares at me, yeah i'm afraid, hey
Changing the shape of his face, aw yeah

Candles red i have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair

Little boy made a mistake, hey
Pink cloud has now turned to gray, oh
All that i want is to play, hey
Get on your knees, time to pray, boy

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, hey
I'm a dull boy, work all day, oh
So i'm strung out anyway, hey

Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where i graze
Serenity is far away

Saw my reflection and cried, hey
So little hope that i died, oh
Feed me your lies, open wide, hey
Weight of my heart, not the size, oh

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, i-i-i

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

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, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no, ya 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

Here they come to snuff the rooster
Yeah here come the rooster, yeah
You know he ain't gonna die
No, no, no ya know he ain't gonna die

GOT ME WRONG
Yeh, it goes away
All of this and more of nothing in my life
No color clay
Individuality not safe

As of now i bet you 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 to

As of now i bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from 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 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 of now i bet you 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
Strong, i haven't felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
T hat don't last forever
Something's gotta turn out right

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 will
Heaven beside you... hell within
And you think you have it still, heaven inside you

So there's problems in your life
That's f___ed 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

So there's problems in your life
That's f___ed up, and i'm not blind
I'm just see through faded, super jaded
And out of my mind

So there's problems in your life
That's f___ed up, but you're not blind
You're just see through faded, overrated
And out of your mind

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

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So i made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

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
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 bloom
A child sings an unclaimed tune
Innocence spins cold cocoon
Grow to see the pain too soon

Why's it have to be this way
Be this way (5x)

"at 7 am on a tuesday, usual august ...
Next week i'll be 28...
I'm still young, it'll be me...
Off the wall i scrape... you...
I can't wake, i gotta wake...
To cause this wake, i gotta wake no more...
It causes wake, to drown this hate....
To never really stay, never will.....
You take your plate...
Put me through hell, live, live...
Direct your fate...
You say i can do it so well...
Your expiration date...
Fate, date, expiration date...
(this was the last time)
Hate...
And don't f___ with me again...
My own clean slate...
Don't f___ with me again...
Makes your eyes dilate...
Makes you shake...
Irate..."

OVER NOW
"good night..."
Yeah, it's over now, but i can breathe somehow
When it's all worn out, i'd rather go without

You know its been on my mind
Could you stand right there
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 its all gone wrong, it's hard to be so strong

You know its been on my mind
Could you stand right there
Look me straight in the eye and say
That it's over now

We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, 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 its 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
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime
We pay our debt sometime
Yeah, we pay our debt sometime

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