Alice in Chains lyrics

Album: Facelift [1990]

We Die Young
Man in the Box
Sea of Sorrow
Bleed the Freak
I Can't Remember
Love, Hate, Love
It Ain't Like That
Sunshine
Put You Down
Confusion
I Know Somethn' ('Bout You)
Real Thing

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
And we die young
Faster we run

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
Faster we run
And we die young

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
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

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
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

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
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

CHORUS
These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me

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

CHORUS
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

CHORUS
See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore

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

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 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 right

Your maker...mine
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 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

Confusion

There's no time to give at all

I cause yo grief and blow my hatred
Further in your mind
You reach, 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
 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

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

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
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'

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
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'

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
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?

CHORUS
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 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
(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
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 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

LAYNE STANLEY - VC,CHT

JERRY CANTRELL - CHT,VC
MIKE STAR - BAS
SEAN KINNEY - DR