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Il portatore di luce fu così scaraventato sulla terra, cacciato via dal paradiso.
Layne urla: "Into the flood again, same old trip it was back then. So I made a big mistake trying too see it once my way".
Ha tentato di vedere il mondo a modo suo, ma ha commesso un grave errore. Come fosse quel demone, un tempo arcangelo, incastrato nelle profondità della terra.
Nichilista ed impotente. Flagello di te stesso. Senti le occasioni perse e i sensi di colpa urtare il tuo animo come il veleno i tuoi sensi, come una campana presa a pugni.
E lo avverti con la domanda ultima e fatidica: "Have I run too far to get home, have I gone and left you here alone?".
Jerry Cantrell la scrisse per Andrew Wood, morto di overdose tempo prima, e la sorte e gli aghi spinsero il frontman Layne Staley a gettarsi dallo stesso burrone. Venne anche inclusa nella colonna sonora di Singles assieme a pezzi di Pearl Jam e Soundgarden (secondo il parere di chi scrive, col film in questione il pezzo c'entra poco o nulla) e divenne anche l'inno distruttivo degli Alice, il loro marchio di fabbrica.
Marchio è un termine che calza a pennello alla canzone e agli eventi che caratterizzarono la storia della band. Lo stesso marchio che Layne esattamente dieci anni dopo strapperà dal suo corpo. Non era un eroe né un martire. Solo un povero ragazzo lasciato in balia di se stesso e in pasto alla sua depressione.
Elenco tracce e testi
02 Man in the Box (04:46)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
I'm the man in the box
Buried in my shit
Won't you come and save me, save me
Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in shit
Won't you come and save me, save me
Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut
Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, oh
03 Brother (04:28)
Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some who say I've lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find
You were always so far away
I know that pain so don't you run away
Like you used to do
Roses in a vase of white
Bloodied by the thorns beside the leaves
That fall because my hand is
Pulling them hard as I can
You were always so far away
I know that pain
So I won't run away like I used to do
Pictures in a box at home
Yellowing and green with mold
So I can barely see your face
Wonder how that color taste
You were always so far away
I know the way so don't you run away
Like you used to do
04 Right Turn (03:15)
Inside always trying to get back inside
But it's so hard to penetrate pig-thick skin
I'm 'bout as low as I can get
I'd leave but I can't forget
Still I wonder why it ain't right, mmm it ain't right, oooh
Ain't right, mmm it ain't right, yeah
'Bout as low as she can get
She'll leave me but she won't forget
And she wonders why she ain't right, she ain't right
Ain't right, she ain't right
Now we're as low as we can get
Can't leave and can't forget
We ain't right, we ain't right
Not right, we ain't right
Well it's hard to believe that somebody tricked you
when you can see you were only high
It's all up to you so you gamble
flat on your face and into the fire
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