Rolling over keys that dig in my side
Try to get my ass out of bed and drive
Feel I'm slipping day by day
Past the time I was on my way

Happiness and black both know, much learned
Long and hard the way a path of twisted turns

Disciple sift through lies, few grains of truth behold
Explorer specter rise, the dream that brought you low

Sentence served, you're free to be
Siddhartha, like him he lived both sides
A brand new day, I'm looking for a change to come around.
Siddgartha on my mind

Beggar pick up your crown

Seeking all the things untried
Disarray, this thing called life

Happiness and black both know, much learned
Long and hard the way a path of twisted turns

Disciple sift through lies, few grains of truth behold
Explorer specter rise, the dream that brought you low

Sentence served, you're free to be
Siddhartha, like him he lived both sides
A brand new day, I'm looking for a change to come around.
Siddgartha on my mind

Beggar pick up your crown


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Siddhartha Lyrics as written by Jerry Cantrell

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    The song is probably more directly inspired by the Herman Hesse novel of the same name, which in itself is inspired by the life of the historical founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Guatama. The character, who is also named Siddhartha, lives during the time of the Buddha and experiences both extremes of living in his quest to find inner peace - both as a monk listening to the Buddha and then immersed in a life of gambling, greed, and has a sexual relationship with a woman. In essence, what Siddhartha ends up realizing at the end was that he had to go out and seek the answers himself, to experience the pain of life to truly understand it. Jerry's lyrics show him comparing himself with Siddhartha, as he too had been on both sides of life (the dark one being his life of excess and drug use when in AIC). Now that he has been on both sides, he feels like he can attain the same kind of peace that Siddhartha did, its just a matter of him going out to find it now with "Siddhartha on (his) mind".

    TheImpalerTMXon May 23, 2006   Link

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