| Alice in Chains – Maybe Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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This song hit me the most from the new album (Rainier Fog). I feel like it's a meta commentary on Jerry's current feelings of moving on with the band since the late 90s / early 2000s. There are some refences to the band's final days in the lyrics: "Even though I got a dog in this fight Wounded, losing People talk in and out their words go To be the one from where the wind it does blow Hounded, surrounded " The band's final album with Layne Staley has a dog on the cover art that is missing a leg and has sickly, yellow eyes. Around that time the band had to deal with a lot of negative comments regarding Staley's losing battle with heroin addiction, which ultimately took his life after a few years. Also this is one of the songs on the album which has only Jerry on lead vocals, which makes me think this is his message and has to be sung by him, along with the more intimate, stripped down semi-acoustic instrumental. "Maybe this will show I'm reeling, empty Uninspired, oh yeah Maybe I don't know You anymore And I'm smiling Our burden is untied Let it die" In the interviews around the new album Jerry says he's really happy and content with this new album, but I think this line is directed to us, the fans. I think he has considered this to be the last album from the band during the writing. He feels lonely - he lost many friends in his lifetime. He lost Layne, he lost Starr and most recently he lost Vinnie Paul. He feels uninspired and hollow and his sentiment is that he doesn't know the person in front of him - but this could very well be the band. |
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