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, change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue
Why's it have to be this way?
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Flowers watched through wide 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
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
At 7 AM
On a Tuesday in August
Next week I'll be 28
I'm still young, it'll be me
Off the wall, I scraped you
I gotta wake, it comes this way
I can't wait no more
It comes this way (it comes this way)
To drown this ache
To reinstate (Everyone dead, everyone)
(You put me through) Take your place (Put me through hell)
Heaven direct your shape (Heaven direct)
You see I can do it so well
Your expiration date
Your expiration date
Fate, date
Expiration date
This one is gonna last too, hate
Never gonna fuck with me again
My own clean slate
Don't fuck with me again
Makes your eyes dilate
Makes you shake
Irate
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, change their hue
Rapid brown avoid clear blue
Why's it have to be this way?
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Flowers watched through wide 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
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
Be this way
At 7 AM
On a Tuesday in August
Next week I'll be 28
I'm still young, it'll be me
Off the wall, I scraped you
I gotta wake, it comes this way
I can't wait no more
It comes this way (it comes this way)
To drown this ache
To reinstate (Everyone dead, everyone)
(You put me through) Take your place (Put me through hell)
Heaven direct your shape (Heaven direct)
You see I can do it so well
Your expiration date
Your expiration date
Fate, date
Expiration date
This one is gonna last too, hate
Never gonna fuck with me again
My own clean slate
Don't fuck with me again
Makes your eyes dilate
Makes you shake
Irate
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in the air- not minor issues. It would be normal yo write about something that they ALL know is destroying their lives. If that’s their reality or Layne’s reality at the time and they write about it, and it has to do with heroin, how does that make the song like “less than” or whatever you were saying about giving Layne credit. If the song is about the band’s and/or Layne’s struggle with heroin, why is that bad? Or mean somehow Layne doesn’t write as well if it is about heroin? I guess I just don’t get your point. I don’t see what Layne’s addiction to heroin and the fact that he tried hard to kick it but couldn’t and if he or the band writes songs about it, what tgst has anything whatsoever to do with giving Layne credit. Like you feel like Layne writing a song about it is a negative thing. What it is is a very sad thing. Addiction doesn’t discriminate my friend, it can happen to anyone. It has nothing to do with judgement of good or bad which is what your comment about people need to give Layne more credit was saying to me. Layne got a hell of a lot of credit for the incredible singer he was. Am I making any sense to you?!? I tried. Bottom line, singing and writing songs about stuff going on in your life is normal. Addiction isn’t like- oh they are a horrible or bad or not good person because he was addicted to heroin and try as he did, he couldn’t beat it. Addiction unfortunately is one of the many different painful illnesses in life thst not everyone recovers from. Ie., it is a fact of life, not a judgement of the person issue once you reach about 28-30. Ie., you are the one interpreting it as bad Layne! Not others, or set omit seems by you feeling the need to defend their music saying it is not all about heroin. When I’ve never heard such an accusation. But it definitely would not be a true statement to say that some of their songs directly or indirectly were about heroin.
I just hate like everything that he was not able to turn his life around. But I am thankful for what we do have from him. RIP Layne.