Turning in circles, slowing down
Pulling against a closing out
Easy to feed off a weaker thing
Harder to say what I really mean
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold, blue sky
All of your colors turn to grey
Don't even matter anyway
Bleeding impressions where you were tied
Can't really say how you lost your mind
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold, blue sky
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my up from down
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my uṗ from down
All of the faces life can show
Withered and ugly the one you know
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold, blue sky
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my up from down
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my up from down
Pulling against a closing out
Easy to feed off a weaker thing
Harder to say what I really mean
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold, blue sky
All of your colors turn to grey
Don't even matter anyway
Bleeding impressions where you were tied
Can't really say how you lost your mind
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold, blue sky
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my up from down
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my uṗ from down
All of the faces life can show
Withered and ugly the one you know
Hollow as a mountain all tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain crowned with a cold, blue sky
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my up from down
Silence so loud, silence
I can't tell my up from down
Lyrics submitted by Tyrefitter
"Hollow" as written by Jerry Cantrell
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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All the lyrics fit with this idea. Crazy to think about but also the most intriguing.
This song affects me very much, its banging my head more heavily than "Would" does. I've been long thinking about the meaning of "being as hollow as mountain", now how deeply sad I feel it is to be one !
That hollow mountain is both AIC and Layne ..... Once they were a great mountain soulwise, crowned with a cold blue sky (reference to both Layne and Jerry's eyes), they were so drilled and tunneled with lots, seeing all of the faces life can show, withered and ugly that the remain is a vast hollowness, so now "Silence (after Layne's gone) is so loud, not letting tell them up from down".
"All of your colors turn to grey
Don't even matter anyway
Bleeding impressions where you were tied
Can't really say how you lost your mind" ..... These are all for Layne ! Maybe this is the song they told written for Layne.
" ... easy to feed off a weaker thing, harder to say what I really mean".
I sense a mild criticism here towards Layne, as if saying " you chose the easy way and left me with the hard part of the life".
In an almost psychotic way, your vitality is burning out and in the end all what's left is emptiness.
That hollow mountain is both AIC and Layne ..... Once they were a great mountain soulwise, crowned with a cold blue sky (reference to both Layne and Jerry's eyes), they were so drilled and tunneled with lots, seeing all of the faces life can show, withered and ugly that the remain is a vast hollowness, so now "Silence (after Layne's gone) is so loud, not letting tell them up from down".
"All of your colors turn to grey
Don't even matter anyway
Bleeding impressions where you were tied
Can't really say how you lost your mind" ..... These are all for Layne ! Maybe this is the song they told written for Layne.
" ... easy to feed off a weaker thing, harder to say what I really mean".
I sense a mild criticism here towards Layne, as if saying " you chose the easy way and left me with the hard part of the life".
"Turning in circles, slowing down
Pulling against a closing out
Easy to feed off a weaker thing
Harder to say what I really mean"
First line is about how we take our lives in circles, always slowing down because of our age and etc., following this point it leads to the second line
Second line refers to the attempt of doing something that is impossible.
Third line is kind of self explanatory, we tend to do things that are easier (or deal with "easy people") because, well, they are easier.
Fourth line is about how hard is to tell people what we really want to do, so we have 2 options: do the thing we want to and surprise everyone (for good or bad) or live with this frustration of never doing what we wanted to do for the rest of our lives.
"Hollow as a mountain
All tunneled and drilled below
Hollow as a mountain
Crowned with a cold blue sky"
In the chorus it "jumps" to the time where we are already broken by our decision, it is pretty self explanatory.
Then it goes back to the process of turning into this "hollow mountain":
"All of your colors turn to grey
Don't even matter anyway
Bleeding impressions where you were tied
Can't really say how you lost your mind"
First line: Grey refers to dead.
Second line is saying that we don't care that we are turning into dead because we are satisfied with our decision.
Third line is interesting: the definition that blood has here is that it's what is still living inside us and it's coming from something we were tied before, in this case our past lives before taking the life changing decision.
Fourth line is self explanatory.
Then it goes back to the chorus, again moving in the future where the decision already broke our lives.
"Silence so loud
Silence, I can't tell my up from down
Silence so loud
Silence, I can't tell my up from down"
Self explanatory part where it says that we lost all the contact with friends/family we had because of our decision, and life is so sad that we can't tell our "up from down".
"All of the faces life can show
Withered and ugly, the one you know"
This part tells how life treated us bad because of our decision, we expected much more but all we got from it was a withered and ugly face staring at us while our life is falling into pieces.
That's my definition for the lyrics, I made this up while watching the music video...everything was clear for me after I finished watching it thinking by this point of view that I "created".
Layne, the "mountain" of a man in the rock scene, but hollow inside following her death.
Blue skies = blue eyes