"Scalpel" as written by and Michael A. Inez Jerry Cantrell....
Road narrows, pouring down
I'm breaking without a sound
Bits and pieces of trying
Get what you pay for, nothing
Frozen dreaming of yesterday
Potent, creeping I'm far away
From my hometown I lit out
To save my skin and shed some doubt
I know how false the floor
How high the sky
Been down that road before
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
Hard as truth is, been my friend
Don't need to be invited in
I'll go round 'til bested
Pick up myself and try again
I know how false the floor
How high the sky
Been down that road before
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
All comes in time
Don't fight it, don't mind it
Whatever may come
All comes in time
Don't fight it, don't mind it
Whatever may come
I know how false the floor
How high the sky
Been down that road before
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
I'm breaking without a sound
Bits and pieces of trying
Get what you pay for, nothing
Frozen dreaming of yesterday
Potent, creeping I'm far away
From my hometown I lit out
To save my skin and shed some doubt
I know how false the floor
How high the sky
Been down that road before
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
Hard as truth is, been my friend
Don't need to be invited in
I'll go round 'til bested
Pick up myself and try again
I know how false the floor
How high the sky
Been down that road before
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
All comes in time
Don't fight it, don't mind it
Whatever may come
All comes in time
Don't fight it, don't mind it
Whatever may come
I know how false the floor
How high the sky
Been down that road before
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
It's a lie, you hide in someone else
Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself
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"Scalpel" as written by Michael A. Inez Jerry Cantrell
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"From my home town, I lit out. To save my skin, and shed some doubt." Referencing how he moved from Seattle, to California to start over, and "Check his brain".
"I'm breaking without a sound", possibly referencing him attempting to hide it, and put up a facade of nothing's wrong/I don't have a problem.
"Hard as truth is, been my friend. Saying he realized the truth was that he did indeed have a problem.
Don't need to be invited in." Thanking Sean, and friends for pretty much forcing him into rehab, and saying how he views him as family.
It's a beautiful song, and one of my favorites!
I find this album truly superior than BGWTB.
The power of Scalpel is evident. Is a great song! The voices make an excelent journey and emotive as i never heard before. Te message in this song is the vision of someone who is evaluating things in the past and now have more persepctive of things.
"I don't believe in Satan
But he believes in me"
- You think you've hit rock bottom, you haven't.
"How high the sky"
- Your growth, your reach is boundless .. much higher than you are now
"Been down those roads before, it's a lie.. you hide in someone else"
- Pretending to be someone you're not
"Like a shining scalpel, cut yourself"
- Cut yourself out of the false skin you're in