Once round outside and check the door
Only thing he came here lookin' for
One man wasting another man
One hand washes the other hand

Born traitor, soul fader
Stoplight flashes in the street
Injected concrete hide bloody feet
Armed and shining in his hands

Cold metallic green, he don't give a damn
Born traitor, soul fader
Down come the hammer, fall my god, you say
Once again the big dog has his day

One man wasting another man
One hand washes the other hand
Born traitor, soul fader
One man wasting another man

Born traitor
One hand washes the other hand
Born traitor
One man wasting another man

Born traitor
One hand washes the other hand
Soul fader


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Dickeye Lyrics as written by Jerry Cantrell

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    My Interpretation

    Based on "mother spinning in her grave" from Degradation Trip, I'm assuming that this is also related to Jerry's coke or crack drug use. He's either talking about Lane and him both being into drugs feeding off each other when they were together, or perhaps about Jerry and his drug dealer, when he may have gotten to a point where he couldn't live without him. And like others have interpreted from the other song, a glass dick is a crack pipe or a pipe to smoke coke, and apparently Jerry did this quite a lot. If you listen to some of their earlier interviews Jerry was quite the coked-up chatterbox!

    But Jerry has always been incredibly hard on himself in his lyrics, vuciously self introspective, and so he says he is a born traitor, a "soul fader," and may be saying--very sarcastically--the big dog (Jerry) had his day (got his stash and got high again....like he always did.

    Txredheadon June 17, 2022   Link

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