Lyric discussion by rock_hawk 

Cover art for Died lyrics by Alice in Chains

while this isn't a bad song, it sounds to me that they didn't finish it. it sounds like they didn't give it much work in the studio. layne's vocals sound pretty different from usual, notably in the chorus. i'm not saying it sounds bad, just pretty different.

@rock_hawk Yeah, you're right about that. Jerry Cantrell said of the song:

I wish we'd have got a bit more work on that one. It's more "Alice In A Jam Room", it's not as finished as "Born Again". It's vicious, it's got teeth, it doesn't have many overdubs and it's maybe a purer, rawer form of what Alice is. It isn't pretty and that's not a bad thing at all.

As far as the vocals go, a large part of it was the effects of Layne's extended heavy drug use for years, especially his rotting...

@rock_hawk I mean they had to change a lot of the lyrics to cover up Layne's lisp he gained from losing his top row of teeth