This is clearly about how jerry cantrell thought of himself at the lowest point of his drug addiction.
He caricaturizes himself as this disgusting loathesome animal-person. A thing that is only so loathesome, because in the grip of sickness one ceases to be fully human. There is a compulsion that comes over you and everything else goes to shit. It is said with a bit of humor, perhaps to make what happened more palatable to the conscious brain... but really there's nothing funny about it. It's tragic and deeply sad. You can almost hear the "moment of clarity" when human consciousness cracks through hellishness of such an irrational dejected greyed out existence...
"Man I don't really want to die...
...Pretty sure I'm gonna fry"
Yea. Perhaps because I've been so low so many times myself I am all too familiar with that "moment" of humanity... the one that only comes when you are just so grossed up and fucked up that humanity has become so alien, so coldly alien that when a human thought overcomes you, you're awake like cold icewater. You're like "oh my god look at me". But then it's back to "pig charmer" really because ultimately ... you're sick. The song plods along and dissipates.
This is clearly about how jerry cantrell thought of himself at the lowest point of his drug addiction.
He caricaturizes himself as this disgusting loathesome animal-person. A thing that is only so loathesome, because in the grip of sickness one ceases to be fully human. There is a compulsion that comes over you and everything else goes to shit. It is said with a bit of humor, perhaps to make what happened more palatable to the conscious brain... but really there's nothing funny about it. It's tragic and deeply sad. You can almost hear the "moment of clarity" when human consciousness cracks through hellishness of such an irrational dejected greyed out existence...
"Man I don't really want to die... ...Pretty sure I'm gonna fry"
Yea. Perhaps because I've been so low so many times myself I am all too familiar with that "moment" of humanity... the one that only comes when you are just so grossed up and fucked up that humanity has become so alien, so coldly alien that when a human thought overcomes you, you're awake like cold icewater. You're like "oh my god look at me". But then it's back to "pig charmer" really because ultimately ... you're sick. The song plods along and dissipates.
Awesome song yea.