The rhythm is 60 beats per second, a very mellow dramatic composition. The preparation of raping the fabric around his arm to cut the circulation, getting ready to inject him self with the only essence he knows of that brings him life clarification. At the end of the song, the solo at the end is Staley’s drug addiction due to his depression of not reaching the blissfulness he sought after his whole career.
His weeping of seeking a dream that never gave him happiness. At the end each verse there is a riff with a note bend, this is the weeping of Staley. This is Staley exaggerating the depressive dark feelings that he feels. Along with his voice, long strenuous flat notes. As if walking through life on a thin rope, swaying along this rope very loosely not caring if Staley falls to his death. When in a depressive state, it is as if the world around moves much slower and has this teeter tauter swaying. This is Staley’s feeling of his life, dark and depressing. In most of Alice in Chains’s songs, the musical tone or notes are tuned in E flat causing a dark melody. “And yet I find repeating in my head, if I cant be my own, I’d feel better dead,” this meaning that his fans expect a certain persona from him and he just wants to be his own, a non conforming vision. “My privacy is raked,” this is from his fans and the media constantly wanting to know what he is doing and violating his personal space. “My gift of self is raped,” this meaning the thing he wished most of being a rock star, has caused him a feeling of being constantly violated to business associates and fans. “Oooh…” is the agony, sweat, pain, that he has gone through. “And yet I fight, and yet I fight this battle all alone” being repeated, emphasizing that it is a long struggle to get where you want to go and no one is there to help you. “We face the path of time,” this meaning it takes time to become good at something in this case singing and writing and that we only have so much time to do it in. He labels the magazines and articles as “misprinted lies,” this is because now that he is a rock star he has not experienced any of the “great lavish life,” but one of great depression. Him reading magazines and articles with the images of rock stars having a great lavish life, which he wants to “chase” to live that type of life. "We chase misprinted lies,” this is a flash back of his child hood. He will be his own person or die.Īwesome perspective on Alice In Chains "Nutshell"
His feelings that he lives in a world that expects and demands him to conform to its standards of normality and never question its values and beliefs. "my gift of self is raped" and "my privacy is raked". He very likely felt that no one around him understood him and that there was no place to go that anyone ever would.
The next lines are his cries of desperate loneliness and isolation. maybe he is saying not to place importance on the things that will be gone in a hundred years after we die. "we face the path of time" is telling people that in the end all we can do is exist against our inevitable demise. also biblical principles are very likely being attacked as well because "misprinted" could be a reference to the bible so often being misinterpreted and meanings twisted. The strive for wealth and fame and the "american dream". It was a huge blow to the industry and many prominent bands recorded songs as odes to Staley.Īfter extended inactivity, the band recruited William DuVall and have released three successful studio albums since his inclusion.When he says "we chase misprinted lies" he is referring to the ideas and values people measure their lives by. The band’s frontman, Layne Staley, suffered throughout his life from depression and substance abuse, which eventually took his life in 2002. Cantrell believes it to be heavy metal and indeed a lot of modern heavy metal bands cite Alice in Chains as an influence, including Metallica for Death Magnetic. Cantrell also serves as the primary songwriter and guitarist of the band. Their unique sound comes from the harmonized vocals of co-founders Layne Staley and Jerry Cantrell, as showcased in some of their biggest songs like “No Excuses” from Jar of Flies, “Angry Chair” from Dirt and “Again” from the self-titled album. Their first 3 studio albums all went multi-platinum and they have received 8 Grammy nominations for Best Hard Rock performance (sadly, never winning once). They are one of the most critically and commercially acclaimed acts of the 90s. They rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of the ‘grunge’ movement. Hey, let 'em do it again, yeah Hey, you said you were my friend Hey, turn me upside down, oh Hey, feeling so down Hey, heyĮdit bioAlice in Chains are a Seattle-based rock band.
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