Show your AIC love!
VEDHEAD27
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One of the greatest bands ever imo and today (on what would have been Layne's 38th birthday) Meddledeal and I thought it was long overdue to resurrect this thread of praise.
Alice In Chains- this is a sound truely all it's own. Heavy, dark, crunchy, infectious and incredibly soulful. Like the band, Layne's voice remains to this day untouchable and in a league all it's own. The pain and emotion behind this haunted voice could send shivers down anyone's spine. This is a voice that demanded to be heard, demanded to be felt. Layne had the power to move you. The power to connect every single word straight to your heart and soul. I remember the first time I heard Facelift, I was completely floored. It was one of the most ass kickin, original pieces of art I had ever heard. Then DIRT....come on?!?! How could ANYONE possibly deny this classic?!!? Jar Of Flies....the band proving they are all about quality as opposed to quantity. Only 7 songs long but the chilling, intoxicating album had enough power, emotion and intensity many full length albums could only dream of possessing. Absolutely gorgeous!!!
Like pretty much all of my fav bands, AIC chose to deliver their gift to us all wrapped in many different packages. Every single album offering a sound, style and feel all it's own.
The Unplugged performance is still one of the most emotional AIC experieces out there imo. While the band sounds absolutely beautiful, the pain in Layne's voice is undeniable. To actually WATCH that and see the man wasting away right before your very eyes?!?! Wow. Really, really painfull. Never fails to move me to tears. Perhaps that's why to this day these Unplugged versions are some of the most heartfelt versions of many greats. Completely stripped down (even more than before), haunted and dark (even more than before)....everything about AIC, the good the bad (both of which made them so great) were definitely exaggerated on Unplugged and it makes for one hell of an heartbreakingly beautiful, insanely powerful show.
I think Jerry and Layne were one of the greatest duos out there. These 2 harmonizing is straight up heaven on earth. They complimented each other in such an amazing, perfect way.
Fact is Mike Starr/MIKE INEZ, Sean Kinney, Jerry Cantrell and the legendary Layne all did their part in creating what I feel to be one the GREATEST bands EVER.
It's about time we all SHOW OUR AIC LOVE!!!
{{RIP LAYNE}} Happy Birthday~ a day we are all grateful for.
A spirit, voice, passion and presence that is very much missed. Thank you for all that you gave. All of your greatness lives on through the ass kickin, soulful music you left behind. This will live on forever. I hope you are in a better, peaceful, pain-free place now.
Kick off the thread with one of my absolute fav songs from the mighty band (and one that makes me miss the man even more.)
Also kick it off with an incredible site made by a friend of mine and Meddle's. Please go check it out....
http://www.laynethelegend.com/
Which reminds me, hey VIGGS20....didn't you post a Layne tribute on the old "Show your AIC love" thread?? Set to Nutshell?? I swear you did. Please feel free to post that again buddy!
(( DON'T FOLLOW ))
Hey, I ain’t never coming
Home
Hey, I’ll just wander my
Own road
Hey, I can’t meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don’t follow
Misery so hollow
Hey you, you’re livin’
Life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that
Bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can’t shake
Me round now
I get so lost and don’t
Know how
And it hurts to care, i’m
Going down
Forgot my woman, lost my
Friends
Thinks I’d done and where
I’ve been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors
Cold
See my face it’s growin’
Old
Scared to death no reason
Why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things i
Said
Read the page it’s cold
And dead
Take me home
Alice In Chains- this is a sound truely all it's own. Heavy, dark, crunchy, infectious and incredibly soulful. Like the band, Layne's voice remains to this day untouchable and in a league all it's own. The pain and emotion behind this haunted voice could send shivers down anyone's spine. This is a voice that demanded to be heard, demanded to be felt. Layne had the power to move you. The power to connect every single word straight to your heart and soul. I remember the first time I heard Facelift, I was completely floored. It was one of the most ass kickin, original pieces of art I had ever heard. Then DIRT....come on?!?! How could ANYONE possibly deny this classic?!!? Jar Of Flies....the band proving they are all about quality as opposed to quantity. Only 7 songs long but the chilling, intoxicating album had enough power, emotion and intensity many full length albums could only dream of possessing. Absolutely gorgeous!!!
Like pretty much all of my fav bands, AIC chose to deliver their gift to us all wrapped in many different packages. Every single album offering a sound, style and feel all it's own.
The Unplugged performance is still one of the most emotional AIC experieces out there imo. While the band sounds absolutely beautiful, the pain in Layne's voice is undeniable. To actually WATCH that and see the man wasting away right before your very eyes?!?! Wow. Really, really painfull. Never fails to move me to tears. Perhaps that's why to this day these Unplugged versions are some of the most heartfelt versions of many greats. Completely stripped down (even more than before), haunted and dark (even more than before)....everything about AIC, the good the bad (both of which made them so great) were definitely exaggerated on Unplugged and it makes for one hell of an heartbreakingly beautiful, insanely powerful show.
I think Jerry and Layne were one of the greatest duos out there. These 2 harmonizing is straight up heaven on earth. They complimented each other in such an amazing, perfect way.
Fact is Mike Starr/MIKE INEZ, Sean Kinney, Jerry Cantrell and the legendary Layne all did their part in creating what I feel to be one the GREATEST bands EVER.
It's about time we all SHOW OUR AIC LOVE!!!
{{RIP LAYNE}} Happy Birthday~ a day we are all grateful for.
A spirit, voice, passion and presence that is very much missed. Thank you for all that you gave. All of your greatness lives on through the ass kickin, soulful music you left behind. This will live on forever. I hope you are in a better, peaceful, pain-free place now.
Kick off the thread with one of my absolute fav songs from the mighty band (and one that makes me miss the man even more.)
Also kick it off with an incredible site made by a friend of mine and Meddle's. Please go check it out....
http://www.laynethelegend.com/
Which reminds me, hey VIGGS20....didn't you post a Layne tribute on the old "Show your AIC love" thread?? Set to Nutshell?? I swear you did. Please feel free to post that again buddy!
(( DON'T FOLLOW ))
Hey, I ain’t never coming
Home
Hey, I’ll just wander my
Own road
Hey, I can’t meet you here tomorrow
Say goodbye don’t follow
Misery so hollow
Hey you, you’re livin’
Life full throttle
Hey you, pass me down that
Bottle, yeah
Hey you, you can’t shake
Me round now
I get so lost and don’t
Know how
And it hurts to care, i’m
Going down
Forgot my woman, lost my
Friends
Thinks I’d done and where
I’ve been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors
Cold
See my face it’s growin’
Old
Scared to death no reason
Why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things i
Said
Read the page it’s cold
And dead
Take me home
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"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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What a band. So much talent just seeping through through each members veins that it was nearly suffocating to the listener. They were a deeply impacting band, that had such a sense of harsh reality, it was almost heartbreaking.
What with Layne's drug addiction that he wanted to kill so badly, yet lost...the music created was a force like none other. Layne's raw, emotion ridden vocals, Jerry's wailing guitar, almost as if the tears were pouring from the heart itself, Mike's haunting bass lines, and Sean's unique, powerful drumming.
It is pure amazement how the chemistry between this band and the music created by them, is still just as beautifully tragic as it was those many years back. With them making masterpieces such as Facelift, Dirt, and Jar of Flies, and then hearing them Unplugged, which is utterly undescribable. They are still immortalized to this day, idolized by many. Their songs spoke of self battles, over come, or never won, all extremely beautiful, yet speak of such an ugly reality.
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They were so pure..honest..innocent. The passing of Layne had its impacts, truly saddening as much as others..one of the best bands to ever grace this planet. The song I heard..that impacted me so and made me fall so hard for this band was Down In A Hole. So beautiful it is..They will be in my thoughts.
Down In A Hole
Bury me softly in this womb
I give this part of me for you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
In a tomb...in bloom
Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved
See my heart I decorate it like a grave
You don't understand who they
Thought I was supposed to be
Look at me now a man
Who won't let himself be
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
I'd like to fly,
But my wings have been so denied
Down in a hole and they've put all
The stones in their place
I've eaten the sun so my tongue
Has been burned of the taste
I have been guilty
Of kicking myself in the teeth
I will speak no more
of my feelings beneath
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied
Bury me softly in this womb
Oh I want to be inside of you
I give this part of me for you
Oh I want to be inside of you
Sand rains down and here I sit
Holding rare flowers
Oh I want to be inside of you
In a tomb...in bloom
Oh I want to be inside...
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, losin' my soul
Down in a hole, feelin' so small
Down in a hole, outta control
I'd like to fly but my
Wings have been so denied
Also as you mentioned, I can't watch the Unplugged tape without tearing up...especially during Nutshell. To listen to him sing words that are SO true for him...is just surreal. It's just like listening to "Wake Up" (Mad Season). We all had so much hope for a soul that felt no hope...and never truly understood what hope really was. In the Rolling Stone he interviewed in, he said he realized he didn't want to die young and wouldn't...if only he was able to fulfill that dream.
I miss this band and Layne more and more as the years go on. They'll never be forgotten.
RIP Layne...and happy birthday.
EV - St. Louis 7/1/11 ** Tulsa 11/19/12
for sure one of my fav bands...
Unplugged is a classic.
R.I.P Layne......
Ooooooh AMEN!!! Very nicely said reachdown12. I could not agree more. The band was indeed tragic. This is one obvious, out of this world case where music making was truely an art form, a healing form, a incredibly needed release. It did make for hauntingly real, super honest music. Jerry's guitar....tears pouring!
Long live AIC!!
Awww man, do I feel ya on DOWN IN A HOLE. That's the Unplugged performance that really gets me. :( This song just tears me apart. You gotta be heartless not to feel that! Sooooo much damn emotion. Hurts. :(
Good/fitting pick reachdown12.
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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I just got chills reading that. Yeah I know Nothingbetter. it really is insane!! Him singing these words that are dead on true to him, witnessing him falling apart RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE and pratically confirming it with each song. It is surreal. It's a lot to take in. :( It's beyond sad that he didn't get to fullfill that dream.
:(
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Great ideo tybird! Ed wants in on the AIC/Layne praise too.
What a song!! I definitely feel it.......
> 4/20/02 <
so all you fools
who sing just like him
feel free to do so now
cuz he's dead
using, using, using
the using takes toll
isolation
just so happy to be one
sad to, sad to think
sad to think of him more
lonesome friend, we all knew
always hoped you'd pull through
no blame, no blame
no blame, it could be you
using, you can't grow old using
so sing just like him, fuckers
it won't offend him
just me
because he's dead
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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I was just getting the praise and love-fest started though. I couldn't pick apart every album or my response would have been even longer.
I'll kick it off with one of my favs all around from the band (looks around for Kaddikat). I fuckin LOVE this video too.....
{| GRIND |}
In the darkest hole, you’d be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies, yeah
Come the morning light, it’s a see through show
What you may have heard and what you think you know, yeah
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth don’t grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside
Sure to play a part, so you love the game
And in truth your lies become one and same, yeah
I could set you free, rather hear the sound
Of your body breaking as I take you down, yeah
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth don’t grind
Hear a sound from a voice inside
In the darkest hole, you’d be well advised
Not to plan my funeral before the body dies, yeah
Let the sun never blind your eyes
Let me sleep so my teeth don’t grind (2x)
Hear a sound from a voice inside
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Jeez i know, unplugged version..along with other memorables from that night..purely..saddening. I agree, you have got to be heartless not to feel that performance. No one can compare to Layne, all of those who go on imitating his vocals..never will be the same. There was only one Layne.
And your starting post by the way, gorgeous. You are dead on as well. Everything said, beautiful. All so true, emotions and all...
I stay away
Yeah, I want to travel south
This year
Aaah, Woah, Woah
Won't prevent safe passage here
Why you act crazy
Not an act maybe
So close a lady
Shifty eyes shade
Yeah, hey Yeah, tears that soak
A callous heart
Why you act frightened
I am enlightened
Your weakness builds me
So someday you'll see
I stay away
I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
Push me pull me. See ya later
<present tense inhabiter #0003 & Even Flow psycho #0036>
Right Turn
Inside always trying to get back inside
But it's so hard to penetrate pig-thick skin
I'm 'bout as low as I can get
I'd leave but I can't forget
Still I wonder why it ain't right, mmm it ain't right, oooh
Ain't right, mmm it ain't right, yeah
'Bout as low as she can get
She'll leave me but she won't forget
And she wonders why she ain't right, she ain't right
Ain't right, she ain't right
Now we're as low as we can get
Can't leave and can't forget
We ain't right, we ain't right
Not right, we ain't right
Well it's hard to believe that somebody tricked you
when you can see you were only high
It's all up to you so you gamble
flat on your face and into the fire
When I waken, and I'm achin', time for sleepin', yeah
When I'm sayin' time to go and, I've been hurtin', yeah
When I'm layin, I'm still tryin', concentrating on dyin', yeah
You're right as rain, but you're all to blame
Agreed my crime's the same
My sins I'll claim, give you back shed pain
Go find a place for own shame
So you can deal with this thing unreal
No one made you feel any hurt, yeah
Body's movin, only provin, no one needs to move
Still believin, yet mistaken, all God's children, yeah
And I must say, I was stupid, selfishly she consumed, yeah
And you must change patterns all we trained
Or n'er regain peace you seek
Now you hear me, for the things I see
Yeah, I believe in inner peace, yeah
Throw out, blow up, hold in
Show fine, no signs, grow blind
Junkhead
A Good Night, The Best In A Long Time
A New Friend Turned Me On To An Old Favorite
Nothing BetterThan A Dealer Who's High
Be High, Concince Them To Buy
What's My Drug Of Choice?
Well, What Have You Got?
I Don't Go Broke
And I Do It Alot
Seems So Sick To The Hypocrite Norm
Running Their Boring Drills
But We Are An Elite Race Of Our Own
The Stoners, Junkies, And Freaks
Are You Happy? I Am, Man
Content And Fully Aware
Money, Status, Nothing To Me
'Cause Your Life Is Empty And Bare
You Can't Understand A User's Mind
But Try, With Your Books And Degrees
If You Let Yourself Go And Open Your Mind
I'll Bet You'd Be Doing Like Me
And It Ain't So Bad
Walk on with hope in your heart
YNWA
RIGHT TURN?!!? :eek:
Junkhead is an amazing song! Dirt is so......dirty. So many chunky, fierce ass kickin songs with such fitting raw emotion. Looove it!
BUMP it up with another fav from that motherload album. Very haunting/eery/fitting too that the day of his vigil it WAS infact raining. The sky was crying. :(
:: -RAIN WHEN I DIE- ::
Is she ready to know my frustration?
What she slippin’ inside, slow castration
I’m a riddle so strong, you can’t break me
Did she come here to try, try to take me
Did she call my name?
I think it’s gonna rain
When I die
Was it something I said, held against me?
Ain’t no life on the run, slowly climbing
Caught in ice so she stares, stares at nothing
I can help her but won’t, now she hates me
She won’t let me hide
She don’t want me to cry
Will she keep on the ground, trying to ground me
Slowly forgive my lie, lying to save me
Could she love me again, or will she hate me
Prob’ly not, I know why, can’t explain me
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Love, Hate, Love
I tried to love you I thought I could
I tried to own you I thought I would
I want to peel the skin from your face
Before the real you lays to waste
You told me I'm the only one
Sweet little angel you should have run
Lying, crying, dying to leave
Innocence creates my hell
Cheating myself still you know more
It would be so easy with a whore
Try to understand me little girl
My twisted passion to be your world
Lost inside my sick head
I live for you but I'm not alive
Take my hand before I kill
I still love you, but, I still burn
Yeah, Love, hate, love
Oooh, Love, hate, love
Yeah, Love, hate, love
AWESOME pick reachdown12. You're the best!
I LOVE Facelift with a passion. It really is so hard to pick a favorite album when it comes to this band but I will say this one has a very, very special place in my rockin heart.
GREAT to see all this love guys! Let's keep it coming strong.
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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damn layne... happy birthday... :(
One of my favorite songs...
Rotten Apple
Hey Ah Na Na
Ignorance is spoken
Spoken
Confidence is broken
Broken
Sustenance is stolen
Stolen
Arrogance is potent
What I see is unreal
I've written my own part
Eat of the apple, so young
I'm crawling back to start
Hey Ah Na Na
A romance is fallen
Fallen
I repent tomorrow
Tomorrow
Is suspended my sorrow
Sorrow
Recommend you borrow
You make me feel uncalm and I think I like it - 311
JEFF ROX MY SOX!
"Jeff is just a badass all the way across the board" ~aNiMaL~
"Chill out Kaddikat"
Sludge Factory
You insult me in my home, you’re forgiven this time
Things go well, your eyes dilate, you shake, and I’m high?
Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
20 hours won’t print my picture milk carton size
Carton size, carton size
Call me up congratulations ain’t the real why
There’s no pressure besides brilliance let’s say by day 9
Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time
By the way, by the way, by the way
Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me
Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
You have always told me you’d not live past 25
I say stay long enough to repay all who cause strife
Once again you see an in, discolored skin gives you away
So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date for me (2x)
’i bear true and an existing witness
To this barrel of monkeys.
A self proclaimed immoral success,
Perfected by each whereof
Individually deadly and equally so
And spread about the surrendered troops,
For even thousands of miles will not
Tear apart their communication, or the lack thereof.
Vultures, liars, thieves, each proclaim their innocence
In no suggestion or rhyme, your weapon is contained in
The wrecking of the keeping the desired effect.
The breaking of the spirit thwarts the whole being.
Your weapon is guilt, your weapon is guilt, your weapon is guilt.
Guilt.’
Kaddik, glad you came by. **HUGAS** back at you.
MoonlightDrive81, another awsome pick (I mean can you really go wrong with this band?
markymark550, thanks bud! Glad you feel the love as well. I hear ya...I sooooo wish I coulda seen them live as well. :( I was oh so close. They were scheduled to open for Metalllica but cancelled last minute, literally hours before the show cuze Layne was having "problems" and was in the hospital. One of his many close calls. :( Sooo, sooo close.
A local radio station here today did a little tribute too...that's actually what prompted me to finally resurrect this thread. So much sadness surrounds this band, but at the same time that really, really is something that makes you feel the impact of their greatness even more.
<~~~ listening to Unplugged (ANGRY CHAIR)
Is this not the greatest version ever?!?! :eek: Daaaaaamn!!!! I cannot stop listening to this song! Serious repeat-mode over here.
This intro is seriously one of the most badass fuckin things I have EVER heard!!!!!! God, the twang and echo of these strings?! Eh! These voices?! This stretched out, rockin, funky, bluesy, heavenly ringing solo that just lifts you off the planet!!
THANK YOU!
^^ANGRY CHAIR ^^
Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don’t care
What do I see across the way
See myself molded in clay
Stares at me, yeah I’m afraid
Changing the shape of his face
Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair
Little boy made a mistake
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees, time to pray, boy
I don’t mind, yeah
I don’t mind, i-i-i
I don’t mind, yeah,
I don’t mind, i-i-i
Lost my mind, yeah
But I don’t mind, i-i-i
Can’t find it anywhere
I don’t mind
Corporate prison, we stay
I’m a dull boy, work all da y
So I’m strung out anyway
Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze
Serenity is far away
Saw my reflection and cried
So little hope that I died
Feed me your lies, open wide
Weight of my heart, not the size
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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http://layne.meyer-3d.com/tribute.html
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"And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home"
Noooooo.
:( :( :(
Thanks so much for posting that though viggy. Absolutely beautiful tribute.
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Damn, it had been awhile since I last saw that..should have been prepared but wasn't. I'm over here at my desk at work crying....just can't help it. That tribute definitely nails it. What a gorgeous man...in so many ways. This is just too tragic. As Kaddikat said to me earlier, "Why Layne?!"
"lonesome friend, we all knew
always hoped you'd pull through"
So true. These Unplugged shots really do tear some people apart.
I miss this face so much.
What a beautiful soul.
"Lo√e, you know the word
...YOU invented it!" ~ E√
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Dude, I'm totally the same way. Alice in Chains is right behind Pearl Jam in my catalog, and those 2 bands are untouchable.
Layne had a lot of trouble with his addiction, and with his girlfriend, Demri. As much as I love all of their work, I think that their last album "Alice in Chains" also referred to as "Tripod" is their best work. It's their darkest and richest collection of songs that the band ever put out. Dirt was classic, but Tripod is what I think really defined who Alice in Chains is and was and will be seen as in future years to come.
-Eddie Vedder
6/24/06 Cincinatti, Ohio
6/14/08 Manchester, Tennessee
I was listening to LIVE105 today, and man, i just got so teary eyed when the DJ, Ally, was talking about the history of Alice In Chains, and then how rumors started that Layne was secluded in his apt. that he had been using drugs and his teeth rotted. :( It was just so tragic, hearing how he died, ALONE, and on the same day as Kurt Cobain:( I almost started crying when I heard that, even though I remember reading about it 3 years ago.
I love AIC...this band, I got into when I was a teen back in South Texas, I had NO idea how the hell I got a hold of one (since we only had shitty radio stations, mostly top 40 back home), it was probably when I made my monthly trips to San Antonio w/my brother (since they had the coolest rock station KISS 99.5), that is how it started. This sound was AMAZING and Jerry and Layne's voices mixed so well together. It is so beautiful that you can't even explain.
This band helped me through my teen years, hell, I think I was the only one in my class who was listening to AIC back when I was 14 or 15, and listening to DIRT every night whenever I needed to rest. I put my headphones on, and let the music flow through in my head.:)
It saddens me that people are itimiating Layne, I mean, find your own voices and stop making $ of it him. I loved it how Eddie wrote that song b/c it is so true.
Happy B-day Layne:( RIP, we miss you.
Here is one of my favorite songs from AIC
~GOT ME WRONG~
Yeh, it goes away
All of this and more of nothing in my life
No color clay
Individuality not safe
As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong
I can’t let go
Threadbare tapestry unwinding slow
Feel a tortured brain
Show your belly like you want me to
As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure you run from something strong
I haven’t felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
That don’t last forever
Something’s gotta turn out right
You sugar taste
Sweetness doesn’t often touch my face
Stay if you please
You may not be here when I leave
As of now I bet you got me wrong
So unsure we reach for something strong
I haven’t felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
Strong, I haven’t felt like this in so long
Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love
T hat don’t last forever
Something’s gotta turn out right
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn