Facelift
Dirt
Sap
Jar of Flies
Alice in Chains
The Last Action Hero Soundtrack
Unreleased Songs


Facelift - 1990 Columbia CK46075

1. We Die Young(2:32)
2. Man In The Box(4:46)
3. Sea Of Sorrow(5:49)
4. Bleed The Freek(4:01)
5. I Can't Remember(3:42)
6. Love, Hate, Love(6:26)
7. It Ain't Like That(4:37)
8. Sunshine(4:44)
9. Put You Down(3:16)
10. Confusion(5:44)
11. I Know Somethin'(4:21)
12. Real Thing(4:03)
We Die Young
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Scary's on the wal
Scary's on the wall

Watch where you spit
I'd advise you wait until it's over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

CHORUS
And we die young
Faster we run

Down, down, down you're rollin'
Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer
Take another hit
And bury your brother

CHORUS

Scary's on  the wall
Scary's on the wall

Another alley trip
Bullet seek the place to bend you over
Then you got hit
And you shoulda known better

CHORUS
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Man in the Box
--------------

I'm the man in the box
Buried in my shit
Won't you come and save me, save me

CHORUS
Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in shit
Won't you come and save me, save me

CHORUS
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Sea of Sorrow
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Mind, of destructive taste
I choose...to stroll amongst the waste
That was your heart
Lost in the dark
Call off the chase

Walls of thought, strong and high
As my castle crumbles with time...
I think of you
Oh, yes I do
Such a crime

CHORUS
You opened fire...and your mark was true
You opened fire...aim my smilin' skull at you
You opened fire...
I live tomorrow, you I'll not follow
As you wallow in a sea of sorrow

Lines cut across my face
Why you laugh at my disgrace
I'll never know
How far to go
To reach that place

CHORUS
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Bleed the Freak
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My cup runnet over
Like blood from a stone

CHORUS
These stand for me
Name your god and bleed the freak
I like to see
How you all would bleed for me

When the pig runs slower
Let the arrow fly
When the sin lies bolder
I'll pluck out thine  eye

CHORUS

If you scorn my lover
Satan got your thigh
If you steal in hunger
I will kick you when you try

CHORUS
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I Can't Remember
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Turn around you say
'Scuse the 'tude but I haven't eaten today
And my eyes are turning grey
What's your name?

CHORUS
I can't remember...I can't remember

Bring me down you try
Feel the pain and keep it all in till you die
Without eyes you cannot cry
Who's to blame?

CHORUS

Remember identity, the visions in my mind from
Screamin' at me
And mama, mama, ooh...my angry brains of infancy

Knocked down but I have enough hate
to breathe, down your throat and steal your energy
You took everyting but my will to be
Now the loss of your god won't make me bleed

I am alive
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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
Still love you, I still burn

Love, hate, love
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It Ain't Like That
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There I was, laid out on a table
Screamin' sweat and bare feet to the floor
In my life, I'd not soften
Things that cut, and burn so often
But I sit, think of somethin'
Scared to face, the dyin' nothin'

CHORUS
See the cycle I've waited for
It ain't like that anymore

Where I go is when I feel I'm able
How I fight is why I'm feelin' sore
In my sight, not forgotten
Feel as though, a tooth were rotten
Behind the smile, a tongue that's slippin'
Buzzards cry, when flesh is rippin'

CHORUS

Here I sit writing on the paper
Trying to make the words you can't ignore
In my mind, what I'm lacking
Score at face, a ten for slacking
Sign the deal, set in motion
Smaller fish, so huge the ocean

CHORUS
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Sunshine
--------

Am I too contagious
Full of sick desire
Am I that I promise
Burning corpsed pyre

Then some dude came down to touch the Mother
Mother touched, and dude ain't here no more

Am I your reflection
Melting mirror smile
Am I worth the value
Do my love defile

Then some dude came down to touch the Mother
Mother touched and dude ain't here no more
Ain't no day the sun don't crack
Try brand some name across my back so you care?
Find someone to tell you

CHORUS
Sunshine...sweet love my labor
Don't mind...I don't care no more

Can you face the queston?
Is my soul entire?

CHORUS
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Put You Down
------------

Heatbreaker, feelin' alright
Body over...mind
It's slower, reduction is addictive too
Personality overview

CHORUS
I can see what the cost will be
You know I don'T need you
I just can't put you donw
I can see what it all means to me
Honey I don't need you
I just can't put you down

Hard drinker...feelin' all right
Your maker...mine
It's slower...reduction is addictive too
Personality overview

CHORUS

Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Put you down, down, down, gon put you down
Everything you buy is for the jingle
Every time you lie it's all  the same
And if you need a rhyme to kill the singer
Shoot me dead before I may be through
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Confusion
---------

there's no time to give at all
I cause yo grief and blow my hatred
Further in your mind
You ureach, I run, you fall
On skinned knees you crawl

CHORUS
I want to set you free, recognize my disease
Love, sex, pain, confusion, suffering
You're there crying, I feel not a thing
Drilling my way deeper in your head
Sinking, draining, drowning, bleeding, dead

So you sit and think of love
I wait, hate all the more, I fall
On skinned knees I crawl

CHORUS

Now there's time to give it all
I put my fears behind again
On skinned knees we'll crawl

CHORUS
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I Know Somethin' ('Bout You)
----------------

Why don'T I take it all OK?
I like to dig and fuck around with your day
I'm gonna tell your mamma
Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't now way you'll go without me
Every chance I'll make you pay

CHORUS
On your space, in my face, I tell you I know
Somethin' 'bout you, I know somethin' 'bout you
In my space, on your face, I tell you I know somethin'
'Bout you, I know somethin'

Why can't I put your words away
I'd like to have more of you in my veins
I'm gonna tell your papa
Yeh I'm gonna try and ball your babe
Your gold key don't fit my crapper
Ain't got no shit today

CHORUS

I'm gonna tell your mama
Yeh I'm gonna blackball your name
Ain't no way you'll go without me
Every chance I'll make you pay

CHORUS
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Real Thing
----------

I messed around as a little boy
I grew up, made the blade my new toy
Friends said boy with what you screwin' around I said
Don't concern yourselves and just
Gimme another blast
Yeah

CHORUS
Under the hill, with just a few notches on my belt
Taake it away, don't want no more
Even if you say just one more
I won't leave you alone

I grew up, went into rehab
You know the doctors never did me no good
They said son you're gonna be a new man
I said thank you very much and
Can I borrow fifty bucks?

CHORUS

'Cause I'm goin' down the steps on a white lne
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Straight to nowhere
(REPEAT)

I messed around as a little boy
I grew up, made the blade my new toy
Friends said boy with what you screwin' around I said
Don't concern yourselves and just
Gimme another blast
Yeah

CHORUS

'Cause I'm goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Goin' down the steps on a white line
Straight to nowhere
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Dirt - 1992 Columbia CK52475

1. Them Bones (2:30)
2. Dam That River (3:09)
3. Rain When I Die (6:01)
4. Down In A Hole (5:38)
5. Sickman (5:29)
6. Rooster (6:15)
7. Junkhead (5:09)
8. Dirt(5:16)
9. God Smack (3:50)
10. Iron God (0:43)
11. Hate To Feel (5:16)
12. Angry Chair (4:47)
13. Would? (3:27)

Dirt has two versions. One of has the track listing as noted above, on the other some of the songs have been moved. Also, Track 10 is actually untitled, and features Tom Araya of Slayer on vocals
Them Bones
-----------------
I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave
I feel so alone, gonna end up a
Big ole pile a them bones

Dust rise right on over my time Empty fossil of the new scene I feel so alone, gonna wind up a Big ole pile a them bones

Toll due bad dream come true I lie dead gone under red sky I feel so alone, gonna end up a Big ole pile a them bones

Dam That River --------------------- I broke you in the canyon I drowned you in the lake You a snake that I would trample Only thing I'd not embrace

Oh, you couldn't dam that river And maybe I don't give a damn anyway So you couldn't dam that river And it washed me so far away

I pushed and then you stumbled I kicked you in the face You stare at me so hollow Got to keep that killin' pace

Oh, you couldn't dam that river And maybe I don't give a damn anyway So you couldn't dam that river And it washed me so far away

I burned the place around you I hit you with a rake You piss upon my candle So proving you're a fake

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

Sickman -------------- What the hell am I? Thousand eyes, a fly Lucky then I'd be In one day deceased

Sickman, sickman, sickman

I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer When my thoughts become my biggest fear

Ah, what's the difference, I'll die In this sick world of mine

What the hell am I Leper from inside Inside wall of peace Dirty and diseased

Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman

I can see the end is getting near I won't rest until my head is clear

Can you see the end? Choke on me my friend Must to drown these thoughts Purity over rot

Yeah, though I walk through the valley of rape and despair With head high and eyes alert I tread on a plane of many

We who are of good nature and intention, But cannot touch on the dark Recesses of memory And pain learned, so come walk With me, feel the pain, And release it

What the hell am I worn eroded pride Saddened 10 mile wide I'm gonna let it slide

Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman

I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer When my thoughts become my biggest fear Ahh, etc., etc.

Rooster -------------- Ain't found a way to kill me yet Eyes burn with stinging sweat Seems every path leads me to nowhere Wife and kids household pet Army green was no safe bet The bullets scream to me from somewhere

Here they come to snuff the rooster Yeah here come the rooster You know he ain't gonna die

Walkin' tall machine gun man They spit on me in my home land Gloria sent me pictures of my boy Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death My buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath Oh god please won't you help me make it through

Junkhead --------------- A good night, the best in a long time A new friend turned me on to an old favorite Nothing better than a dealer who's high Be high, convince them to buy

What's my drug of choice? Well, what have you got? I don't go broke And I do it a lot

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 opened your mind I'll bet you'd be doing like me And it ain't so bad

Say, I do it a lot! Say, I do it a lot! Say, I do it a lot! Say, I do it a lot!

Dirt ----------- I have never felt such frustration Or lack of self control I want you to kill me And dig me under, I wanna live no more

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be I've tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me For me

I want to taste dirty, stinging pistol In my mouth, on my tongue I want you to scrape me from the walls And go crazy like you've made me

You, you are so special You have the talent to Make me feel like dirt And you, you use your Talent to dig me under And cover me with dirt

God Smack ---------------- Care not for the men who wonder Straw that broke your back, you're under Cast all them aside who care Empty eyes and dead end stare

Don't you know that none are blind To the lie, and you think I don't find what you hide?

What in God's name have you done? Stick your arm for some real fun

For the horse you've grown much fonder Than for me, that I don't ponder As the hair of one who bit you Smiling bite your own self, too

And I think that you're not blind To the ones you left behind I'll be here

So be yearning all your life Twisting, turning like a knife

Now you know the reasons why Can't get high, or you will die Or you'll die

So your sickness weighs a ton And God's name is smack for some

Hate To Feel ------------------- What's gone wrong, I can't see straight Been too long, so full of hate

What the fuck will it take Drown myself in my wake Another shaggy D.A. Now a dog, shake my leg Plastic man, paper face Candy heart, what a waste Gotta change, set a date

Stare at me with empty eyes and Point your words at me Mirror on the wall will show you What you're scared to see

I can see, yeah - (wish I couldn't see at all) I can feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all) Hate to see - (wish I couldn't see at all) Hate to feel - (wish I couldn't feel at all)

So climb the walls, Thin my blood now And I crawl, back to bed now

What the hell, gotta rest Aching pain in my chest Lucky me, now I'm set

Little bug for a pet New Orleans, gotta get Pin cushion medicine Used to be curious Now the shit's sustenance

All this time I swore I'd never Be like my old man What the hay it's time to face Exactly what I am

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

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, losin' my soul Down in a hole, losin' control 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

Oh I want to be inside of you

Down in a hole, losin' my soul Down in a hole, feelin' so small Down in a hole, losin' my soul Down in a hole, out of control

I'd like to fly but my Wings have been so denied

Would? ------------- Know me broken by my master Teach thee on child of love hereafter

Into the flood again Same old trip it was back then So I made a big mistake Try to see it once my way

Drifting body it's sole desertion Flying not yet quite the notion

Am I wrong? Have I run too far to get home Have I gone? And left you here alone If I would, could you?

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SAP - 1992 Columbia 44K 74182

1. Brother (4:27)
2. Got Me Wrong (4:11)
3. Right Turn (3:14)
4. Am I Inside (5:08)
5. Love Song (hidden untitled track) (2:11)
Brother
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Frozen in the place I hide
Not afraid to paint my sky with
Some who say I've lost my mind
Brother try and hope to find

You were always so far away
I know that pain so don't you run away
Like you used to do

Roses in a vase of white
Bloodied by the thorns beside the leaves
That fall because my hand is pulling them hard as I can

You were always so far away
I know that pain and I won't run away
Like I used to do

Pictures in a box at home
Yellowing and green with mold
So I can barely see your face
Wonder how that color taste

You were always so far away
I know the way so don't you run away
Like you used to do
Like you used to do
 
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
That don't last forever
Something's gotta turn out right
 
Right Turn
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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

Am I Inside
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Loneliness it shadows me, quicker than darkness
Crawls to the surface of my skin, visibly surrounded by it

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

Surrounded by empty souls, artificial courage used
And because so, once was mine
I walk this maze alone

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

The man's beside himself, man's below himself
Man's behind himself, Am I inside myself

Chaos and hate shadow me, pain it fills me up
Only one thing makes me feel, missing better half of me

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

The man's beside himself, man's below himself
Man's behind himself, Am I inside myself

Chaos and hate shadow me, hate it fills me up
Only one thing makes me feel, missing better half of me

Black is all I feel, so this is how it feels to be free

The man's beside himself, man's below himself
Man's behind himself, Am I inside myself

Love Song
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Love song take one

I love you, I'm not coming back bitch

I think I should say something

I can't see, I can't feel anything, I can't I can't

Wash my face, cut out my teeth and tell me to grin
MY GUMS ARE BLEEDING! MY GUMS ARE BLEEDING!

I hate you, I hate you

Get a fucking haircut!
Go fuck yourself
Rae Dong Chung (5x)

Get something, get, get them, get them
Get them, get the fuckin' midget
Get the midget (2x)
Get the fuckin midget
Kiss the fuckin' midget
"Where the deer and antelope play..."
Kiss the midget (4x)

"That was perfect, you guys, that was great!"

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Jar Of Flies - 1993 Columbia CK 57628

1. Rotten Apple (6:58)
2. Nutshell (4:20)
3. I Stay Away (4:14)
4. No Excuses (4:16)
5. Whale & Wasp (Instrumental) (2:37)
6. Don't Follow (4:22)
7. Swing On This (4:04)

Rotten Apple
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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

Nutshell
--------

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead

Oooh...Oooh...
Oooh...Oooh...

I Stay Away
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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

No Excuses
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It's alright
There comes a time
Got no patience to search
For peace of mind
Layin' low
Want to take it slow
No more hiding or
Disguising truths I've sold

Everyday it's something
Hits me all so cold
Find me sittin' by myself
No excuses, then I know

It's okay
Had a bad day
Hands are bruised from
Breaking rocks all day
Drained and blue
I bleed for you
You think it's funny, well
You're drowning in it too

Yeah, it's fine
We'll walk down the line
Leave our rain, a cold
Trade for warm sunshine
You my friend
I will defend
And if we change, well I
Love you anyway


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

Swing On This
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Mother said come home
Father said come home
Sisters said come home
So my friends said come home

I said

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see, I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway

Then I heard a voice
Said "Son you have a choice"
I then slapped my face

Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway
It's too bright over there
I can shift, cannot steer
So I drive them away
For a while, then I stay

(Solo)

Now I have to go home
Do as, when in Rome

Let me be, I'm alright
Can't you see I'm just fine
Little skinny, okay
I'm asleep anyway
Let me be, I'm okay
I'm awake anyway

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