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  • It's unfortunate because, Layne Staley was a simply fantastic singer/song writer but all that talent wasted on Heroin. You know I am just imagining right now, how many other songs that he could have done that will make many fans (like me) have more to listen to.....

  • That's not just music, thats every art. Though everything by right of free will is open to interpretation.

  • The main thing bands like AIC, Tool, Pearl Jam, etc: Is to have your OWN interpretation of the music. Why they wrote it is not relevent. All that matters is how YOU feel and what YOU think about when you hear that song ..

  • Dead expectations...

  • this is probably what a turd sings when its still in the toilet lol

  • Love this song!

  • 36 gays hated...

    

  • Beautiful song, meaning doesn't matter to me.

  • wow this sound brings back mamories semper fi to my friends. to the ones here and gone remembering those who fell while im still alive. i love you all to my brothers in arms for its for you tonight i toast. i can see ur faces when i close my eyes and hear this song like it was yesterday okinawa we crazy band of brothers all the way.

  • I'd like to fly means he'd like to be himself. but my wings have been so denied means he is not allowed to be himself. And the fact the his wings (bein himself) are denied (not allowed) he cant get out of the hole.

    Finally " bury me softly in this womb" means to burry who he is and reborn into what he is "supposed" to be.

    "I give this part of me for you" means he will let them do what they want with him, but his essence cant be changed

  • @lollylapierre very very well spoke

  • I think this song is NOT about drugs and, by the way, it was not written by layne. I think this song is about not being able to be yourself, who you want to be. Instead, you are being forced to be what someone else wants you to be, maybe your parents or society. The first part of the song is clearly a funeral where he is watching himself be buried (sand rains down and here i sit holding rare flowers), tomb in bloom is the hole with sand around which looks like a flower blooming.

  • I love how there's some douche bags out there waitin to troll someones posts. Why can't people just enjoy the fuckin music with out tryin to be cooler than the next guy or girl.

  • i dont know why but every time i play an Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana or Radiohead song, the emotion is just so... unreal...

  • Great song...one of my favorites...I don't care what it means...

  •  huh its alright i guess

  • : (

  • Haunts me.

  • 36 people have "kicked themselves in the teeth" !

  • where do you get drugs out of this song??? seriously its not all bout drugs.

  • everyone seems to think all alice in chains songs are about heroin

  • @bucko60 The lead singer dying of a heroin addiction is why they believe this I'm sure. Maybe if they realized Layne Staley didn't write this song they wouldn't believe such things. In fact alot of Alice in Chains hits and more popular songs were written by Jerry Cantrell.

  • I'd like to fly....

    but my wings have been so denied.

    Time for my wings to start asserting themselves...time to crawl out of the hole.

    Good luck to those in the same place as me, it can be done if we will it to be.

  • I never knew Am-G-D chprd progression could sound this sad and depressing

  • Layne is the man. Seeing these lyrics makes me wonder if he knew death wasn't far off for him.

  • ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN SONGS PERIOD...

  • This quality is shit

  • Best track to listen to while high,,lol

  • @dwaine12 hardass

  • @dwaine12 No one gives a shit about your little "Hehehe hey guys I'm smoking pot! heheheh I'm so cool". Stop broadcasting and just do it.

  • @Fingolfincl you could never be king of the Noldor

  • After listening to Man In The Box and this, it almost seems like...he knew he was going to die.

  • @iamthe5th I know. It kinda of makes me both mad and sad that he didnt get the help he obviously needed.

  • @iamthe5th i know im gonna die as well. 

  • @iamthe5th This song wasn't written by Layne Staley. This was written by Jerry Cantrell, as where most Alice in Chains songs....

  • @iamthe5th well since everyone dies thats not really a stretch

  • @iamthe5th we all know that we're going to die... don't make god of him. he was just best singer ever and..he was junkie. that's it.

  • @iamthe5th He knew there was nothing he could do, He was trapped he felt like he was a man in a box, and down in a hole with heroin addiction...He did know he was going to die. Any one with a deadly addiction and nothing to stop them is eventually going to die.

  • @iamthe5th especially their song nutshell did later on

  • i'm so f4ck1ng depress....nothing works fine for me!!!!!! hate myself and I want to die....thanks Layne and Jerry for know (20 years ago) how would i feel today and compose and perform one of my favourite tunes.

  • This song is so.......pretty :) it brings back memories that are good and bad but it is bitter sweet ;)

  • Thank you matugman for pointing out the reference, he's writing an allusion to the story of Christ, and more than likely expressing his frustration with how he understands the message and the Chrisitan failure to act it properly. I wish someone had told him the true message but Staley died alone with a feckin playstation. I'm a recovering heroin addict and ex-con and wish that Layne knew that the real Jesus died for hurting people like him.

  • @gstraveler1 I disagree.. i think he's obviously talking about an heroin addiction well drugs in general. I dont think that the allusion on "Wings have been denied" meaning him being rejected by god. I think its more so on him not being able to escape his up hill battle against his addiction, or in this context, escaping the "Hole".

  • metaphores people... christ.

  • id like to fly, but my wings have been so denied means theres, no way hese gonna ever leave the abyss.

  • OMFG!!!!!!!.. eat'n the sun, refers to the lsd, that he ate,,,,guilty of kicking my self in the teeth, refers to

    the life he lived and why hese in that place,,, down in a hole and i dont know if i can be saved: means he doesnt think hell get out of hell.. "and they put all the stones in there place", refers to everybody goes where they go.. 'fate" ....damn you people are retarded.!

  • @upyourass SHUT THE HELL UP

  • listen to this song on salvia or lsd you scare the crap out of yourself so bad youll sh!t your pants...

  • this song is about being stuck in hell, and wanting to leave and not being able to fly out.

  • @matugman Are you retarded?

  • @matugman I thought it was about Jerrys long relationship with some girl.

  • @uprivershadow It's about heroin "I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned from the taste", for real, unless you've done heroin you'd never quite understand that lyrics fully :)

  • @UKLegendUK But that doesnt make sense...Jerry wrote the song and he was drinker. He didnt do smack.

  • @uprivershadow he did do it with layne after he died he quit

  • you all act like you know lane

  • @autoshutdownpower Layne*

  • I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned of the taste

    That touches me deep inside

  • I'd like to fly

  • wow, didnt realize my comments where this popular.

  • this song is like by far the top ten

    

  • I'm not sure if I ever heard a band that sounds better than these guys

  • did anyone else notice that this is a poem?

  • @BrandonM4444 for me most of aic lyrics are poetry

  • @BrandonM4444

    Many, if not all, songs are like that.

  • @BrandonM4444 Every song is a poem.No matter if its stupid or Amazing(like this song)

  • @BrandonM4444 most songs are?

  • @BrandonM4444 all songs are poems dude

  • @DBC98989 ? no not pathetic rap or pop songs

  • @KIngAragorn100 those arnt songs, those are bullshit gangsta wanna-bes who say they have money to get money

  • @DBC98989 ok fine with me whatever you say.....

  • @BrandonM4444 you ever realize that most songs are poems?

  • @johnnyxcasanova thats not true...

  • @BrandonM4444 thats kinda what songs are. "hmm wonder why this song rymns... hmm this poem also rymns. what a coincidence!"

  • what a subtle way to talk about sex "i want to be in you" "down in your hole"

  • @BrandonM4444 this song is not about sex

  • @BrandonM4444 um.. this song is about self distraction. Ironically it fits perfectly with the life of Layne Staley the lead singer that died from drug overdose.

  • ME 2.0: sorry i accidently hit enter, this is not meant as spam, what i meant was the WHOLE song is not about sex, but if you read all the lyrics you see that parts of them are about it, whether its just out and out "i want to be in you" or more subtle "bury me in your womb." or even more subtle "holding rare flower" followed up by the less subtle "oh i want to be inside..."

  • @BrandonM4444 nd jerry wrote this song for hes friend vocalist mother love bone who overdose

  • @MsJilsephonie Nope Jerry didn't write this one for Andrew Wood, Others he did though like "Would".

  • @impaler187 yes u right he wrote would abt andrew but what abt this song who wrote the lyrics layne or jerry nd who is it about? is it abt layne nh hes struggle with heroine?

  • @BrandonM4444 why the hell would this song be about sex. there not talking about sex at all. and they never say down in a hole they say "down in a hole" this song in my opion is about layne and his drug addiction. down in a hole meaning that he was suffering from depression. this is what some people may discribe depression. and to me it sounds like layne had depression mainly because of his addiction which fed it.

  • My ex was right. If you chase the dragon, then you can hear the heroin in this song.

  • It seems like the only way for people to truly enjoy the music without drama,judging or trolls is for comments to be disabled or something Smh

    Words can't express what this song does to me....I feel at peace.......which is rare

  • @TheMikeylover95 i share the same feeling

  • @TheMikeylover95 You just fucked up my feeling.

  • @stardog2007 true lol

  • wow.......story of my life

  • so what does the song mean the? idk the best slow rock song ive heard so far is man that you fear by marilyn manson .. beautifull song ever !!!!!!!!

  • you all don't know the real meaning of this song...

  • @forceadeptjedi what is the meaning then?

  • Losin' my soul..

  • when I die I want this played at my funeral.

  • @obamasuxz love your youtube name haha

  • beautiful song!

  • ...see my heart and i decorate it like a grave...down in a hole...sigh...thanks for the video, splashing all the words e

  • love this song

  • Love this, AIC were always true musical loves of mine since Facelift was first released.

  • @FilmGameJunkies I heard Man In A Box on a video of this game I used to be really into and it totally blew me away, the song just sent my imagination elsewhere haha I'd heard of them but never paid much attention like... Them Bones came second and now they're just so fucking good to me...

  • i fucking listen to aic in some form everyday there talent is unmatched its 

  • 1993 broke up with my girlfriend and this album played in the firebird for a while.

  • @clffburton86 should of had a 5.0. Would have got twice the pussy.

  • @vton45 Those are what people who are not condescending, patronizing and superficial call "Trolls." I don't know much as to why they are called this, but I can only assume they have no life and they are about as deep as the buckets they try to dip from.

  • best song ever

  • What has happened to lyrics?

    THIS is fucking MUSIC

  • This song just takes you places fucking amazing.

  • dear jesus, please take justin bieber for

    1. kurt cobain

    2.more bands like this

    3. and a personal striper

  • @HBKman1 lol whats a striper

  • @spoon149 i ment stripper

  • @HBKman1 fuck that! give us back Rock'n'roll!

  • @noelshighflyingbirds your on the right track man

  • @sweetestone200332 Addiction sucks. Costs a fortune makes ya wish you were dead and when you cant come up with the drugs you need you feel worse than death . Who new that opiates were so addictive : You start out cuz your hurt then you need em to not feel sick then you take more than your script is for and gotta hustle em up. I can only imagine how bad it must be for someone addicted to heroin. I got sympathy for addicts sometimes the body takes you places that you didnt really plan on going

  • @xxspliffsmokexx so true man.. opitates are bad enough withdrawing from, i don't think i could handle a herion addiction. RIP Layne.

  • perfect songs before bed

    black hole sun-soundgarden

    patience-guns n roses

    nothing else matters-metallica

    diamonds and rust-judas priest

    down in a hole-alice in chains <3

  • @emmythehockeygurl30 No dude all of those songs but one are good. Blackhole sun is one of the worst songs I have ever heard in my 30 year life :)

  • @xxspliffsmokexx lmfao i love soundgarden but black hole sun can get annoying lol

  • @emmythehockeygurl30 I seriously hate that song. Like hate it like anything by kesha or that barbie girl song . Ill be honest and say of the big grunge acts soundgarden is my least fave but they have other songs that are decent. I have hated that song since I first heard it and I will prolly hate it forever. Ya know on second thought I prolly hate the song so much id prolly rather hear kesha and yea I know thats fucking crazy :(

  • @xxspliffsmokexx oh that bad? lol thats how i am with metallica actually

  • @emmythehockeygurl30 Yea that bad. I like most of metallicas stuff but we all hear things differently I guess. All of my playlists consist of punk rock , ska , metal/folk metal, hardcore and with a bit of rockabilly and gangster rap from the early 90s for a little twist. What im saying is I can dig most real music. What I have a hard time with is blackhole sun Randb modern country and teen pop. I was raised on music and I can dig it even if said band isnt my cup of tea ya know what i mean ?

  • @xxspliffsmokexx so put a rope on your neck and jump in to a well

  • @xxspliffsmokexx You must been listening to really great music, if you think black hole sun is one of the worst things you've heard in your 30 year life... Or maybe you should lay down the greens a bit!

  • @kurtcocain86 I do listen to some pretty good music and I am a bit of an elitist sometimes. LIke I said I dont dislike sound garden I just really hate that one song. Everything about it grates on me. Do you need like a list of bands and songs I like for comparison?

  • @xxspliffsmokexx Nah i don't need a list... I just wonder what makes you hate that song so much. Calling it one of the worst things, you have ever heard? It must have a good reason ;)

  • @kurtcocain86 Everything from the rhythm to the lyrics to his voice in the chorus just grates on me.

  • @xxspliffsmokexx I guess it's your personal taste, imo soundgarden made worse songs. But hey atleast you know what grunge is :)

  • @emmythehockeygurl30 i like soundgarden they where on when mtv was fcken mtv so i agree hockey i also agree with spliff we all have are opions and they matter my top fav before bed

    1 all that remains -the air that i breath

    2 alice in chains- nutshell

    3alice in chain- down in a hole

    4foriegner- double vision'

    5pantera- flood

  • 29 people are down in a hole

  • This gave me chills... FUCK :D

  • Do you know what I had to do to load this video? I want to kill your family now. Shitty quality thumbs down faggot.

  • I want this at my funeral someday

  • @TheRebelsoldier12 Are you planning on dieing of an overdose ?

  • @xxspliffsmokexx hahaha. no man i was saying this in case of any bad things happen

  • i feel like this quite often... down in a hole and i don't know if i can be saved....

  • I was in a really bad place emotionally after I lost a child in 2009. This song really helped me to deal with my loss. Thanks for posting it.

  • Cantrell is the real lyrical genius here. He really give AiC true emotion and meaning.

  • Layne was the shit mad season was good too new aic sucks anyway layne and aic rock.nirvana rocked too.as far as being a emo bitch...r u serious kurt was just as good as with most junkie dead rockers like layne ,kurt, and elliott smith....todays music sucks

  • why take a xannex when you can just smoke some weed...It's a much better drug. Perhaps a "proper" man can't understand this music in a complete sense. It shouldn't be that hard for you to understand that some people are just stupid.

  • @vton45 That's because, sadly enough, AiC fans are either true music lovers, or posers......

  • @NIKKGAGE1994 Fuck yeah man

  • @NIKKGAGE1994 Define your meaning of poser ?

  • @bates69696969 Someone who tries being something that they have little education of. A poser bitches alot, listens to rock radio and prefers mainstream songs over true music. Too bad Aic are pretty radioish, because thats why posers get into them in the first place. But Aic, they are very true tho. Great music is great music, no matter how "mainstream" it is.

  • Or NOT. . maybe some are just solid fans of Alice and dig their music.

  • @NIKKGAGE1994 you say posers i see it as the truth the people who like some of their songs and reply to "Do you like AiC?" with "yes" because they actually like some songs....

  • @leaderliter thats very interesting. tell me some more. change my life.

  • @NIKKGAGE1994 lmao ignorance at its finest, I'm ashamed to say we even share a musical taste. Your just a dumb 17 or 18 year old that thinks to highly of himself and sees themselves above everyone else when in reality you suck.

  • @leaderliter and here you are, bitching at one, over youtube. Grow up.

  • @NIKKGAGE1994 Your grammar is awful, stop trying. And grow up really? Your are 18 at the most, you have no idea how much you need to grow up. This is why people say the new generation of kids sucks, and they are going to fail. Arrogance and ignorance, its sad really, because your kids will learn from you, its going to get worse. Seriously look into the mirror and tell yourself how awesome you really aren't.

  • @leaderliter Alright.

  • @leaderliter still bitching at dumb teenagers I see.... over youtube..... which is still sad

  • Alice in chains forever. One of the best songs in the music history.

    28 disliskes can fuck off !!!

  • wow, this song makes me feel so relax, alice in chains its a great grunge band in times like these almost havent bands so good like this :) grunge is life

  • Thanks for posting this with lyrics...def my fave AIC song...great memories, good times ;-)

  • 27 people cannot join the 27 Club.

  • @vton45 Such is the internet, where everyone is an english professor, or has a superiority complex.

  • @vton45 110% correct, its sad almost all of posters are YouTube are that way

  • 27 people will burn in hell.

  • alice in chains is hands down 1 of the best bands

  • @xCHICxWITHxINKx actually i would say they were one of the kind so in some way they are the best bend ever :D

  • Im pretty sure that the lyrics are 'all i want to be is sad of you' not 'oh i want to be inside of you'

  • soothing balm for the soul are AIC fookin awesome as always

  • Lyrics to this song are incredible. AIC, the best band ever.

  • 3:35 to 4:15 is my favorite part. Awesome vocal harmonies! :)

  • vton45- after a paragraph length post, maybe you should take a XanaX !!

  • Amazing fucking voice. Lyane was rare man. Nothing like him now nothing like him will ever be.

  • @vton45 i agree,especially about the xanax

  • @vton45 that's what they call human nature. ni call it lack of respect, but i completely agree, if everyone would have respect for other people's opinions the world would be a much happier place.

  • "I have been guilty

    Of kicking myself in the teeth

    I will speak no more

    Of my feelings beneath&quo