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". When he says "we chase misprinted lies" he is referring to the ideas and values people measure their lives by. 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, Losin' My Soul, Losin' Control I'd Like To Fly But My Wings Have Been So Denied And They've Put All The Stones In Their Place I've Eaten The Sun So My Tongue Has Been Burned Of The Taste. " ( 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. Two songs I can relate to because of the lyrics 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 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 ) second one is "Down in a. This is a must for everyone who likes accoustic songs with an edge. Some of these songs are ''Angry Chair'', and ''Would?'', ''Down in a hole''. I like how they played some songs seem like they were meant to be accoustic. It seems like it was meant to be an accoustic song. I was impressed with the accoustic version of one of my favorite songs ''Sludge Factory''. Then goes into another slow one with ''Brother''. Bck to alice in chains -Unplugged The first song is ''Nutshell'', from the album Jar of Flies.
In case you are not familiar with MTV Unplugged, its a show where bands play accoustic UNPLUGGED songs, music that only uses instruments whose sound is not electronically modified, for example acoustic guitar, acoustic piano, etc., as opposed to electric guitar, synthesizer. It gripped my attention the entire day I was listening to it. It is one of my favorite Alice In Chains album. If you like accoustic grunge rock Alice In Chains is the band, you'll love this album.-Alice In Chains UNPLUGGED.
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