Alice In Chains : Black Gives Way to Blue
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1. ALL SECRETS KNOWN
Hope,
A new beginning
Time,
Time to start living
Like just before we died
There's no going back
To the place
We started from
Hurt,
Falling through fingers
Trust,
Trust in the feeling
There's something left inside
There's no going back
To the place
We started from
All secrets known
Calm,
All wounds are healing
Strong,
Truth is worth saving
I want to feel alive
There's no going back
To the place
We started from
All secrets known
2. CHECK MY BRAIN
An so I found myself on the sun, oh yeah...
A hell of a place to end a run, oh yeah...
California I'm fine,
Somebody check my brain
Calidornia's alright
Somebody check my brain
I walked these streets a creep in a fog, oh yeah...
When she sang I answered the call, oh yeah...
California I'm fine,
Somebody check my brain
Calidornia's alright
Somebody check my brain
Tears that filled my bong
Years expended gone
I hung my guns and put'em away, oh yeah...
A trick of the trade and by the way, oh yeah...
California I'm fine,
Somebody check my brain
Calidornia's alright
Somebody check my brain
Tears that filled my bong
Years expended gone
Tears that filled my bong
Years expended gone
3. LAST OF MY KIND
So young so brazen so unholy
I come to you in painted skies
Your broken saint, your ancient story
The living challenge to their lies
Trapped in the cold outside
There ain't no shelter
They wanna force my hand
Until I...
Take what I wanted, and
Break all the lies that they
Feed, the fuckin' liars...
Smash all the temples, and
Crawl through the rubble, and
Cry to the fallen
I'm the last of my kind still standing
I'm the last of my kind still standing down the law
A wolf alone upon the hillside
I live on what they throw away
I got to sleep behind the eight ball
I live to fight for one more day
I'm trapped in the cold outside
There ain't no shelter
They wanna force my hand
'Til I...
Take what I wanted, and
Break all the lies that they
Feed, the fuckin' liars...
Smash all the temples, and
Crawl through the rubble, and
Cry to the fallen
I'm the last of my kind still standing
I'm the last of my kind still standing down the law
Last of my kind still standing...
Last of my kind still standing...
4. YOUR DECISION
Time to change has comme and gone
Watched your fears become your God
It's your decision
Overwhelmed you chose to run
Apathetic to the stunned
It's your decision
You feed the fire that burned us all
When you lied
To feel the pain that spurs you on
Black inside
No one plans to take the path that brings your lower
And here you stand before us all and say it's over
It's over
It might seem an afterthought
Yes it hurts to know you're bought
It's your decision
You feed the fire that burned us all
When you lied
To feel the pain that spurs you on
Black inside
It's your decision
No one plans to take the path that brings your lower
And here you stand before us all and say it's over
It's over
5. A LOOKING IN VIEW
Hear footsteps creak the floor
The shadows give away
Someone outside the door
Won't let him in
Life damaged gears to grind
A run down, broke machine
That steals your peace of mind
Before you know it's gone...
Silence burning, hold your tongue
Keep us separate, sullen, dumb
Hiding in a darkness under
Boiling to the surface, stumble fall
A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
These things I hate in you
Also reflect it seems
Distortion laced with spite
Takes you out of me...
Silence burning, hold your tongue
Keep us separate, sullen, dumb
Hiding in a darkness under
Boiling to the surface something
Crawling on your skin, discomfort
Makes you break and run, stumble fall
A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
It's why you never tell me whatever's on your mind
A looking in view too long on the outside
Desperate plans make sense in a low life
It's why you never tell me whatever's on your mind
6. WHEN THE SUN ROSE AGAIN
Run
Run 'til you drop
Hide
Every one knows
We all trade in never befores
Selling out for the score
Pray
Squeal when you're caught
Cry
It's not my fault
Time to trade in never befores
Selling out for the score
It seems you prophesized all of this would end
Were you burned away when the sun rose again
Hate
Long wearing thin
Negative
All you've been
Time to trade in never befores
Selling out for the score
It seems you prophesized all of this would end
Were you burned away when the sun rose again
7. ACID BUBBLE
You tried to kill me off
Surprised, I remain
A scale tips, impossible
Afraid of my own name
And I always paid attention to all the lines you crossed
Forgive this imperfection it shows, and know
I am the child that lives and cries in a corner
Dies in a corner
Alone inside your mind
Intent obsolescence
Built into the system
I tried to shake it off
You can't remove this stain
A scale breaks, impossible
Afraid we are the same
And you never paid attention to all the lines I crossed
Forgive this imperfection it shows, and know
I am the child that lives and cries in a corner
Dies in a corner
Alone inside your mind
Hides in a corner
Dies in a corner
Alone inside your mind
Intent obsolescence
Built into the sytem
8. LESSON LEARNED
Just another lesson learned
Wear a scar, a bore repeating
Take a simple fateful turn
Opened up to stop the bleeding
Feeling like you never could
Been the disconnected frying
Hit the vein & struck a nerve
Seeing through a self that's blinding
Nowhere to buy in
Most of us hiding
Others are shining
You know when you find it
In your darkest hour, you strike gold
A thought clicks, not the be-all end-all
Just another lesson learned...
Just another brick you toss
Stone the number one deceiver
Multiply the added cost
Easy to become a believer
Feeling like you never could
Been the disconnected frying
Hit the vein & struck a nerve
Seeing through a self that's blinding
Nowhere to buy in
Most of us hiding
Others are shining
You know when you find it
In your darkest hour, you strike gold
A thought clicks, not the be-all end-all
Just another lesson learned...
9. TAKE HER OUT
Here I am again
I feel time is draggin' on
Aren't you getting tired of me ?
Whinging overdrawn
Faceless, blind
Want to take her out again
She's not just mine
Want to take her out again
In a bodiless embrace
Thrinving I have grown
Fickle changing grip replaced
Chocking take it all
Faceless, blind
Want to take her out again
She's not just mine
Want to take her out again
Dedicated, true to form
Still the only one
Only guarantee
Continue after I am done
Faceless, blind
Want to take her out again
She's not just mine
Want to take her out again
10. PRIVATE HELL
Give away a love
And then remove another too
Painted words adorn the wall
Echoing untrue
I feel cold... hu huh
Promises abound,
You rarely find it to begin
Maybe I'm afraid to let you
All the way in
I guess so... hu huh
I excuse myself,
I'm used to my little cell
I amuse myself,
In my very own private hell
Lately, I'm beside myself
Pretending unconcerned
Standing on a corner
Where I threw you on a torn
I'll move on... uh huh
Flowers on a cross remain
Mark an ending scene
Damn it all if blood you spill
Turn the grass more green
Life is short... uh huh
I excuse myself,
I'm used to my little cell
I amuse myself,
In my very own private hell
11. BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE
I don't want to feel no more
It's easier to keep falling
Imitations are pale
Emptiness... All tomorrows
Haunted by your ghost...
Lay down, black gives way to blue
Lay down, I'll remember you
Fading out by design
Consciously avoiding changes
Curtain's drawn now it's done
Silencing all tomorrows
Forcing a goodbye...
Lay down, black gives way to blue
Lay down, I'll remember you
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