It's amazing that despite how much tragedy has happened to Alice in Chains over the years that the remaining members and new members have managed to move on and create excellent music. Of course it's different without Layne Staely and Mike Starr, but gotta admit, they still sound good.
I heard "Black Gives Way To Blue". was to Layne.There were a lot of different artist's that made songs for Layne after he passed.He had a hauntingly beautiful voice that touched my soul.R.I.P Layne.AIC forever!!
Really. I have an old lady who lives nearby who has cancer (mostly overcome now). Her days should be spent in pain and misery, rolling in bed in pure agony. But that doesn't happen. She actually has had the chance to live a normal, painless life, with a shot at dignity. Because she uses morphine daily. It's all the same substance, since heroin is converted back to morphine once it enters your body. There's only *two* options here: either the old lady should be a wreck by now (like Layne), or Layne should be alive and livin well (like the old lady). Since a substance doesn't know morality, it should be having the *same* effect in 2 human bodies. I leave it to you to try to understand what went wrong, what *really* destroyed Layne... We can see that it wasn't the substance itself. So, what was it? Think hard. Think smart. You'll get it.
Alice In Chains closed out ROCKUSA in Oshkosh, WI last year with Jerry singing. Let me just say it was loud like the old days...and just pure orgasmic fucking awesomeness!! Long Live AIC!!!
I don't understand why people give a shit how many people disliked a video. Do you need these 5 other people to agree with you in order to enjoy what you are hearing? I would still find this song pleasing to my ears even if there were 1 million people who disliked it.
man Duval has a few lines in this just like how Layne had few lines in heavens beside you it's mostly jerry in both songs so there really isn't much of a difference bands sounds change all the time just enjoy this normally like you never heard aic before i mean jerry is the one who wrote and writes most of the songs while Layne is amazing and irreplaceable just don't let his absence ruin the experience of aic new music to it after all a lot of those songs are a tribute to layne and it's great it's to me on the same level as old aic stuff
Well, IMHO, Alice in Chains made quite a recovery after so many years retired. There are a lot of bands who came back from their graves interested only in money, and worrying not a bit about music quality.
I loved Layne and Jerry's interplay in songs live and how they'd be really in-tune to each other's voices and singing so that they could do them interwoven together, but for some reason, I love this song because it, to me, shows Jerry's voice away from being behind Layne's.
I just recently really got into alice in chains, it's funny my younger sister loved them before they were so popular, and the song that got me really listening to them is their song nutshell which my sister loved and sadly is now the song that reminds me of her
@@kwahlf Don't be. I work at a group home for children. I meet kids almost every day that have it way worse than my kids. I appreciate your sentiment, it was a f___ed up situation, but the sh_t I see at work makes it pale in comparison.
@@kwahlf When I was a kid my best friends family disintegrated. He became my foster brother. I watch the effects on him right up to the day he shot himself in front of two of my friends and I. One of those friends and my biological brother died in a car wreck eight months to the day later. My ex bailed on my kids on the anniversary of my foster brother shooting himself. I have always tried to help kids who either don't have parents, or their parents are worthless. Most of my daughters friends call me dad. One of them got a PHD in law. She invited me to her graduation not her biological parents. I can't in good conscience call myself a "good man," but I can be a good dad for kids that need one. My daughter is a family therapist, she has 3 degrees including 2 masters. My son is a soldier and won 4 medals in 3 years. I raised them by myself for 16 years. The moral of all this is take your adversity and use it for something good. I lost 8 of my closest friends in 8 years, 5 of them to gunshot wounds, and I witnessed 2 of those shootings. I am very knowledgeable about pain and death, I understand pain and death. I help kids try to deal with their pain, and hopefully keep them from making decisions that leads to death. I have the uncanny ability to feel kids pain, some find it creepy that I know how they feel when they're trying to hide it. I do nothing exceptional, I only do what a person should. I also have never liked accolades for doing what I should. The things I see and hear from kids would make the hair stand up on your head. I do what I can because the gods have given me a skill set that allows me to help kids who are dead inside. Sorry for dumping on you about all this, I find sleep fleeting and get weird when I don't sleep. You have a great day, appreciate every day, because some people, children, live through indescribable hell every day. Everyone who doesn't should be thankful.
I think this whole album is about Layne, and how the band suffered without him, and finally came to terms with his death and the events that led up to it. Jerry Cantrell will never replace Layne, but he has a similar vocal style. You can feel the pain in his voice, as you could feel when Layne sang with the band.
Dr. Junaid Ahangar right, so we make many choices in our life. Good choices, bad choices, choices with little noticeable effect. I think it’s based on Laynes addiction. In the beginning it was a nice high and a good feeling. No one plans for an addiction to overcome them and ultimately end their life.
It means "lower " the the kingdom of God is the first is last. And the last is first. You need to be a servant to be the greatest. Low humbleness. Most people won't choose to be servants and humbleness. They want to be the best and everything easy
I don't mean to be picky,I love Jerry but I would argue that in some way Layne didn't chose the path that brought him lower. In this life, perhaps. I know that we obviously would all love for him to still be around, but I think he more than leveled up in the next life. So in a way he actually didn't go lower.But, Jerry I respect Jerry's take on the situation
I always liked diferent things a lot and then when i had someone "normal" watch it or listen with me it wasn't as good. I think i am over that now though, it doesnt seem to matter i know what i like now! :-) and this is A.O.K.!
Wow people are dumb....thinking Layne Staley is singing this. The reason this song sounds like the original AIC is because Layne Staley didnt sing alone. Jerry Cantrell did co-vocals with him and still sings along with William Duvall who replaced Layne Staley. Staley was a great singer but Cantrells voice overpowered his, thats why it still sounds similar.
But you my son who I dearly love, I will tax your intuition while weighing heavy upon your heart.... for I am ABBA the God of all creation and will lead you not astray but will show you the glistening deserts with a thousand angels unseen.
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heres an idea Socrates....... if you dont like the video...dont watch and leave a thumbs down.... instead of crying like a girl and showcasing a self proclaimed superior intellect
I love so much to hear you fuck up one time. It meams alot. Now if wr can get kurt hammit to post a video, where he fuckscup his lyrics. To 5he other musicians, it like your human now. On our level. We dont expect you to get it right every time.. we love you more now. Seriously, lots of love
Me and my wife had raging hap it with Smoke herion and Crack coank, and i have been with my wife for 25 years. we both been clean for 15 years now, and the night before, we both went to bed. we both pray to ask God and Jesus all the Eagles, please, please, please help us come off drugs and the next day, you would think we both would been ill with dropping from herion and crack coank god and Jesus all the Eagles answers to other pray and god and Jesus all the Eagles took the pain we would been in and we both know that we couldn't do it without god and Jesus all the Eagles and we both been clean for 15 years now and I want to say a big big big thank you god and thank you Jesus, thank you to all the Eagles. When i hered this song, it made me think how stupid me and my hubby were like thank you for this song. And know that all i need life is God and Jesus all the Eagles, and my hubby. I love my husband so much, and he loves me too
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Jerry always writes songs that hit you right in the feels. Amazing
But layne Sang it in such a relatable way. 😩
What makes Alice in chains so good is that every generation will be able to relate to the lyrics
"No one plans to take the path that bring you lower, and here you stand before us all and say its over, its over."
Best part of the song
@@christopherpooler5398 ong
Some of the best lyrics ever written
It's amazing that despite how much tragedy has happened to Alice in Chains over the years that the remaining members and new members have managed to move on and create excellent music. Of course it's different without Layne Staely and Mike Starr, but gotta admit, they still sound good.
I heard "Black Gives Way To Blue". was to Layne.There were a lot of different artist's that made songs for Layne after he passed.He had a hauntingly beautiful voice that touched my soul.R.I.P Layne.AIC forever!!
Jessamyn Edwards yes it was. Very touching tribute
Time to change has come and gone
Watched your fears become your God
It's your decission
It's your decission
Amzing Song Love It
this is a good song.. its pointed about layne staleys abuse with heroin.. ultimately it took him down.. its very sad.. but good song with meaning..
Really. I have an old lady who lives nearby who has cancer (mostly overcome now). Her days should be spent in pain and misery, rolling in bed in pure agony. But that doesn't happen. She actually has had the chance to live a normal, painless life, with a shot at dignity. Because she uses morphine daily. It's all the same substance, since heroin is converted back to morphine once it enters your body. There's only *two* options here: either the old lady should be a wreck by now (like Layne), or Layne should be alive and livin well (like the old lady). Since a substance doesn't know morality, it should be having the *same* effect in 2 human bodies. I leave it to you to try to understand what went wrong, what *really* destroyed Layne... We can see that it wasn't the substance itself. So, what was it? Think hard. Think smart. You'll get it.
Jimmy David I’m pretty sure heroine and morphine are different and there’s also a difference between a prescription and addiction/abuse
Wrong. Sold his soul. Super human angel DEMON.
Oops the Jonathan kleck for real TRUTH. Jerry knows. Most do by now. End of this age
Rest in peace Layne, we'll see you there.
Did Layne write this song?
Jerry wrote it.
Rip mike starr too
@@gregb1076 Jerry wrote it
One of their finest songs. Great respect for Jerry Cantrell.
Lanely may be gone but at least Alice In Chains music lives on and continues
the best songwriting of my generation.....it's like Jerry and Lane saw IT before it was here
What exactly is IT?
@Tribe Gematria they will be destroyed.
Bad ass song..takes me back to the good old years of my life
This maybe isn't my favorite song of all time, but I can't think of another with lyrics that apply to myself so precisely.
this song made me pull my car over and cry
I love this fucking song. Jerry Cantrell is amazing.
Alice In Chains closed out ROCKUSA in Oshkosh, WI last year with Jerry singing. Let me just say it was loud like the old days...and just pure orgasmic fucking awesomeness!! Long Live AIC!!!
I SO LOVE this song.....wow it is incredible and I LOVE the passion in the vocals....god.
This song is deep.
Fuckin lyrics literally put me in my place...
I don't understand why people give a shit how many people disliked a video. Do you need these 5 other people to agree with you in order to enjoy what you are hearing? I would still find this song pleasing to my ears even if there were 1 million people who disliked it.
Simply One Of Their Best Songs. .Awesome Vocals. .
Amazing Guitarr Solo Riffs. .I LOOOVE IT ♥
Love the solo
Thanks for making this 🙂
Jerry is the true definition of a man who can't stop moving forward
I hope things go back to normal.
im so glad to see no one has commented about you-know-who here yet .. i hope they still dont .. great video by the way XD
sounds like classic chains but noone could ever, ever replace Layne..
Lisa Zeller just stfu and enjoy 😀
man Duval has a few lines in this just like how Layne had few lines in heavens beside you it's mostly jerry in both songs so there really isn't much of a difference bands sounds change all the time just enjoy this normally like you never heard aic before i mean jerry is the one who wrote and writes most of the songs while Layne is amazing and irreplaceable just don't let his absence ruin the experience of aic new music to it after all a lot of those songs are a tribute to layne and it's great it's to me on the same level as old aic stuff
Well, IMHO, Alice in Chains made quite a recovery after so many years retired. There are a lot of bands who came back from their graves interested only in money, and worrying not a bit about music quality.
I loved Layne and Jerry's interplay in songs live and how they'd be really in-tune to each other's voices and singing so that they could do them interwoven together, but for some reason, I love this song because it, to me, shows Jerry's voice away from being behind Layne's.
Amazing song...Jerry has definitely still got it, pure genius
i love this song!
Long live AIC!!!
It's more than a tribute to Layne - it's also a song about peer pressure.
now that i finally hit 30 years of age. i look back and listen to this song again, and it makes more sense. i understand now.
I just recently really got into alice in chains, it's funny my younger sister loved them before they were so popular, and the song that got me really listening to them is their song nutshell which my sister loved and sadly is now the song that reminds me of her
I have to thank you, soon as i heard this i learned how to play it on guitar. thanks, it really fun to play
great song. i love it.
An Honest & beautiful song about Jerry's former best friend. Never forgotten Layne!!
This song always reminds me of my ex wife. She went to work one day and never came home.
Try explaining that to your kids.
:(
I am so sorry. :-(
@@kwahlf
Don't be. I work at a group home for children. I meet kids almost every day that have it way worse than my kids.
I appreciate your sentiment, it was a f___ed up situation, but the sh_t I see at work makes it pale in comparison.
@@brianjordan2192 Bless you for working with the kids.
You have a lot of compassion and understand them..
You are a good man with a big heart.
@@kwahlf
When I was a kid my best friends family disintegrated. He became my foster brother. I watch the effects on him right up to the day he shot himself in front of two of my friends and I. One of those friends and my biological brother died in a car wreck eight months to the day later. My ex bailed on my kids on the anniversary of my foster brother shooting himself. I have always tried to help kids who either don't have parents, or their parents are worthless. Most of my daughters friends call me dad. One of them got a PHD in law. She invited me to her graduation not her biological parents.
I can't in good conscience call myself a "good man," but I can be a good dad for kids that need one.
My daughter is a family therapist, she has 3 degrees including 2 masters. My son is a soldier and won 4 medals in 3 years. I raised them by myself for 16 years. The moral of all this is take your adversity and use it for something good. I lost 8 of my closest friends in 8 years, 5 of them to gunshot wounds, and I witnessed 2 of those shootings. I am very knowledgeable about pain and death, I understand pain and death. I help kids try to deal with their pain, and hopefully keep them from making decisions that leads to death. I have the uncanny ability to feel kids pain, some find it creepy that I know how they feel when they're trying to hide it. I do nothing exceptional, I only do what a person should.
I also have never liked accolades for doing what I should. The things I see and hear from kids would make the hair stand up on your head. I do what I can because the gods have given me a skill set that allows me to help kids who are dead inside.
Sorry for dumping on you about all this, I find sleep fleeting and get weird when I don't sleep.
You have a great day, appreciate every day, because some people, children, live through indescribable hell every day. Everyone who doesn't should be thankful.
I think this whole album is about Layne, and how the band suffered without him, and finally came to terms with his death and the events that led up to it. Jerry Cantrell will never replace Layne, but he has a similar vocal style. You can feel the pain in his voice, as you could feel when Layne sang with the band.
Awesome song. :)
it will be over when I win a HUGE lawsuit for stalking, harassment and abuse
What? Lol!
Sτεphεn J never mind just read the lyrics and they seemed to go along with this other thing
huge thing in my life right now...thats all
Oh...sorry to hear about that. :/
my favorite love it so much
this is like rooted in NA literature, which i always found to be some great lyric writing material
@90sjustsaying yea man its so nice to see a 90s band making 90s music today
I love this.song
muito comprometimento com o rock,tem esta banda basta apreciar seus trabalhos fenomenais!!
This is true life soooo underrated is Jerry Cantrel and this song. I wish Jerry still made music.
this is a very good song by alice in chains that song is your decision and plus is your decision in life to right things
No one plans to take a path that brings you lower. Might sound self explanatory but anyone feel free to post an interpretation of this line?
Dr. Junaid Ahangar right, so we make many choices in our life. Good choices, bad choices, choices with little noticeable effect. I think it’s based on Laynes addiction. In the beginning it was a nice high and a good feeling. No one plans for an addiction to overcome them and ultimately end their life.
He may be talking about selling his soul for fame and having to participate in satanic cabal rituals.
It means "lower " the the kingdom of God is the first is last. And the last is first. You need to be a servant to be the greatest. Low humbleness. Most people won't choose to be servants and humbleness. They want to be the best and everything easy
john Watson, never even thought about this song like that. I agree 100%.
this song is beautiful, with a lot more meaning than pop music
William and Jerry harmonize beautifully together
I don't mean to be picky,I love Jerry but I would argue that in some way Layne didn't chose the path that brought him lower. In this life, perhaps. I know that we obviously would all love for him to still be around, but I think he more than leveled up in the next life. So in a way he actually didn't go lower.But, Jerry I respect Jerry's take on the situation
This, Heaven Beside You and Love Hate Love are the best AIC songs imo
this song changed my life and myself as a person.
i just love the solo part its epic
class !!
you nailed it on the head ramstones1 \m/
R.I.P Layne Staley. One Of The Best Songs Ive Ever Heard.
Addicted to the solo
And anyway this song is a masterpiece.
omg i love the lyrics to this song N I LOVE IT i love the guitar even thought the chords are kinda like running blind by godsmack
"it's over" are part of the lyrics, o gifted one.
MOST EXCELLENT DAMNNNN
I always liked diferent things a lot and then when i had someone "normal" watch it or listen with me it wasn't as good. I think i am over that now though, it doesnt seem to matter i know what i like now! :-) and this is A.O.K.!
Depressing lyrics, but great song.
i dont get why people dislike videos yet they are the ones who decided to listen to it. >:(
@andro1996 what difference does it make if there are dislikes?
great song🥂
Favorite band
this sounds more like layes tribute...than the other
Song is about layne
R.I.P Layne things r different without you, still rocks but, different...
Wow people are dumb....thinking Layne Staley is singing this. The reason this song sounds like the original AIC is because Layne Staley didnt sing alone. Jerry Cantrell did co-vocals with him and still sings along with William Duvall who replaced Layne Staley. Staley was a great singer but Cantrells voice overpowered his, thats why it still sounds similar.
Overpowered when they sang together
I like this song but I respect the 5 people that dislike this song thats there decision
love this song fuckin awesome!! remember the choices you make in life good or bad is your decision!
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I'm in love with song, I don't know if its healthy to keep raping the replay button because of it or not .
2:19
Its up to you the path that you choose??
loool ^^
i like alice in chains they are a great band :D
You should look up The Present at truthcontest com then listen to this song again. There are metaphors in it that get overlooked.
But you my son who I dearly love, I will tax your intuition while weighing heavy upon your heart.... for I am ABBA the God of all creation and will lead you not astray but will show you the glistening deserts with a thousand angels unseen.
very dark but true
@eclipsegsx765 thats what I think but who knows what the writer was thinking?
@andro1996
you shouldnt mention it
As much as people would like to, even me, it's not really a good idea to feed the trolls. :P
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Alice isnt in wonderland anymore.Just chains.
laserus3333 :( wow you feel it too.
heres an idea Socrates....... if you dont like the video...dont watch and leave a thumbs down.... instead of crying like a girl and showcasing a self proclaimed superior intellect
I love so much to hear you fuck up one time. It meams alot. Now if wr can get kurt hammit to post a video, where he fuckscup his lyrics. To 5he other musicians, it like your human now. On our level. We dont expect you to get it right every time.. we love you more now. Seriously, lots of love
Best song I think I ever heard.
who would have thought that. ha haa!!!
It's SOBER
That fucking song...
Me and my wife had raging hap it with Smoke herion and Crack coank, and i have been with my wife for 25 years. we both been clean for 15 years now, and the night before, we both went to bed. we both pray to ask God and Jesus all the Eagles, please, please, please help us come off drugs and the next day, you would think we both would been ill with dropping from herion and crack coank god and Jesus all the Eagles answers to other pray and god and Jesus all the Eagles took the pain we would been in and we both know that we couldn't do it without god and Jesus all the Eagles and we both been clean for 15 years now and I want to say a big big big thank you god and thank you Jesus, thank you to all the Eagles. When i hered this song, it made me think how stupid me and my hubby were like thank you for this song. And know that all i need life is God and Jesus all the Eagles, and my hubby. I love my husband so much, and he loves me too
agreed!
A tribute to Staley
Awwwww geeeee.
its the new singer, but it sounds alot like its to layne.
RIP Layne staley
Is this about Layne?
The cords for this song is
A miner to G to D