"Degradation Trip" (2002)

• Psychotic Break lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Bargain Basement Howard Hughes lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Anger Rising lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Angel Eyes lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Solitude lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Mother's Spinning In Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones) lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Hellbound lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Give It A Name lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Castaway lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• She Was My Girl lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Chemical Tribe lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Spiderbite lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Locked On lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Gone lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Psychotic Break lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

I feel the fear take hold

Reside in darkness, thrive where most won't go

Adrift, I curse this gift

And hope you'll never know

Feel like a psychotic break comin' on

Snapping two by fours

Punching holes in dry wall

Feel like a psychotic break comin' on

Chalking up my dead friends

And loved ones long gone

I feel the fear take hold

Reside in darkness, thrive where most won't go

Adrift, I curse my gift

And hope you never know

Feel like a psychotic break comin' on

Snapping two by fours

Punching holes in dry wall

Feel like a psychotic break comin' on

Thinking 'bout my dead friends

Whose voices ring on

Bargain Basement Howard Hughes lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Don't deny I did you cold

I broke your trust and lied

Controlling, selfish, gossip abound

Cocaine mouth over mind

And I say...

I wash my hands, pull the slivers

No master plan, I deliver

Enigma wrapped in riddle

Your life I belittle

Dignity I'd steal

Now I know how it feels

Stubborn bastard, hard head knocking

We had our good years too

Though apart, you're still in my heart

I'd give anything for you

And I say...

I wash my hands, pull the splinters

No master plan, I deliver

Enigma wrapped in riddle

Your life I belittle

Dignity I'd steal

Now I know how it feels

Often heard, seldom seen

Bargain Basement Howard Hughes

Hermit phase, a woodshed rage

These days headlines are few

And I say...

I wash my hands, pull the splinters

No master plan, I deliver

Enigma wrapped in riddle

Your life I belittle

Dignity I'd steal

Now I know how it feels

Anger Rising lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Alabama trailer park they call home 

Boy standing at attention in the corner his own 

Terrified, scorpion crawling the wall 

By the way father, could you please beat me some more? 

Anger rising up inside him yet again 

Tell me you got a plan 

Deaf and blind I'm living with the lepers and 

You want to hold my hand 

Cold Alaska, hiding, bundled up tight 

Stretch aluminum foil 'cross the window at night 

Mother crying, calling out up the stairs 

By the way father, do you even care that I'm scared? 

[Chorus]

Repeat chorus with "Devil rising up inside him yet again" 

Generation three, solitary, alone 

By the way father, created hell on my own 

[Chorus]

Angel Eyes lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Homely, thick in mind, never listen

Worn, tired, siren drawn, tunnel vision

Don't forget this chance only live once

Sprung, hypnotized by light, had to get some

Get it all

She said I forgive you

Don't regret our time

You've got to move on love

Angel eyes

Four years and still I dream

Agonize

Such beauty not since seen

Bow down, piper leading, you were one

Hungry, took the prize, then you got dumb

Don't live out your life like a sad song

Sprung, hypnotized by light, had to get some

Get it all

She said I forgive you

You must too or die

You've got to let me go

Angel eyes

Four years and still I dream

Agonize

Such beauty not since seen

Angel eyes

Your face is all I see

Agonize

Forever haunting me

Solitude lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

There's no out, downside up for good

No light, reflection understood

Had to try, perversion satisfied

Insane...so I indulge the beast awhile

When hurting yourself feels right

And there's nothing familiar in sight

Take the time to pull the weeds choking flowers in your life...

Or seal your doom

Cold transparent blue

Locked inside a room

In solitude

There's no flesh, my own ghost awaits

Unclean, defiled, hallucinatory state

Lust, sloth, not my only sins

It's just how, when it's time, on a degradation trip...yeah

When hurting yourself feels right

Long gone the will to fight

Take the time to pull the weeds choking flowers in your life...

Or seal your doom

Cold transparent blue

Locked inside a room

In solitude

Insanity takes you

So black it's untrue

So black it's untrue

Mother's Spinning In Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones) lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't save

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't save

You wouldn't leave it alone

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't save

You couldn't leave it alone

Glass cuts up your hide

Black mark on your soul

Burning up your life

Feed the glass dick jones

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't tame

You need to be the dog

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't save

The you that's already gone

Glass cuts up your hide

Black mark on your soul

Burning up your life

Feed the glass dick jones

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't save

You wouldn't leave it alone

Mother's spinning in her grave 'cause she can't tame

You need to be the dog

Glass cuts up your hide

Black mark on your soul

Burning up your life

Feed the glass dick jones

Hellbound lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Going down a last act scene

Curtain call begin bowing

Self-appointed abuse king

Hellbound, that's my belief

Black eat white, cassette thrill

Whatever come, eat your fill

Choke on bones, flowing stream long stilled

The truth is to some degree we all steal

Hey now

Come 'round

Hellbound

Going way down

Justified, a self-made man

All I do is do what I can

Edges sharpened, blasted sand

Bizarre, devoted fan

Black eat white, cassette thrill

Whatever come, eat your fill

Choke on bones, flowing theme blown will

The truth is to some degree we all steal

Hey now

Come 'round

Hellbound 

Going to stay down

Washington, a fish belly rust

Sad chapter read last page first

Black eat white, cassette thrill

Whatever come, eat your fill

Choke on bones, flowing dream now killed

The truth is to some degree we all steal

Yeah... 

Hey now

Come 'round

Hellbound

Going way down

Give It A Name lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Give it a name, get it out of your home

Out in your backwoods a doghouse you own

Give it a name like a howling blue hound

Chasing your fears man he's hunting you down

Give it a name, get it out of your eye

Come from the dockland got your low hangin' high

Give it a name, though you call yourself saved

She's deep on your bone and it won't go away

Slowly all the roles we act out become our identity

And in the end we are what we pretend to be

Give it a name, get it out of your home

Out in your backwoods a doghouse you own

Give it a name like a howling blue hound

Chasing your fears man he's hunting you down

Give it a name, get it out of your eye

Come from the dockland got your low hangin' high

Give it a name, though you call yourself saved

She's deep on your bone and it won't go away

Slowly all the roles we act out become our identity

And in the end we are what we pretend to be

Separating self from dream, harsh reality

And though it hurts, embrace the truth and from fear be set free

Castaway lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Day break, wind is blowing strong

No escape, caught on a reef in the storm

Castaway, licking his cracked lips sore

Patient, waits, hoping the rats reach the shore...yeah...yeah

Yesterday, seems a lifetime now

Remembering, those he left and how

Out in space, laughing at all below

Island stage, plays to his thoughts and ego...yeah...yeah

Dusk fall, fading sun, no fire light

Memories amplify his plight

Gathering, searching for shelter above

Feel the sting, choking on hoarded love...yeah...yeah

Thin, cold, tired...castaway

She Was My Girl lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Copacetic, calm my frenetic, she's the shit y'all

Highly rated, well-educated, she's an angel

She's ambitious, beautiful, delicious, got a restaurant

I can take it, truth stripped me naked, yeah I fucked up...yeah

She was my girl

Used to be my world

I miss my girl

What a fine girl

She put together, says she's doing better since she let go

Repeating dreamer, now and then I see her and we have lunch

Ever playful, hook the jumper cable, give me fresh spark

Sister ringing, old reminder stinging, bridges burned hoss...yeah

She was my girl

Used to be my world

I miss my girl

What a fine girl [Repeat 1x]

She called me up, I guess she pretty stuck, she needed my help

It made me happy, hence the lyric sappy, I still love her...yeah

She was my girl

Used to be my world

I miss my girl

What a fine girl [Repeat 1x]

Such a fine girl

I miss my girl

Used to be my world

She was my girl

Chemical Tribe lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Should I live so long

To see 'em dropping bombs

Hope I have you near

Check out what comes after here...what comes after here

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Don't really care if we live or die

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Been sold out and it's no surprise

Let the black odds roll

Why we can't tell

Ball inside

Roll me over is this hell...is this hell?

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Don't really care if we live or die

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Been sold out I can't tell you why

No last supper rite

Bitchslapped 'fore you reached the table

Born in ending times

Leaning more toward Cain than Abel

No last supper rite

Bitchslapped 'fore you reached the table

Born in ending times

Possibly more truth than fable

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Generation turned a chemical tribe

Been sold out let me say goodbye

No last supper rite

Bitchslapped 'fore you reached the table

Born in ending times

Leaning more toward Cain than Abel

No last supper rite

Bitchslapped 'fore you reached the table

Born in ending times

Possibly more truth than fable

No last supper rite

Bitchslapped 'fore you reached the table

Born in ending times

Leaning more toward Cain than Abel

Bitchslapped 'fore you reached the table

Could it be more truth than fable?

Spiderbite lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Caine

Caine

What was your name? Damn glad to meet ya

Never been to your place, but I know it

Twitching embrace, show me the spider

Try to disappear, back crack in the sofa

Caine

Caine

Caine

Slow poison working inside

Descending in shadow, cocoon me then bite

Caine spider give to me pain

Got a caterpillar body and a butterfly brain

Caine

Caine

What day is today? Don't I know you?

19 and bold, bitten in Houston

Out to the car, picked up a spider

Anesthetize your face, loser beside ya

Slow poison working inside

Descending in shadow, cocoon me then bite

Caine spider give to me pain

Got a caterpillar body and a butterfly brain

Spun monkeys on the railroad track

Take me to the caine field

I walk along pick my spiderbite

My old man wonders where I'm at

I'm still a child, guess I keep trying to pay him back

Arrogance stains, threading your silk tomb

Steady she drain, spider digest you

Slow poison working inside

Descending in shadow, cocoon me then bite

Caine spider give to me pain

Got a caterpillar body and a butterfly brain

Locked On lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Everything you heard I did and maybe then some ok

Does it make you happy and now is it out of the way?

Everything you heard I done and probably then some ok

Does it really matter of course I took it all the way

What more can I say

Locked on--what's the deal?

Faded rock star, push and needle

You don't know, well that's alright

You do your thing, I'll live my life

Every word you read is true, baby I won't deny

Don't you push me over, I ain't even finished my ride

Every word you read is true and maybe that is a lie

Strap session closing and I'm a-going out of my mind

What more can I say

Locked on--what's the deal? 

Falling rock star, push and needle

You don't know, well that's alright

You do your thing, I'll live my life

Locked on--what's the deal?

Faded rock star, push and needle

You don't know, well that's alright

You do your thing, I'll live my life

Every song I wrote I meant what I said at the time

Yeah I spent some time looking death right in the eye

Every song I wrote I captured a fragment of time

Dying a little bit makes you appreciate life

Nothing more to say

Locked on--what's the deal?

Faded rock star, push and needle

You don't know, well that's alright

You do your thing, I'll live my life

Locked on--what's the deal?

Falling rock star, push and needle

You don't know, well that's alright

You do your thing, I'll live my life

Locked on

Locked on

Gone lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

All dreams have died, along the way

I coughed up the price, I bought a cage

I've had a hell of a time since I went away

Don't know when I died, or where to lay down

Gone, gone away

Yeah gone, gone away

God knows I've tried, I'm dyed in pain

Strong yet simple drive, the freedom to say

I've had a hell of a time since I went away

Homing on traces of light, that distance fades

Yeah I'm gone, gone away

Yeah I'm gone, gone away

So they say with time, we slowly heal

I caught a flash of your smile, through the fog of a dream

I'll have a hell of a time, I clearly see

I can't be by your side, I'll see you when I sleep

Now you're gone...gone away

Yeah you're gone...gone away

"Boggy Depot" (1998)

• Dickeye lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Cut You In lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• My Song lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Settling Down lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Breaks My Back lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Jesus Hands lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Devil By His Side lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Keep The Light On lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Satisfy lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Hurt A Long Time lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Between lyrics - Jerry Cantrell
• Cold Piece lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Dickeye lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Once round outside and check the door

Only thing he came here lookin' for

One man wasting another man

One hand washes the other hand

Born traitor, soul fader

Stoplight flashes in the street

Injected concrete hide bloody feet

Armed and shining in his hands

Cold metallic green, he don't give a damn

Born traitor, soul fader

Down come the hammer, fall my god, you say

Once again the big dog has his day

One man wasting another man

One hand washes the other hand

Born traitor, soul fader

One man wasting another man

Born traitor

One hand washes the other hand

Born traitor

One man wasting another man

Born traitor

One hand washes the other hand

Soul fader

Cut You In lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

I like to sit, do nothing at home

I disappear, turn off the phone

I lose myself, hide from the sun

I make a trip when I'm out of fun

I cut you in, come on let's go for a fall

I cut you in, and you ain't leavin' at all

I cut you in, don't let it go to your head

I cut you in, part time friend

I call you up whenever I'm stoned

We chew the skin, choke on the bones

You wonder when I'll go away

If I could deal with it I would have stayed

I cut you in, come on let's go for a fall

I cut you in, and you ain't leavin' at all

I cut you in, don't let it go to your head

I cut you in, part time friend

I cut you in, come on let's go for a fall

I cut you in, and you ain't leavin' at all

I cut you in, don't let it go to your head

I cut you in, part time friend

I like to sit, do nothing at home

I disappear, turn off the phone

I lose myself, hide from the sun

I make a trip when I'm out of fun

I cut you in, come on let's go for a fall

I cut you in, and you ain't leavin' at all

I cut you in, don't let it go to your head

I cut you in, part time friend

I cut you in, come on let's go for a fall

I cut you in, and you ain't leavin' at all

I cut you in, don't let it go to your head

I cut you in, part time friend

I cut you in

I cut you in

I cut you in, don't let it go to your head

I cut you in, part time friend

My Song lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

She won't tell me lies

She want to see me smile, yeah

Every time you let it show

I didn't want to know

By the time I had lost my soul

You had to go

She come, in disguise

I want to say goodbye, yeah

Every time I let it show

You didn't want to know

By the time I had lost my soul

You had to go

You had to go

Love's strong, mine gone

Still have the time to sing my song

Love's strong, mine gone

Still have the time to sing my song

Still have the time to sing my song

Still have the time to sing my song

She got her own way

Same as yesterday, yeah

Every time you let it show

I didn't want to know

By the time I had sold my soul

You had to go

You had to go

Love's strong, mine gone

Still have the time to sing my song

Still have the time to sing my song

Love's strong, mine gone

Still have the time to sing my song

Still have the time to sing my song

Still not a crime to sing my song

Settling Down lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Though you're always on my mind

Found a sickness that was mine

Chose a life out on the run

All alone inside this game

Until I'm done

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more

Seems I've failed you all my life

Youthful dreams you'd be my wife

Before I fall into the sun

If there never is again

You were the one

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more

So I don't feel that I can love you anymore

On this settling down

Oh I better lay down and rest awhile

On this settling down

Oh I better lay down and rest awhile

Sometimes I don't think I can trust myself no more

And I don't know if I can love you anymore

On this settling down

Oh I better lay down and rest awhile

On this settling down

Oh I better lay down and rest awhile

And I say no

Breaks My Back lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Through windows by my bed

Miles away I rest my weary head

Next to you

No coldness in my eye

Cut the skin and take my sorry hide

Cover you

Make love with you

It bleeds upon my back

Strapped with silver tacks

Wish I'd loved you more

And never shut that door

The waves that run the shore

Wash away the stones of pain we bore

I tortured you

I tried to drown my hate

Underneath an ocean I still wait

Remembering you, always true

It bleeds upon my back

Strapped with silver tacks

Wish I'd loved you more

And never shut that door

Restitution day

All I have I give away

To be with you

If it breaks my back

Through windows by my bed

Miles away I rest my weary head

Next to you

Coldness in my eye

Cut the skin and take my sorry hide

Cover you

Make love with you

It bleeds upon my back

Strapped with silver tacks

Wish I'd loved you more

And never shut that door

Restitution day

All I have I give away

To be with you

If it breaks my back

Jesus Hands lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

If you ever torch your bridges

If you're ever past the starlight

If you're ever unassured

Forever you will burn

As you sleep unearthly grace

Lay Jesus hands upon your face

To this sea you've been shot down

Now find the shore, it can be found

Can be found

Can be found

If you ever crack your small mind

If you're ever much disturbed

If you ever reach the shore

Forever be your turn

As you sleep unearthly grace

Lay Jesus hands upon your face

To this sea you've been shot down

Now find the shore, it can be found

Can be found

Can be found

Devil By His Side lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Clear on the road tonight

Headlamps shine on the one-way signs

I try to clear my head

Of thoughts better left unsaid

Runnin' down an old elusive high

One more time

The wind upon my face

No one here for to block my way

I wake the setting sun

Bullet shot by a thoughtful gun

Runnin' down an old elusive high

Did I lose you

Oh friend of mine

Is it in your hardened heart to

Trust me one more time

See, I'm tryin' to shake that same

Devil from my side

Always watchin' me, yeah

Laughing while I cry

While I cry

Gunnin' down an old elusive high

One more time

Clear on the road tonight

Headlamps shine on the mileage signs

Not much further to go

I laugh and I'm almost home

Gunnin' down an old elusive high

Did I lose you

Oh friend of mine

Is it in your hardened heart to

Trust me one more time

See, I'm tryin' to shake that old

Devil from my side

Always taunting me, yeah

Laughing while I cry

While I cry

Runnin' down an old elusive high

One more time

One more time

Keep The Light On lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Haven't seen her, she hit the wall last night

Bumped his head low, a cause-effected fight

She says she ain't gonna take it no more

(golden ring around her finger)

But she won't ever set him free

(golden ring around his finger)

Come to find out, she'd been with someone else

So it's a bitch now, he sees it in himself

Long before we, teachers of our game

On a bent lord, it tends to get insane

She says she ain't gonna take it no more

(golden ring around her finger)

But she's not gonna set him free

He keeps the light on, prepare for war

Severed past gone, it's all the same today

Cannibalistic, eating themselves away

She says she ain't gonna take it no more

(golden ring around her finger)

But she's not gonna set him free

'Cause he keeps the light on, prepare for war

He keeps the light on, prepare for war

(golden ring around her finger)

He keeps the light on, prepare for war

(golden ring around his finger)

Fill me

Kill me

Satisfy lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

I would like to know

How you cage a bird aflight

Feathers bright

To show your might

Are you such a stone

Smile greasy, you pick my bones

Crawl inside

Have you no life

Hard times on the refugee

Keep a sidesteppin' over me

Not sure but you think you might

Can you see when there is no light

Tell me once again

That you'd like to be my friend

While we run

A race of one

Do you feel the same

My head hung high in shame

You install

A trophy wall

Hard times on the refugee

Keep a sidesteppin' over me

Not sure but you think you might

Can you see when there is no light

Please me

Satisfy

One request

Choose to live...

Hurt A Long Time lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

His hands are clenched

His knuckles white

He got a gun

And gave up the fight

When I found out

I couldn't even cry

Well I am now

And I'm tryin' to figure out why

I'll save it for you

You save me from me

And the hole in my head I can see

Tell her I love her

Tell the kids that I loved them

Oh, it's a bad dream

I've got only time

Yeah, it's a bad dream

I've got only time

You know it's a bad dream

I've got only time

I wish it was a bad dream

I wish it was a bad dream

'Cause it's gonna hurt a long time, yeah

He lies awake

With saddened eyes

Sleeping babies

Keeping him alive

I'll save it for you

You save me from me

And the hole in my head I can see

Tell her I love her

Tell the kids that I loved them

Oh, it's a bad dream

I've got only time

Yeah, it's a bad dream

I've got only time

You know it's just a bad dream

I've got only time

I wish it was a bad dream

I've got only time

I wish it was a bad dream

'Cause it's gonna hurt a long time, yeah

Between lyrics - Jerry Cantrell

Goin' to California, try and find my head

Gonna swim in the ocean until I'm dead

Let the infection spread

On my way to Texas, drive upon my ranch

Gonna take you fishin' up Big Branch

Well, now you're my catch

Somewhere in between the wrong and right

We fight

It's fair to say that in your eyes I'm wrong,

And in my mind that's alright

Somewhere in between the wrong and right

We fight

It's fair to say that in your eyes I'm wrong,

And in my mind that's alright

Off in New York City, good to see some friends

Scratched my nose upon a barette on her head

Laid up in a rental bed

Then back home to Seattle, fed the monkey man

I proceed to throw up all over my hand

Well, it ain't so bad

Somewhere in between the wrong and right

We fight

It's fair to say that in your eyes I'm wrong,

And in my mind...

Somewhere in between the wrong and right

We fight

It's fair to say that in your eyes I'm wrong,

And in my mind that's alright

That's alright

That's alright

That's alright