Released: September 29, 1992
Songwriter: Layne Staley Jerry Cantrell
Producer: Alice in Chains Dave Jerden
[Verse 1]
What the hell am I, thousand eyes, a fly?
Lucky then I'd be in one day deceased
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I can feel the wheel but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
[Chorus]
What's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
[Verse 2]
What the hell am I, leper from inside?
Inside wall of peace, dirty and diseased
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I can see the end is getting near
I won't rest until my head is clear
[Chorus]
What's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
[Bridge]
Can you see the end?
Choke on me, my friend
Must to drown these thoughts
Purity over rot
[Verse 3]
"Yeah, though I walk through the valley of rape and despair
With head high and eyes alert
I tread on a plane of many
We who are of good nature and intention
But cannot touch on the dark
Recesses of memory
And pain learned, so come walk
With me, feel the pain
And release it"
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4]
What the hell am I, worn eroded pride?
Saddened 10 miles wide, I'm gon' let it slide
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I can feel the wheel but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
[Chorus]
What's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
What the hell am I, thousand eyes, a fly?
Lucky then I'd be in one day deceased
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I can feel the wheel but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
[Chorus]
What's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
[Verse 2]
What the hell am I, leper from inside?
Inside wall of peace, dirty and diseased
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I can see the end is getting near
I won't rest until my head is clear
[Chorus]
What's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
[Bridge]
Can you see the end?
Choke on me, my friend
Must to drown these thoughts
Purity over rot
[Verse 3]
"Yeah, though I walk through the valley of rape and despair
With head high and eyes alert
I tread on a plane of many
We who are of good nature and intention
But cannot touch on the dark
Recesses of memory
And pain learned, so come walk
With me, feel the pain
And release it"
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4]
What the hell am I, worn eroded pride?
Saddened 10 miles wide, I'm gon' let it slide
Sickman, sickman, sickman, sickman
[Pre-Chorus 1]
I can feel the wheel but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
[Chorus]
What's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine
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- I Can’t Have You Blues (Demo)
- Died
- Fear the Voices
- Over Now (Unplugged)
- Killer Is Me
- Iron Gland
- Get Born Again
- Am I Inside
- Got Me Wrong
- Brother
- Whatcha Gonna Do (Demo)
- Social Parasite (Demo)
- Again (Tattoo of Pain Mix)
- A Little Bitter (Remix)
- What the Hell Have I? (Remix)
- Lying Season
- Junkhead (Demo)
- Rooster (Demo)
- Sea of Sorrow (Demo)
- Killing Yourself (Demo)
- Bleed the Freak (Demo)
- Queen of the Rodeo (Live)
- Angry Chair
- Hate to Feel
- Sickman
- Down in a Hole
- Right Turn
- Frogs
- God Am
- Head Creeps
- Heaven Beside You
- Grind
- Would?
- Them Bones
- God Smack
- Man in the Box
- Dirt
- Dam That River
- Confusion
- It Ain’t Like That
- Love, Hate, Love
- I Can’t Remember
- We Die Young
- Rain When I Die
- No Excuses
- I Stay Away
- Rooster
- Dirt (1992)
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