Released: January 25, 1994
Songwriter: Mike Inez Jerry Cantrell Layne Staley
Producer: Alice in Chains Toby Wright
[Verse 1]
Yeah, hey, I want to travel south this year
I won't, won't prevent safe passage here
[Chorus 1]
Why you act crazy
Not an act, maybe
So close, a lady
Shifty eyes, shady
[Verse 2]
Yeah, hey, yeah, tears that soak a callous heart
[Chorus 2]
Why you act frightened
I am enlightened
Your weakness builds me
So someday you'll see
[Refrain]
I stay away
[Chorus 1]
Why you act crazy
Not an act, maybe
So close, a lady
Shifty eyes, shady
[Refrain]
I stay away
I stay away
I stay away
I stay away
Yeah, hey, I want to travel south this year
I won't, won't prevent safe passage here
[Chorus 1]
Why you act crazy
Not an act, maybe
So close, a lady
Shifty eyes, shady
[Verse 2]
Yeah, hey, yeah, tears that soak a callous heart
[Chorus 2]
Why you act frightened
I am enlightened
Your weakness builds me
So someday you'll see
[Refrain]
I stay away
[Chorus 1]
Why you act crazy
Not an act, maybe
So close, a lady
Shifty eyes, shady
[Refrain]
I stay away
I stay away
I stay away
I stay away
The Essential Alice in Chains
- Rooster
- Dam That River
- Dirt
- Hate to Feel
- Angry Chair
- Brother
- Got Me Wrong
- Am I Inside
- Get Born Again
- Over Now (Unplugged)
- Died
- What the Hell Have I? (Remix)
- A Little Bitter (Remix)
- Love, Hate, Love
- Sea of Sorrow
- Them Bones
- Would?
- Grind
- Heaven Beside You
- Again
- Right Turn
- God Smack
- Man in the Box
- I Stay Away
- No Excuses
- Rain When I Die
- We Die Young
- Nutshell (Unplugged)
- Jar of Flies (1994)
- Nothing Safe - The Best of the Box (1999)
- Music Bank (1999)
- Greatest Hits (2001)
- The Essential Alice in Chains (2006)
- Original Album Classics (2011)