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Alice in Chains - Angry Chair
This song is pretty obvious, but there are a couple parts that really jumped out at me the last time I heard the song. It was weird, I have heard the song thousands of times but I never really figured out what this part was about,
"serenity is so far away" and "pink cloud has turned to grey"
Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don't care
:::the early parts of the song paint the scene of somebody sitting alone, going through drug cravings/ withdrawals:::
Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair
::: in this part he could possibly be looking at a table next to a chair with his drug paraphernalia and the candles needed to heat the heroin::::
Little boy made a mistake, hey
Pink cloud has now turned to gray, oh
All that I want is to play, hey
Get on your knees, time to pray, boy
:::The "Pink Cloud" layne is talking about is the feeling you get after you quit drugs and then start to feel better, or "the pink cloud at the end of recovery".:::
Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze
Serenity is far away
:::this is the part where he starts to lose control to his addiction. The previous "Get on your knees, time to pray" line goes along with "Serenity is so far away". "Serenity" is the prayer drug addicts recite every time before, and after class for addiction recovery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_prayer
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. "
he is also alone with nobody to help him through this craving:::
Saw my reflection and cried, hey
So little hope that I died, oh
Feed me your lies, open wide, hey
Weight of my heart, not the size, oh
::: in this part he sees himself in the mirror, all wasted from years of drug abuse, and keeps telling himself that he could do it (drugs) one more time, he is lying to himself saying "its not that bad":::
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray, boy
::: the endless cycle of his heroin addiction continues as he sits in torment:::
I also heard that this song, starting with "junkhead" is a story about somebody going through the cycles of drug addiction. ending with "angry chair".
Anywhoo... I love over analyzing songs. if you have any good dissections post them here!
Alice in Chains - Angry Chair
This song is pretty obvious, but there are a couple parts that really jumped out at me the last time I heard the song. It was weird, I have heard the song thousands of times but I never really figured out what this part was about,
"serenity is so far away" and "pink cloud has turned to grey"
Sitting on an angry chair
Angry walls that steal the air
Stomach hurts and I don't care
:::the early parts of the song paint the scene of somebody sitting alone, going through drug cravings/ withdrawals:::
Candles red I have a pair
Shadows dancing everywhere
Burning on the angry chair
::: in this part he could possibly be looking at a table next to a chair with his drug paraphernalia and the candles needed to heat the heroin::::
Little boy made a mistake, hey
Pink cloud has now turned to gray, oh
All that I want is to play, hey
Get on your knees, time to pray, boy
:::The "Pink Cloud" layne is talking about is the feeling you get after you quit drugs and then start to feel better, or "the pink cloud at the end of recovery".:::
Loneliness is not a phase
Field of pain is where I graze
Serenity is far away
:::this is the part where he starts to lose control to his addiction. The previous "Get on your knees, time to pray" line goes along with "Serenity is so far away". "Serenity" is the prayer drug addicts recite every time before, and after class for addiction recovery, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_prayer
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. "
he is also alone with nobody to help him through this craving:::
Saw my reflection and cried, hey
So little hope that I died, oh
Feed me your lies, open wide, hey
Weight of my heart, not the size, oh
::: in this part he sees himself in the mirror, all wasted from years of drug abuse, and keeps telling himself that he could do it (drugs) one more time, he is lying to himself saying "its not that bad":::
Pink cloud has now turned to gray
All that I want is to play
Get on your knees time to pray, boy
::: the endless cycle of his heroin addiction continues as he sits in torment:::
I also heard that this song, starting with "junkhead" is a story about somebody going through the cycles of drug addiction. ending with "angry chair".
Anywhoo... I love over analyzing songs. if you have any good dissections post them here!
