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I'm the man in the box
Buried in my shit
Won't you come and save me
Save me
[Chorus:]
Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut
I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in shit
Won't you come and save me
Save me
[Chorus: Repeat x2]
Buried in my shit
Won't you come and save me
Save me
[Chorus:]
Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut
I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in shit
Won't you come and save me
Save me
[Chorus: Repeat x2]
Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by Liqwd10shn
Track duration: 04:47
"Man In The Box" as written by Staley/cantrell
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Now let's look at the chorus. Feed my eyes is a reference to the Book of Genesis Chapter 3.
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
This parallels the "feed my eyes". Adam and Eve ATE from the trea of knowledge of good and evil and they're EYES WERE OPENED.
But now they know good and evil and this is a very troubling fact. They immediately realize they have disobeyed God and "denied their maker". The chorus begs to reverse the clock and "sew them [opened eyes] shut".
"Jesus Christ" - blatently brings about the belief in which God is True. "Deny your maker, he who tries, will be wasted". The "wasted" is a reference to Hell. This sentence is a warning, for those who deny their maker.
"Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut". This goes back to Genesis Chapter 3. After man has eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, God banishes them from the Garden and closes off their way to the Tree of Life.
Forget about the whole animal abuse explaination (Which is the correct meaning) and read the lyrics with the mindset that it's about someone in a WWII Nazi Concentration Camp.
No denying that it relates 100%.
***They used to remove Jews' eyes in concentration camps as experimental torture.
"I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit; won't you come and save me?" He may be speaking in the third person as someone who's situation is depriving them of their freedom, as we all must endure in one way or another from time to time, similar to an innocent calf being raised in a stall.
"Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?" Show me, or can you make me to blindly follow.
"Jesus Christ, deny your maker; he who tries, will be wasted." Most religions promise some form of eutopia (after death) if you follow and then threaten with somekind of hell if you don't. Christianity: Believe in Jesus Christ and you will go to Heaven and live forever in a perfect world; refuse to believe and go to Hell and burn forever in fire.
"Feed my eyes, now you've sewn them shut." Show me what you say is true, but....I don't want to go to hell, so I'll close my eyes (mind) and follow. You've closed my mind to independence with the threat of Hell.
"I'm the dog who gets beat; shove my nose in shit!" One harsh method used by some to house-break a dog from "relieving" itself in the house is to put it's nose in the mess it made while you spank it, then put it outside for a while. This is supposed to teach the dog why it is being punished as well as train it to not do it in the house, but to go outside. Layne could be relating this to a person being mentally punished by someone(s) using this person's mistakes to lay guilt on them or maybe even laying guilt for things not true, in order to train them to accept their ways of thinking or beliefs.
"Won't you come and save me?...Save me." If you are so powerful to know all and judge, then change me. (Something which we know only we can do for ourselves.)
Is Layne anti-Christ? Who knows?!! It seems to me that he is speaking out against the oppression going on in our societies that benefit some other's selfish beliefs or well-being. Ingenious lyrics, extremely perceptive and hard rockin'! I wish he could have conquered his own battles within himself so he could be with us today to rock on. RIP Layne Staley.....ROCK ON.
127 comments and none of you even touched on that CLEARLY IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL. Geniuses. Hey, hey, how about that big finish? I wonder who he looks like once he takes off the hood? Why are his eyes sewn shut and not Layne's? Hmmm. You dudes got to think shit through. Tell me your theories. LEft's get some answers about the hooded guy. And don't tell me he's a veal.
"I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit; won't you come and save me?" He may be speaking in the third person as someone who's situation is depriving them of their freedom, as we all must endure in one way or another from time to time, similar to an innocent calf being raised in a stall.
"Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?" Show me, or can you make me to blindly follow.
"Jesus Christ, deny your maker; he who tries, will be wasted." Most religions promise some form of eutopia (after death) if you follow and then threaten with somekind of hell if you don't. Christianity: Believe in Jesus Christ and you will go to Heaven and live forever in a perfect world; refuse to believe and go to Hell and burn forever in fire.
"Feed my eyes, now you've sewn them shut." Show me what you say is true, but....I don't want to go to hell, so I'll close my eyes (mind) and follow. You've closed my mind to independence with the threat of Hell.
"I'm the dog who gets beat; shove my nose in shit!" One harsh method used by some to house-break a dog from "relieving" itself in the house is to put it's nose in the mess it made while you spank it, then put it outside for a while. This is supposed to teach the dog why it is being punished as well as train it to not do it in the house, but to go outside. Layne could be relating this to a person being mentally punished by someone(s) using this person's mistakes to lay guilt on them or maybe even laying guilt for things not true, in order to train them to accept their ways of thinking or beliefs.
"Won't you come and save me?...Save me." If you are so powerful to know all and judge, then change me. (Something which we know only we can do for ourselves.)
Is Layne anti-Christ? Who knows?!! It seems to me that he is speaking out against the oppression going on in our societies that benefit some other's selfish beliefs or well-being. Ingenious lyrics, extremely perceptive and hard rockin'! I wish he could have conquered his own battles within himself so he could be with us today to rock on. RIP Layne Staley.....ROCK ON.
but my Mom did know how much I love Alice In Chains.
As far as I'm concerned the men of Alice In Chains have always been "out of the box".
Rest in peace Layne and Mike.