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We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
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I think it's about the media and people treating him like some kind of god when all he wanted was to be a human being, yet he almost wasn't allowed to be a normal human being because of the media. And also I think it touches on drug use a little bit... "No one to cry to, no place to call home" Layne said on numerous occasions towards the end of old Alice in Chains that him and the other band members were becoming distant, and a few of them were druggies themselves. "Yet I fight this battle all alone" no matter how much outside support he may recieve, no one will know how HE feels on the inside and no one will ever be able to give him the support and help he needs.
This song and Don't Follow just totally eiptomize that part of Layne's life. RIP Layne, what a talent this world lost.