Alabama trailer park they call home
Boys standing at attention in the corner, his own
Dirt fight, scorpion crawling the wall
By the way Father, could you please beat me some more?

Anger rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?

Cold Alaska hiding under the time
Stretch aluminum foil cross the window at night
Mother crying, calling out up the stair
By the way Father, do you even care that I'm scared?

Anger rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
Devil rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?

Generation three, solitary, alone
By the way Father, created hell on my own

Anger rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?
Anger rising up inside him yet again
Tell me you've got a plan
Deaf and blind, I'm livin' with the lepers and
You wanna hold my hand?



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    Lyric Correction:There are a few mistakes on the lyrics here.
    Here are the CORRECT lyrics.
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    Alabama trailer park they call home
    Boy standing at attention in the corner his own
    Terrified, scorpion crawling the wall
    By the way father, could you please beat me some more?
    --
    Anger rising up inside him yet again
    Tell me you got a plan
    Deaf and blind, I'm living with the lepers and
    You want to hold my hand
    --
    Cold Alaska, hiding, bundled up tight
    Stretch aluminum foil 'cross the window at night
    Mother crying, calling out up the stairs
    By the way father, do you even care that I'm scared?
    --
    Anger rising up inside him yet again
    Tell me you got a plan
    Deaf and blind, I'm living with the lepers and
    You want to hold my hand
    --
    Devil rising up inside him yet again
    Tell me you got a plan
    Deaf and blind, I'm living with the lepers and
    You want to hold my hand
    --
    Generation three, solitary, alone
    By the way father, created hell on my own
    --
    Anger rising up inside him yet again
    Tell me you got a plan
    Deaf and blind, I'm living with the lepers and
    You want to hold my hand
    --
    Anger rising up inside him yet again
    Tell me you got a plan
    Deaf and blind, I'm living with the lepers and
    You want to hold my hand
    Flag OddlyReasonableon June 08, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Jerry's openly admitted that his father came back a different person from Vietnam and unleashed his demons on the family. But through his music he seems to have forgiven the old man, and they live together on a ranch in Oklahoma I believe.
    Flag cataclysm0on January 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Gee, someone's family seems dysfunctional. and what happened with Jerry and Sevendust? my email is iamcraigzy@aol.com. please tell me because I like them both, Jerry more of course
    Flag iamcraigzyon August 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Gee, someone's family seems dysfunctional. and what happened with Jerry and Sevendust? my email is iamcraigzy@aol.com. please tell me because I like them both, Jerry more of course
    Flag iamcraigzyon August 28, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think I meant WE Miss U Layne. Sorry, I was a dumb 14 year old punk who couldn't type. Now I'm a 15 year old punk who CAN type. Jerry Cantrell kicks ass!
    Flag metalhead m/on June 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:P.S.S. My mom is in love with Jerry Cantrell's music and Jerry himself LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Flag metalhead m/on July 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This song is goddamn awesome. It got me to start listening to jerry cantrell's solo music. Thou not as good as aic, was a good replacement (since all the members of aic except layne were featured some where in the album). We all knew that jerry wuz a kick ass writter, but we really never heard him sing (except on back up in man in the box, would? grind, heaven beside you and over now) Now we can hear how much of a great singer he is 2.

    P.S. 7dust is wickedly motherfuckin kick ass and gueveralives is a asshole. Jerry Cantrell Kicks Ass
    We'll Miss U Layne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Flag metalhead m/on July 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Oh yeah, most definitely about a guy who beats his son, who grows up to be abusive, and his son as an adult is fucked up. Each verse is about the son and his problems, but the last is a bit lacking in detail.

    In the second verse the mother crying could refer to the mother yelling at her husband to quit beating the boy, which is what I thought the first couple of times I heard this, or it could be the child laying in bed listening to his father abuse his mother. I now believe this to be truth for several reasons. During his childhood (verse 1), he vows not to be like his father and abuse his child. However, his anger as a child is now being vented on his wife, because he's pissed that his mother did nothing to stop his father from beating him ("Boy's standing at attention in the corner, [on] his own").

    The third guy (generation three) is someone, possibly Jerry, messed up from his childhood experiences and possibly inflicting self abuse.

    So, essentially, it's about these guy's whose anger management gets progressively better through each generation, but they still have some problems.

    By the way, I don't think that this song is garbage, just a bit generic and less than what I expected.
    Flag innumerableon March 07, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:You've got to realize the way I was looking into this. I wanted to like this song, and I don't hold the view that Layne was the most integral part of Alice in Chains and Jerry can do nothing without him. I was expecting to hear some more awesome music, but I don't like this song. It sounds like Nickelback and a bunch of generic garbage that I can hear on the radio. I've only heard this and Psychotic Break, which I found to be slightly better than this, so I still have hope for the other songs.
    Flag innumerableon March 07, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:This is definitely a great song, Jerry Cantrell is a great singer/guitarist, I think it's great that he did what he did after Layne's death..and continued his career.
    R.I.P. Layne
    **You will never be forgotten**
    Flag LongLiveLayneon October 03, 2004   Link

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