“I know I’m near death, I did crack and heroin for years. In December 2001, four months before his death, Staley gave the last interview of his life, and predicted that his death was drawing near: Throughout that time, however, he was never able to let go of his various addictions. That wouldn’t be the case, however, as Staley would go on to live for nearly another decade after Dirt‘s release. The songs on Dirt are so confessional that it often sounds like the journal of a man confronting his last days on Earth. Not only has our narrator become powerless against the drugs, he has accepted that powerlessness, and wants nothing more than to be done in for good. It’s hard to say what the darkest moment here is, but you could make a solid case for the title track, which gives us such lines as “I want you to kill me / and dig me under / I wanna live no more,” and “I want you to scrape me from the walls.” It should go without saying that the “you” in the song represents the hold that crack and heroin had on him. Staley obviously wasn’t the first musician to write about his personal demons, but few have ever tackled them with such candor.
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Alice in Chains’ second album, Dirt, is one of the most harrowing accounts of addiction ever recorded, and quite possibly the darkest album released in an era full of them.ĭirt is one track after another of unrelenting misery, so devoid of relief that you could make a case “Down in a Hole” is actually one of more upbeat tracks on the album. As dreary as that song, and several others on Facelift were, what Staley did next showed that he was just getting warmed up.
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