Alice In Chains: Best Of

Seattle 1989

Battery (live)

Dam That River (ALICE IN CHAINS)

alice in chains - nutshell

"I was just thinking about mortality, that one of these days we'll end up a pile of bones. It's a thought for every human being, whether you believe in an afterlife or that when we die, that's it. The thought that all the beautiful things and knowledge and experiences you've been through just end when you end scares me, the thought that when you close your eyes for good, it's gone forever." - Jerry Cantrell

Vocals, synths and lead guitars: Jeff Vicario
Rhythm and solo guitars, additional instrumentation: Joe Weinstock
Production: Em Baker

Logo by Fey @virtuafey on Instagram
Album artwork designed by Jeff Vicario

Lyrics:

I believe them bones are me
Some say we're born into the grave

I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones

Dust rise right on over my time
Empty fossil of the new scene

I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones

Toll due, bad dream come true
I lie dead gone under red sky

I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ol' pile of them

I feel so alone
I feel so alone
I feel so alone

I feel so alone
Gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones

Them Bones (Alice in Chains Cover)

Metal Trance - Remix from album "Rust in Peace" 1990. Capitol Records
  

Five Magics - Megadeth Remix

Alice In Chains - It Ain't Like That (Rolling Stone, Italy 1993)

Alice in chains - Man in the box

Alice In Chains - Sea Of Sorrow (live in Los Angeles, 1990)

Alice In Chains - It Ain't Like That (live at the Hollywood Palladium, 1992)

Moonlight’s crawling through the blinds,
Like her nails across my skin,
Perfume of a memory,
Still wrapped in sheets of sin…

She’s a whisper in my madness,
Moves like thunder in the haze,
Got that poison on her lipstick,
And I'm the fool who loves the taste…

[Pre-Chorus – cori a due voci in ottava, incalzanti]

Oooooh — She’s fire and ice!
Yeah! — She don't think twice!
Oooooh — Can’t break the wire…
Caught in her Chains of Velvet Fire!

I’m burnin’ up, yeah I’m bleedin’ wild —
Your touch is cruel, your kiss beguiled!
No escape, I can't retire…
From your Chains of Velvet Fire!

Chains! Fire! Chains! Fire!

She's the queen of dark intentions,
With a smile that leads to war,
You play the saint, then drop the halo,
On the motel marble floor…

Oooooh — She tears my name!
Yeah! — Then loves the flame!
Oooooh — Ain’t no desire…
That don’t burn in Velvet Fire!

I’m chained and dragged through your midnight sin —
Your claws beneath my fragile skin!
This lust won’t ever tire…
In your Chains of Velvet Fire!

She said: "Love me ‘til the pain’s too deep..."
But I was already drowning... in the fire I couldn’t keep…

Yeah I’m burnin’, yeah I’m dyin’,
In a cage of satin lyin’!
You’re the storm, I’m the wire—
Trapped in Chains of Velvet Fire!

Chains… chains… velvet fire…

Kiss My Heart

Chains of Velvet Fire

Chains of Velvet Fire!

Darkness surrounds me, a blinding sea of gray
Lost in the million faces, day after day
A hollow echo in the chamber of my soul
Waiting for the silence to finally take its toll.
Then a light in the vacuum, a sound I'd never known
A truth whispered softly, on a chilling wind was blown.

I reach out, fingers seeking, but all I find is glass
A phantom touch, a memory of moments that won't pass.
They talk of fleeting chances, of others just the same
But they don't know the fire, they don't know the flame.

HOLD HER TIGHT – She’s the answer to the silence in my head.
ONLY MINE – Every single word she's ever said.
She moves in shadows, but her light is blinding bright
She’s the ONE, the difference between the day and endless night.
She is the pulse, the reason, the core of what I am
And I am hers, until the final, distant slam.

Tried to walk the pathways that all the others chose
But every step was poisoned, and every flower a rose
Of thorns that dug in deeper, reminding me of all
The empty promises, the rise before the fall.
Then she appeared, a vision in the desolate sand
The one unique creation, forged by a higher hand.

I look into her spirit, and see no shallow end
No mask of expectation, no need to just pretend.
She's carved from different starlight, a pattern all her own
And now that I have found her, I will not walk alone.

HOLD HER TIGHT – She’s the answer to the silence in my head.
ONLY MINE – Every single word she's ever said.
She moves in shadows, but her light is blinding bright
She’s the ONE, the difference between the day and endless night.
She is the pulse, the reason, the core of what I am
And I am hers, until the final, distant slam.

She’s not a choice, she is the necessity!
The only anchor in this roaring misery!
They tried to tell me I was wrong to feel this way
But they don't own the feeling, they cannot take it away!
No substitute, no equal, no rival can be found
Only her footprint on this hollow, broken ground!

The One!... She belongs to me!
My Own!... For all eternity!
I am hers! I am hers! She is mine!
The Only One!

I am hers... She is mine... The Only One!

The only One (inspired by Metallica’s One) by ARGYTACT 2026

The only One (inspired by Metallica’s One)

Audience of None

Mixtest using the AxeFx2 for guitars and bass and SD 2.0/SSD4/GGD for drums. The only thing from the original is Jerry's vocal track.

AxeFx2 | ALICE IN CHAINS - Check My Brain | MIXTEST

I know Somethin' - Alice in chains (bass)

Cover of Alice In Chains “Down In a Hole” by Joe Marks and Josh Augustine

Alice In Chains - Sea Of Sorrow (live in Los Angeles, 1990)

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