From the dirt we were raised on Dirt we were raised on Bailed some hay on it Asked God to rain on it We met ’em at the gate when they tried to put an interstate on it Yeah, we got lost, we got found And we got high and we got down And every time we rolled into town It’...
Andrew WoodofMOTHER LOVE BONEfame, who had died of a drug overdose only two years earlier. Death, or at least mortality, being the issue raised in album openerThem Bones, withCantrell‘s sarcastic, dark sense of humour being openly displayed in his approach to the lyrics in this track, pa...
The lyrics to “Man in the Box” came to Staley after dining with some vegetarian Columbia Records executives who explained how veal was derived from calves raised in tiny enclosures. “So I went home and wrote about government censorship and eating meat as seen through the eyes of a doomed...
Every last hay bale, we baled it Yeah, I'd hate to be the first to sell it This is my dirt, these are my fields Where I harvest what I plant That little pond, I catch bluegill I built that barn with my two hands Where I raised my babies, a piece of me Nah, this ain't jus...
She continues, “When he agreed to sing on my cover of ‘Digging in the Dirt,’ it just blew me away, and ironically, it ended up being the last song we finished for the album. It’s such an honor to have him perform on this song which really means so much to me, and there...