Alice In Chains – Man In The Box lyrics

Alice In Chains – Man In The Box lyrics

I'm the man in the box
Buried in my shit
Won't you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

I'm the dog who gets beat
Shove my nose in shit
Won't you come and save me, save me

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

Feed my eyes, can you sew them shut?
Jesus Christ, deny your maker
He who tries, will be wasted
Feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut

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Songwriters: Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley

Man In The Box lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group

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TellYaSo 2011-04-24 05:48:22

Possible religious meaning. They could be saying, as in Get Born Again, that Christ is still dead (possibly also the man in the box), or that we are the man in the box hoping that someone (ie, a religious figure) will save us from the horror of knowing that death and decomposition is the end.
"Jesus Christ/Deny your maker/He who tries will be wasted" could be a reference to the idea that you can't fight the fact that your fate is sealed (as in the box). We're all going to die, and you can't fight that fact. Fatalism, basically. As in, either there is no maker, or, the maker set up the system that says we die. There's no changing it either way.
Or, it could mean that Jesus Christ should have denied his maker, because he according to aic wasn't resurrected, and wound up just as dead as all of us will be? Who knows.
Either way, basically, the uplifting message: sarcasm: is that yes, the underdog who gets beat and kicked around, will not be saved or rescued, and will still wind up six feet below (or are already boxed in, even during life). Wow. With a worldview like that, no wonder addiction was the perceived only way out for the lead singer?

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Unregistered 2018-01-12 08:59:30

I feel like the man in the box a lot especially the "Dog who gets beat, shove my nose in shit, I think it's about hitting rock bottom with no hope of getting out! " Feed My Eyes Now you've Sewn them Shut" Jesus Christ, deny Your Maker....He denied His belief in Christ & That is Why he's hit rock bottom and has no vision of ever returning to his former place in this world.....Basically about being List and Hopeless And Lonely & He denied the Lord, He has no one else to pull him up out of his trenches..

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