anonymous Jun 5th 2017 !⃝I swear I'm just so sick and tired of everyone interpreting every single Alice In Chains song as abour drugs. Truth be told people, barely any of their songs talk about drugs at all. Cantrell wrote this song in 1991 after witnessing some young kids selling drugs for local gangs: "So I was riding the bus to rehearsal and I saw these 9,10,11 year old kids with beepers dealing drugs. The sight of a ten year old kid with a beeper and a cell phone dealing drugs equaled "We Die Young" to me". It's clear from the lyrics that the song is about gang violence, "Take another hit, and bury your brother"- a friend getting shot and killed by another gang, "Another alley trip bullet seek the place to bend you over, then you got hit and you shoulda known better"- a scene in an alley way where a gun war is taking place, he gets shot, and he should have had the common sense before to not join a gang in the first place. "Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer"- clearly the aftermath of a violent gun war.
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