It's also a very haunting song now, considering the death of Layne Staley...
from wikipedia
Although Alice in Chains never officially disbanded, Staley became a
recluse, rarely leaving his Seattle
condominium following the death of his ex-fiancée Demri Parrott in 1996, due to bacterial
endocarditis.
[20] "Drugs worked for me for years", Staley told
Rolling Stone in 1996, "and now they're turning against me, now I'm walking through hell".
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After a decade of battling drug addiction, Layne Staley was found dead in his condominium on April 19, 2002. An autopsy revealed Staley died from a mixture of heroin and
cocaine 14 days previously. In his last interview, which was given months before his death, Staley admitted, "I know I'm near death, I did crack and heroin for years. I never wanted to end my life this way