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by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on June 2nd, 2004

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What is the story behind the Alice In Chains song "Sludge Factory"?

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  • by Drublic on December 17th, 2006

    Drublic

    I think he is talking about the drugs and addiction that his girlfriend at the time was fighting. About getting lost in the addiction and becoming a different person when she was using. It's sad because about a year after the release of the song, she died of an OD. Here are the lyrics.


    You insult me in my home you're forgiven this time
    Things go well, your eyes dilate you shake, and I'm high?
    Look in my eyes deep and watch the clouds change with time
    20 hours won't print my picture milk carton size
    Carton size
    Carton size
    Carton size
    Call me up congratulations ain't the real why
    There's no pressure besides brilliance let's say by day 9
    Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time
    By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way
    Once again you see an in discolored skin gives you away
    So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date...
    For me
    Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die
    You have always told me you'd not live past 25
    I say stay long enough to repay all who caused strife
    Once again you see an in discolored skin gives you away
    So afraid you kindly gurgle out a date, for me
    Once again you see an in discolored skin gives you away
    So afraid you kindly gurgle, out a date...
    For me

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  • by lizard_king_21 on February 12th, 2007

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    since Layne Staley was a heroin addict himself i can't see him chastizing someone for being a heroine addict. I think it's more likely that the song was about his heroin addiction and the pressures it caused on the band and those pressures making his own drug use worse and the vicious cycle it caused. the first verse i think is about someone who was supplying him with drugs.
    that person insults him but layne needs him or her so he puts up with it for the need and feels small for it. the second vers i think is about the record company/band thing. and the last verse is about his addiction/his girlfriends' addiction

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  • by Niki_Lynn on July 19th, 2008

    Niki_Lynn

    I have always wondered if he might be talking about his Dad. Calling him up to congratulate him on making it big but really just wanting to come over and get high. But then he talks about the person not living past 25 and it seems like it's the girlfriend.

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