This song is about going through rehab and its aftermath. The last part of the lyrics wonders if the future is any more promising.
Guitarist Jerry Cantrell wrote this song for the late lead singer of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, a very influential figure in the Seattle music scene. Wood died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Two of his band mates in Mother Love Bone, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, went on to form Pearl Jam.
In the liner notes for the 1999 Music Bank Alice in Chains box set, Cantrell wrote that the song is about Wood but also about those who would judge Wood's drug issues. "But I always hate people who judge the decisions others make," Cantrell writes. "So it was directed towards people who pass judgements."
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