Atone - Jerry Cantrell

Hounded by a feeling that I’ve known

Following everywhere I go

Falling ashes never done

Turn to flame under the sun

Guilty of some crime

Gotta find a way to atone

Gotta find a way to atone

Trying to find a way to atone

Don’t much care to be the other me

One that plays the role of enemy

Falling ashes never done

Turn to flame under the sun

Running out of time

Gotta find a way to atone

Gotta find a way to atone

Trying to find a way to atone

Tenderly lay me down

Touch my face and speak to me like a child

I want to believe I’ll never drown

Can ascend

No release or reprieve to be found

Now seldom seen on the run

Aren’t both sides the wrong end of a gun?

Falling ashes never done

Turn to flame under the sun

Somehow crossed a line

Gotta find a way to atone

Gotta find a way to atone

Trying to find a way to atone

Why?

To be judged, stand and deliver

Half-starved, choke on the splinters

Have mercy, can you be the giver?

To speak my cursed name