A Head Full Of Lies Is The Weight Tied To My Waist

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Mad Season (1994)
The only album that was released by Mad Season turns thirty years old today.  The band consisted of Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin, and bassist John Baker Saunders, who would go on to play with The Walkabouts.

The whole album is very good, but the two songs that I remember best are the ones that they played on Z-Rock when I was a teenager: River Of Deceit and I Don't Know Anything.

River Of Deceit
Mad Season (1994)

My pain is self-chosen

At least, so the prophet says

I could either burn

Or cut off my pride and buy some time

A head full of lies is the weight tied to my waist

The river of deceit pulls down

The only direction we flow is down

Down, oh down

My pain is self-chosen

At least I believe it to be

I could either drown

Or pull off my skin and swim to shore

Now I can grow a beautiful shell for all to see

The river of deceit pulls down, yeah

The only direction we flow is down

Down, oh down

The pain is self-chosen

Our pain is self-chosen