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<blockquote data-quote="rkm rdt" data-source="post: 294524" data-attributes="member: 83"><p>from wikipedia</p><p></p><p>In interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone" target="_blank">Rolling Stone</a> in 1992, Layne Staley explained the song:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">I started writing about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship" target="_blank">censorship</a>. Around the same time, we went out for dinner with some <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records" target="_blank">Columbia Records</a> people who were <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism" target="_blank">vegetarians</a>. They told me how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veal" target="_blank">veal</a> was made from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf" target="_blank">calves</a> raised in these small boxes, and that image stuck in my head. So I went home and wrote about government censorship and eating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat" target="_blank">meat</a> as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Box#cite_note-9" target="_blank">[9]</a></p><p>Jerry Cantrell said of the song:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">It's basically about how government and media control the public's perception of events in the world or whatever, and they build you into a box by feeding it to you in your home. And it's about breaking out of that box and looking outside of that box that has been built for you.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Box#cite_note-10" target="_blank">[10]</a></p><p>In a recorded interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuchMusic" target="_blank">MuchMusic</a> in 1991, Staley stated that the lyrics are loosely based on media censorship, and "I was really really stoned when I wrote it, so it meant something different then", he said laughing</p><p></p><p>in the chorus </p><p>Jesus Christ, deny your maker</p><p>He who tries, will be wasted</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rkm rdt, post: 294524, member: 83"] from wikipedia In interview with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone']Rolling Stone[/URL] in 1992, Layne Staley explained the song: [INDENT]I started writing about [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship']censorship[/URL]. Around the same time, we went out for dinner with some [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records']Columbia Records[/URL] people who were [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism']vegetarians[/URL]. They told me how [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veal']veal[/URL] was made from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf']calves[/URL] raised in these small boxes, and that image stuck in my head. So I went home and wrote about government censorship and eating [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat']meat[/URL] as seen through the eyes of a doomed calf.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Box#cite_note-9'][9][/URL][/INDENT] Jerry Cantrell said of the song: [INDENT]It's basically about how government and media control the public's perception of events in the world or whatever, and they build you into a box by feeding it to you in your home. And it's about breaking out of that box and looking outside of that box that has been built for you.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Box#cite_note-10'][10][/URL][/INDENT] In a recorded interview with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuchMusic']MuchMusic[/URL] in 1991, Staley stated that the lyrics are loosely based on media censorship, and "I was really really stoned when I wrote it, so it meant something different then", he said laughing in the chorus Jesus Christ, deny your maker He who tries, will be wasted [/QUOTE]
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