Prolly the best thing Alice in Chains ever did.

I didn’t realize this until tonight that this song was about Viet Fucking Nam. I just loved the metal aspects of it. Now I listen to the lyrics like

Walking tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my home land

and

Got my pills ‘gainst mosquito death

Quinine, to prevent malaria which many of my shipmates refused to take because it gave them the shits. Not me. I didn’t get any side effects.

Who would think a band from liberal Seattle would write and record a song like this?