Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
“Alice” is the seventh track on Ice Nine Kills' fourth album, Every Trick in the Book. This song is inspired by Beatrice Sparks' 1971 novel Go Ask Alice about a teenage girl who becomes a drug addict.
[Intro: Spencer Charnas]
Dear diary
This battle’s on the verge of emergency
Call in a chemical warfare attack
[Verse 1: Spencer Charnas]
Tempting fate with the crisis that my vices will orchestrate
Cold sweats as my bold pupils dilate
I could die from the weight of it all
Or make it through another close call
[Chorus: Spencer Charnas]
Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall
The higher you get, girl, the further you fall”
Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain
How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?”
[Verse 2: Spencer Charnas]
Through blackened veins the evil in the needle bleeds into my brain
And sells me on the sense of a fool’s escape
I could die from the weight of it all
Or make it through another close call
[Chorus: Spencer Charnas]
Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall
The higher you get, girl, the further you fall”
Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain
How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?”
Before you walk away
[Bridge: Justin "JD" DeBlieck, Spencer Charnas]
But I just need one more taste, one more taste
Scars earned from searching for solutions
So desperate just to feel
Sold on self-prescribed pollution, just distorting what was real
And so it goes in the throes of what I can’t overcome
Painfully numb
Dear diary
This battle’s on the verge of emergency
(Emergency)
[Chorus: Spencer Charnas]
Here’s a note to myself, “Back to the wall
The higher you get, girl, the further you fall”
Here’s a note to myself, “Alone in my pain
How close can you come to the edge before you walk away?”
[Outro: Spencer Charnas]
Before you walk away
Before you walk away
Alice was written by Spencer Charnas & Justin deBlieck & Justin Morrow & Conor Sullivan & Steve Sopchak.
Alice was produced by Steve Sopchak & Justin deBlieck.
Ice Nine Kills released Alice on Fri Dec 04 2015.