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I Stay Away Intro Tab

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No one has ever put the right intro to this song..they all sound like crap...
sorry..here's the right one. It sounds perfect on at 12 string acoustic guitar.
Drop D tuning, tune down 1/2 step: Dadgbe

(let ring throughout)
    D             Csus2/D
e---5-----5-5-------3----
b---5h(7)-5-5-------3----
g---7-----7-7-------5----
d---0-----0-0--0-0--0----
a--------------0-0-------
D------------------------

  Csus2   G/B    Gsus2         D5
e--------------------------------
b--------------------------------
g------0----0--------------------
d----0----0--------0---0---------
a--3----2--------0---0--------0-0
D--------------5---5------5-4-0-0

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I Stay Away Intro Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Cicely aka Icic Badass	#1 by Cicely aka Icicles and CSkank Shankle (if u stalk me i will shoot you.) at Sep 26, 2007 at 12:31 AM EST
	N0 C0DE, practically all of their songs were about drugs. All of Dirt is about a Heroin addiction from beginning to end. I do agree with you about this song not being about drugs though. One thing, please never compare anyone from AIC to Kurt Cobain, that guy is a pussy.

No Picture Daniel Average	#2 by Daniel Ellis at Sep 26, 2007 at 9:52 AM EST
	this song reminds of days when i was happier, because that's when i heard it. reminds me of when i had little to worry about.

No Picture brock Average	#3 by brock someone at Sep 26, 2007 at 12:57 PM EST
	Man this song is so fuckin awesome, can't beleive not many more replies. One of their best easily.

No Picture Naya Wanna Be	#4 by Naya Wallach at Sep 27, 2007 at 6:23 PM EST
	this song could honestly be a million things....i think that it's about someone calling out for help from someone and he' can't find it so he starts slowly slipping into his own world where his own demons and fears take him over and somehow everything that was going right now starts to fall to pieces..... 1 2 Next

No Picture Robo Badass	#5 by Robo the Hobo at Sep 28, 2007 at 8:15 AM EST
	this is a lovely song.

No Picture jo_silverhawk Average	#6 by jo_silverhawk at Sep 28, 2007 at 11:14 PM EST
	I love this song too, but I want to talk about the cleverness of the video to this and the EP title! I know this is for writing about the song, but I think this is relevent too; The story goes that... Jerry did a science experiment and put some flies in a jar of a meat, and some in an empty jar. In the Jar with no meat the flies started turning on each other, so they called the EP Jar Of Flies. In the video to 'I Stay Away' the band (in clay form) are at a circus and when the boy opens the Jar Of Flies the flies cause things to go wrong, eg animals turning on the owners. I think this has a message in itself, about using thoughts in the wrong way, the flies are released which causes chaos, but what would happen if thos 'flies' were kept bottled up inside.... Just a thought!

No Picture Peter Wanna Be	#7 by Peter Lambden at Sep 30, 2007 at 2:53 AM EST
	I think it is about a women who has continously cheated on him but he has been unable to leave. "So close a lady shifty eyes shady." Finally he has reached a point "tears that soak a callous heart" where he isn't taking her back. He is finally heading "South". Her "weakeness" for cheating has made him stronger. Which she finally realizes. He has broke his addiction to her and he stays away.

No Picture Luke Average	#8 by Luke Kilpatrick at Sep 30, 2007 at 8:44 AM EST
	this song is mad good rip Layne you will never die to your fans

No Picture Sinan90 Average	#9 by Sinan90 at Sep 30, 2007 at 5:49 PM EST
	O.k.! I admit it! I'm a VH1 whore. Anyway, I recently saw Jerry Cantrell in an interview and he commented on the fact that he wrote most of the lyrics for most of the songs (he is actually credited for doing such, he is not just claiming this). It's kind of like everyone assuming that Jim Morrison wrote all of the Doors lyrics. Morrison did not write the lyrics for any of the top 40 hits except L.A. Woman. Similarly, Cantrell, who is/was not a drug addict, does not ALWAYS write about heroin and addiction. The glaring exception is The Rooster.

No Picture Joe Average	#10 by Joe Miller at Sep 30, 2007 at 6:10 PM EST
	this is my ultimate favorite AiC song. i just love it so much. it's beautiful and haunting at the same time. i love the string arrangements, too. this song just kicks ass.

No Picture Sam Wanna Be	#11 by Sam Gageler at Sep 30, 2007 at 10:19 PM EST
	personally the song reminds me of a time when i had to leave behind what i thought i could never leave behind.

No Picture Devon Average	#12 by Devon Thauriaux at Oct 1, 2007 at 1:21 AM EST
	Well... anyway.... I just wanted to say I get a lump in my throat everytime Layne sings "I STAAAAY AWAYYYYYYY" at the very very end of this song... beautiful explodes in wonder

No Picture Kenny Rhythm Player	#13 by Kenny at Oct 1, 2007 at 6:03 AM EST
	This song is about the man and the drug. Man says what he wants to do, "want to travel south." Drug replies, "why you act crazy?" "I am enlightened, your weakness builds me so some day you will see." AIC is nothing less than fantastic, and anyone who says that Staley is anything other than a phenominal singer is abviously deaf. Good luck Jerry

No Picture something.. Average	#14 by something.. at Oct 1, 2007 at 12:27 PM EST
	this song has mean of a guy who like is inscure about himslef and he puts up a act to front it as if thats what he really is for example like a dude who acts like hes a thug on drugs what not, but in reality he's just faking it all pretending that he's on said drug its pretty intellgente this song

No Picture Andy Wanna Be	#15 by Andy Ketron at Oct 1, 2007 at 2:59 PM EST
	i think this song is about being on tour w/ the band and how they go through ups and downs and how they put on an act for thepublic, and they all need to give each other their own space. or something to that extent.

No Picture Keith Wanna Be	#16 by Keith Pearson at Oct 1, 2007 at 6:50 PM EST
	I interpret it that Layne and Demri's relationship was pretty close to imploding and Layne needed to be away for quite some time. But at the end, when Layne really wails, it's just ...great shit man.

No Picture David Average	#17 by David Turner at Oct 2, 2007 at 12:07 AM EST
	StalkerAssassin1984, Kurt Cobain was a genious.... He wasn't a pussy, he was a human being....

No Picture black&red Wanna Be	#18 by black&red at Oct 3, 2007 at 9:57 AM EST
	I love this song, this is by far my favorite AIC song. I love the orchestra towards the end of the song.

No Picture Ben Average	#19 by Ben Asay at Oct 3, 2007 at 10:46 AM EST
	Not all of AiC songs are about drugs. And I definitely believe this one has something to do with a girl. RIP Layne! Wish you were here.

No Picture jake Average	#20 by jake battkoo at Oct 3, 2007 at 4:20 PM EST
	This is comment 414 for me and I chose this song because it runs at 4 minutes, 14 seconds (4:14). I like this song because of the string arrangements and the guitar solo a little more than halfway through the song. This is a song that makes you sing along with it even you probably should not. Otherwise, it's still almost perfect. To me, this song means that somebody hates being around somebody else for some reason that's never fully explained. It's still a great song otherwise.

No Picture Squirrels Lead Player	#21 by Squirrels Dyrant at Oct 3, 2007 at 7:13 PM EST
	This song reminds me of myself... I don't get involved with things and most people just seem so stupid or crazy I prefer to "just let 'em spin" outside my door. I think the song's about "you don't get in my business and I'll stay out of yours". It may be about any number of things...definitely one of AICs best.

No Picture Brandon Average	#22 by Brandon Young at Oct 4, 2007 at 6:51 AM EST
	This song is very pertinent to my life because here's what I think it means. The guy has a woman in his life who has either cheated on him, or simply doesn't reciprocate his love towards her. He says that, even though this is very painful too, it is easier to simply "stay away" from her, rather than be with her and be miserable because whenever he is with her, she drives him crazy inside and he can't overcome his unrequited loving feelings for her. I have found that this song epitomizes my life, because I have been madly in love with a girl for 7 years now. She is my best friend, but that's all she sees me as, too. Even though I love her with all my heart, and I'd probably get down on bended knee right now if it were up to me, it sometimes is easier to stay away from her so the powerful romantic feelings I have for her don't drive me totally insane.

No Picture jocke Average	#23 by jocke ström at Oct 4, 2007 at 4:49 PM EST
	The video for this is plain weird, they could have been so much popular if they didn't do crappy vidz for Down In a Hole and this one. Maybe that was their aim.

No Picture A Lead Player	#24 by A J at Oct 5, 2007 at 5:09 AM EST
	"but in reality he's just faking"- crackermcnacca. what are you talking about. aic fake???? how could you say something like that. it's not about him trying to be cool. it's about him wanting to be left alone.he was dead in his apartment for how long before he was found? that right there proves that this song wasn't him trying to be cool. it was him asking to be left alone

No Picture Sean Average	#25 by Sean Robinson at Oct 5, 2007 at 11:41 PM EST
	Seriously,.. why does Every AIC song " need to be about drugs"? Kurt cobain was a heroin addict,.... did everyone think all of his songs were about heroin? NO!!! Just because the writer of the song was an addict does not mean that the song is about drugs or getting a fix. I think this song is about a woman but not one who cheats on him. I believe this because of the light hearted yet passionate play throughout the verses but then when the chorus hits the listener is flushed with a nihlistic self loathing sound that seems to suggest that saying "I stay away" causes great pain to him. This woman seemsto Layne to be one of the only people in the world capable of loving him and that he fails her some how,... and he is so ashamed of his failure .... So because layne and his wife were both users this song COULD be about heroin... but not every one song is....