Jerry Cantrell
Ashes to Ashes
[Intro]
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

[Verse 1]
Every time you trample across my peaceful mind
Flailing freely, want me to let it slide
How you hurt her went so far beyond the wrong
I burn you down to cinders, ashes now you're gone, yeah

[Chorus]
And the scars you left behind
Slowly fade away with time
Ashes of what used to be
Now they tore you onto me

[Verse 2]
Begging mercy, shifting, playing on both sides
Cut your own throat open and ask me how you died (yeah!)
What was once respect has sorely headed south
Memory forces echoes bitter in my mouth (yeah!)

[Chorus]
And the scars you left behind
Slowly fade away with time
Ashes of what used to be
Now they tore you onto me
[Bridge]
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

[Verse 3]
Well I have no respect left for what you're about
And sympathy won't come from me
Erase everything that you once could have been
Destruction of your dignity
I scatter your ashes into the wind
Regret is too short, now you're free
Leave here in shame doomed to fulfill
Your pathetic destiny

[Chorus]
And the scars you left behind
Slowly fade away with time
Ashes of what used to be
Now they tore you onto me

[Outro]
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
It's history
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
It's history
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust