Those words seem to come directly from an actual drug user, i.e. If you let yourself go and opened your mind “Junkhead” sums up the main point of these songs: Just think of “We Die Young” from Facelift (1990), “Junkhead” and “Hate to Feel” (as well as others) from Dirt (1992), and “Acid Bubble”from Black Gives Way to Blue. In particular, a lot of lyrics deal in sympathetic fashion with being a drug user. Alice in Chains’ lyrics have often dealt with individuals coming to terms with their own place in life, even though that place in life is not always a nice place to be. And I am not just referring to the fact that they managed to make one of the strongest comebacks a band has ever made with their album Black Gives Way to Blue (2009), rebanding without their charismatic front man Layne Staley who died in 2002 from a drug overdose. The lyrics for “Stone” deal with other issues, but the resilience and acceptance exemplified by Sisyphus is a running theme in Alice in Chains’ career. Instead, he takes on the task as something he does, a part of who he is and what his life is, in a simultaneous act of acceptance-of the task-and defiance- against the gods who thought they could punish him via the task. Camus puts an existentialist spin on the story: Sisyphus is not the kind of guy who, realizing the futility of the task he has been given, despairs and kills himself. Or, to be fair, the story itself is taken from Greek mythology, in which the gods punish Sisyphus (the details of his crime are irrelevant) by condemning him to roll a giant rock up a mountain only to have the rock roll down again every time. This image is taken right from one of Camus’ most famous works, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). The “Stone” video features (among other things) a guy rolling a giant rock up a hill, only to have it roll all the way down, after which he starts over again. To see the link between these to events watch the official video for the song “Stone” from the aforementioned album:
The clip shows a completely different "Alice" both externally and musically. Which is designed to promote director Cameron Crowe's Singles film. Four months later, in June 1992, the music video for the song "Would?" was released.