Layne staley dead?

[Spitfire]

from the Seattle Times today...may the tortured soul finally be at rest

Singer had been dead in apartment for two weeks

SEATTLE — Layne Staley, lead singer for Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains, had been dead in his North Seattle apartment for two weeks, his body surrounded by heroin-injection paraphernalia, before a relative discovered him Friday, authorities said yesterday.

The presence of drug paraphernalia and estimated time of death had not been released initially. Foul play was not suspected, and there was to be no criminal investigation, Seattle police spokesman Duane Fish said.

An autopsy was conducted on Saturday, but the cause of death would not be confirmed for as long as four weeks while toxin tests were being conducted by a state lab, the King County Medical Examiner's Office said.

<center>Bury Me Softly In This Womb
I Give This Part Of Me For You
Sand Rains Down And Here I Sit
Holding Rare Flowers
In A Tomb.....In Bloom

Down In A Hole And I Don't Know
If I Can Be Saved
See My Heart I Decorate It
Like A Grave
You Don't Understand Who They
Thought I Was Supposed To Be
Look At Me Now A Man
Who Won't Let Himself Be

Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Losin' Control
I'd Like To Fly
But My Wings Have Been So Denied

Down In A Hole And They've Put All
The Stones In Their Place
I've Eaten The Sun So My Tongue
Has Been Burned Of The Taste
I Have Been Guilty
Of Kicking Myself In The Teeth
I Will Speak No More
Of My Feelings Beneath

Oh I Want To Be Inside Of You

Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Feelin' So Small
Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Out Of Control

I'd Like To Fly
But My Wings Have Been So Denied </center>