We Die Young

Infobox Album
Name = We Die Young
Type = ep
Artist = Alice in Chains


Released = July 1990
Recorded = 1989
Genre = Metal
Length = 9:49
Label = Columbia Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "We Die Young"
(1990)
Next album = "Facelift"
(1990)

"We Die Young" is a single EP by Alice in Chains. It was released in July 1990, and became a top 5 metal track at the time of its release.

Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's "Music Bank" box set collection: "I'd just temporarily moved in with Susan Silver because Sean and I had just had a fight. So I was riding the bus to rehearsal and I saw all these 9, 10, 11 year old kids with beepers dealing drugs. The sight of a 10 year old kid with a beeper and a cell phone dealing drugs equaled 'We Die Young' to me."

The video features the band performing while various people drown in pools of blood.

A demo version of the song was released on "", the only song released on the compilation which was not available on "Music Bank".

On some promotional copies of "We Die Young", there is a unlisted, hidden track after "Killing Yourself."

Track listing

tracklist
writing_credits = yes

title1 = We Die Young
writer1 = Cantrell
length1 = 2:31

title2 = It Ain't Like That
writer2 = Cantrell, Starr, Kinney
length2 = 4:38

title3 = Killing Yourself
writer3 =
length3 = 2:38

"We Die Young" and "It Ain't Like That" also appeared on Alice in Chains debut full-length album, "Facelift". A demo of "Killing Yourself" was later released on their box set Music Bank.