Them Bones

Cantrell wrote Them Bones about mortality. In the Music Bank liner notes he said he was thinking that one of these days we will end up a pile of bones. The chromatic riff is in 7/8, except for the chorus, which is in 4/4. Cantrell told Guitar World in 1998 that off-time material comes naturally to him. Engineer Bryan Carlstrom told The Atlantic that Staley improvised the opening screams on the spot, timing them to the guitar riff.

Columbia sent it to radio on 14 September 1992 as the album's second single. It reached number 24 on the Mainstream Rock chart and number 30 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. In the UK, the single came out on 8 March 1993 and reached number 26. Rocky Schenck directed the video, which shows the band playing in a large dirt hole. AllMusic's Ned Raggett called it a brief, tightly wound explosion of riff power.