Lyrics:

The song concerns the late lead singer of Mother Love Bone, Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Would? and Wood are homophones.
It is written by Jerry Cantrell and produced by Rick Parashar.
Would

Know me, broken by my master
Teach thee on child of love hereafter

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way

Drifting body, it's sole desertion
Flying not yet, quite the notion

Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way


Into the flood again
Same old trip it was back then
So I made a big mistake
Try to see it once my way, yeah

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
Left you here alone
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home? Yeah
Have I gone?
Left you here alone
If I would, could you?