![]() And if you think the original version of “45” is romantic, just wait until you hear the acoustic take. Their bare-bones acoustic rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man” is a powerful cover that inadvertently proves how Shinedown don’t need complicated production to yield a solid recording (but a fleshed out rock band version is also available here for those Zippo lighter hoisting moments). Of course you don’t have to be a longtime fan to dig all the bonus demos and unused material culled from the vaults of the Leave a Whisper sessions. Revisiting the gems of Leave a Whisper is also rewarding, and not just because the cinematic sounding “Fly From The Inside” is a powerful number with nods to Alice In Chains and lyrics enveloped in dark comic-book imagery. * my thanks to Brent Smith and Shinedown for being a part of my inspiration.The Deluxe Edition of Shinedown’s 2003 platinum debut not only delivers on the bonus tracks, but at a whopping 13 extra songs, it plays more like a bonus album. ![]() I’ve been made fun of.Īnd that’s why… I am who I am. Until then, keep on hatin’, keep talking smack. And I won’t speak badly of you behind your back. In the end, I’ll be your friend, hug you, and tell you it’s all good. And you will be the one asking me to be there for you in the end.ĭon’t worry, I will be. Or what about the “go for it bro! You can do it!” friends that look to build me up, while behind the scenes, they are tearing me down: “You talk to much” … “you are an attention whore.” Or even … “you’re just plain annoying.” And to their credit, I haven’t proven anything to anyone. Or I lose sight of the end goal.Īnd then, there’s the haters, the posers or “realists.” The friends who believe I JUST dream. Unfortunately, I give up on said dreams because they are too hard. And as Smith put it, “you have to come from a dark place sometimes.” I’ve hit some dark moments over the last couple years. It wasn’t just about my struggles with demons, it was also about my struggles in attaining my dreams. You have to at least try for it… … because you’ll be kicking yourself in the ass if you don’t! And “Fly From The Inside” is just a metaphor about believing in yourself and going after anything that seems unattainable. It’s about having an unattainable dream that maybe the people around you are telling you that you can’t accomplish and you’re never going to succeed at it, and maybe they’re being that way towards you because they didn’t go after THEIR dreams. So when I would explain it to them, it would be like, “No one can steal the sun from the sky” –that’s ridiculous, but that’s the metaphor. People would ask me all the time, “What does ‘Fly From the Inside’ mean?” and, “What are you talking about, because I really didn’t understand it?” and they were having a hard time with it. So you have to find the strength within yourself to get through it no matter what the obstacle is. I just wanted to write a record - and the band did as well, we all did collectively - but my biggest thing was I wanted to write a record where people understood hopefully that I never wanted to sacrifice the… I wanted to write a positive record, but never wanted to sacrifice the listener knowing that you have to come from a dark place sometimes, and if you don’t pull yourself out of it you really have nobody to blame but yourself. ![]() In an interview with, Smith stated this: Something I had not even put much focus on of late. ![]() Instead, they involved another aspect of my life I had really not even thought of. They weren’t about any of what I thought. …This is where the “two-fold” part comes in… I wanted to see if indeed those lyrics were about struggles like mine. I wanted to see if Brent Smith (front-man of the band and writer of said lyrics) had experienced similar struggles as I had. ![]() So, I decided to check the meaning of the song. Right or wrong… the “weight of the world” on my shoulders. Nothing has spoken to my inner demons like those words. Sometimes I think that I’m gonna go insane So I have felt the weight of the world resting squarely on my shoulders. I’ve struggled mightily with myself and “inner demons” of late. The first line – “Here’s the weight of the world on my shoulders” Yesterday, amid feelings of darkness, depression, and frustration, I popped in Shinedown’s “Fly From The Inside.” It rocked me to the core! Became an instant favorite. I was on my way home from work and the dj announced this new “killer” song from a up and coming band. One such song for me hit the radio airwaves back in 2003. We all have experienced that moment when you hear a song that just makes you go “DAMN!” Doesn’t matter what genre you enjoy: Rap, Country, Punk, Metal, Hard Rock… that song that you just can’t ignore. ![]()
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