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Rating: The 3 Doors Down are back, and they return with a self-titled album worthy of respect.
The alternative rock band from Mississippi led by the melancholic Brad Arnold returns to move us with an album that exudes artistic maturity and for the first time features a uniform composition in its tracks. Gone is the clear division that was present in previous albums between chart-topping hits and various filler tracks. This is a complete and heartfelt album after several years of silence.
References to Alter Bridge and Creed are present (listen to the excellent "Train" to believe it), as are decent explorations into the tribal, as in "Citizen/Soldier" and "She Don't Want The World". After a good appetizer, there is the chart-topping hit "It's Not My Time", which recalls the band's famous track "When I'm Gone". However, this time the melodic rock formula seems to have found its greatest expression in a piece that, in my opinion, is among the best in the career of the overseas band. It must be admitted that it doesn't quite fit with the rest of the LP but is absolutely indispensable for a financially fruitful and highly catchy album composition.
"It's The Only One You've Got" is a listenable and syrupy pop-rock ballad, likely to be the launch single in the old continent, much like "Here Without You" was in 2002, the only piece by 3 Doors Down known to most in our "musically cultured" beautiful country. There are also post-grunge callbacks like in "Give It To Me", whose intro seems to recall Lenny Kravitz's "Fly Away", and "Pages". Regarding the post-grunge inspiration, it's noteworthy that not coincidentally Gers Upchurch has been the band's drummer since 2005, after playing in "Puddle Of Mudd", which in turn, after his departure, abandoned the grunge sounds.
Overall, "3 Doors Down" is a clean and highly appreciable work. It could have used a bit more variety, but it is perhaps the first robust and meaningful work from the American quintet, undoubtedly a chart album, but that's perfectly fine. In short, the shyness of their early days seems to have vanished to give life to a mature and heartfelt work.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Train (03:10)
Put me on a train mama
This place just aint the same no more
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin' today
I don't wanna watch the world spinnin'
I wanna be spinnin' with it
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
Cause I got the feelin' that's for sure
And to know that I can get it makes me want it more
Mama I just want you to know that I'm gonna be fine
Lord I know it's a chance that I take
But I know you'll forgive the mistakes that I've made
There's a life out there and it's gonna be mine
Put me on a train mama
Cause I can't take this pain no more
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
And there's a world that's out there waiting
And I know that it's the chance I'm takin
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
Cause I got the feelin' that's for sure
And to know that I can get it makes me want it more
Mama I just want you to know that I'm gonna be fine
Lord I know it's a chance that I take
But I know you'll forgive the mistakes that I've made
There's a life out there and it's gonna be mine
God knows how long I'll be gone
But maybe one day this train will bring me home
Put me on a train mama
Put me on a train mama
Oh put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
Cause I got the fever that's for sure
And knowin' I can get it makes me want it more
Mama I just want you to know that I'm gonna be fine
Lord I know it's the chance that I take
But I know you'll forgive the mistakes that I've made
There's a life out there and it's gonna be mine
05 Pages (03:47)
What happens to a man when
He spills his heart on a page and
He watches words flow away then
His feelings lie on the page alone
There waiting
For someone who cares to read them
To open their eyes to see them
To see if they can make his thoughts their own
To find out that maybe life's not perfect
Maybe it's not worth what he gives away
You can see that his broken soul is bleeding
So you conceed your feelings inside yourself
And wander through my heart
Letting you see through me
Now only consumes me
Forget your pain, watch me fall apart
What happens to a soul when
It's trapped inside his emotions
And all of these words he's spoken
They bind him to the life he's left behind
And every new step he takes
He knows that he might not make it
To all of these dreams that he has yet to find
Maybe life's not perfect
But maybe it's not worth what he gives away
You can see that his broken soul is bleeding
So you conceed your feelings inside yourself
And wander through my heart
Letting you see through me
Now only consumes me
Forget your pain and watch me fall apart
You can see that his broken soul is bleeding
So you conceed your feelings inside yourself
And wander through my heart
Letting you see through me
Now only consumes me
Forget your pain and watch me fall apart
As I fall apart
07 Give It to Me (03:21)
It feels like something got in the way
And maybe I had something to do with it
There's not much that I can say
But there sure is something I've got to prove to you
I told you, that I'd try
And you said that I lie
Like I have something to sell
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
So come on, give it to me
Just give it to me
There's always something I wanna say
But the words won't never come out
The way I want
Maybe I see another way
Or maybe I just see somethin you don't
These stories that you tell
Now I know them a little too well
You think I'll take what I want
Oh no
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
Come on, give it to me
One more wrong will make it right
I don't wanna fight no more
I'm tired of sayin' please
This is all I need
So give me just a little bit
A little bit more
Oh, give me just a little bit more
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
Come on, give it to me
One more wrong will make it right
I don't wanna fight no more
I'm tired of sayin' please
This is all I need
So give me just a little bit
A little bit more
Oh, give me just a little bit more
Give me just a little bit more
Little bit more
10 Runaway (03:24)
Do you ever think about running away
'cause i was thinkin' about leavin' today
We'll follow forever where our hearts wanna go
Maybe we'll end up somewhere where nobody knows our names
Then things might change for the good
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too long
Too long, oh no
Do you ever think about not comin' back
Hoppin' on a train and we'll burn up the tracks
We'll jump off somewhere that we don't know how to say
Maybe hitch a ride from someone who can tell us the way
To where these things might change for the good
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too
Where forever is never too long
Not with you right here by me
Maybe, maybe we'll just see
Where this road will lead for us
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too
Forever is never too long
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