Who wrote shinedown songs6/24/2023 ![]() “I remember the vocals on that song, at the time we recorded it about 2001-2002, that vocal was a demo vocal, it was done in a garage with a makeshift door into another kind of studio room in a house in Florida,” he said. It’s really an example of how life is give-and-take.” “I’m singing the song and talking about myself but it’s also a rebirth, coming into adulthood, realizing some of the stuff maybe your parents kept from you to give you a childhood before you had to face the world. “It’s also about reflection and it’s a coming of age story,” he added. The 45 was a metaphor for the world and ‘staring down the barrel of a 45’ was about staring down at this planet and what it throws at you, how you have maneuvered through your life.” And I was like ‘why? When it actually had nothing to do with a gun’. “And I’ll never forget when the song came out, it was our second single from the album and it was banned from MTV because of the video and lyric subject matter. “It’s misunderstood in a lot of ways,” Smith told American Songwriter.
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