song meanings |
Bleed:
"I had the song for five years, Aaron sang on the new release. He picked out the song Bleed for us to play out of all the acoustic songs that I have. It's about musicians wanting to bleed in their music. It's what I want people to feel. -Scooter Ward
Change The World:
"It's about affecting people's lives and not being able to deliver. Some times people expect so much from you and you're going, "Hold on a second." I never wanted to change the world. Everything's cool and everything's good but what did you expect me to do actually? Some times they expect too much from you and it's a little shocking. I try to be there for them as much as I can but some times I can't." - Scooter Ward
Confession:
"It's definatly directed towards somebody, but I'm not going to say who it is, and I don't think that anybody is going to know. But it's that kind of song. It's about giving everythign to somebody, and just have them not appreciate it. But everythign you do to people, it comes back to you in the end." -Scooter Ward
Cure My Tragedy:
"When I was going to write this record, my sister was dying of cancer. (pause) It started in her ovaries and then went into her brain. It started taking over her body. She would call and be crying and be all upset about it. It was really hard for me to be on the other side of the country. Making a record really meant nothing to me at that point. I was like, "This is crap. I gotta be home with my sister." She was like, "You can't do that. It means a lot to me. Just write a song for me." (long pause) And I did. It's kind of like a letter to God saying, "If you made the world a stage for me then..." (pause) What kind of happened was amazing. Right when the record was done, and I gave her the song, it left her brain and it's clearing up now so it's kind of amazing." - Scooter Ward
Don't Belong:
"Don't Belong" was pretty much about me growing up. I was always a little odd compared to other people and really quiet. I have people come up to me and them saying, "He's such an asshole because he doesn't talk" or "We see him out and he just sits there." - Scooter Ward
End Of The World:
"The song was inspired by our experience recordign in Seattle during 1999's World Trade Organization riots. The studio was on the same street as the protests," Ward says. "There were cops with riot gear and tear gas, but we were OK as long as we weren't carrying signs."
Everyone Dies:
Scooter has also been asked about this one in a previous interview, he (being a believer in UFO's and aliens) wrote this song beind about aliens coming down from outerspace.
Go Away:
"It's about a musician that um, it's about other musicians, like if you've been like in a local band or any kind of band, you always have other people coming up to you trying to tell you that, maybe you should do this, maybe you should do that, and you're like going, well who the hell are you, who the hell do you think you are man. So, we wrote a song just saying go away." -Scooter Ward
Just Got Wicked:
"It's about people having vices take them over and becoming like a Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde. You don't know why you do the things you do, but you don't do anything about it. It's just about vices and letting other things control you." -Scooter Ward
Kill The Music Industry:
"Actually, when we let the record company hear it, that was really funny because we were in the studio and they listened to it. I just looked at the look on their faces and said, "What do you think about that?" They said, "That is really fuckin' something buddy." I said, "It's not targeting you guys, you people sitting in this room. I'm just trying to target the whole music industry as a whole." The music industry says, "Well, this is what's hot right now. Let's shove it down everybody's throat." What they're shoving down people's throats and for the past year I can't stand. Everything is so monotonous and boring and unfeeling. When we write songs and when I write lyrics, if I don't get that chill down my spine then I don't think to put a song out like that. If it doesn't do anything for you then why would you want to share that with the world? But a lot of bands just fuckin' re-hash bullshit and good for them because some are very successful at it. I just think it's crap. I don't blame the bands because they're just doing it and maybe that's all they know how to write about. I blame the music industry because they force it on me. Some of the lyrics are, "They think they've changed your faith. They've gone too far. They mame the way you see. They think they'll can your life and control your mind but they can't relate to real life." - Scooter Ward
No One:
"This song is about uh, uhm, I wrote it for my mother...just like uhm, she, her, her friend had moved away and she had some people, uhm, not be with her, and so uh, she had some hard times, so I wrote it for her." -Scooter Ward
Rain Song:
"When I had just gotten out of high school, my friend Jack and Becky had moved in together. They had gotten fucked up one night and when they went to bed an electrical outlet shorted or something and caught their curtains on fire. They had gotten burned alive. (pause) I was at my parents house sleeping and I remember that it was pouring down rain that morning. The phone rang and my Mom was like, "Oh my God." I knew it. I knew something had happened to one of my friends again. She came in and told me that Jack and Becky were in the hospital in the intensive care unit and that their bodies were burned and they don't think they're going to make it. I just remember the rain pouring down that rain and every time it rains, I think about her." - Scooter Ward
Remedy:
"It's about wanting to be an individual. Throughout my life, I've always had people... I'm not the best person in the world and I have my mistakes just like anyone else. It's just about other people. When you make a mistake or you do something or sometimes you're not sure if it's a mistake or not. You're saying to yourself, "Am I wrong or is this my life?" I've valued people's opinions all my life but I really don't give a fuck. It's about being an individual and about saying, "I'm doing this on my own and if it doesn't work out then it doesn't work out." - Scooter Ward
Sad Happy:
"It's about this girl that followed around a little bit on the tour. She was by herself and she was really scaring me because she was getting rides from truck drivers and shit. She was offering favors to them and stuff. It was really scary. After a couple of shows I said, "Sweetheart, what are you doing? What's going on?" She said, "Well, I have to follow you." And blah, blah, blah. She started telling me her story and she told me that her father had molested her. (pause) And he had been raping her for her whole life. She was doing anything to follow us around. I told her, "You're 18 years old now and I don't know if that's cool to bring somebody out with us. I wish you could get focused. If you need help, I'll give it to you." I had given her some money to start out and get an apartment and maybe help her land a job. I kind of looked out for her but at the same time it was really emotional for me to deal with that and her going through that." - Scooter Ward
Serial Killer:
"I was trying to put myself in a child's place. I tried to feel what it would be like to be abducted by a serial killer, get away, and then look for him later in life or see him later in life and bring back all that emotion that happened when I was a kid. It was a story something like that." - Scooter Ward
Sick Of Man:
"Sick Of Man is about a dad who leaves his child one night while the kid is sleeping." -Scooter Ward
Strip Her Down:
"It's about one of my band members who had problems with his girlfriend...and that got me pissed off because when people around me get hurt I get depressed as well. I was really upset, and I just went crazy. Nothing that happened to me, but it happens to everyone, at least one time you have some bad shit goin' down with some crazy bitch. It happens to everybody though, it happens to girls, and guys. It's just a song about being fucked over by somebody." -Scooter Ward
Stupid Girl:
"My version of it and what I see through it is that you could just be a total piece of trash and at the same time, you don't know that you are. You have this person that's going to leave you and you don't have any idea why. A lot of people are blind to the fact that they are idiots." - Scooter Ward
Suffocate:
"It's about a relationship where you feel smothered and suffocated. Sometimes when you're in a position like I am, you have people who will be your friend or try to be your friend just because of what you're doing. You lie and you fake. I'm just kind of going, "Fuck, I really thought that you were sincere and that you were trying to be cool. In the end, it's to benefit you." - Scooter Ward
The Day Seatlle Died:
"It was for Layne Staley actually. We were touring with Jerry Cantrell on the first record and we went to Seattle to play a Halloween show. Sean Kenny was with us and we wanted to meet Layne Staley because he was my idol. He was such a sick man at that point. They were like, "Man, he doesn't come out of his house." They finally got him to come out and get dressed up because it was Halloween. He got in a little costume and snuck in up there and nobody knew who he was. He sat down with me and hung out. It was amazing but at the same time, it was heartbreaking to see my idol looking like an 80-year-old man. It was really weird." - Scooter Ward
Ugly:
"When I was younger and doing alot of drugs, I felt bad inside, and I felt ugly...so I wrote that song cause I felt like a total piece of shit. I was about twenty three or twenty four when I wrote that." -Scooter Ward
Wasted Years:
"Wasted Years" is pretty much. I've had a lot of problems with alcohol and drugs at times in my life. I was ashamed of myself at points. I've always been the guy who knows that he has problems. Nobody ever had to tell me, "Man, I think you've got a problem." I would wake up the next morning and say, "Man, I've got a fuckin' problem!" I know that I was fucked up. I always tried to fix myself but I'd always fall back sooner or later and go right back to the same bullshit that I was doing before. I feel like I've wasted so much time in my life by doing that." - Scooter Ward
Whatever You Became:
"Whatever You Became" is about whenever we tour on the road. We meet all these people. It's cool and a lot of them are like friends. They're not really like fans. I don't think of them as fans. I think of them as like a family thing." - Scooter Ward
Witch:
"People are addicted to certain things, and it's how far that will take you, whatever your vice is. You can't explain it, but you do the same thing and it's a useless battle. Some of mine are everything...but know I'm okay and I can draw off of those feelings." -Scooter Ward