Scars (song)

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"Scars"

Single by Papa Roach
from the album Getting Away With Murder
Released	July 19, 2005
Format	CD
Recorded	???
Genre	Post-Hardcore
Length	3 minutes 28 seconds
Label	Geffen Records
Producer(s)	???
Chart positions
#82 (Germany) #? (UK) #15 (US)
Papa Roach singles chronology
"Getting Away With Murder" (2004)	"Scars" (2005)	"Take Me" (2005)

"Scars" is the second single from Papa Roach's third album, Getting Away With Murder (2004), and seventh released single in total. Scars is considered to be the bands comeback single, despite being unlike their usual work.

1 Track listing
2 Video
3 Trivia
4 References

[edit] Track listing

"Scars" (Album Version)
"Scars" (Acoustic Version)
"Getting Away With Murder" (Live Napster Version)
"Scars" (Video)

[edit] Video

The song's video tells the story of Shaddix's girlfriend, played by Taylor Cole, who is a drunk and parties too much. One day, she gets too drunk and passes out at a party at Shaddix's house she wakes up with a hangover, and, grabbing her coat, knocks over a candle, which lands on a mat on the floor. The mat is stained with her beer from last night. She lights the house on fire unknowingly, and goes home. When Shaddix arrives home, his house is burnt down. The girlfriend comes back to the ruin and sees what happened and realized what she did. This video project was directed by Motion Theory.

A completely different CGI video was shot for the song first, but the band wasn't pleased with it and ended up shooting the video mentioned above.

[edit] Trivia

The song was said to have been aimed at his former mistress Staci Cole (who is in no way related to Taylor Cole) over her alcohol addiction, it was written a few months after they met. Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix wrote the song after being taken to hospital in Las Vegas with 11 staples in his head in an act of self-harm. Shaddix told MTV News that the song was "about trying to help someone who really doesn't want you to help them".

The song was recorded as a power ballad which is a departure for the band. However, in interviews, the band claims that their fans like the song when it is played live in concert.

On a popular radio countdown show, American Top 40 hosted by Ryan Seacrest, Scars peaked at #6 in August, 2005, but the most significant feature is that it was one of the longest running songs in the chart, spending 50 weeks in the chart from April 2005 to March 2006. This is due to the significant radio airplay in America over a long period of time.