Leader of Men
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| Single by Nickelback from the album The State |
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| Released |  August 2000 April 2001 |
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| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 1998 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative | ||||
| Length | 3:30 | ||||
| Label | Roadrunner | ||||
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"Leader of Men" is the first successful single by the Canadian rock band Nickelback, the first one from their 2000 album The State.
[edit] Meaning
Chad Kroeger, the band's frontman, has said that the song is about a time he possibly saved one of his friends' lives.
The line about jumping off a cliff to save a girl — that really happened. Some of my friends and I were cliff diving. One of my friends, Kathy, was getting swept downstream and couldn't stay afloat - she wasn't a strong swimmer. So I jumped in, swam down to her and pulled her ashore.
- Chad Kroeger "The song starts off, 'Tell your friends not to think aloud until they swallow'," Kroeger says.
What that line implies is that usually what you say after you start tripping is far more interesting than what you're going to say when you're dead straight. A lot of the lines in the song are about what you're going through while you're zooming.
- Chad Kroeger
On the other hand, at some stops during Nickelback's 2002 Tour, Chad Kroeger would introduce the song by saying, "This is a song about tripping on 'shrooms. This one's called 'Leader of Men'."
[edit] Track listings
- "Leader of Men"
- "Leader of Men" [acoustic]
- "Just Four" [from the album Curb]
[edit] External links
- Leader Of Men music video at Roadrunner Records website
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