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  • this man speaks the absolute truth

  • Brent is truly amazing. LIke seriously. I love his message. It made me cry bc hes so right and true with every word he said. Everyone has a life and can do whatever they want and not let anyone stop you. The way the audience sings with him gives me chills down my spine. amazing. I love you SHINEDOWN.

  • shut up and sing

  • great message :') 

  • Um, never let your 10 year old daughter hear this speech.

  • This song truly gave me a different outlook on being the person my parents wanted me to be. They had so many things they expected of me and wanted to do for them that when I left and achieved my dreams of being a nurse and marrying who I wanted this song just made me feel better about what I did and you know what... Eventually my parents got over it and I could never be any happier.

  • ..........................

  • i listen to this and every single time i get the chills during his speech

  • njoyed this great album in downloadmusic .im

  • ~goosebumps!~

  • Americans annoy the crap out of me with their 'inspirational' bullshit.

  • @anarki777 fuck off dipshit thats prob why ur not living the life u want to fucker

  • @oBuLL3ts For some people, chasing a dream is pointless - Not everyone is talented. Reality check needed.

  • @anarki777 "If you have a dream, a goal, if you aspire to be something great, no one has the right to put you in a corner until you cannot achieve that." -Brent Smith

    Part of chasing a dream is improving, nobody can be born with the greatest talent, you have to aspire and live on to achieve what you want to.

  • @ParasectFTW Some people are not talented, and never will be talented no matter how much they try.

  • @anarki777 "Because every deserves a second chance"

    So suck on it.

  • @ParasectFTW That didn't even make sense, sorry.

  • Should show my parents this... fuck ya, it's my life, i'll live it the way I WANT. Great speech man!!! Shinedown forever!!! this is why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover... *cough* @NileySeries989 *cough* so stereotypical....

  • who can dislike a speech like that?

  • @xSHoCkW4VEzZ pretty much everyone outside of the u.s

  • @julianwhitee i live in the UK -_-

  • awesome speah i told my bostt to fuck off n i quit n now im a photograopher

  • @SicSoulzGamin79 good luck with getting that GED too

  • @SicSoulzGamin79 good luck with that and keep on living the dream

  • wow this guy is ligit! 

  • heey guys checkk out my version of this and comment?! :D

    /watch?v=8Od62rSYnbU

    thankkks<3

  • Good speech but it was just like hundreds of athletes and other musicians before him tell you to reach for you goals, and it's good the people were singing because it helped make him sound better because touring does have an effect on your voice which is probably why he's not hitting the higher notes you hear on the album. Shinedown is one of the only bands or musicians that I really like from the 2000's the songs have meaning and I always liked his voice

  • @ACslookin The crowd only made it much worse :S i have seen a lot of live videoes where he hits the high notes !!

  • He goes down to a harmony on the high parts....

  • omg i started to cry when he gave that speech i loved it because ever word he just said is true!!! dont give up on your dreams guys go for it!!! :)

  • HE talks way to much !

  • @stormbo1 Its a fucking speech about how he wrote the song, why don't you shut the fuck up.

  • @TheRealFuckingSlayer Chill out man no need to swear, I saw them in Chicago last summer and he talked for about 2-5 min between most of his songs, in fact some people of the crowd were chanting "Shut up and play" lol. Don't get me wrong Shinedown is one of my favorite bands!

  • @stormbo1 well then they aint true shinedown fans .. I wouldnt yell that piece of shit at them.. !

  • : ) click like if u thought that was a kick ass speach

  • That speech gave me chills

  • AWESOME SPEECH <3 <3 <3 SHOOT FOR YOUR GOALS....

  • WOW that speech man.. i never would have thought.. a guy like that.. i give him madddddddddddddddddddddddddddd­dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd­dddddddddddddddddddddddddddd props thats a guy who has balls

  • just an amazing speech

  • This speech reminds me of my stupid ex-girlfriend who told me that I couldn't pursue my dream of being a rock star.

  • @TheTylerGeissler she deserves to be your ex man

  • i love all of thier songs (good band)

  • I had goosebumps through this whole video. Simple words he said but damn those were powerful ones.

  • im hispanic 2 and i live in san jose cali so there is few people that like this kind of music i was inspired by a friend and now my dream now is to make a band and become a great musician and bring rock back to the bay area and the world...

  • Thumbs up for songs with meaning and inspiration.

  • Lol, lecture.

  • i dont know what i liked more the speech or the song

    Shinedown Forever

  • This is all I'll say to anyone in this room tonight. All of you that are here right now, if you have a dream, a goal, if you aspire to be something great, no-one has the right to put you in a corner, and tell you you cannot achieve that. So tonight, after you leave, I beg of you, all of the things that you want for you...rself, for your own life, I want you form here on out, to push them aside, and go down that road that you wanna go down. Because everyone here deserves a second chance.

    Amazing

  • Brett Smith Is Dah fuckin Ball man he rocks as much as Daughtry and all the member of the band

  • I wish the friggen audience would stfu!!!!Did they come to hear THEM....or themselves and all their tone-deaf friends?!! Grrrr

  • @MrsStrumich

    obviously you never went to a concert. At concerts you sing along with the band to show them you got respect for them and appriciate their music.

    Besides you can't hear them singin while you are in the room you can only hear the music from the speakers.

  • @nocbmaniyak true

  • I loved the message he gave out at the beginning of the song, cuz im hispanic, and a lot of other hispanics make fun of me because of the music i listen to. And like he said you do what you want with your life, if they tell you otherwise, then push them aside. u kno, don't let people push you around. i thought that was really cool of him.

  • ok I love this song, but hes acting really weird.Tie his hands behnd his back and I bet he cant talk anymore!!

  • @MrsStrumich That would be called stage presence. Music tard.

  • @GORDSLINGER

    nah that would be called a bazillion cliches and pathetic man singing shitty songs and trying to be hard by wearing eyeliner...

  • @riordan32 hes one of the few people whose live voice is pretty close to his albums. and this is a pretty well written song (my opinion) and hes doing something right to have been around for almost 10 years

  • @harvickfan82479 You've got to be kidding; lead singer can no longer hit the high notes. Plus last time I saw them live they didn't play 45, Heroes, Burning Bright or Fly from the Inside. They may have a been a great live band at one time, but no longer.

  • @afhevh Got nothing to do with endless touring then? Theres an interview on youtube where he is asked to do a chorus of 45 just like that and he belts it out top notch, the high notes are still there, just not consistently with the endless touring.

  • He gesticulates a lot,doesnt he?? But WHAT AN AMAZING SONG!!

  • I like Greenday but they should have won. Seriously!

  • amazing speech

    awesome song

    AWESOME BAND

  • can barely hear the song. plus the audience ruined t badly.

  • Why do people have to sing along and ruin an otherwise awesome song? I hate that.

  • @crystalnrich

    woaw.. that is a video camera.. go to a shinedown concert. stand frontrow and say that the crowd ruins it.. you would sing along yourself.. and u almost cant hear shit what they sing when they play a song.. guess why?. Cause it's fucking loud and they aint beatles that goes on stage infront of 55thousand people with a little battery amp. kthxbai

  • @RingmosklN Wow, you're a tough guy. Go tell your mommy to shoot herself for having you.

  • I'm certainly going to write a note of thanks to the lead singer of "Shinedown" for that piece of wisdom. No one has the right to drag someone down or stand in their way. Especially for those that are trying to make the world a better place

  • @3LaneRoad thank you and that has been happening to me and i will now put a stop to it

  • NICE!!!

  • I faved it after listening to the speech XD

  • Man ... Barry rocks the drums!!!

  • what a stroke

  • his name is brent smith and he gives the greatest speeches ever

  • @unhippies102 too bad he cant sing live :/

  • does anything know the lead singers name?

  • BRENT OSBOURN!!!!!

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  • No he didn't. Brent isn't married. Jasin Todd, former guitar, married her but is now divorced.

  • realy good what he said in the begening

    was realy inspiring and thats why i love with this band

  • what he said really inspired me to do what i want to do. this is my life

  • I Love all that he said at the beginning...that was amazing!!! I Love this song... :D

  • wow what he said at the begining was just amazing :')

  • that speech right there made Brent my hero..Thank you so much for posting this vid

  • absolutely amazing

  • as a vocalist myself, i have to say, this man gives me chills. \m/

  • Well, as a vocalist, you would know that the chorus is playback. He's not even singing. He does this all the time. Live, he can't hit any of the notes he does on the record. It's a shame that fakes like him get deals when the rest of us struggle.

  • You trying to say he's a bad singer? Maybe the sound recording was a POS? Have you heard the recorded song? And you still say he is a bad singer. Wow, crazy man, just crazy...

  • You base your opinion of him off of the "recorded song"? Have you ever heard of ProTools? Melodyne? Autotune? Reverb? The recorded version is all studio magic. I base my opinion off of all the live versions I've listened to hear on youtube and TV. He cant hit the notes live. It's a fact. He's actually lipsynced this song at live shows cuz his voice is terrible. Theres no convincing a fan that he is bad. But technically, he is not a good singer.

  • @guitar99guy99 wow you sure sound like a hater.

    he sounds good.

    if he was bad he wouldnt of became famous

  • Wrong, you become famous based of your recording, why do you think slayer, dont get very good commercial success

  • you need to keep yo mouth shut your just sayin that because ur a loser and you have nothing better to do with ur worthless life then go and come on here haten the good singers

  • you obviously dont have a clue what your talking about then

  • for ur infformation you have prolly never been to one of his concerts so you dont know i have and its just their camera his amazing at singing prolly waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than you so back off

  • i love this song.....

  • Though you can't really hear it, his singing is pretty impressive

  • Inspiring song, man, this is a great song. I love it nad it makes you think. Just a great overall song. Thnk you Shinedown and keep on shining music.

  • @ 0omatt...dude for the right show most ppl would pay a couple hundred dollars to see a show...these guys are amazing....throw them in with a couple other bands and a couple hundred seems well worth it

  • cool. the best part was at 1:45, you know... the end of his speech.

  • unlike all of you i love his speeches he makes you feel better about your self and helps you make decison say what you want but you know its true

  • i loved his speech

  • That speech gave me chills, just like the song.

  • Wow, first singer I've seen able to hold the notes live. I'm not a huge Shinedown fan but they are easily one of the best preformers live. So many bands are strictly good on albulm with studio editing, these guys are legit. Awesome.

  • I was there! Amazing! Drunk people in front of me ruined it though by constantly brawling with themselves.

  • riviting speech and all, but people dont pay a couple hundred bucks to hear you talk, shut up and play the damn song

  • who the hell pays a couple hundred bucks for a concert ticket?

  • heh seen shinedown with breaking benjamin and sick puppies, and the first time with saving abel, ax7 and buckcherry, always amazing.

  • Brent IS God

  • [TEAR*]Whoever knew a man with eye liner and black nail polish could make a speech like that...*Sniffles*LOL

  • @NileySeries989 i aggree

  • awesome speech :')

  • @RAYADOYMEXICANO ya i totally agree with you, i thought that was really cool of him cuz im mexicano too and a lot of other mexicanos make fun of me because of the music i listen to. i liked how he was like 'do what you want with your life, if someone tells you otherwise, simply push them aside.' u kno, don't let ppl push you around. so i thought that speech was really cool of him.

  • @RAYADOYMEXICANO almost cried with the speech

  • very inspiring speech :)

  • i love shinedown and i get to go see them, nickelback, breaking benjamin, and sick puppies in april in tulsa at the BOK center

  • @KrystalLeigh2008 you lucky mother fucker. thats a good set of bands, nickelback not soo much but the others are good.

  • Thats cool. Shindedown opened up with Sound Of Madness. They played all our favorites so you will be in for a treat. Have fun man!!

  • Going to see them tonight with Papa Roach with two guest bands. Floor tickets woot woot

  • Week from tomorrow I see the same concert. Cant wait!

  • Brent is amazing. And so are his speeches. They bring tears to my eyes almost every time.

  • ......5*****

  • Cocaine is a powerful drug!lol.

    Dont hassle me I love these guys.

  • i was at that gig

  • great song and singer !!!

  • Dude that speech inspires me so much, i don't give a fuck what you think about me but my eyes started to get watery, but anyways the video could have a lil better quality but the speech is my favorite part tho i love Shinedown

  • lmfao, why are ppl so afraid to cry?

    real men cry, i cry all the time.

    i think its just weakness on ppls part afraid to be themselves. ...

  • I never said i was afraid to cry i just said i don't give a shit what ppl think

  • great band, great speech, great song..inspiring

  • great speech, great song

  • great speach very inspiring

  • Very Nice speech

  • wow all the fags baging his speech, suk. he is just trying 2 reach out to people. props 2 him. brent is awesome!

  • kinda inspiring...

  • lol and u come back with one equally as original, mine wasnt meant to be intellectual but ur attempt to make one at me was quite sad... i mean not loved as a child that is the most unoriginal insult in the book... but i can c you are just "exuding" "intelligence", bravo fuckwit!!!

  • Your are of the world's movers and shakers no doubt. An unfortunate cretin with too much time on your hands and not enough little gray cells with which to occupy it. So you spend your days sifting through the comments on forums and threads, not offering opinions but only to denigrate & castigate those of us with an opinion, sure, my insult was not original, it was not meant as such, merely using language the lowest common denominator ( i.e YOU ) would understand and could possibly relate too.

  • that is the most truthful statement of 80% of people on here.Too bad they cant hear his words.sad really.

  • video was posted on my birthday!

  • DAMN IT! This band is emo?!? I used to like this song!

  • Wow you're a bitch if you like the song then like it for what is is not because of the genre.

  • I'm not a bitch... Mainly because I'm male...

  • ok then.. hows dick head?

  • goodone

  • oh and they are rock

  • -_- DAMN IT! your a bitch?!? and to think ppl used to like you >.>

  • OMG Magic! You are soooo right! Your speech back at naivete2006 was powerful and poetic! I agree with Magicmaker. He has inspired me!

  • Damn. His speech gave me goosebumps.

  • best rock song of 08 - 09

  • Brent... you're fucking beautiful. Stay like that, aight?

  • The words he says is pure freakin poetry!!!!!!!! He is amazing and so inspiring!!!! Go Brent!

  • wow they sounds amazing live

  • There is nothing fucking special about this speech or song. Go for your goals and overcome the obstacles is something that a high school guidance counsellor could tell you.

  • There's nothing special about it, no, but this man has credentials. He's been through a lot, so who better to give a speech like this?

  • The point is that he is putting his music to good use. You are snobby little fuck aren't you?

  • That's true, but the difference is HE DID IT. As soon as you've sacrificed/risked everything and achieved your dream in the process I'll listen to you say it too. Until then you're nothing but a jealous loser.

  • That is a common mistake made by common persons like yourself. I listen to the advice totally disregarding the source. If it sounds good, I'll follow it, if it makes no sense, I disregard. Oh, and I'm not jealous of that freakshow of a guy. He wears mascara and eyeliner for cryin' out loud. Another thing, I HAVE made sacrifices and achieved my goals in life, all without ever having heard that ass clown Brent speech. Again that speech is common fucking sense. His fans lack it, so they suck it up.

  • Furthermore naivete2006: Lets say I always just run out in traffic...I tell you to look both ways before crossing the street...because I do not practice my own advice, you will not take it?

  • You're comparing advice about following a dream to crossing the street? LOL You're really hanging on by a thin thread now!

    Physically walking across pavement and avoiding 1 ton metal vehicles traveling at 30-60 MPH is quite different than advice about being true to yourself and following a dream in the face of ridicule. Ya think? LOL Douchebag.

  • You missed the point, I'm not surprised.

  • dude shut up stop tryin to make a stupid point by tellin urself your so right hes sayin never let anyone put u in a cornor stand up for yourself really probly the best advice anyone could ever get so shut up and stop makeing fun of people cause ur just makein urself look like an ass

  • Yes, I know what he is saying. What Brent is saying is just plain common sense, it is nothing fucking epic or even new. I made fun of no one, I simply pointed out that there is nothing special about the speech unless you are some type of wannabe runaway.

  • Ya, that's the way to put it!

  • beautiful song

  • That was a perfect way to get into this song.

  • **** ITS **** AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

  • someone in the crowd singing sounds like pure shit but Brent he makes a good point at the beginning thats powerful

  • FUCK ALL OF YOU I LOVE SHINE DOWN HE IS THE BEST.I Belive in god but not like i used to.If you got a problem With That Suck your moms dick.The words he said at the beginning are heart touching and are true.just because someoneis black white hispanic doesnt mean anything.if you make fun you are a cowerd. If you hit women than you are a bitch.You think about what i said and stick in in your lil heads.

  • some of the best advice you'll ever get.

  • you are a lot of weak minded idiots, your minds are so fucked up that you gotta believe in something cos you cant believe in yourselves, there has been more people killed in the name of this so called god and this so called satan,than any other conlict since time began, its a form of brainwash, to control the masses, the church is one of the most corrupt organisations , on the face of the planet, GET A LIFE YOU SAD WANKERS, AND JUST LISTEN TO THE MUSIC.

  • going to see them in vt n saw them july 10th in nh

  • Satan is spelled S-A-T-A-N, not that terribly difficult.