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  • Shinedown FTW! They deserve more than 2 million views and 13 thousand likes (apparently half of those views were mine)

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  • dude this song is about a man whose on the edge of life hes had bad things happen and is thinking of suicide if you cant see that your blind, this isnt about a life lesson its about how it feels to stare at the end and if its worth ending, now it may have a life lesson on that but a .45 is a gun and until your at that point you dont know what this meens its meenings aply to everyone differantly and you cant judge by the name and video you have to look deeper.

  • anyones else notice that the grafittie at the start looks like the artwork for The Battles of Los Angeles?

  • this song is badass it shown me that you ar allway gunna have a 45 at ur head

  • fu fuf fuf fuf fuKIN SWEET

  • Just so you guys know when the author of this song wrote it, he didn't write it about suicide. Its about being alone in the world and trying to find yourself and being comfortable. The .45 hes talking about is the WORLD! Staring at it waiting for it to go off. Hope to shed some light on a really amazing song.

  • @cca0511ecu well put....not many people make that connection

  • love it

    

  • I haven't heard this songs in years

  • @john54421 cant have been that many years its only 3 years old

  • @MistaThrill The cd this song was on came out in 03'

  • There is so much passion in his voice...LOVE this band ! ! !

  • This was the best guitarist they had

  • shinedown is awesome cause they're from my city hahaha

  • You never see any artist put this much emotion into any song anymore yet here he does it in every song

  • Great Fuc*in Band !

  • thinking of all the songs i should buy with my money, how the FUCK did i forget this.

  • I already knew this song was full of emotion but this is the first time seeing the video.. Just wow

  • This song is f*ckin' awesome !!!

  • 1:36 fucking lucky girl!!!

  • Look what I said before I didnt take from the video, It the same thing Brent Smith said in an interview and if anyone know what it truly means its him.

  • I listen to this...then right afterwards Click Click Boom by Saliva...Good times...

  • ok im not happy at all there has been 2,223,380 ppl who have seen this vid and alot haven't liked it RATE THE BEST SONG YOU HAVE LAID YOUR EYES ON!

  • thanks.

    

  • luv this fkn song i wanna yell it out so loud

  • im not a huge fan of shinedown, i like some of there stuff and this song is awesome!

  • amazing!

  • this song he his refering to suicide and he probaby was at that point in his life and watned to help others know there is a purpose for their life

  • *everyone thinks its his fault?

  • Ok, Without all the unnecessary bullshit, What does this song refering to? he lost a child and now hes really depressed and thinks bout killing his self? everoeinks its his fault? Love the song and band just curious.

  • Is Brent the one doing the screams at the end?

  • great musics, but i don't like the video... -.-"""

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  • 0:50 To 1:18 So Fucking Beast!

  • 136 people who should be starring down the barrel of a 45

  • @andrewhussey92 you mean 136 people who have their own opinions?

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  • @andrewhussey92 u included

  • @neverdenytheu *you

  • @andrewhussey92 i hate when people comment like this it has no creativity and its lame and annoying... like ur thoughts must have been "Ive seen people do this! ill take the number of dislikes and say something bad that should happen to them cause im so damn funny!" yeah buddy it gets annoying as fuck

  • one time i heard this and some girl was like: no this songs about me, you cant listen to it!

    WHAT A BITCH

  • this song is amazing!

  • is this band a biliever? i just love them,

  • One of my favorite songs of this 'new age' rock :)

  • shinedown is my music savior

  • I'm not sure of whom said what, but don't piss into the wind you'll end up wet. Ashes all around from what I see.

  • oh, I love them..

  • love it

  • TO THE LAKE OF FIRE I GOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • where there is breath there is always hope....no matter how desperate the situation seems...suicide is not an answer to problems, but but just the start of an uncertain eternity without christ...not preachin...just sayin....life is beautiful...make something of it!!!

  • @Lookin2bild4u Look brother, I'm not criticizing you, but nothing on this Earth matters except you doing the Will of God. NONE of this matters in the least. In the end, there will be a rapture, believers will be taken to heaven, and there will be 7 years where there is hell on Earth. The unbelievers will go through the plagues, and have small breaks in between them to turn to God. After those 7 years is the Great White Throne Judgement. If you still don't believe, you go to the Lake of Fire.

  • @USSoldierofGod I didn't read the conversation from the begining, so I apologyze if saying something inapropriate. Also apologyze for the bad english. But I'm not a beliver and I respect who is. That's the important thing. Respect.

  • what ever happen to the young man heart???? I saw him bleed out ! such a fuckin shame!I In loving memory of my son William Raphoon, 3/24/78-4/02/08.. What a waste of life!!!!

  • 136 people got shot by a 45, don't question.

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  • any pizza! any toppings!

     any crust!

  • EPIC VOICE IS EPIC!!!!!!

  • just plain "BAD ASS"!!! LOVE IT!!!!

  • 3:32 - .... emo corner. </3. So often I wish, but... no place I can. Even my room isn't safe from invasion.

    I wasn't paying attention half the song, but I heard "Staring down the barrel of a 45" and I was like "Oh shit my parents can NOT hear this song and know I like it, the assistant principal already called them and told mum I'm apparently suicidal!!!!"

  • this song is about HOPE. anyone who says anything different is wrong.

  • aborted babies cells also are used for artificial flavoring that some companies use

  • ae boy obaod

  • i should've paid more attention to them when i saw them live almost 2 years ago

  • (continued) they tell him that his life has purpose and one day he'll realize it (and so on, dont remember word for word) now that guy has a family, wife and kids.

  • In concert lead singer explains what this song is about. He had a friend that was a loved funny guy but he lacked self confidence and one day they were going out and one of his friends knocked on his one friends door and told him they were waiting for him so they could go out and there was just silence. he knocks again finally he hears his friend say he cant do it anymore and they hear a gunshot then a few mins later movement and the door opens and his friend says he cant even kill himself right

  • play button  is hurting hehe love this song

  • at 0:16 i want to know what the person on the wall says but i cant pause to read.....

  • @s9225s92256 someone elses america.

  • this is the song that got me in to shinedown and been a fan ever since and had not stopped

  • WHY NO HAPPY ENDING?!?!?!?!?

  • my commercial  was about a commercial

  • @mibmophba

    i did & couldnt find anything

  • Could someone please tell me what kind of bass he's got? It looks like a Peavey in a couple shots but im sure its not. Thanks.

  • @weasellad

    couldnt u just google it or something?

    

  • @weasellad Ibanaz

    

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  • I LOVE SHINEDOWN ITS THE BEST :D

  • Polacy łapki w górę !

  • @completelynumb420 your name perfectly fits your comment :)

  • I can't wait till 14th of February ;] Going to see Shinedown in Manchester <3

  • Shinedown is one of my favorite bands...With all the drama, I just had to get that out. I've been listening to them since they first came out, not since the release of Second Chance, when everyone else jumped on board...

  • @fUcKyOuUpAbLe YES. YES. YES. YES. THANK YOU.

  • @deerguy14 No problem :D

  • even though i understand this video shinedown is an awesome band to listen to no matter what

  • @completelynumb420 That's such an ironic comment, considering its bashing the hell out of people with opinions, yet is so opinionated.

  • OH! And FYI... this is an old-ass song... 2009 is way after it was released. It was released originally in 2003. Even with the internet you people can't research something as simple as "Shinedown .45 Release Date"?? Fuckin' lazy assholes.

  • @VashCrowley

    it may have been released in 03 but it was uploaded in 09 so no need to freak out

  • Okay... I don't get it. This is a good song. Shinedown is a good band. But seriously? The singer is a god? Shinedown are musical geniuses? I feel sorry for the generation of today. If Shinedown is your guys' version of musical gods, then your musical experience is SEVERELY limited. Shinedown is nothing but a drop in the bucket of all the cookie cutter alternative bands that come around every few years. Fucking kids nowadays... fucking ignorant to anything but reality tv and crap music.

  • @VashCrowley Dude what the fuck is your problem? We like Shinedown, so what, you dont. Who gives a fuck? Guess who. No one. Just shut the fuck up, if you dont get it then dont listen to the fucking song! As simple as that, dont be posting all this bullshit on here, because no one gives a fuck; Besides were not as old as you so we dont likie the same shit as you.

  • @HuntingxChick I believe he said that they are a good band, he did not deny that at all. So how crawling out of the ass that you're stuck in? All he did say was that they're hardly musical geniuses.

  • @HuntingxChick So how about*

  • @HuntingxChick I NEVER denied Shinedown was a good band... ever. I just want to know where all these claims of them being the best thing ever came from. I love how HuntingXChick automatically assumed her bullshit without obviously reading my first post. And how old do you think I fucking am? I know more about YOUR generation of music than you EVER will, HuntingXChick. Remember that. You just follow the masses when you discover your "new favorite band".

  • just shut the fuck up and enjoy shinedown,

    if you cant handle that go into a hole a rethink you life

    then after you have re thunk your life continue listing to shinedown

    enjoy the music without the all the dumass comments

    if thats to hard, well then, somehting is very wrong with you!!!

  • Damn im stupid first time i tryed to see this video i whas furius that the sound din't work and i checked my sound system and every thing.

    Then i sav i turned the sound on the video off .....

  • @Zpixes One time I was typing a word document and I was furious because there were red lines all over the page, and I checked my screen settings and everything, but then I saw that it was just a spell check...

  • The reply button needs to contact the authorities because it just got raped

  • Damn the woman in this video is hot

  • Went to see Shinedown in concert! was amazing!!!

  • dirty harry's favorite song

  • man i heard this song so long ago but never new who it was by so glad i now know

  • awesome

    

  • who ever hit the dislike button needs to stare down the barrel of a 45

  • uhm.. my commercial was about condoms

  • @119Dillpickle Mine was about a bloated Toyota Prius. I'd rather have the condoms.

  • 0:17 Any one else notice the outline that misspelled "America"?

  • @RiseAboveThis92 Yeah, i did now that you mention it. They spelled it with "K" instead of a "C"

  • I didn't know you could sing better without a soul.

  • whats in the box? lol

  • @Echoleskid my dick in a box

  • i wish people wouldnt say what they do or dont like about a song like just because u like it not just because someone tells u its cool if u agreed like this

  • im sad i want to cut myself goddamn go post this on facebook of twitter to people who give a fuck.

  • @completelynumb420 they just want to "show off"

  • would you people please shut the fuck up and enjoy the god dam song!!

  • SHUT THE FUCK UP EVERYBODY AND LISTEN THIS MASTERPIECE!!!

  • "No real reason to accept the way things have changed..." That's my life everyday...damn

  • Music feeds the soul, unless however you have no soul....hmmm, i do see there are are few souless people in the world..

  • music is singular in its interpretations for each one of us

  • fucking advertisements making me watch people puke and shit fuck ads idc if they make youtube free or not

  • lol amazing song.... watchin the video i notched the super derp face of teh drumer at @2:56 i still laughing XD

  • damn he can sing like a god

  • Or this isn't the life he wanted and the box figuratively speaking is holding life for some unborn child somewhere and the child might get lucky or might not.

  • @imthinking123 if i could borrow Xxhadowhawkx line and twist it for a sec i don't wanna be a song nazi but why try to understand what it means its an amazing song just listen and rape the replay button once its over when you want here's my replay button for everyone 0:00 everyone your welcome :)

  • Seems to me his girlfriend was pregnant and there was something that happened and she was in some accident with him feeling it was his fault or random chance and she miscarried and they then had the baby cremated (the box)(unborn child), and he can't get over the regret at having done whatever was done and blames himself (45). Then again I may not have a damn clue about this song , but it's still great . :)

  • @imthinking123 from what i can see you are totally right

  • swimming through the ashes of another life...... i like that

  • Brent, you're so talented and hot, but I hate your Snow White hair.

    Love you, guy!

  • The sound of Shinedown is simply amazing,

  • @S1ckMus1k Ikr it's such madness! :)

  • essa musica é das antiga em minha musica mais ainda sim apavora é muito Tesao

  • I love this song, the story behind this is sad:/. At least the one on my cd.

  • shinedown is the one of the top ten on my school

  • very good

  • Ive heard so many takes on this song guess like any other song its what it means to u.

  • I want to know what the box represents.

  • @fortinjoshua I believe and keep in mind this is what i believe, the box is supposed to represent EMOTIONS. Cause if you listen to the lyrics he speaks of the box, and its wrapped in guilt and sealed up tight. So in essence his emotions are wrapped up inside of the box where he feels guilt an wants to seal off his emotions to the world. But thats just MY take, i don't know what anybody else feels lol

  • @MysticLoveAngel in our religion class we discussed abortion very often. and the box probably refers to what the "doctors" put the baby's corpse in. more often than not the baby ends us bloody little chunks of skiing, bone, organs and is just thrown into the trash. :-<

  • @kttrack11 Oh... You're one of THOSE people...

  • @candygirl121340 yes, i am on of THOSE people. and am proud to protect babies.

  • @kttrack11 Whoever told you that is a liar, because the "baby" is like, the size of a peanut. And you say that like abortion's murder. Sometimes it's not a choice between having the kid or not, it's a choice between living and dying. Some don't have the luxury of a normal pregnancy.

  • @candygirl121340 dear candy, I am an identical twin. after i was born i did not see my sister until a week later. my family took a picture of the reuniting and my sister and i recognized each other. The fact that i knew my sister the first time ever seeing her is proof that babies are alive inside the womb. therefor the baby is not just a small blastula of cells, the baby is a human.

  • @candygirl121340

    Just to help your analytical writing skills, In the future, if you wish to make a more compelling argument, you may want to leave out the word "like" it makes you sound LIKE a you have a diminished vocabulary and cannot produce a single comprehensive thought of your own

  • @kttrack11 Hm, two things I have to say to you. First of all, I'm not denying a baby isn't human. But it doesn't become aware of anything at the time you can have an abortion. It's completely undeveloped. And it's different when something happens later in the pregnancy. But whatever, you're annoying as fuck, and I find arguing with bible-thumping idiots on youtube to be rather pointless past a second comment. And my writing is fine, thanks for asking... Asshole.

  • @candygirl121340 Let's kill you while you're on painkiller & see how you like it.

  • @Ipostle Dude, don't make a promise you can't keep.

  • @kttrack11 actually.. the babies are usually donated to science labs for stem cell research to help find cures for millions of diseases...

  • @Liizardss the only applicable uses of stem cell research to this date have all arisen from research done on adult stem cells. Adult stem cells are less diverse, they do not form spontaneous differentiation of cells as embryonic stem cells, but is an undifferentiated cell that in cases of need can only produce certain cells to heal the body. The latter cell discussed, the adult stem cell has shown more results because its easier to manipulate.

  • @kttrack11 I don't know what you are argueing about [you're argueing, right?] but this song is about feeling down and being told to be happy. That's it. You know this. Right?

  • @kttrack11 What the heck did you just say?!

  • i can read lips there she is asking why alot but i cant make out much more shes saying she hates him

  • I've always wondered if in the fight scenes they just yell a bunch of random shit at each other, because you can't hear the anyway

  • thumbs up if you love this video,warning this video way to epic.

  • some1 elses america 0:16 thats deep

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  • i love this song its my 1000000% fav song and every word i can relate

  • FUCK COMMERCIALS

    

  • ǝuoǝɯos ɥʇıʍ ǝʌol uı ɯı

  • this is one of the best songs ever metaphorically .....as so is true life !!!

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    Ⓘ ⓗⓐⓣⓔ ⓦⓗⓔⓝ ⓣⓗⓘⓢ ⓗⓐⓟⓟⓔⓝⓢ

    W̹͎̃͌̅̍̌͒͌̚T̘̼̑F̲̫̖̰̮̯̅ͭ?̸̂ͨ̽ͪ­̗̰̱̫͈͖͉ͅ

  • @paperclip12321 Your Text is upside down haha,  "Damn my Keyboard is broke again" I read it just fine :D

  • @paperclip12321 How do you do that?

  • @00madness002 speaks the truth about the interpretation of the song. Brent Smith explains it himself. You can check for yourself on songfacts. The barrell of a 45 is a metaphor used to describe the world and what it dishes out to you.

  • 2009? I thought this song was from like 2003. :\

  • @BrickChickens Does the sound quality sound like shit? No. 2009.

  • @BrickChickens I thought the same.

  • @BrickChickens 2009 is simply the copyright date for the video here on YouTube. It has no bearing on the song or video's actual creation dates

  • I dont care about anything trolls say, 45=EPIC

  • the song is not about abortion or suicide, the song is about being comfortable in your own skin and the realization that you must be happy with yourself before you can make anyone else happy.

  • @00madness002 Until this becomes a top comment idiots are still going to say... I've looked down a barrel of a gun and almost pulled the trigger... If your posting about it then your excuse for a human being because every person I know that's been close to me that's tried to kill themselves... Have... Stop being fake pp. Great post 00

  • @brandenjacobs726 poor excuse*

  • @00madness002 actually music is different for everyone. Thats what makes music so unique it gives everyone diversed opinions

  • @00madness002 is that why he says staring down the barrel of a .45