Yeah, they sent a treatment over, and this was how it went: "And I'm, swimming through the ," and I said, "No. It was never censored on other music video channels or radio although it had in the chorus, "I've been staring down the barrel of a gun" it caused no controversy and MTV had no concern. MTV had broadcast without editing, in heavy rotation and during daytime hours, Depeche Mode's 1997 music video for the song " Barrel of a Gun". Though the edited version of the video was aired a few times without the artists' consent, the song was eventually pulled from the airwaves. Smith believed that if they did not wish to play the song as it was written, they should never have broadcast it. Singer Brent Smith felt the editing blurred the message of the song and MTV was hypocritical since they had played other unedited videos. 45" and "ashes of another life" were removed from the chorus and the title card of the video referred to the song by the MTV-originated title "Staring Down." The band requested that the music video for "45" be removed from MTV broadcast because the lyrics "the barrel of a. So that’s really where it comes from, it’s about moving on, really.
That’s where the whole, “Nobody knows what I believe,” because we’re all individuals. And it’s basically about understanding that it’s not always going to be good, but you really have no one to blame for yourself if you don’t move forward. It’s about overcoming and about moving forward.
And you come from a dark place sometimes, and that’s really the reality of the song.
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A lot of different people, when I’ve talked about it, they said, “Do you really honestly mean that?” And I’m like, “Well, yeah.” Because I’ve been in that situation where I didn’t know if I wanted to continue going on and I didn’t know how to necessarily make myself comfortable with who I was, trying to find a way of learning more about myself. When you get up, it’s a gift to be alive to begin with. 45 is actually the world and what it hands you every day of your life. And basically, the 45 isn’t an actual literal term for a gun, I used it as a metaphor for the world, the. The inspiration from the song really came from – I think a lot of people kinda take a literal sense because of the lyrics – but the song is basically about the day that you wake up and you look at yourself in the mirror and you finally decide that you want to try to become comfortable in your own skin, and realize that you’re gonna have to make yourself happy before you’re going to make anyone else happy.
Brent Smith (the lead singer and songwriter) has stated in an interview:
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