Thanks to Jim Adams, for hosting Song Lyric Sunday. A short Casa Cuckoo update this week. Ben isn’t sleeping well, so I’m barely sleeping. This is his last week of school, then he’s home for three weeks. I foresee a very frazzled, very exhausted Grandma when school resumes. On with the music!

The prompt this week is mine – Illness, Injury, Scars (we all know how often I find creative ways to injure myself)

I thought about using Disturbed Down With The Sickness or the awesome cover by Richard Cheese (gotta love that name). I also thought of using Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger, but finally decided to go with my first thought. The song I chose is Under Your Scars by Godsmack, written by singer Sully Erna, from their 2018 album When Legends Rise.

The band is Sully Erna – Vocals, Rhythm guitar, Piano, Producer… Tony Rombola – Lead guitar… Robbie Merrill – Bass… Shannon Larkin – Drums… With Zvezdelina Haltakova on violin and Irina Chirkova on cello

Songfacts tells us that Godsmack achieved a career first when Under Your Scars ascended to #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart, marking the group’s third chart-topping Mainstream Rock hit from When Legends Rise, following the title track and Bulletproof. This was the first time the band scored three #1 singles from the same album.

The tune also inspired the band to launch The Scars Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides resources for issues like severe depression, addiction, bullying, PTSD, and suicide prevention.

Sully says he got the idea for the song after hanging out with his friend Stefani aka Lady Gaga. He realized that Scars are not something to hide, but something to be proud of cuz they’re reminders of things we’ve been through, both physically and emotionally/psychologically.

I’ve been a Godsmack fan since their song Voodoo was all over the radio in 1997. This song, Under Your Scars, is different from their previous work. It’s a little softer and more of a ballad, but it still has that Godsmack sound. We all have scars… I have a bazillion, both visible and invisible… and I think it’s very cool that Sully and the band started a foundation to help people.

Do we make sense? I think we do
In spite of everything that we’ve been through
Oh when you say black and I say white
It’s not about who’s wrong as long as it feels right
Don’t think those stars won’t align

Under your scars I pray
You’re like a shooting star in the rain
You’re everything that feels like home to me, yeah
Under your scars, I could live inside you time after time
If you’d only let me live inside of mine
Live inside of mine

Wish you were here right beside me
So I could watch you sleep
Hold your body closer, breathe you deep
And everything feels broken when you’re not next to me
Would you still be you if we weren’t we?

Under your scars I pray
You’re like a shooting star in the rain
You’re everything that feels like home to me, yeah
Under your scars, I could live inside you time after time
If you’d only let me live inside of mine

So hey, if you feel like coming down
If you feel like coming around
Just call my name out loud, na, na, na
Hey, if you feel like coming down
If you feel like coming around
Just call my name out loud, na, na, na, hey

Under your scars I pray
You’re like a shooting star in the rain
You’re everything that feels like home to me, yeah
Under your scars, I could live inside you time after time
If you’d only let me live inside of mine
Live inside of mine

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Are you a fan of Godsmack? What song would you chose for this prompt? Are you like me, finding creative ways to injure yourself? I once liver-punched myself on a wrought-iron fence when I randomly fell onto it. Care to share a story? Thanks for stopping by!

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HUGS!!

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