Exit Song

Album: Screaming Bloody Murder (2011)
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  • One would have thought that much of the content of Sum 41's Screaming Bloody Murder album concerns the end of frontman Deryck Whibley's marriage to fellow Canadian music star Avril Lavigne. For instance this song sees him singing, "It's time to let you go and bow out of the game, maybe we will find the answers through the blame." However, when asked point blank by Jam! Music if such lyrics are about their breakup and divorce, Whibley remained coy. He said: "I never even thought about it - it's possible. They're just like words in my head. There was really no thought, for me anyways, especially about lyrics. This one I just didn't think about anything. Whatever came out, came out. It just came so fast. For the first time ever in my entire life I felt songwriting became really easy, whether it was good or bad, I don't know, but it just was easy all of the sudden. It is a darker, heavier record but we never talked about that."

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