Loser

Album: The Better Life (2000)
Charted: 55
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  • Breathe in right away
    Nothing seems to fill this place
    I need this every time
    So take your lies, get off my case
    Someday I will find
    A love that flows through me like this
    And this will fall away, this will fall away

    You're getting closer
    To pushing me off of life's little edge
    'Cause I'm a loser
    And sooner or later you know I'll be dead
    You're getting closer
    You're holding the rope and I'm taking the fall
    'Cause I'm a loser, I'm a loser, yeah

    This is getting old
    I can't break these chains that I hold
    My body's growing cold
    There's nothing left of this mind or my soul
    Addiction needs a pacifier, the buzz of this poison is taking me higher
    And this will fall away, this will fall away

    You're getting closer
    To pushing me off of life's little edge
    'Cause I'm a loser
    And sooner or later you know I'll be dead
    You're getting closer
    You're holding the rope and I'm taking the fall
    'Cause I'm a loser, well, I'm a loser

    You're getting closer
    To pushing me off of life's little edge (my friend)
    'Cause I'm a loser
    And sooner or later you know I'll be dead (I'll be dead)
    You're getting closer
    You're holding the rope and I'm taking the fall (taking the fall)
    'Cause I'm a loser (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
    You're getting closer
    To pushing me off of life's little edge
    'Cause I'm a loser (you're my baby)
    And sooner or later you know I'll be dead (sooner or later)
    You're getting closer
    You're holding the rope and I'm taking the fall (I'm takin')
    'Cause I'm a loser (takin', yeah) Writer/s: Bradley Kirk Arnold, Matthew Darrick Roberts, Robert Todd Harrell
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 14

  • Brandi from Bangor, Me, UsaI was fortunate enough to win tickets to meet 3 Doors Down and Daughtry here in Bangor, Maine. I only have 1 photo now thanks to Flickr deleting all of the others but I won't ever forget it. It was amazing! Thanks to The Kid and Z107.3 (WBZN-FM) for helping make it happen
  • Michael from Owingsmills , Mdits pretty hard to believe this song is pop but it is i think this song talks about all the downs in his life and he giveing up and giveing in he tired of fighting for something like 1 step forward 2 steps back never getting any where in life
  • Kayla from Oklahoma City, OkThis song is freakin' awesome... not as good as Kryptonite, but still good. I guess everyone feels like this sometime in their life...
  • Cody from Wasilla, AkTo me, this song has allusions to suicide. Example: "Nothing seems to fill this place, sooner or later you know i'll be dead, holding the rope and taking the fall". But it also references drugs.
  • Anthony from Cape May, NjReminder of some high school days, this song gives loser a very general meaning..
  • Alyssa from Houston, TxI love this song....when I first saw the music video on youtube I actually started to cry...it's a great song and it has a lot of meaning...one of my favorite songs...
  • Dale from Santa Fe, NmDefinitely the best 3 Doors Down song.
  • Faruk from Vienna, AustriaI guess everyone can sometimes relate to this song, because nobody feels perfect all the time... great song...
  • Andrew from Brunswick, Mei see myself as the guy that Arnold went to high-school with, as i am...well was very much involved in drugs and my life was heading into a downward spiral. it defintaly shined through my social skills, as i soon fell down a hole and i felt as though everyone was looking down on me, even my friends.
  • Ashley from Moncton, CanadaYes, many of us are losers, myself included! But I'm a semi-intelligent, intellectual, creative, and music, art and poetry loving loser! I'm just a loser because I don't care about anything anymore, and it's pretty okay with me. This song is probably my favourite 3 Doors Down song, probably because I don't really like them that much and I don't know many of their songs, but this song is really awesome.
  • Jacob from Houston, TxThis song is awesome I can relate 2 it so well....
  • Suki from N/a, Inlove this song, because i'm a loser a well
  • Heather from Plattsburgh, Nyme too.. not what i tought it was about though...
  • Rachel from Waurika, OkI'm a loser... You can ask all my friends they are losers too. Kidding. I like this song!
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