Tornano i 3 Doors Down e tornano con un omonimo disco di tutto rispetto.
La band alternative rock del Mississipi capitanata dal malinconico Brad Arnold torna ad emozionare con un album che sa di maturità artistica e che per la prima volta vede una composizione omogenea nei pezzi, cioè scompare la netta divisione che era presente nei precedenti album tra le hit da classifica e i vari pezzi di riempimiento, un album completo e sentito dopo diversi anni di silenzio.
Non mancano i richiami ad Alter Bridge e Creed (ascoltare l'ottima "Train" per credere), cosi come non mancano i discreti tentativi di esplorazione nel tribale come in "Citizen/Soldier" e "She Don't Want The World", ma dopo un buon antipasto vi è presente la hit da chart "It's Not My Time", ci sono i richiami al famoso pezzo della band "When I'm Gone", ma questa volta la formula melodic rock sembra aver trovato la sua massima espressione in un pezzo che a mio avviso è tra i migliori della carriera della band d'oltreoceano.Bisogna ammettere che è un pezzo che poco incalza con il resto dell' LP ma che risulta assolutamente indispensabile per una composizione di un album fruttuoso economicamente e altamente orecchiabile.
"It's The Only One You've Got" è una ballata pop-rock ascoltabile e mielosa, probabilmente sarà singolo di lancio nel vecchio continente un pò come lo è stato "Here Without You" nel 2002, unico pezzo dei 3 Doors Down conosciuto ai più nel nostro "musicalmente acculturato" bel paese, ma non mancano i richiami al post-grunge come in "Give It To Me" la cui intro sembra ricordare "Fly Away" di Lenny Kravitz, e "Pages". Riguardo l'ispirazione post-grunge da notare come non a caso Gers Upchurch è il batterista della band dal 2005, dopo però aver suonato nei "Puddle Of Mudd" che a loro volta, dopo l'addio dello stesso, accantonarono le sonorità grunge.
Nel complesso "3 Doors Down" è un lavoro pulito e altamente apprezzabile, ci voleva un pò di varietà in più ma è forse il primo lavoro robusto e significativo del quintetto americano, senz'altro un album da classifica, ma va benissimo cosi, insomma la timidezza degli esordi sembra essere svanita per dar vita ad un maturo e sentito lavoro.
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01 Train (03:10)
Put me on a train mama
This place just aint the same no more
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin' today
I don't wanna watch the world spinnin'
I wanna be spinnin' with it
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
Cause I got the feelin' that's for sure
And to know that I can get it makes me want it more
Mama I just want you to know that I'm gonna be fine
Lord I know it's a chance that I take
But I know you'll forgive the mistakes that I've made
There's a life out there and it's gonna be mine
Put me on a train mama
Cause I can't take this pain no more
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
And there's a world that's out there waiting
And I know that it's the chance I'm takin
Put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
Cause I got the feelin' that's for sure
And to know that I can get it makes me want it more
Mama I just want you to know that I'm gonna be fine
Lord I know it's a chance that I take
But I know you'll forgive the mistakes that I've made
There's a life out there and it's gonna be mine
God knows how long I'll be gone
But maybe one day this train will bring me home
Put me on a train mama
Put me on a train mama
Oh put me on a train mama
I'm leavin today
Cause I got the fever that's for sure
And knowin' I can get it makes me want it more
Mama I just want you to know that I'm gonna be fine
Lord I know it's the chance that I take
But I know you'll forgive the mistakes that I've made
There's a life out there and it's gonna be mine
05 Pages (03:47)
What happens to a man when
He spills his heart on a page and
He watches words flow away then
His feelings lie on the page alone
There waiting
For someone who cares to read them
To open their eyes to see them
To see if they can make his thoughts their own
To find out that maybe life's not perfect
Maybe it's not worth what he gives away
You can see that his broken soul is bleeding
So you conceed your feelings inside yourself
And wander through my heart
Letting you see through me
Now only consumes me
Forget your pain, watch me fall apart
What happens to a soul when
It's trapped inside his emotions
And all of these words he's spoken
They bind him to the life he's left behind
And every new step he takes
He knows that he might not make it
To all of these dreams that he has yet to find
Maybe life's not perfect
But maybe it's not worth what he gives away
You can see that his broken soul is bleeding
So you conceed your feelings inside yourself
And wander through my heart
Letting you see through me
Now only consumes me
Forget your pain and watch me fall apart
You can see that his broken soul is bleeding
So you conceed your feelings inside yourself
And wander through my heart
Letting you see through me
Now only consumes me
Forget your pain and watch me fall apart
As I fall apart
07 Give It to Me (03:21)
It feels like something got in the way
And maybe I had something to do with it
There's not much that I can say
But there sure is something I've got to prove to you
I told you, that I'd try
And you said that I lie
Like I have something to sell
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
So come on, give it to me
Just give it to me
There's always something I wanna say
But the words won't never come out
The way I want
Maybe I see another way
Or maybe I just see somethin you don't
These stories that you tell
Now I know them a little too well
You think I'll take what I want
Oh no
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
Come on, give it to me
One more wrong will make it right
I don't wanna fight no more
I'm tired of sayin' please
This is all I need
So give me just a little bit
A little bit more
Oh, give me just a little bit more
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
Come on wait a minute
You think I've been in this
For a little while
But now come on baby, please
I've been on my knees for a long time
Come on, give it to me
One more wrong will make it right
I don't wanna fight no more
I'm tired of sayin' please
This is all I need
So give me just a little bit
A little bit more
Oh, give me just a little bit more
Give me just a little bit more
Little bit more
10 Runaway (03:24)
Do you ever think about running away
'cause i was thinkin' about leavin' today
We'll follow forever where our hearts wanna go
Maybe we'll end up somewhere where nobody knows our names
Then things might change for the good
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too long
Too long, oh no
Do you ever think about not comin' back
Hoppin' on a train and we'll burn up the tracks
We'll jump off somewhere that we don't know how to say
Maybe hitch a ride from someone who can tell us the way
To where these things might change for the good
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too
Where forever is never too long
Not with you right here by me
Maybe, maybe we'll just see
Where this road will lead for us
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too
I wanna be somewhere so far away
To lie under the night at the end of another good day
I can't tell you how long we'll be gone
But as long as we're together then forever's never too
Forever is never too long
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