Loser (3 Doors Down Song)

Loser is a song by American rock band 3 Doors Down. It is the second track and and second single from their debut album The Better Life.

Composition
Brad Arnold has said the following of the song: "‘Loser’ was about one of my buddies growing up when I was a teenager. I actually wasn’t telling him he was a loser, but me and him come from a good family – and I love my family – and he was from an equally… well, I ain’t gonna put ‘em equal with my family (laughs) but he was from a good family, too. But when we were teenagers, he got kind of mixed up in cocaine and stuff. And that song wasn’t me calling him a loser, but it was how I think he viewed himself through the cloak of that drug. It’s kind of like his own self doubt. And thankfully he’s doing a lot better now. I get a lot of people that really can identify that song with their life in some way. And I think everybody feels like that every now and then."

Lyrics
[Verse 1]

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

This will fall away

This will fall away

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

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

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

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

Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ui_Q4qBDJY

The video is of the band playing in a high school. It is intercut with scenes of students and a teacher in school. These people have problems like being bullied and what not. Then the band is playing in a venue and these guys are happy, but then it is prom and people are sad again.

Review
It is what ever. 2/5

Review
The song sounds like a second-rate Stone Temple Pilots knock off. Lyrics are nothing special. I like the breakdown in the middle. 3.3/5.