Three Days Grace

Released: June 12, 2012

Songwriter: Brad Walst Neil Sanderson Adam Gontier Don Gilmore Chris Tompkins Barry Stock

Producer: Don Gilmore

[Verse 1]
I told you I was hurt, bleeding on the inside
I told you I was lost in the middle of my life

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s times I stayed alive for you
There’s times I would’ve died for you
There’s times it didn’t matter at all

[Chorus]
Will you help me find the right way up
Or let me take the wrong way down
Will you straighten me out
Or make me take the long way around
I took a low road in
I’ll take the high road out
I’ll do whatever it takes to be the mistake you can’t live without

[Verse 2]
Standing in the dark I can see your shadow
You’re the only light that’s breaking through the window

[Pre-Chorus]
There’s times I stayed alive for you
There’s times I would’ve died for you
There’s times it didn’t matter at all

[Chorus]
Will you help me find the right way up
Or let me take the wrong way down
Will you straighten me out
Or make me take the long way around
I took a low road in
I’ll take the high road out
I’ll do whatever it takes to be the mistake you can’t live without

[Bridge]
I’m not gonna give it away, not gonna let it go
Just to wake up someday gone, gone
The worst part is looking back and knowing that I was wrong

[Chorus]
Help me find the right way up
Or let me take the wrong way down
Will you straighten me out
Or make me take the long way around
I took a low road in, I’ll take the high road out
I’ll do whatever it takes to be the mistake you can’t live without
I’ll do whatever it takes to be the mistake you can’t live without

Three Days Grace is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 1997 and now based in Toronto. Consisting of lead vocalist Matt Walst, lead guitarist Barry Stock, drummer Neil Sanderson, and bassist Brad Walst, the band is best known for their metal-influenced, hard rock sound and clever songwriting.

TDG grew out of Groundswell, a five-member high-school band founded in 1992. With Adam Gontier as lead vocalist, Neil Sanderson as drummer, Brad Walst as bassist, Phil Crowe as lead guitarist, and Joe Grant as rhythm guitarist, Groundswell released one album, Wave of Popular Feeling in 1995. That same year, the band broke up, and it was not until 1997 that Adam Gontier, Neil Sanderson, and Brad Walst got together as “Three Days Grace”.

Working with local producer Gavin Brown, the trio re-worked a number of their past songs and compiled a demo album. After handing it to EMI Music Publishing Canada, TDG produced their smash single “I Hate Everything About You”, which would be released in 2003 alongside their eponymous debut album Three Days Grace through American label Jive Records.

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