Band name:Godsmack
In February of 1995, after being behind the drums for more than 23 years, Sully Erna decided to start a new band. It was only a matter of time before he realized he needed to take charge and step out from behind the kit to front the band himself.
One year and a couple of member changes later Godsmack was born. Sully Erna, Robbie Merrill and Tony Rombola hit the studio and recorded their first CD titled ALL WOUND UP. They did this over one weekend for a measly twenty six-hundred dollars.
Over the next two years, the band played throughout the Boston scene with drummer Joe Darco and began earning a strong reputation of being a great live band. The noise they were making in the New England area created a snowball effect like no other.
Godsmack began drawing in bigger and bigger audiences to their live shows. Their CD began circulating through the streets of Boston and eventually landed in the hands of a DJ for WAAF, a Boston radio station. WAAF put "Keep Away" into heavy rotation and it quickly soared to the #1 spot at the station. Newbury Comics, a New England record store chain, agreed to sell the CD on consignment and the grind continued.
Shortly after the success of "Keep Away" Godsmack went back into the studio and recorded a single titled "Whatever", which became the new local favorite on WAAF. It took off in the blink of an eye and the race was on.
As a result of the single doing so well, Godsmack's CD began selling hundreds of copies per week, and soon escalated to more than one thousand copies per week, becoming the second best selling CD in that chain of stores. Godsmack's live shows began selling out throughout New England, which in return created more requests for their music on the local radio stations and more CD sales. On and on it went until the summer of 1998 when Republic/Universal stepped up and signed the band to their label.
Joe Darco was soon replaced by Tommy Stewart, ALL WOUND UP was re-mastered and the artwork was changed. The finished self-titled debut CD GODSMACK hit the shelves 6 weeks later.
Godsmack hit the road on their first headlining tour, "The Voodoo Tour". The bands strong live performances, coupled with high record sales and growing number of fans, landed them time slots on Ozzfest 1999 and 2000, a European tour with Black Sabbath and an appearance at Woodstock 1999.
In 2000 Godsmack released their second CD, AWAKE. This album's title track dominated rock radio and broke chart records throughout 2000 and 2001. The CD's instrumental track "Vampires" earned the band its first Grammy nomination.
Godsmack toured AWAKE selling out arenas and outdoor venues nationwide. They gave their fans their moneys worth with a gothic stage, video and pyro; lots of pyro!
In 2002, Sully was asked to A&R the soundtrack for the motion picture "The Scorpion King", the third installment in the Mummy saga. The song Godsmack wrote and performed lived up to its title: "I Stand Alone" became the No. 1 single at Rock Radio and the most played Active Rock song in 2002 for 14 weeks straight.
After spending over four years on the road the band decided to take a break before heading back into the studio. It was during this break that Shannon Larkin, a friend of Sully's for 15 years, formerly of Wrathchild America, AMEN and Ugly Kid Joe, was asked to replace Tommy Stewart.
The new line up headed to Miami to write and record the bands third CD. FACELESS was released in April of 2003 and became the #1 selling record in America of that week. FACELESS also brought another tour that ran 23 months strong inlcuding two more Grammy nominations for "I Stand Alone" and an 11 month international arena tour with the kings of metal, Metallica!!
In March of 2004, Godsmack released their first acoustic EP, THE OTHER SIDE which included new versions of previous hits like "Keep Away", "Re-Align" and a haunting new version of the Navy's recruit song, "Awake"!
This also spawned a side tour of its own. Godsmack filled in breaks from the big stage with Metallica with intimate storytelling acoustic shows giving their fans the explanation behind the title, "The Other Side".
With rich velvet curtains, stone gargoyles and strings of Christmas lights illuminating theatres around the country, fans had a whole new experience of the true talents of this unique foursome. Stripped down to nothing, Godsmack continued to deliver one of the best acoustic performances of our time.
Godsmack ended 2004, and two CD cycles, with a nostalgic New Years Eve performance at the Hard Rock Café, in Orlando Florida.
During this amazing three hour performance, Godsmack rolled through just about every song in their catalog and a few well known cover songs.
Stay tuned for Godsmack IV!!
Album Name:
Godsmack(1997)
Songs:
Moon baby:
Let's take a blast to the moon, baby.
(I'll sit around wishing you well).
How I'm craving you, yeah.
Every time I'm near you
(I always wanna swallow you down).
I'll be right here if you need me.
"In my life, I'll need you here.
Don't ask why I'll never disappear.
Why is it every day
That I feel the pain?
Oh yeah..."
Let's take a trip to the stars far away.
Where were you when I was down?
Staring into the dead (dead).
My pain is caused by my pleasure
(and my soulmate lives in your body).
I can't get you out of my head,
It never goes away!
"In my life, I'll need you here.
Don't ask why I'll never disappear.
In your eyes, you can bid me farewell.
Don't ever try to understand the situation!
Why is it every day
That I feel the pain?
(it always comes when I least expect it,
when I'm looking for love
always seem to be regretting it.)
Why is it every day
That I feel the pain?
Oh yeah..."
Power to the pain...
Whatever:
And I wonder
Day to day
I don't like you
anyway.
And I don't need your
shit today,
you're pathetic
in your own way.
"I feel for you...
Better fuckin go away
I will be here...
better fuckin go away!"
I'm doing the best I ever did
I'm doing the best that I can
I'm doing the best I ever did...
I don't need to
fantasize.
You are my pet
all the time.
I don't mind if
you go blind.
You get what you get
until you're through with mine!
"I feel for you...
Better fuckin go away
I will be here...
You better go away!"
"I feel for you...
Better fuckin go away
I will be here...
You better go away!"
I'm doing the best I ever did
I'm doing the best that I can
I'm doing the best I ever did
Now go away!
[repeat 4 times]
I'm doing the best I ever did
[go away].
I'm doing the best that I can...
Keep Away:
Sickness spillin' thru your eyes.
Cravin' everything that you thought was alive.
Stab me in my heart again.
Oh yeah.
Drag me through your wasted life, are you forever dead?
"Do like I told you,
Stay away from me.
Never misunderstand me,
Keep away from me."
Twisting everything around that, you say..."Yeah!".
Smack me in my mouth 200 times every other day.
Rag me, I don't hear you anymore, not yet.
Find out what it means to me, I don't know who you are
[repeat chorus twice]
[solo]
Draggin on so lonely,
Aren't you tired, baby? Yeah.
Breathing life into your lungs,
Are you immune to me?
[repeat chorus twice]
Keep away from me... Yeah...
Never misunderstand me...
Never misunderstand me...
Never misunderstand me...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Timebomb:
T i m e b o m b
I am in a living hell, makes me wonder if I'm alive.
Can't seem to bring myself to figure out why.
And I shove, and I pull away from the things I call you every night.
I can't seem to break you down, but I know I'll come around.
"I feel your pins,
Through my eyes,
Piercing me..."
Lie down in all this piss, you drink it from me every day.
I live in a world of shit, been left here to die.
Sometimes I realize my mind was meant to go away.
Never have I seen your god, so why should I believe in faith?
Another time bomb...
[repeat chorus]
[repeat 1st verse]
[repeat chorus]
I never find the time to find another fuckin' place,
I'm a bad motherfucker who lives it every day.
You never look at me now, you never look me in the face.
I'm a timebomb, timebomb, baby.
I can't find the time to find a place
I'm a bad motherfucker who lives it every day.
You never look at me now, you never look me in the face.
I'm a timebomb, timebomb, yeah.
What am I waiting for?
[repeat 4th verse]
Timebomb...
Timebomb, timebomb, timebomb, timebomb...
Bad Religion:
Get Back!
Can you feel I'm not like you anymore?
I can't see, I can't breathe!
See you quiver like the dogs on the streets.
Looking down on as I beat you.
"It's a bad religion
From a broken nation.
It's a contradiction..."
And I can't take it anymore, Yeah!
Who's to say I won't like you anyway?
Take a deep breath, I'm alive.
Can you feel me? I'm alive inside you.
Agony creeps up behind you.
[repeat chorus]
And I can't take it any fuckin' way!
[repeat chorus]
Can you feel it?
I've gotta live with it every day.
And I can't take the pressure,
I'm goin' insane. Now go away!
Go away!
Immune:
Patience... is how I'm living today,
I lie before you, stressing me out again.
My life is twisted... twisted like your own brains.
I can't accept that, I can't accaept that again.
"Yeah, face it.
No, try it.
Yeah, immune to what you are."
A superstition... jinxing me like the black cat inside you.
It's only what I crave.
A system breakdown...
Can you remember your name?
Did you forget you?
Did you forget your identity?
[repeat chorus twice]
What's the matter with your own ways?
(What's the matter with your own ways)
Why are you freakin' me out again?
What's the matter with your own mind?
(What's the matter with your own mind)
You can't be yourself anymore when you're suckin' out my life from under me.
[repeat chorus twice]
[solo]
Face it...
Face it...
yeah, face it...
yeah, try-y-y-y-y-y...
[solo]
Someone in London(instrumental)
Get up,Get out:
Why are you laughing as if you're my friend?
I'm gonna slap you again, and again, and again.
Oooh, I like you better when you go away!
"Gotta get up,
Gotta get out.
You gotta get up,
Yeah, you gotta go away!
Gotta get up,
Gotta get out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
You were the love of my life for a day, yeah.
And I kinda thought that you feel the same way...
No way!
Oooh, I like you better when...
Oooh, I like you better when you go away!
[repeat chorus 2 1/2 times]
[Solo]
Consider you a figment of my imagination,
But will you ever go away?
[repeat chorus 4 times]
Now or Never:
Can't remember my name,
Can't remember at all.
Finding you from past times, I think...
How did we ever fall? Yeah...
Never knowing the answers.
Calling myself names.
Now is not the question for us.
Will ever be again?
Why don't you just fly,
Fly to me!
And how long,
How long will you wait for me?
Never?
"Now or never again!
(Repeat)"
Feel me up inside you,
How you quiver and shake.
Can I rape you back to my life?
Will you trust me again?
Now or never...
And I'll never let you down,
So fly to me!
And how long,
How long can I wait?
Why don't you just fly,
Fly to me!
And how long,
How long will you wait for me?
Never?
[repeat chorus]
Never, never, never...
Now or never...
Never again.
[repeat]
Fly, fly, fly, fly...
Fly, fly, fly, yeah!
[solo]
Why don't you just fly,
Fly to me!
And how long,
How long will you wait for me?
Now or never, never again
[repeat 4 times]
Stress:
You think your head's achin?
I'm not finished yet.
I won't be mistaken,
How soon you forget.
Take back what you said,
And I'll show you pain.
Then you can spare me all your fuckin' lies!
"I can't wait...
I can't wait
To get away!"
And I ask you 20 more times,
Don't you hear a thing?
You're testing my patience again,
Careful for your sake!
Take a walk with me there,
And I'll show you pain.
But who said you can open up your mouth?
[repeat chorus]
Sometimes I just feel like I need to get away.
A place where I can be by myself, all alone.
I kinda lay down in the back yard,
Watch the leaves fall down on my face.
It helps me become sane again.
Thoughts are pissed away, and for a minute I couldn't swallow.
I try to go away(?)
to see if I still have my head(?)
"Can I remember what I did,
Did it matter?".
Thoughts are pissed away, and for a minute I couldn't swallow.
If you think that I'm the one who'll be here come tomorrow.
You took me in.
In time...
I'll be here.
Not waiting, not waiting for you anymore.
I love you... I love you anyway.
Is it so rare, that I've been sleeping with the dead?
Situation:
Lying in my sweat, drying my tears.
Waiting for you, I am.
Making me feel like I don't care... I Don't care!
Yeah...
"This situation
In my head, head, head.
Will this situation
Never end?"
How can I feel if I can't breathe?
What once had will never be again.
Yeah...
[Repeat chorus]
And I cannot take it anymore!
I really like what you can give me,
But I don't know where I'm standing right now, not yet.
And I really think that you can hear me,
Why you're not turning this around,
I'll never know, I'll never know, I said I'll never know!
Never, never, never...
No, yeah, yeah, yeah...
[Solo]
This situation...
This situation...
This situation...
Yeah.
Voodoo:
"I'm not the one who's so far away
When I feel the snake bit enter my veins.
Never did I wanna be here again,
And I don't remember why I came."
Candles raise my desire,
Why I'm so far away.
No more meaning to my life,
No more reason to stay.
Freezing, feeling,
Breathe in, breathe in...
I'm coming back again...
[repeat chorus]
Hazing clouds rain on my head,
Empty thoughts fill my ears.
Find my shade by the moonlight,
Why my thoughts aren't so clear.
Demons dreaming,
Breathe in, breathe in...
I'm coming back again...
[repeat chorus 4 times]
Voodoo, voodoo, voodoo, voodoo.
[repeat]
[So far away...
I'm not the one who's so far away...
I'm not the one who's so far away...
I'm not the one who's so far away...]
Album Name:
Awake(2000)
Songs:
Sick of Life:
Paralyzed.
Nothing's getting through to me.
Hypnotized from all my surroundings.
I wanna be something I could never be.
I wanna say things that I could never say.
Yeah, I'm gonna do it again!
Sick of my life.
I'm tired of everything in my life.
Dragged down.
Rubbing my face in the ground.
No time for the undecided.
I wanna know why I've always felt alone.
And I wanna love.
Why am I untouchable?
Yeah, I'm gonna do it again!
Sick of my life.
I'm tired of everything in my life.
I never wanted to be sick of my life.
I'm tired of everything in my life.
Awake:
Yeah!
Wait another minute.
Can't you see what this pain has fucking done to me?
I'm alive and still kickin'.
What you see I can't see...
and maybe you'll think before you speak.
"I'm alive for you.
I'm awake because of you.
I'm alive, I told you.
I'm awake swallowing you."
Yeah!
Take another second.
Turn your back on me...
and make believe that you're always happy.
It's safe to say you're never alive.
A big part of you has died.
And by the way...
I hope you're satisfied.
"I'm alive for you.
I'm awake because of you.
I'm alive, I told you.
I'm awake ..."
Go!
Tearing it back unveiling me.
Taking a step back so I can breathe.
Hear the silence about to break.
Fear resistance when I'm awake.
Tearing it back unveiling me.
Taking a step back so I can breathe.
Hear the silence about to break.
Fear resistance when I'm awake.
Oh, yeah!
"I'm alive for you.
I'm awake because of you.
I'm alive, I told you.
I'm awake swallowing you."
"I'm alive for you.
I'm awake because of you.
I'm alive, I told you.
I'm awake swallowing you."
Greed:
Two faced!
I feel you crawling under my skin.
Sickened by your face.
By the way...
To think that your so fucking kind?
...You ain't!
Hard to find how I feel...
Especially when your smothering me.
Hard to find how I feel...
Please someone help me!
I knew when an angel whispered into my ear...
"You gotta get him away."
Hey little bitch!
Be glad you finally walked away...
Or you may have not lived another day.
Hard to find how I feel...
Especially when your smothering me.
Hard to find how I feel...
Please someone help me.
Hard to find how I feel...
Controlling me every step of the way.
Hard to find how I feel...
You greedy little baby!!
Bad Magick:
Does it feel so bad when you're taking a drag
And when you're looking at the world with dying eyes?
When you stare at it dead and you're giving it head
...and all those things you say you love never come alive.Oh yeah.
"If it feels so bad...
Bad magick playing off of me.
Feels so bad...
Oh no, I don't wanna be your friend.
Feels so bad...
Bad magick laying into me.
Feels so bad...
Oh no...
I don't wanna hear it again."
When you get so high that you're wanting to die
...but everything around you is turning green.
When you're getting so low
...and I know you've been feeling like a dried out leaf in a summer breeze.
I don't like it!
"If it feels so bad...
Bad magick playing off of me.
Feels so bad...
Oh no, I don't wanna be your friend.
Feels so bad...
Bad magick laying into me.
Feels so bad...
Oh no...
I don't wanna hear it again."
Yeah..
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Yeah..
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
When I..
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Yeah..
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Yeah!
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Yeah!
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back, bitch
Oh, Yeah! Back, back,
Back on track
Get off of my back
Getting back
Back on track
Get off of my back
Yeah!
Goin Down:
I see the world it's going 'round
Seems to me it's upside down
Lookin' for something to say
I feel a little different anyway "yeah"
Does it make much sense to you?
Doing all those things you do
Making sure that I'm all right
Yeah I'm fine!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, goin' down!
I see the world it's goin' round
Seems to me it's upside down
Looking for something to say
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, goin' down!
I've been feeling I'm going down.
Mistakes:
No, I don't feel a thing.
Life's going by me.
And still I say, Oh God!
I'm making the same mistakes.
Low?
I'm on empty.
Try to erase all the bad times.
Free?
I don't seem to be.
My soul remains tied to your life.
Every breath you breathe deep...
I feel you circulating through me.
I'll never forgive myself again.
I'm so sick and tired of making the same mistakes.
Trippin:
Living a different way.
You can't expect me to be the same.
Separating our lives and wondering why.
Face down I walk away.
Every time I think I do the right thing...
You turn your back on me.
Trippin' into a world that never seems too far away.
Too much time...
Too many wasted days.
How can you be this way?
Now I'm alone and cold today.
I'm walking dead man's drive.
Reaching out for my life.
I've been known to fuck up everything.
In this skin there's a broken man.
Trippin' into a world that never seems too far away.
Too much time...
Too many wasted days.
Just another vision in my world!
Forgive me:
There's nothing to me now.
An empty shell unfolded.
How, when we learn to pray inside our demons are laughing.
How long will this go on?
Are we a bit much stronger?
Do you think you can save me from living this way?
I don't know how to love.
I just know how to live.
All I feel is hate.
Will you forgive me?
For all those things I've done, they keep on creeping by me.
And though we've changed our ways...
Still all our demons are laughing.
How long will this go on?
Aren't we a bit much stronger?
I'd like to think you've came into my life to stay.
I don't know how to love.
I just know how to live.
All I feel is hate.
Will you forgive me?
I don't know how to breathe with you too far away.
Don't know how to love.
Will you forgive me?
No, I can't live this way!
I don't know how to love.
I just know how to live.
All I feel is pain.
Will you forgive me?
I don't know how to breathe with you too far away.
I don't know how to love.
Past lives I've lived.
Uncontrolled but sacred.
You've finally seen all that's left of me.
So hard to see.
So hard to breathe.
Will you forgive me?
Vampires(instrumental)
The Journey(instrumental)
Spiral:
Sometimes we only live for the here and now.
Sometimes we're lonely.
Sometimes we feel we need a place to be grounded...
or fly away again.
I will fly away again.
I feel rain pouring down.
I wait to rot away.
Live again.
Here forever.
The spiral never ends.
Why are we feeling something's familiar around us?
Are we just dreaming?
Always we search for the answers but nothing is found.
We fly away again.
I will fly away again.
Album Name:
Faceless(2003)
Songs:
1.Straight out of line
2.Faceless
3.Changes
4.Make me believe
5.I stand alone(личен фаворит

)
6.Realign
7.I fucking hate you
8.Releasing the demons
9.Dead and Broken
10.I am
11.The Awekaning
12.Serenity
Official site-
http://www.godsmack.com/
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