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• Written by Godsmack frontman Sully Erna, this song is a message to the band's old friends who resented the time-consuming responsibilities that came along with the group's rise to fame. "They're basically the people that don't understand that you have to tour, and there's a lot of work involved. So we're not able to call them every weekend and hang out anymore," Erna told MTV.com. "They don't realize how much work is actually involved in a 12-hour day. It takes a lot of time because you want it to be right for the fans."
• This song was used in the 2004 video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, along with "I Stand Alone." It was used (without the helicopter intro) for the game's credits. The song helped to set the more dark and desperate feeling of the second game in the series, but many fans of the games did not care for the inclusion of Godsmack's music. The third and final game of the series, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, used the original Indian-like musical score. >>>

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• This earned a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2004, but lost to "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence.
• The single, which went to #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart, proved to be a promising start to Shannon Larkin's tenure with Godsmack. The drummer told Wikimetal: "One of my favorite drum beats that I ever wrote for Smack was 'Straight Out Of Line.' And that ended up being the number one single, the number one record, and the first song I ever wrote with the band Godsmack, so that one I'm really, really proud of, and again, that's one of the most kick ass drum beats that I've ever written."
• The performance-based music video was shot in Los Angeles by Dean Karr (who also helmed the band's "Voodoo" clip). Erna explained why the band chose performing over creating a story for the visual. "The song has got good aggression, and the visuals, when the band plays it, look really good," he told MTV.com. "Sometimes it's really hard to shove a story within a four-minute video, unless you're a solo artist like Eminem or wherever, because all you have to do is cut back to him once in a while. When there are four guys in a band and you have to try to cover all of them and get a story in, sometimes you don't quite get the story in and it becomes irrelevant."
• Peaking at #73, this is Godsmack's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100.
• Faceless was the band's first album to reach #1 in the US.
• This was used in the 2003 action movie A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel.