“Away From The Sun” by 3 Doors Down

"Away From the Sun" is the title track of 3 Doors Down's second album, from 2002, and it became the record's fourth and last single in January 2004. Brad Arnold, who wrote it with Todd Harrell, Chris Henderson and Matt Roberts, has said it looks back on a stretch of two or three years when he kept ending up in the same hole, and every time he started climbing out, somebody shoved him back down. The video makes it literal, with a kid who keeps landing at the bottom.

Rick Parashar produced, and the band goes big and brooding: Henderson and Roberts on guitars, Harrell on bass, Josh Freese on drums, Rick Hopkins on Hammond organ and David Campbell's strings swelling behind Arnold's vocal. Randy Staub mixed it.

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