“Scars” by Papa Roach

"Scars" was the second single from Getting Away with Murder, Papa Roach's fourth album, reaching rock radio on November 1, 2004, and it's the band at its most wounded. Tobin Esperance wrote the music and plays bass and guitar, Jacoby Shaddix wrote the words and sings them, Jerry Horton adds guitar and David Buckner drums, with producer Howard Benson on keyboards and Chris Lord-Alge mixing. It crossed over, climbing to No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and finishing as the 36th most successful US single of 2005, and the band has even sung it live in Spanish.

There are two videos: a computer-animated one by Steven Murashige that fans and the band disliked, and a Motion Theory remake with Taylor Cole as Shaddix's hard-partying girlfriend, who passes out drunk at his place and, leaving the next morning, sets his house on fire with a toppled candle.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.