“Outside (live from HFStival)” by Staind

Staind's "Outside" started out as an accident. At the 1999 Family Values Tour stop in Biloxi, Mississippi, Aaron Lewis was asked to play something on his own, and at the last moment he reached for a song he'd been working on since the band's early days with an acoustic side project called J-CAT, finishing the words on stage while Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst sang backup. That live take caught fire on American rock stations by early 2001, and a studio version followed in May as the second single from Break the Cycle, the band's third album, after "It's Been Awhile".

Lewis has put its success down to chance: he'd been playing it for a long time in the acoustic sets he did to make a living back when every dollar the band made went straight back into it. This is the power ballad as caught live at HFStival.

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