“Chalk Outline” by Three Days Grace

Canada's Three Days Grace opened the Transit of Venus chapter in 2012 with "Chalk Outline", the first single from their fourth album, teasing fans with snippets before its August 14 release. It's a song about being cast aside. Drummer Neil Sanderson said it's about getting shoved out of the way by the people closest to you, and about a society that moves too quickly for everyone to keep a place in it.

Adam Gontier, Barry Stock and Craig Wiseman wrote it, Don Gilmore produced it at Revolution Studios in Toronto, and Chris Lord-Alge mixed it for RCA. Rock radio clung to it: the song sat at No. 1 on the US Active Rock chart for 10 weeks, won Loudwire's Rock Song of the Year, and Billboard later slotted it 8th on its all-time mainstream rock songs list.

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