Smack

Unveiling the Raw Emotions: Decoding 'Smack' by 3 Doors Down
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Lyrics

Rubber headed motor junky,

The person being addressed is compared to someone obsessed with reckless behavior, likened to someone addicted to a motorized lifestyle.

Run me down and try to stomp me.

There's a feeling of being targeted and deliberately harmed by the person mentioned in line 1.

Throw my life away and I'll be worthless just like you.

A sense of worthlessness is projected onto the listener if they continue down a destructive path, mirroring the speaker's perception of someone else's life.

Somewhere now a baby's crying,

Illustrates a poignant scenario of a baby crying, hinting at the consequences of someone's actions affecting innocent lives.

Down the road his mother's dying

Expands on the scenario, mentioning the mother's imminent death possibly due to drug abuse and its tragic impact on her child.

Shot a line and blew her mind and now she's turning blue.

Implies a drug overdose causing the mother's distressing state and potential fatality, portraying the grim outcome of substance abuse.


Don't you throw your life away

An urging plea to reconsider self-destructive actions and to wait for a better moment rather than giving up.

Just wait until another day.

Reiterating the advice to postpone any self-sabotaging decisions for a future time.

Don't you throw your life away

A repetition emphasizing the importance of preserving one's life and not succumbing to despair or destructive choices.

Cause baby I can feel it.

The speaker empathizes with the listener's struggle and senses a critical point where decisions might impact their life profoundly.

Don't you ever compromise it.

A strong encouragement to not settle for less or jeopardize one's values or well-being.

Don't you even realize it?

A rhetorical question questioning the listener's awareness of the potential consequences of their actions.

Don't you throw your life away cause baby I can feel it now.

Reiterating the urgency to avoid throwing away life due to the speaker's strong intuition about its value.


Trip and fall,

Addressing a collective group, indicating a possible loss of balance or control leading to a fall or failure.

I'm sure you all can tell me

A request for assistance or understanding about a situation that's visible or apparent.

What is on the wall

Refers to a location associated with substance abuse and its visible consequences.

Behind the liquor store where you get smacked up all the time.

Describes a destructive routine and lifestyle involving drug abuse, leading to a loss of control and repeated negative experiences.

Perfect little life you wasted, overdosed and that death you tasted.

Expresses regret over a life once promising but ruined by substance abuse, leading to an overdose and an encounter with mortality.

Scared you back into yourself, and now you walk the line

The experience of fear or shock causing a retreat into oneself, resulting in adherence to societal norms or rules.


Don't you throw your life away

Reiteration of the earlier advice to not give up life and to wait for a better moment.

Just wait until another day

Emphasizes the importance of delaying drastic decisions, urging patience.

Don't you throw your life away cause baby I can feel it.

Reaffirms the speaker's conviction that life should not be wasted, echoing the sentiment from earlier in the song.

Don't you ever compromise it

A strong insistence on not compromising or settling for less when it comes to one's life and decisions.

Don't you even realize it

Questioning the listener's awareness again, challenging them to recognize the gravity of their choices.

Don't you throw your life away cause baby I can feel it now.

Reiterating the urgency to preserve life, grounded in the speaker's intuition about its significance.


Life away

A stark repetition emphasizing the concept of wasting life or letting it slip away.

Life away

Life away

Final repetition, reinforcing the idea of life being squandered or lost due to reckless actions.

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