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Slow Suicide

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Released
  
October 8, 2013

Recorded
  
2013

Label
  
Wind-Up Records

Format
  
Digital download

Length
  
3:29

Genre
  
Alternative metal, post-grunge, Christian rock

"Slow Suicide" is a song by Scott Stapp and the first single from his second album Proof of Life, released in 2013, and Stapp's first single since "Surround Me" in 2006.

Background

He told Wind-Up Newsletter about the song: "I've always been heavy on metaphor and symbols, even to where I might hide behind fanciful language. Howard [Benson] helped me get straight to the point. The point is that for years I was slowly killing myself. Drugs and booze want to kill you instantly, but they’re patient and will take their time. The same is true of toxic relationships. I had to start off this story by declaring the most obvious of truths: that I had been torturing and poisoning myself in an attempt to snuff out my soul." "So many days I choose to suffer, living a lie," the lyrics say. "So many ways I chose to die."

References

Slow Suicide Wikipedia


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