Never Too Late By Adam Gontier
Growing up I was raised on classical rock and alternative rock music with a little bit of rock and Eminem sprinkled here and there. It seems rock has been the only one to really stick with me. My favorite band has been Three Days Grace for as long as I can remember and it is mostly their music I turn to in times of distress.”Never Too Late” has been and always will be my favorite song by them. It helped me overcome a dark time in my life.
The singer Adam Gontier developed an addiction to the prescription drug OxyContin In 2005. When he was in rehab he wrote the song"Never Too Late" about becoming sober. In the beginning of the song he says, “This world will never be what I expected, And if I don't belong who would have guessed it?” To me this was the opening that really made me feel connected. I was in middle school struggling to fit in and I never really felt that I belonged there. It was good to know I was not the only one who …show more content…
I had been self harming years prior to the experience but what he said pushed me to my breaking point. He said that nobody would ever like or love me with cuts and scars scattered along my body and that I was a freak. I figured he must have been right and I tried to take own life that night.
In the first verse of the chorus Gontier says, “Even if I say it'll be alright, still I hear you say you want to end your life” That is how I felt when my attempt did not work. I felt useless because I could not do anything right. The second verse of the chorus is what got me through it, he says, “Now and again we try to just stay alive”. I figured thats is all that I could really do at this point. I struggled through each day as I lazily passed from class to class in a hazy dream like state. After school I would go home and fight myself not to pick up the blade again, I often lost that
The singer Adam Gontier developed an addiction to the prescription drug OxyContin In 2005. When he was in rehab he wrote the song"Never Too Late" about becoming sober. In the beginning of the song he says, “This world will never be what I expected, And if I don't belong who would have guessed it?” To me this was the opening that really made me feel connected. I was in middle school struggling to fit in and I never really felt that I belonged there. It was good to know I was not the only one who …show more content…
I had been self harming years prior to the experience but what he said pushed me to my breaking point. He said that nobody would ever like or love me with cuts and scars scattered along my body and that I was a freak. I figured he must have been right and I tried to take own life that night.
In the first verse of the chorus Gontier says, “Even if I say it'll be alright, still I hear you say you want to end your life” That is how I felt when my attempt did not work. I felt useless because I could not do anything right. The second verse of the chorus is what got me through it, he says, “Now and again we try to just stay alive”. I figured thats is all that I could really do at this point. I struggled through each day as I lazily passed from class to class in a hazy dream like state. After school I would go home and fight myself not to pick up the blade again, I often lost that