Can’t Take Back (Commentary)

I am sitting in Aaron Lewis' backyard, not by myself. I'm actually

Here with Aaron, and we're going through his brand new album State

I'm In, getting the answers that only he can give us about each

Song. So, the next song that I wanna talk about is "Can't Take Back

" And I think that you and I have talked about in the past that a

Lot of Staind songs could've been country songs with a different

Instrumentation and a different production and arrangement, and

To me, this was one of the more aggressive songs vocally on this

Album compared to where you, your voice sat with some of the other

Ones, and I almost felt like if Staind music and Hank Jr. had a

Baby, it would be "Can't Take Back." Am I wrong? Is that way off?

Well, what's interesting about that is that that was until I came into

The scenario and into the picture with that not being one of the

Songs that I fully wrote (Okay), it was already a song (Mm), and

I was interested in that song. Dan Tyminski and Ira Dean wrote that

Song together, and what's funny is that the aggressive thing is me

Going after Dan Tyminski's very easily sung vocal lines (Hm), and

Me having to go after them because it wasn't so easy for me to sing

Those (Okay) just effortless vocals that he puts out there. So, yeah

That was me just trying to get it. Well, I felt like you were going

After it. I mean, it, it, 'cause a lot of your, your songs I feel

Like your, your voice kinda just lays in this pocket, and it's very

Kinda, you know, old style country, sorta laid back, and with this

One, I felt a little bit more angst, a little bit more energy. Well

And one of the things that I did with this song that was key to

Making it fit and work with the rest of the record was when I first

Heard it, it was "You're the last cuss word that cuts like a

Razor, you're the first sip of sin from an old brown sack,"

And I was like "Uh-uh, I, I'm the last," you know, and that

Changed the song quite drastically (Mm), and my thought process

Is it's always better to point the finger at yourself in a

Song than it is to point it at somebody else. Well, I mean

You do seem to be taking a lot of, I don't know if I wanna call

It credit or blame in all of these songs, and sort of owning

Both fits. Yeah, so, it makes sense to me that you would wanna

Rearrange it that way based on the whole body of work and

Where these songs seem to be coming from perspective-wise

So I say now that you know Aaron's take on the song and

My two cents, I say let's go ahead and play "Can't Take

Back." This is new from Aaron Lewis on Big Machine Radio