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This song was originally written, says 3DD frontman Brad Arnold, for the remake of the movie The Poseidon Adventure. Says Arnold: "It was gonna be a track on that movie. In the movie, they're just trying to escape their death. And there's a ship sinking. They showed me like a 30-second clip of the movie, and I went and wrote that song from it. And they wound up not wanting it, so I was like, Cool, we'll keep it. And that's actually the second song off a film like that. I wrote 'Let Me Go' off of Seventeen Days for Spiderman, and they didn't want it, so we kept it. I'm glad. I had no problem with it."

It's a song about "being resilient, going against the grain and going against the world when the world's trying to push you down, or take you out."

The song's music video was directed by Shaun Silva (Kenny Chesney, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson and Sugarland) and shot in Cincinnati, Ohio. It features a much heralded freerunning, acrobatic technique called 'Parkouring,' which was first discovered in the early 20th century in Africa by a French Naval officer, Georges Hébert. Though it had already appeared in various television advertisements, it was the first time this practice had been featured in a music video.

Brad cites both the varying cityscape and the lack of red tape as the band's reason for choosing Cincinnati.
Shot in three days, the band's part was finished in only one, and the other two days were spent filming Parkour freerunner Gabe Nunez as he takes a straight line through the city to rescue a woman from a would-be car crash. Brad talks about the shoot: "We shot our part in one day. But normally it's a lot harder, because normally you have a story line, but you just have one video set up that the band's just sort of performing in. But we shot six places that day, and it didn't wind up showing even all of them. But we had it easy – that guy (Nunez), all the stuff he's doing, there's no special effects, and there's no pads. I mean, all the flips and stuff, he had to do them three and four times. And those camera guys, they're like, "that dude is 35 years old, he is not gonna be walking. Because, they said, it was hard core. It makes my knees hurt just watching it." (Check out our full interview with Brad Arnold)

Parkour (sometimes called "free-running," although the latter is actually somewhat different) is a physical discipline, sometimes called a modern-day martial art, originating in France. It can be summed up as "acrobatics meets assault courses" - whereas free-running is a far more demonstrative discipline best described as a form of skateboarding which is practiced without a board. Parkour is based on general principles of survival: Should you ever need to get from Point A to Point B as fast as possible, the shortest distance is always a straight line. The goal, therefore, is to get past, over, under, or through various obstacles without wasting any time.
Parkour practitioners (called by gender-specific pronouns; a male parkour runner is a traceur, a female is a traceuse; referring to multiple parkours uses traceurs) run their environment like an obstacle course: leaping obstructions, vaulting cars, bypassing staircases, and otherwise taking wild shortcuts. Although commonly associated with cities, Parkour can be used to negotiate any type of environment. Traceurs will tell you their discipline becomes a mindset over time. They learn to unconsciously scan their surroundings for the best paths of escape. Plus, it not only looks damn cool, but just might prove to be Awesome Yet Practical.
Parkour has begun to appear more frequently in TV shows, owing to its growing popularity. Its moves are commonly employed by martial artists, notably Ninja and practitioners of She Fu. With special effects and wirework, it becomes an even more impressive feat than it already is (and is proof positive that movie producers are dedicated to Completely Missing The Point. Parkour is cool because it is real). If it's done in Slow Motion, it's more than likely a reference to The Matrix.
A realistic version of Roof Hopping - most parkour is done at or near ground level, because that's where one encounters the most obstacles.
The difference between Parkour and "Free Running" is similar to the difference between "combat" and "display" forms of various martial arts - one of the central "rules" of Parkour is that it is not a competitive sport, and emphasizes efficiency, self-discipline, and oneness with the surroundings, whereas "free-running" is based on display stunts and acrobatics that can be done in one location, just for the hell of it. ~ TV Tropes.

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4/4Time Signature
128BPM

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© 2008 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
℗ 2008 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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