Devour

Shinedown frontman Brent Smith wrote this angry putdown of America's nation-building foreign policy after the band performed for the troops in Iraq during the Gulf War in 2006. He was in full support of the soldiers, but frustrated at what was expected of them by political leaders. "These men and women put their lives on the line every single day," Smith told Always Acoustic. "They're on the front line and they're extraordinary. The frustration I endured with this was that by talking to all of these individuals and these soldiers, you hear so many stories. I can recall one soldier that I talked to that had been there on his third tour of duty. And you have to understand a lot of these soldiers are over there because they want to be over there because they want to make sure their families are safe, our country is safe and we don't have another attack. The fact is, like one soldier had told me, he'd been there so long that he had a 3-year-old daughter that he had never even physically seen, and this was mind altering to me. The fact was, when I got home this song came to me out of pure frustration as to why there is no answer to bring these men and women home."

After road testing four new songs on a short run of dates the Florida foursome finally chose this to be the opening single off the album. The other tracks they tested were "Sound of Madness," "The Crow and the Butterfly," and "Second Chance."

This was the theme song for the WWE's June 2008 pay per view event Night of Champions.