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"Scars"
Single by Papa Roach
from the album Getting Away with Murder
Released	July 19, 2005
Format	CD
Recorded	2004
Genre	Alternative rock; Power ballad
Length	3:28
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Jacoby Shaddix, Tobin Esperance
Producer	Howard Benson
Certification	Gold (RIAA)
Papa Roach singles chronology

"Scars" is the second single from the rock band Papa Roach's third major-label album (and fourth album overall), Getting Away with Murder, and seventh released single in total. "Scars" is considered to be the band's comeback single, despite being unlike their usual work. It is their biggest hit, peaking at #15 in the U.S. The single was certified gold (500 000 units sold) on June 6, 2005. The song, according the band's video album Papa Roach: Live & Murderous in Chicago tells the story of Jacoby Shaddix's "Horrible night in Vegas that changed my life." During live performances before playing the song Shaddix often talks about how "the song saved his life".

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Chart (2005)	Peak Position
German Singles Chart	82
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	15
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks	31
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	4
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	8

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#	Title	Length
1.	"Scars" (Album version)	3:29
2.	"Scars" (Acoustic version)	3:11
3.	"Getting Away with Murder" (NapsterLive version)	3:24
4.	"Scars" (Video)	3:31

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The song's video tells the story of Shaddix's girlfriend, played by Taylor Cole, who is a drunk and parties too much. One day, she gets too drunk and passes out at a party at Shaddix's house. She wakes up the following morning with a hangover, and, grabbing her coat, knocks over a candle, which lands on a mat on the floor. The mat is stained with her drink from the night before. She lights the house on fire unknowingly, and goes home. When Shaddix arrives home, his house is burnt down. The girlfriend comes back to the ruin and sees what happened and realized what she did. The band performs this song on top of the burnt remains of Shaddix's house. This video project was directed by Motion Theory.

A completely different CGI video was shot for the song first. This first video consists in a black-and-white scenery, completely fictional and surreal. In this one, Shaddix and the band defeat another girl that seems to be a monster or a witch. The band wasn't pleased with it and ended up shooting the video mentioned above.

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Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix wrote the song after being taken to hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada with 11 staples in his head in an act of self-harm. Shaddix told MTV News that the song was "about trying to help someone who really doesn't want you to help them".
On a popular radio countdown show, American Top 40 hosted by Ryan Seacrest, "Scars" peaked at #6 in August 2005, and spent 50 weeks in the chart from April 2005 to March 2006.
Papa Roach are well known for singing many of their songs in Spanish as well, "Scars" is among them.
This is the highest charting single of Papa Roach on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #15.
When played on FM radio, the lyrics when screamed "Go fix yourself!" in the song are edited out.

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