Staind - Waste Lyrics

Cant wait to see them on tour this summer!!!

suicide is not a choice

Fuck that and fuck her and fuck him and fuck you

Hitz home...$Kitz👓🎩💯☕🚽🚿📲

Gracias for stayin awake with me that night didnt mean to seem distracted was alot goin on but even more so now anyways have some work 4 you sir do me a favor and do not deal with any random weirdos gonna come and make a grandma safehouse in your city gonna have more updates by then im on me way to san diego have to get one of me closest out of a jam have a good dai good looken

Man this song is badass,, I miss these guys.

I have failed!
I've fucked up!
I've had plans!
Doesn't mean
I should take
My Life
With my own hands


Words that saved my life.

Mark these words they cant replace the life you waste!

A person that cut themselves from my life (understandably) played this at me so much after he found me after my first suicide attempt... that was 10 years ago, and suicide is still a constant struggle for me... every waking second, even when I'm asleep I'm plagued with horrific night terrors, i never get a break, the void is always calling me

This song makes me cry every time I hear it. It captures the emotions of the surviving friends or family of a suicide victim so perfectly. The sadness and the anger, driven by the emptiness left in the wake of the deceased. It might be the most powerful song I know.

I listen to it very rarely, 'cause it makes me feel so sad. But it's such a good song that it needs a listening every now and then.

This song saved my life

mine too !

When Aaron start to go well fuck that and fuck her and fuck him and fuck you it gives me chills

I can't even count how many times this song has literally saved my life. I can't thank Staind enough for this song

When my friend committed suicide a year and half ago this song got me through it. I cried for days my boy.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Glad the music got you throug. Aaron has been there for us all without even knowing it.

Heard this after I lost my husband to sucide in 2000 it's 17 years later 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😰😰😰😰😰😰😩😩😩😩😧😧😧😧😦😦😦😦😟😟😟😟😥😥😥😥

I'm so sorry for your lost my family has been touched by suicide. Nothing I can say can make it better God bless his soul. God have mercy on you in your time of grief

@Troy Brannon your a fucking sack of scum. God will have no mercy on some one like you. This person has suffered enough we as humans should have compassion for each other

but the album the song was on (Break the Cycle) didn't exist until 2001.

Sending you some love on this day. Take care of yourself and the ones you love.

@Troy Brannon you are a awful little troll did daddy not love you?

I agree this song is very powerful ( like coming down by FFDP) and because i want to take my own life almost every day but i resist this song is a part of my still being here now

Fashooo z viro

[Verse 1]
Your mother came up to me
She wanted answers only she should know
Only she should know
It wasn't easy to deal
With the tears that rolled down her face
I had no answers 'cause, I didn't even know you

[Chorus]
But these words, they can't replace
The life you, the life you waste

[Verse 2]
How could you paint this picture?
Was life as bad as it should seem
That there were no more options for you?
I can't explain how I feel
I've been there many times before
I've tasted the cold steel of my life crashing down before me

[Chorus]
But these words, they can't replace
The life you, the life you waste

[Verse 3]
Did Daddy not love you?
Or did he love you just too much?
Did he control you?
Did he live through you at your cost?
Did he leave no questions
For you to answer on your own?


[Bridge]
Well, fuck that, and fuck her, and fuck him, and fuck you
For not having the strength in your heart to pull through
I've had doubts, I have failed, I've fucked up, I've had plans
Doesn't mean I should take my life with my own hands

[Chorus]
But these words, they can't replace
The life you, the life you waste

[Outro]
But these words, they don't replace
The life you, the life you waste

Apparently this song is about a kid that killed himself after listening to an older version of "Outside" and the mother approached Aaron and blamed him.

country music has claimed an amazing artist

I blame pickup trucks and camoflage

Well, At least Arron Lewis is doing what he likes doing. BTW, Where is your record?

True story!

He alternates now, if ya havent noticed. I like both styles he writes in

NO ONE will EVER understand why unless they can feel there pain. Everyone who doesn't suffer from some kind of mental disorder will NEVER understand it and will say " Oh well just MAN UP and stop feeling sorry for yourself" Well you CANT you just cant flip a fucking switch. Depression makes EVERYTHING feel negative, your existence, your future everything. You would be putting on a front if you said your happy. These happy go lucky fuckers will never understand how it works and talk down to people that have it. Consider yourself lucky for not having any type of depression and not even knowing how lucky you are.

It's not depression that this song is about, though. I get that depression is hard. You can feel incredible pain one day that feels like you're eating glass, and then another day you can feel nothing at all. Sometimes your whole world feels grey. Even the sunlight feels ugly and blinding. Suicide is different though. It's not a solution to that problem. It doesn't make it go away, it makes you go away and the depression stays. In fact, by killing yourself, it spreads to everyone around you, even complete strangers. Can you really look at Staind and their lyrics and say, "these guys are happy-go-lucky"?

Fuck them , and fuck her, and fuck him , and fuck you because ım fucking hate everything then fuck eveything..

i know how you feel!

Suicide, is not always selfish...Some people go through a lot of pain, and to say you have to man up, doesnt fix it... pain can be permanent and life temporary. To say someone must continuing living in pain is pathetic, some people will never understand what some people have to live with on a daily basis......... suicide is when pain out ways, the joy of living, and most suicides are linked to mental disorders, brain damage.. you cannot say its selfish, but rather ignorant of those to wish him/her to live a life in pain!!

But again i never at any point considered suicide an option i feal i would have done something far worse like for example kill a whole bunch off people & hope the cops shot & kill me but im way passed this shit now still going through the struggle everday but im in a much better place now than where i was 10-15 years ago

the problem is people dont ask for help, people try to figure everything out on your own, are on this earth to help one another, but you also have to reach out. one thing i have learned in life and i been through ALOT, is that there is always someone out there that will help and listen to you!

My mother killed herself when I was 14.
I'm 29 and I'm still fucked up over it.
It's fucking selfish.

Shaun Hill speaking from experience with both sides of suicide (obviously I failed to), and having a severe psychological disorder, I can honestly say that I wish someone had told me sooner "that maybe I should pull the trigger on living life instead of pulling the trigger to end it. Take that leap into the things you love the most instead of off a building." The selfish part is on the one who dies only because they deprived themselves of a chance at life. Depression is hard, got the scars, keychain and tshirt, but it took a long time to get where I am but that shows that there's always hope bc I know a lot of people just like me. So yes, suicide is selfish, just not exactly in the context being discussed

Pain is relative

easy to say until your put in a position where you feel like you have no outs just from experience

Excuses, man. We all live in this hell. People act like they are so different and feel emotions that no other has ever felt.

@Daniel Garcia you are trivializing mental illness in 2019, gj man

WELL FUCK THEM!
AND FUCK HER!
AND FUCK HIM!
AND FUCK YOU!
For not having
The strength in your heart
To pull through!
I've had doubts!
I have failed!
I've fucked up!
I've had plans!
Doesn't mean
I should take
My Life
With my own hands

...my new ringtone

Your mother came up to me
She wanted answers only she should know
Only she should know

It wasn't easy to deal
With the tears that rolled down her face
I had no answers 'cause
I didn't even know you

But these words
They can't replace
The life you...
...the life you waste

How could you paint this picture?
Was life as bad as it should seem
That there were no more options for you
I can't explain how I feel
I've been there many times before
I've tasted the cold steel of my life crashing down before me

But these words
They can't replace
The life you...
...the life you waste

Did Daddy not love you?
Or did he love you just too much?
Did he control you?
Did he live through you at your cost?
Did he leave no questions for you to answer on your own?

WELL FUCK THEM!
AND FUCK HER!
AND FUCK HIM!
AND FUCK YOU!
For not having
The strength in your heart
To pull through!
I've had doubts!
I have failed!
I've fucked up!
I've had plans!
Doesn't mean
I should take
My Life
With my own hands

But these words
They can't replace
The life you...
...the life you waste

But these words
The don't replace
The life you...
THE LIFE YOU WASTE

thx for the words

I needed that thx

Love this song. But...where the fuck are the lyrics??? Can't share to those who need it without the lyrics???!!!

This song is really powerful. It speaks very clearly to people who have lost others to suicide. It's so common, so easy, to rage against people who commit suicide, to call them selfish and weak, to judge them and try to put distance between themselves and you... But none of those walls you try to put up, or insults you try to hurl at them, will ever truly kill the sadness over the waste of a beautiful life.

Which is really heart-wrenching in and of itself... That the entire crux of hating suicide is acknowledging that the person who died was worth loving.

Warning: This message only applies to sane people capable of empathy. This being Youtube, I'm sure a number of you don't fit that bill. If you're going to say anything even vaguely resembling "that person stopped deserving love when they decided to die," please research directions to your nearest mental institution.

Vrock Summon Thankyou mate

Vrock Summon WELL said.

I have been placed in that position, and I believe every word you said is bullshit, call me insane if you will, but if there are many people in your life that truly love you n you don't believe so, it's something you must fix, this is coming from experience

fucking a!

What is most shocking to me here is the prevalence of the belief that suicide is simply a choice. It's as if you people think that one day a suicide victim woke up and decided to kill himself or herself. Oren Leifer: Suicide is selfish? We never asked for life and we have no obligation to live it just for the sake of keeping everyone around us happy if we are no longer happy. I'd argue that it is selfish for others to expect us to live solely for them in spite of our mental state. And furthermore, you advocate a message of revenge against those who caused the pain? So are you saying that Elliot Rodger was justified in murdering six people as a result of his uncopable mental pain? I think you need to give deeper consideration to exactly what you're trying to say. And really Aaron? Fuck the boy who committed suicide? Jesus man, how can you make such a bold claim when you don't even understand the circumstances that led to this boy's suicide? You didn't even face the boy's mother; you stayed on the tour bus and refused to come out and talk to her. So you have no idea what was going on in the boy's life. No, fuck YOU Aaron for judging the boy's situation based on assumptions because you were too chicken shit to even face the boy's mother to find out any truth surrounding the suicide.

The stupidest shit I've ever read. Do you by chance know what happened to Aaron causing him to write this song? Read the lyrics they explain everything! Oh btw suicide is a choice.

Live_Breathe_Musix its is a choice when youve seen no point to go on. and hit rock bottom anybody could make it an option

Ryan Clary fuck you!!! don't talk to aaron like that

Jack Robinson Hell fucking right!

Suicide is selfish.
And Those selfish assholes that do it are hurting others because they are too weak to push through a challenging part of life.

i hate when ppl who get bullied kill themselves, then the bully goes and bullies someone else. if u gonna kill someone kill the bully first.

SUICIDE IS SELFISHNESS! Don't hurt yourself, hurt the ones who cause you pain. Suicide is selfishness. To stop the pain, hurt the ones who cause it. I love this song, but it's only half of the equation. If you feel the useless urge to hurt yourself, channel it into the productive action of hurting the people who cause you pain instead.

@Danny Bowen Just freaking defend yourself when you have to -.-

some people think it is The Honorable way to die

Um....... dont know what to say ouch this song is raw & the fact its a true story just makes it worse

4 years & im still here high five me from the past

this reminds me of my past.. everything passed, everything is solved now, my life is great and I thank myself, i'm proud of myself to be here, stronger than before. I'm strong cause I resisted, cause I stay here in this moment, enjoying life as possible as I can do, people stay strong, don't give up! NEVER!

suicide happens everyday it horrible

great song

one of my favorite albums

Whenever I am pissed off I just have to come here and play 2:51 - 2:55 on a loop

PayneBrah glad I'm not the only one

Best part!

Shut up with your <3 <3 <3 bullshit...

Soldger? Oh I think you mean soldier!

A lot of there songs talk about problems in the world and stuff, but anything after break the cycle wasn't half as good

Justin MC Self Tilted and 14 Shades were great

so harddd..... :l

Well Fuck that
Fuck her
Fuck Him
Fuck you! <3333

Said no one ever

this kid, who had no intentions of ever playing guitar, went out and bought one, learned "outside" by staind, recorded him playing it and singing it, and then hanged himself with the recording playing on a loop for his parents to find. this song is about his mother asking him why his son would do such a thing. i cant listen to it in public. i cry every time.

this has to be one of the saddest songs ive ever heard. i cant listen to it in public really. i get so emotional listening to it.

DEADOFNIGHT666, WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT ALBUM COVER

dat bestiality

fuckin love aaron lewis!

i must say this comment made my day lol! thanks for the laugh!

For every one that comes home, 3 will kill themselves? I think your math is alil fucked up there. And it's soldier. Not soldger. Go back to school little boy.

soldger hu? ... seems legit

for every 1 soldger that comes home 3 will kill themselves! why do u think there is not many words to be said when these songs can be spoken for!

You people need to realize how dumb u are to say oh whatever might bother you about this song! Hello!! 20 people from the us armed forces are coming and comiteing suicide a day!!!!!! WAKE the Fuck up!!!!!!!!!!

jesus, that sure is sad

The song was Outside the funny thing is that he first played outside in a concert when he haven`t yet written the lyrics and the dude commited the suicide after that.

I try to trick myself into thinking your comment wasn't funny.
I have yet to master it -_-
I laugh so hard every time I read it.

That hits a nerve. lol.

probably a hardcore J-Cat fan first (aron's first band). He apparently recorded himself singing Outside (the J-Cat version) and had it playing while he hung himself and the mom found a ticket stub of either a Staind or J-Cat concert (not sure) that he had gone too, so she found Aron after a concert and asked him why her son committed suicide and the song Waste was born.

A mother came up to him and told him that her son had commited suicide to one of his songs.

at least what he said in an interview

no this song was written to a womans son who was a hardcore staind fan and he killed himself

Hey Check out my drum cover of this song on my channel

About an hour ago. Someone jumped off a parking structure. By an outside mall. To his death. I only saw the body. Even though i didn't know this person. So many questions are racing through mt head. But the one that's most persistant is, WHY! I'm sure your life was hard. But you have to realize that people do care for you. And i wish you to be at peace. I wish you to be loved. And i wish you to rest in peace my friend.

do you mean chapter V

One of my best friends who I talk to on the internet is going to commit suicide soon, and she just won't listen to me..

Tim Pape did she do it?

FUCK YOU
FUCK THAT
FUCK SQUIRRELS
AND FUCK CATS

This may come as a surprise... But this song isn't about you, and we don't really care about your daddy issues.

I' am a ex opiate addict myself best thing to do is let it go i know that sounds stupid and hard wen i was addicted to it i thought the same thing.. wen some1 told me just let it go i was like you don't understand you can't just let it go! truth be told yes you can it's hard as shit for the first month but you will feel so much better with out it.

I'm 59 and this song says the anger that is in me...it screams for me...I maintain myself so others don't know. The strength of the lyrics and how they present it, I understand the rage and how hard it is to keep in. No words can replace the life I wasted...

YES!!! THIS SONG FUCKING ROCKS!!! Well fuck them, and fuck her
And fuck him, and fuck you LOVE THAT PART!!!

to those suffering severe depression, just hit the bottom recently but came out with my dignity intact and am still very much alive and moving forward. When you realise how much you have and what you could stand to lose you will be better off. These songs are a good way of sharing and indulging in the grief, suffering etc and even now i feel better, these staind songs have a way of getting inside and stirring something. If you can feel that then thats one step toward recovery. epic song

this song is the best for when you are stressed and depressed or it sure helps me i love aaron and his band staind

My god, that last note he hits at 3:41 is paralyzing.

@marjenkins
Well said, I myself am struggling with heroin addiction and at the point of suicide so depressed

@MsJoanneClarke You might be stained, but this is STAIND!!!

@SkratchMusic and every emotion must be pain and anger right?

@91crystalrose I'm right with you there.

When I don't have the strength in my heart I listen to Outside, empathize with the two teenagers, then I listen to Waste, cry it all out and then finish with Believe. And so I can continue on for a few more weeks. <3 Staind <3

On the edge

I am so grateful to my boyfriend for introducing me to Stained....Awesomeness itself!

2:15 thru 3:08 gives me goosebumps so fucking amazing

staind is without a doubt the best band on the planet, they should be the biggest band in the world. all of their topics actually help people cope with real life.. including me whenever i feel a strong emotion staind always just helps me deal with everything,, truly amazing.

@naik2222 Or just be a complete idiot.

how can this song have dislikes this is insane

@radiobaseball *shaking my head* only on the internet is noterity considered a good thing.

@radiobaseball thats a bit over the top my brotha.

@cfrayser88 Good music saves lives.

@ibr0kethedam amen brother, i was born in 88, so i was barely a teenager when first listening to this. Like you said, i don't listen to staind much anymore, moved onto AIC, nirvana, soundgarden, zeppelin, etc. But this band really opened the door for me. Thx for posting.

not sure how the song can actually help cope, concidering i almost succeeded O.D.ing to this song on repeat when i was 18, i havent been able to listen to it with out going back to that horrible night, its ten years later im still kicking, thanks to some unseen forces. I love the song just cant go to deeply into it!

suicide

whoever them 13 motherfuckers who disliked this NEEDS TO DIE

"But these words....they don't replace the life YOU....WASTE...."

who could dislike?

this song really hits home for me right now my 24 year old brother took his own life last night

If you feel the need to die its time to take a deeper look inside and re-align

One of the strongest songs ive heard in a while

I had a prodcuer use this sample for a beat I used on my album...story telling track titled "She Should Know" come check it out on my page!!