Stranger Inside Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SnuggleBunny 

Cover art for Stranger Inside lyrics by Shinedown

This song is about fighting your own personal demon. I would say the demon is depression. "Cause I'm sick and tired of "you'll be fine" Well how do you know? Can you read minds?"

I fight this same demon, and have for most of my life.. the words make perfect sense.

Song Meaning

Going to have to agree with SnuggleBunny on this one. Saying that a song like this is about "being yourself" is to reduce such a powerful song to a trivial cliché.

Feeling "so unloved within that you almost died" is a despair that I wish on no one, and it's extremely difficult to explain to even those that care enough to listen. There's a huge difference between the ups and downs of a normal life and the profound misery of chemical imbalance, and judging by the other songs on the record (45 especially) a lot of the...