Riot (Three Days Grace song)

"Riot"
Single by Three Days Grace
from the album One-X
Released	November 6, 2007
Recorded	2005–2006
Genre	Hard rock[1]
Length	3:27
Label	Jive
Writer(s)	Adam Gontier
Three Days Grace singles chronology
"Never Too Late" (2007) "Riot" (2007) "Break" (2009)

"Riot" is the fourth single from the album One-X by Three Days Grace. The song is about protesting against the negative things in life and was inspired by vocalist Adam Gontier's anger when he was in rehab for OxyContin addiction. The song was also featured in the video game WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 as an edited version.

The song also contains the word "fuck". It is unusual for the band's lyrics to have profanity (the only others containing profanity are "Overrated", "Wake Up", and "Gone Forever"), and it's also unusual that nowhere that this album is sold does it give explicit warnings for the song. During radio play, the line "If you feel so filthy, so dirty, so fucked up", "fucked" is replaced with "messed", and in the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007 video game, the word "fuck" in that line is backmasked so that it sounds somewhat like "if you feel so filthy, so dirty, so huffed up".

It charted at number 65 in Canada, and number 12 and 21 on the US Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock charts respectively.

Personnel

• Adam Gontier - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
• Brad Walst - bass, backing vocals
• Neil Sanderson - drums, backing vocals
• Barry Stock - lead guitar

References

1. "One-X by Three Days Grace on iTunes". iTunes. The second album by Ontario’s Three Days Grace balances scalding metallic hard rock like opener “It’s All Over” and the rabidly fist-pumping “Riot” with sincere post-grunge power ballads like “Never Too Late,” “On My Own,” and “Get Out Alive.”