Premiere: ScottStapp pays homage to his late peers with GoneTooSoon
As he wrote songs about overcoming mental illness, depression and anxiety for his upcoming album, it was inevitable that Scott Stapp's attention would turn toward the travails of some of his peers. And "Gone Too Soon," premiering exclusively below, was inspired partly by the deaths of fellow rockers Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington within the space of two months in 2017.
"First of all, just as a human being my heart broke for their wives and for their children. I had that very human response of just sorrow," Stapp, who's been open about his past struggles, tells Billboard. "And then it went a step further into self-reflection -- Man, that easily could've been my path, and on some occasions it almost was my path. It reminded me of where my life would go if I went back and returned to the life I led before.
"Somewhere around the time Chester passed, and we had already been reeling from Cornell's passing, I was flipping through the news and saw the suicide rate for vets was skyrocketing," he recalls. "And all these people are OD-ing from heroin, drug addictions, opioids. The school shootings. It was just a collection of things that all hit me at once.
"It's about me learning how to overcome and get to the other side of the most difficult situations and challenges in my life and find a purpose within it," Stapp explains, "really seeking to not just wake up every day with the idea of 'OK, I’ve got to fight this, and it's all about me.
"So that became a purpose for me, gave me hope and helped motivate me so it wasn't all just about me. I think a lot of people are out there suffering in silence; That's something I did for many, many, many years. Hopefully I can help encourage them to talk about it and seek help." in 2012, is currently on tour, with dates booked into October. Full Circle,"There's always rumors flying around," Stapp says. "But everything's positive between the guys.
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