Never Too Late (Three Days Grace song)
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| Single by Three Days Grace from the album One-X |
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| Released | July 3, 2007 October 23, 2007 (re-release) |
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| Format | CD single, Digital download | ||||
| Genre | Post-grunge/Power ballad | ||||
| Length | 3:29 | ||||
| Label | Jive | ||||
| Certification | Gold (RIAA) | ||||
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"Never Too Late" Is the third single from Three Days Grace off their second album One-X. It has received airplay at the Billy Talent tour and on several Canadian radio stations such as The Edge. It is currently at #18 on the Canadian Airplay charts.[1] This song has reached the number 1 spot at the MuchMusic Countdown on June 29 for one week. This song's meaning was explained by Three Days Grace frontman, Adam Gontier, at a live performance on March 7, 2007 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., where he stated, "this song is about being in a very dark place, but being able to see a way out."
The track has suddenly managed to resurge in pop airplay, peaking at #17 on Mediabase so far, and being added by the biggest pop station the US, which is Z100. One pop radio version of the song censors the phrase "end your life" in the chorus to "change your life" to eliminate suicide reference from the song. It also quiets the heaviness of the guitar. It appears on Now!26, the only song from the album to appear on a Now!
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[edit] Track Listing
- Never Too Late
[edit] Never Too Late EP
- Never Too Late
- Never Too Late (acoustic)
- Never Too Late (music video)
[edit] Music video
The video begins with a little girl getting out of bed and dancing in a circle with her parents. Suddenly, the scene cuts to a woman struggling with wardens in a mental institution, then going back into a room with the little girl and her parents dancing.
The scene cuts back to the little girl; her parents let go of her hands and leave, and a man in a sweater approaches her and smiles, then touches her shoulder. The video then begins to cut rapidly back and forth between the woman being restrained in the mental institution and the girl dancing with her parents, who now have bandages over their eyes. During this back and forth, the leather restraints turn into arms, bearing the same sleeves as the man in the sweater.
The video goes back to the little girl hiding underneath her bed as the man in the sweater flips it. Suddenly the girl and the man are sitting in a similar position as earlier in the video, but the man is frozen and the girl walks towards the camera. Feathers begin to fall from the top of the screen and a man in black with large black wings is shown. The video momentarily cuts back to the institution, where the woman watches a butterfly fly around on numerous medical instruments. The scene once again shifts back to the little girl, who is now sitting in bed with a large amount of black handprints on and around her; the camera slowly pans out to show the man in the sweater, his hands covered in black paint.
The scene suddenly shifts to the man with wings struggling with the man in the sweater as the little girl watches from her bed and black feathers fall on her. The scene shifts back to the mental institution, where feathers are similarly falling on the woman. Her restraints disappear in the form of the man's hands letting go of her. She curls into a ball for several moments, then gets out of bed and walks into the camera,while the feathers form the silouette of wings around her.
This video shows a scene of hope, Adam and his wife wrote this, it is about Adam's drug habit showing that it's not to late, it's never to late to give up.( pringle31 )
[edit] Chart performance
The song has been the band's third consecutive #1 hit from One-X on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Chart, remaining at the top for seven weeks. It is also the band's third consecutive #1 from One-X in Canada. It peaked at #2 on the Modern Rock Chart. It has so far reached #71 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #19 on the Pop 100, becoming the band's highest charting single to date on the Pop 100. It is also Three Days Grace's first song to enter the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, where it debuted at #35, and has risen to #13. Because the song did not start to experience mainstream success until it had already been on the Hot 100 for twenty weeks, it was not allowed to re-enter the chart, per Billboard's rules, which eliminate any song from the Hot 100 if it is below position 50 on the chart in its twenty-first week. The track did, however, hit #1 on both the Hot 100 Recurrent Sales and the Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay charts, which track songs eliminated from the Hot 100. The single has been certified Gold by the RIAA.
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 71 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 19 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 | 13 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 30 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 (7 weeks) |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 2 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 1 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 30 |
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| Preceded by "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single August 18, 2007 - September 29, 2007 |
Succeeded by "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters |
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