With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective, a 3CD 40 song set including the radio hits, rarities, acoustic versions and demos from the Creed vaults, officially collected here for the first time.
Disc One is an all-new Best Of featuring the 16 official singles from all four of Creed’s studio albums. The album is sequenced chronologically and includes currently unavailable radio edits where possible. Creed was the first band in history to chart seven consecutive #1 Rock Radio singles.
Best Of : The Singles
01 My Own Prison [Radio Edit]
02 Torn [Radio Edit]
03 What's This Life For [Album Edit - Clean]
04 One [Radio Edit]
05 What If [Radio Edit]
06 Higher [Top 40 Version]
07 With Arms Wide Open [New Version with Strings]
08 Are You Ready?
09 My Sacrifice [Radio Edit]
10 Bullets
11 One Last Breath [Radio Version]
12 Don't Stop Dancing
13 Weathered [Edit]
14 Overcome
15 Rain [Pop Mix]
16 A Thousand Faces [Radio Edit]
Disc Two officially collects for the first time on one disc all the soundtrack hits, the two The Doors rarities and three never before released demos, “Why”, “Blistered” (from the My Own Prison sessions) and “More Than This” (from the Full Circle sessions).
Rarities & Demos
01 To Whom It May Concern
02 Is This the End [Scream Edit]
03 Bound and Tied
04 Young Grow Old
05 Silent Teacher
06 I'm Eighteen
07 Roadhouse Blues [Live at Woodstock '99]
08 Riders on the Storm
09 Blistered [Demo]
10 More Than This [Demo]
11 Why [Demo]
Disc Three includes a legacy selection of the available studio and various live acoustic versions, newly re-mastered.
Acoustic
01 My Sacrifice [Live Acoustic]
02 My Own Prison [Acoustic Version - Extended]
03 Don't Stop Dancing [Acoustic Version #3]
04 With Arms Wide Open [Acoustic Version]
05 What’s This Life For [Alternate Version - Clean]
06 Rain [Live Acoustic]
07 My Own Prison [Live Acoustic]
08 With Arms Wide Open [Live Acoustic]
09 Overcome [Live Acoustic]
10 One [Live Acoustic]
11 Torn [Live Acoustic]
12 Higher [Live Acoustic]
13 To Whom It May Concern [Live Acoustic]
LYRICS
A court is in session,
A verdict is in
No appeal on the docket today
Just my own sin
The walls are cold and pale
The cage made of steel
Screams fill the room
Alone I drop and kneel
Silence now the sound
My breath the only motion around
Demons cluttering around
My face showing no emotion
Shackled by my sentence
Expecting no return
Here there is no penance
My skin begins to burn
(And I said oh)
So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh)
All held captive out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
I hear a thunder in the distance
See a vision of a cross
I feel the pain that was given
On that sad day of loss
A lion roars in the darkness
Only he holds the key
A light to free me from my burden
And grant me life eternally
Should have been dead
On a Sunday morning
Banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
Should have been dead
On a Sunday morning
Banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
(And I said oh)
So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh)
All held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
I cry out to God
Seeking only his decision
Gabriel stands and confirms
I've created my own prison
I cry out to God
Seeking only his decision
Gabriel stands and confirms
I've created my own prison
(And I said oh)
So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh)
All held captive out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
(And I said oh)
So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh)
(I created, I created, I created, I created, I created, I created my own prison)
All held captive out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
Should've been dead
On a Sunday morning
Banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
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