Gone Away
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| Single by The Offspring from the album Ixnay on the Hombre |
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| Released | 1997 | ||||
| Format | Vinyl and CD | ||||
| Recorded | 1996 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Length | 04:28 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Writer(s) | Dexter Holland | ||||
| Producer | Dave Jerden | ||||
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"Gone Away" is a song by The Offspring, released as the second single from the 1997 album Ixnay on the Hombre. This song, according to the DVD side of their Greatest Hits album, has helped many fans through hard times in their lives.
[edit] Track listing
- Gone Away (Single Version)
- Cool To Hate
- D.U.I.
- Hey Joe
[edit] Song meaning
The song is about grieving after the death of a loved one. There are several rumors as to whom it might be about, the most common being that Dexter Holland aka Bryan Keith Holland, wrote it after the death of a previous girlfriend, (possibly wife and mother of his daughter Alexa) in a car accident. But he avoids the subject (and song) in interviews and has never confirmed or denied any rumor.
On the Greatest Hits (DVD Side), he and Noodles talk about "Gone Away" and there is no indication that it is about any one particular person, although Dexter does seem slightly uncomfortable at the subject being brought up.
[edit] Music video
The music video shows the band playing in a dark slaughterhouse. Dexter Holland, for most of the video, sings to a shining lightbulb, presumably representative of the soul of the lost person. He is the only band member to interact with this bulb, though other lightbulbs are shown in each band member's respective rooms. Dexter also sings into a suspended microphone which is also used in the video; it swings back and forth as the video fades to black.
| Preceded by "Precious Declaration" by Collective Soul |
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks number-one single May 10 - May 17, 1997 |
Succeeded by "Little White Lie" by Sammy Hagar |
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