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It was also covered in 2017 by Five Finger Death Punch on their A Decade of Destruction hits set, peaking at No. It topped Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart and hit No. The world is so cold now that you’ve gone awayĪs previously stated, “Gone Away” appeared on The Offspring’s fourth studio album, Ixnay on the Hombre, in 1997. I reach to the sky and call out your name

The world has grown cold now that you’ve gone away Where the original was a full-fledged rock song sharing Holland’s shouting angst, the piano version allows for a clearer listen to the heartfelt lyrics.

I know it’s not a direct connection, but it made you think about dying and about grief and about what that would feel like, and what if my wife would have been the one?” I knew I wanted it to be heavy, but I didn’t know what it was going to be about yet. It was right when we were recording Ixnay and I was coming up with the idea. Though no one was killed, Holland told the Bob Lefsetz Podcast, “The idea that we came so close to death was a real life-changing moment. The track was reportedly inspired by a real life incident in which singer Dexter Holland and his wife were shaken up after having to seek cover when an ice cream shop they were patronizing was riddled with gunfire by gang members. While The Offspring’s early years often featured some lighter subject matter, “Gone Away” stood out from their Ixnay on the Hombre album for its somber tone. We have been playing this version live, and we felt that this kind of arrangement makes the song feel more direct and more emotional.

The band just released a lyric video for the track, while also explaining, “We wanted to record ‘Gone Away’ in a completely different way for this record. But a full 24 years after it was originally released, The Offspring could be primed to find success with an alternate version of their song “Gone Away,” which was re-imagined as an emotional, heartfelt piano ballad for their latest album, Let the Bad Times Roll. It happens on occasion and seemed to occur often in the ’90s that bands could find success with multiple arrangements of a hit song (Foo Fighters’ “ Everlong” anyone?).