Everyone says " this band rocks", or " I love your music". however i am never going to say something like that. Of-course this is a great band and their music is great, but so is 300 other bands. So what makes this one different? let me tell you why i am a fan in a true story about myself.

A few years back i went to a school that you would call " a very bad school ". full of kids always looking for a fight. This was back when i was about 13, 7th grade going to Irving Middle School in Pocatello, ID, about 2007. I was the one getting pushed into lockers as i went to class, but i never let it get to me. This happened for many many days. I didn't have friends because i was considered an outcast. I was the white kid in a mexican school, i didn't fit in. At home it was no different, my mother was very abusive, sure she was nice but i believe them to be cover ups. when i was 3 she kicked me down the stairs saying i was worthless, placed me for adoption when i was 4. My grandma and grandpa took me in and i stayed with them for for 4 years before having went to get sent back to live with my mom again.

she didn't changed. I still remember her bashing my head into the counter and making me tell others i slipped on the kitchen tile and hit my head. I still remember finally getting a friend over and her bashing my sister into the fridge right in-front of my friend. later my friend tell me he cant hang out with me anymore because his mom told him i was a bad influence. "Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you, when its easy enough to find someone who looks down on you" I have made this my life quote. Last year during late september, i was cooking i put something wrong on the grill and it exploded burning my arm, my mom didn't care she yelled at me yelling at me and saying i deserved it. when i yelled at her and told her to knock it off she retaliated, and kicked me out in the dark in the rain with out shoes or socks, i ended up walking about 5 miles down the highway so a local motel 6. i called my grandma and waited. long story short i went threw the courts and am still in the courts she denies anything and still tries to get me. I bet your wondering " why does this matter for TDG's songs?" simply put they were their for me.

Three Days Grace is a great band and their music is great.. to everyone but me. I believe them to be so much more. Their songs have awakened me, I listened to "Home" when i was at my mothers house.. i listened to "Pain" while going to the school. They mean more to me then anything else. This band is the reason I'm alive. I had plenty of reasons to seriously hurt myself, but i didn't. I owe my life to this band. I love their music because they are not like the other hundred's of thousand's of bands out their. their music actually has had an effect on my life, it speaks to me, their is a message in each song, they are not trying to become famous ( although they did become famous) their trying to give others a voice, their giving insight, their telling the real hard truth about life. I want to meet them somehow ill never have enough money to go to their concert but i want to personally meet them and shake their hand and say " thank you". And i have tears in my eyes as i write this because it is my own heart speaking. I am a fan of Three Days Grace because... they pulled me from the dust and rose me above the crowd.