3

3 is a Disturbed song on the 6th album, The Lost Children. This is not Disturbed's most recognizable song, and is usually very underrated. This song has a quite.. long solo nearing the middle of it.



Lyrics
I often wonder why I sit and wait to die What have I done to justify the sentence they gave? Too many hours spent in darkness questioning "How and why"?

I can't remember many moments in the light This retribution has defiled me to no end An execution without merit looms ahead Tell me why!

I was a boy who had to live his own way I never fit into the model they had designed I chose a path less taken I stood with others who had often felt the same

We got stares from passersby Our dark attire seemed to frighten people away And when the three young boys died They pointed fingers and entangled us in a lie!

No hope in sight

[Chorus] I sit here terrified! Can't someone try to bring the truth to light? Won't anybody open up their eyes? Before the three of us have lost our lives!

Why was everybody so damn afraid? They blamed the devil for the heinousness of the crime And to justify their own faith We were labeled pawns of Satan for a time

The three of us were attacked and disgraced For many hours we were questioned and someone lied One of us couldn't take it His simple manner was manipulated in kind Fear made him lie

[Chorus]

Now I am terrified Can't someone try to bring the truth to light? Won't anybody open up their eyes? Before the three of us have lost our lives

And why? Can't anybody see through their disguise? Only believe we didn't take their lives And now the three of us have lost our lives

I often wonder why I sit and wait to die What have I done to justify the sentence they gave? Too many hours spent in darkness questioning "How and why"?

I can't remember many moments in the light This retribution has defiled me to no end An execution without merit looms ahead Tell me why

Meaning
This song is about The West Memphis Three. They were three teenagers who were tried and convicted of the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993 by a prosecution team that put forth the idea that the only purported motive in the case was that the slayings were part of a Satanic ritual. The only evidence police ran on were the fact that they wore a dark attire.

Trivia

 * They were going to originally name The Lost Children 3 or Hell
 * This song is 3:58 minutes long
 * This song is the least viewed Disturbed song, barely reaching 100,000 views.