MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut 1 — opening guitar of “3AM”)

February 19, 1997.

Whatever time you turned on the radio, you heard this —

Matchbox Twenty.

“3AM.”

(Music Cut 2)

Back in the day – like 1997, I remember introducing this on the radio
and saying it was about a booty call.

Yeah.
I feel terrible about that now —
because it absolutely was NOT

(Music Cut 3)

Rob Thomas wrote it while his mother was battling cancer.
The “she” in the song isn’t a girlfriend —
it’s a mother struggling with her mortality.

(Final Song clip)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“It’s all gonna end
and it might as well be my fault.” — Matchbox Twenty

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