"Scars" is the second single released from American rock band Papa Roach's fourth album, Getting Away with Murder, and was their seventh single released. The song was the 36th-most-successful single of the United States in 2005, when it climbed to No. 15 on the BillboardHot 100. As with several of their other songs, Papa Roach has performed "Scars" live with Spanish lyrics.
Music video
The song's video tells the story of Shaddix's girlfriend, played by Taylor Cole, who is a drunk and parties too much. One day, she gets too drunk and passes out at a party at Shaddix's house. She wakes up the following morning with a hangover, and, grabbing her coat, knocks over a candle, which lands on a mat on the floor. The mat is stained with her drink from the night before. She lights the house on fire unknowingly, and goes home. When Shaddix arrives home, his house is burnt down. The girlfriend comes back to the ruin and sees what happened and realized what she did. The band performs this song on top of the burnt remains of Shaddix's house. This video project was directed by Motion Theory.
Chart performance
The single was certified Gold (500,000 units sold) on June 6, 2005. The song, according to the band's video album Papa Roach: Live & Murderous in Chicago, tells the story of Jacoby Shaddix's "Horrible night in Vegas that changed my life." During live performances before playing the song, Shaddix often talks about how "the song saved his life". Not only has the song beaten "Last Resort" as its highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, it was also their first and only top 40 hit, peaking at No. 15. The song hit No. 2 and No. 4 on the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts and the song became their first and only pop hit, hitting No. 7 on the Pop Songs chart. This is the band's most successful in the U.S. although "Last Resort" was more successful internationally chart wise, also hitting No. 1 on the modern rock chart. The song peaked at No. 6 on AT40, in August 2005, and spent 50 weeks in the chart from April 2005 to March 2006.
