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She is seen dancing in her garage a few times in the music video. She aspires to be a ballerina, and wants to go to a dance school. It shows that she has a job helping a fisherman. It starts with a teenage girl sitting on a bench at night, and lead singer Brent Smith in the background. The official music video for the song was directed by Ryan Smith, and premiered on January 8, 2009, on MSN Music. It's about the moment that you wake up and you decide you want to go for every single dream you ever want." But no one should discourage someone if they have a dream, if they want something more This song was difficult for me to write the lyrics to because it's about my mother and my father, and about the day I said goodbye to them, because I had to go try, and I'm still trying, every day, to become a man. When I grew up, everyone was okay with being in a bubble. Song meaning and music video Īt Pointfest 22, lead singer Brent Smith told the audience Three versions of the song exist – a rock version, which is the album version, a pop version (notably played on Sirius XM Satellite Radio's Adult Top 40-formatted The Pulse satellite radio channel), which is a remix, although the harder guitars start in the second verse in the song rather than at the second half of the first verse, and an acoustic version, which is very similar to the original, with the exception of the absence of the electric guitar and vocal layering in the original. ("Love Story" held that distinction on its sister program, the adult contemporary American Top 10.) "Second Chance" was the final number one on Kasem's American Top 20, his hot adult contemporary countdown show that aired its finale on July 4/5, 2009.
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"Second Chance", along with Taylor Swift's " Love Story", was one of two number one songs played by Casey Kasem on the last weekend of his radio career. It was released on DLC as part of a 3-song pack on Guitar Hero 5, as DLC for Rock Band 3 and Rocksmith. In May 2009, "Second Chance" was used in a promo regarding the return of character Michael Corinthos on ABC's daytime drama General Hospital. The song has been used in promotion for the second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the 2008 WWE Tribute to the Troops show.