While the Matchbox Twenty song “3AM” has long been known to be about Rob Thomas‘ mother’s cancer journey, the singer recently shared insight into how he wrote it and what inspired one of its famed lyrics.
“I was so young, I don’t know that I could say I was consciously doing anything at that time,” he said on The Zach Sang Show this week about writing the song about his mom. However, he noted that while he kept some lyrics “nebulous,” some phrases directly reflected what his mom was going through.
“You know that [lyric], ‘She only sleeps when it’s raining,’ I was thinking about those times where, like, I would come home from school every day, and my mom was going through cancer, and it’s Florida, it rains a lot, and it would be these afternoons where I would come home, and it was just a dark house, and she was still sleeping, because of the chemo or whatever,” he explained.
View this post on InstagramAt the time, though, he shared that he was also writing the 1996 song so “everyone could enjoy it.”
“But in truth, I didn’t know how to write a great song about my mom having cancer,” he said. “So I just knew how to write a song about how it made me feel.”
“It was like if I took a bunch of pictures out of magazines and put them up together, and it’s like, ‘This is how I feel.’ That’s what those lyrics all kind of were,” he added. “They were thematically put together, but I didn’t know if I was telling a narrative about it or not.”
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The song was on the band’s debut album, “Yourself or Someone Like You.”
Thirty years later, though, the “Smooth” singer has come to terms with the fact that the heart-wrenching track belongs to his fans.
“It’s not entirely ours anymore,” he said of the track. “I mean, it’s become a part of our collective of people, and the people that have kind of stuck around and followed us around.” ? SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ?
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