- Leader of Men
Infobox Single
Name = Leader of Men
Artist =Nickelback
from Album = The State
Released = flagicon|U.S. September 2000
flagicon|EU April 2001
Format = CD
Recorded = 1998
Genre = Alternative
Length = 3:30
Label = Roadrunner
Producer =
Chart position = * #8 (US Mainstream Rock)
* #21 (US Modern Rock)
Last single = "Fly"
(1996)
This single = "Leader of Men"
(2000)
Next single = "Old Enough"
(2000)"Leader of Men" is the first successful single by the
Canadian rock bandNickelback , the first one from their 2000 album "The State".Meaning
Chad Kroeger , the band's frontman, has said that the song is about a time he possibly saved one of his friends' lives.The line about jumping off a cliff to save a girl — that really happened. Some of my friends and I were cliff diving. One of my friends, Kathy, was getting swept downstream and couldn't stay afloat - she wasn't a strong swimmer. So I jumped in, swam down to her and pulled her ashore.
- Chad Kroeger"The song starts off, 'Tell your friends not to think aloud until they swallow'," Kroeger says.
What that line implies is that usually what you say after you start tripping is far more interesting than what you're going to say when you're dead straight. A lot of the lines in the song are about what you're going through while you're zooming.
- Chad KroegerOn the other hand, at some stops during Nickelback's 2002 Tour, Chad Kroeger would introduce the song by saying, "This is a song about tripping on 'shrooms. This one's called 'Leader of Men'."
Track listings
# "Leader of Men"
# "Leader of Men" [acoustic]
# "Just Four" [from the album Curb]External links
* [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/video/showVideo.aspx?fileID=388 "Leader Of Men" music video] at
Roadrunner Records website
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