Bullets

"Bullets" is the second single from Creed's third album, Weathered. The song serves as the opening track to the album and is considered to be one of the band's heaviest songs. Writing and recording Along with entirety of the Weathered album, "Bullets" was written during four-hour sessions in vocalist Scott Stapp's living room as well as on his Sea Ray cruiser over the course of a three-week period, with Stapp contributing the lyrics and guitarist Mark Tremonti composing the music. The band recorded and mixed the song along with the album at J. Stanley Productions Inc. recording studio in Ocoee, Florida, over a four-month period in the summer and early fall of 2001. Music and lyrics "Bullets" is an anthemic and forceful heavy metal track that features some of Tremonti's fastest and most aggressive guitar work for Creed. Stapp described the song as "the heaviest, most intense music we've ever written." The lyrics were written by Stapp about what he felt were unjust criticisms that the band had received throughout their careers from critics and the press. In the song, Stapp asks of them to "At least look at me when you shoot a bullet through my head!", inferring that if someone has something negative to say about them to do it to their faces. Music video A video was also released with the single which was also aired on MTV as a follow-up to Creed's first single, "My Sacrifice". Developed by Vision Scape Interactive, the team behind games such as Twisted Metal 4, were responsible for characterizing and developing the storyline in the video with the band. The team spent $473,000, and dedicated 15 employees working more than 18 hours a day to complete the project, according to Matt McDonald, President of Vision Scape. The roots for the video were laid a year prior, when McDonald and his wife Tammy saw the Creed Behind the Music episode. The McDonald's, intrigued with the energy and message of the band, contacted Creed, through Mark Tremonti's younger brother Daniel Tremonti, to see if they were interested in contributing music for an eventually canceled video game called "Revelations". Daniel would later call back, informing Vision Scape that the band wanted them to create a music video using the visuals from "Revelations".