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'Down' opens the band's third album and became their breakthrough moment on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Nick Hexum and DJ S.A. Martinez wrote the track as a thank-you to the fans who had supported 311 before commercial success arrived, and to the bandmates who made it possible. The song moves between verses that catalogue small intimacies, making out in dark hallways, sharing records, lighting up at the start of a show, and a chorus that anchors everything in gratitude: "we've always been down, down". The production sits somewhere between funk and rock, with Hexum's vocals moving from conversational rap to sung melody. The lyrics shift register constantly, mixing street vernacular with self-aware boasting ("we dazzle like ghetto box boomin' battles") and the kind of playful confidence that comes from a band secure in its own oddness. An MTV-rotated video accompanied the single, cementing 311's place as one of the era's more distinctive rock acts.
"Down" is a single by 311, released 1995. Full lyrics are available below.
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