Scott Stapp honours Chester Bennington & Chris Cornell on poignant song 'Gone Too Soon'

Creed frontman Scott Stapp has remembered Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Prince on his powerful new track ‘Gone Too Soon’.

Lifted from his first solo album in six years, ‘The Space Between The Shadows’, ‘Gone Too Soon’ speaks about unexpected tragedies and the solace in honouring those lost, vowing to help others, and the promise of reuniting in the hereafter.

The sentiment applies to late music legends – including Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Prince – as well as near-daily headlines about fallen soldiers and victims of violence, PTSD, and/or addiction.

Stapp told Billboard: "Somewhere around the time Chester passed, and we had already been reeling from Cornell's passing, I was flipping through the news and saw the suicide rate for (U.S. military) vets was skyrocketing, and all these people are OD-ing from heroin, drug addictions, opioids. The school shootings.

“It was just a collection of things that all hit me at once. So, it was inspired by a series of events that just came together to impact me as a human being, all at once.”

The poignant visualizer video features archive clips of Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell and Prince, together with soldiers in war zones, mass graves and other powerful imagery.

Scott Stapp’s highly personal new album ‘The Space Between The Shadows’ is released via Napalm Records on Friday 19th July 2019.

The ‘Gone Too Soon’ lyrics are as follows:

So heavy I hit the floor

My heart is shaken and torn

Can’t catch my breath don’t know what to feel

My tears are starting to burn

I scream it wasn’t your turn

I can’t believe it, this can’t be real

Gone too soon, my friend

I know you’re dancing with angels on the wind

It’s not the end

Until I reach forever

And were together

You will always be

Gone too soon

A heart with love left to give

A soul with life left to live

So full of colour, not one defined you

I wish I had one more day

So much that I’d want to say

So much that I didn’t take the time too

Still can’t believe that it’s true

Still can’t believe that it’s you

• Creed