Creed - With Arms Wide Open (New Version With Strings) from With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective

With Arms Wide Open: A Retrospective, a 3CD 40 song set including the radio hits, rarities, acoustic versions and demos from the Creed vaults, officially collected here for the first time.



Disc One is an all-new Best Of featuring the 16 official singles from all four of Creed’s studio albums. The album is sequenced chronologically and includes currently unavailable radio edits where possible. Creed was the first band in history to chart seven consecutive #1 Rock Radio singles.



Best Of : The Singles

01 My Own Prison [Radio Edit]

02 Torn [Radio Edit]

03 What's This Life For [Album Edit – Clean]

04 One [Radio Edit]

05 What If [Radio Edit]

06 Higher [Top 40 Version]

07 With Arms Wide Open [New Version with Strings]

08 Are You Ready?

09 My Sacrifice [Radio Edit]

10 Bullets

11 One Last Breath [Radio Version]

12 Don't Stop Dancing

13 Weathered [Edit]

14 Overcome

15 Rain [Pop Mix]

16 A Thousand Faces [Radio Edit]



Disc Two officially collects for the first time on one disc all the soundtrack hits, the two The Doors rarities and three never before released demos, “Why”, “Blistered” (from the My Own Prison sessions) and “More Than This” (from the Full Circle sessions).



Rarities & Demos

01 To Whom It May Concern

02 Is This the End [Scream Edit]

03 Bound and Tied

04 Young Grow Old

05 Silent Teacher

06 I'm Eighteen

07 Roadhouse Blues [Live at Woodstock '99]

08 Riders on the Storm

09 Blistered [Demo]

10 More Than This [Demo]

11 Why [Demo]



Disc Three includes a legacy selection of the available studio and various live acoustic versions, newly re-mastered.



Acoustic

01 My Sacrifice [Live Acoustic]

02 My Own Prison [Acoustic Version – Extended]

03 Don't Stop Dancing [Acoustic Version #3]

04 With Arms Wide Open [Acoustic Version]

05 What’s This Life For [Alternate Version – Clean]

06 Rain [Live Acoustic]

07 My Own Prison [Live Acoustic]

08 With Arms Wide Open [Live Acoustic]

09 Overcome [Live Acoustic]

10 One [Live Acoustic]

11 Torn [Live Acoustic]

12 Higher [Live Acoustic]

13 To Whom It May Concern [Live Acoustic]



LYRICS



Well I just heard the news today

It seems my life is going to change

I close my eyes, begin to pray

Then tears of joy stream down my face



With arms wide open

Under the sunlight

Welcome to this place

I'll show you everything

With arms wide open

With arms wide open



Well I don't know if I'm ready

To be the man I have to be

I'll take a breath, I'll take her by my side

We stand in awe, we've created life



With arms wide open

Under the sunlight

Welcome to this place

I'll show you everything

With arms wide open

Now everything has changed

I'll show you love

I'll show you everything



With arms wide open

With arms wide open

I'll show you everything, oh yeah

With arms wide open, wide open



If I had just one wish

Only one demand

I hope he's not like me

I hope he understands

That he can take this life

And hold it by the hand

And he can greet the world

With arms wide open



With arms wide open

Under the sunlight

Welcome to this place

I'll show you everything

With arms wide open

Now everything has changed

I'll show you love

I'll show you everything

With arms wide open

With arms wide open



I'll show you everything, oh yeah

With arms wide open, wide open



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