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- Awesome Music:
- The "From Out of Nowhere" cover. It's faithful to the original song, yet still has a definite FFDP flavor to it. Beautiful.
- "Under and Over It". Just... THAT FREAKING SONG.
- "Lift Me Up" may be their best work yet. They got Rob friggin' Halford to sing on the track, and he showed he's still got it after all these years.
- Their very first single "The Bleeding"—an all out epic ballad with an acoustic version that is equally masterful.
- Covered Up: "Bad Company" was not by them—it was by Bad Company off of their album Bad Company.
- Don't Shoot the Message: “Gone Away”, a deeply personal song written by The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland not too long after his then-wife was nearly killed in a gang shootout, was covered by 5FDP on ‘’And Justice for None’’, who instead interpret it as a tribute to families who've lost family members to war, which is hammered home by the song's music video. While most fans won’t argue with the core message, more than a few listeners took issue with what they saw as 5FDP "inserting politics" into an originally deeply personal song.
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: Let's be honest, would they receive half of the hate they get today if they didn't become mainstream?
- Narm: Some of their lyrics cross the line of badassery into just plain corny. It's part of their appeal to some fans.
- The spoken bridge in "War Is the Answer":You want to disrespect me, you little fucking punk?
Everything I've done to be who I am, as far as I've fucking come.
I'll slap you so fucking hard, it'll feel like you kissed a freight train.
Fuck you. - The spoken bridge in "Never Enough".In the end, we're all just chalk outlines on the concrete.
Drawn only to be washed away.
For the time that I've been given, I am what I am. - "Hard to See" is a decent song, except for the lyrics, which are melodramatic as all hell.
- Their cover of "Mama Said Knock You Out" is quite narmy. The original works as a hip hop number, but having the song in a metal style with growl-rapped vocals is unintentionally hilarious. Then there's the guitar solo that sounds like it's being remixed on a turntable.
- Most of their material since at least Got Your Six is nothing but Moody complaining about how he hates everything and how everything hates him. It's completely prominent in And Justice for None.
- The spoken bridge in "War Is the Answer":
- Signature Song: "Bad Company", "Under and Over It", "Remember Everything", "Coming Down", "House of the Rising Sun", "Wrong Side of Heaven", "Jekyll and Hyde", "Blue on Black"
- Tear Jerker:
- "Far from Home". It appears to be told from the perspective of a weary soldier.
- "Remember Everything". It's a song about singer Ivan Moody's strained relationship with his parents
- "Coming Down". It's a song about being bullied and feeling suicidal. The video for the song is especially effective.
- "Battle Born," which was written as a response to the fact the band members had been touring almost non-stop for 2 years, barely getting a break to see their families and leaving them mentally and physically exhausted. The lyrics play out like someone who's been through so much hardship that they feel like their losing their heart and becoming emotionally distant to the world. Even some of the band's detractors are known to say that this song at least is "not bad."
- The video for "Wrong Side of Heaven" is pretty heartbreaking. Watch it here
. - "The Bleeding" is all about how painful breakups can be.
- "I Apologize" is Ivan begging forgiveness from everyone he hurt through his alcoholism, and a promise to move forward. The music video is the real kicker, depicting a shovel-toting Ivan wandering through a cemetery of famous musicians who died from overdoses/acoholism (among them are Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Bon Scott, and Lemmy Kilmister), digging his own grave, and ultimately abandoning his liquor flask in the pit and walking away.
