Hemorrhage (In My Hands)

Carl Bell explained "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" on an episode of VH1 Storytellers in 2001 stating: "This is as deep as it goes, for me. When I was younger, my grandmother got cancer. By the time they found it, it was much too late. Instead of sitting in some hospital, she wanted to go home and be home. And my mother and my aunts and their husbands went to sit with her at home. A few months passed, and the cancer had spread, it had eaten up most of her body and all of her hope, and it was a bad time. One particular day was a really bad day for her. My mother was sitting with her that evening, and she turned to my mom, and said, 'How do you die?' It crushed my mom, and it's still crushing for me." This initial version of the song was never recorded because it was too personal for Bell. {{cite web|title=VH1 Storytellers: Fuel| website=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8Zr5DalKo|access-date=August 10, 2022}}

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| quote = [The first verse] deals with the male point of view of a relationship that you've gotten burned on, and the person has come back to you. But by then, there's been damage beyond repair. The second verse kind of shows the vulnerability of the girl... It's always an interesting situation and a pretty wrenching one as well.{{cite magazine |last=Pesselnick |first=Jill |date=September 16, 2000 |title=THE MODERN AGE Carl Bell interview|magazine=Billboard|volume=112|issue=38|page=83 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA83 |access-date=August 12, 2011}}

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The music video for "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" was directed by Nigel Dick and was filmed between August 1–2, 2000 at Kitchener City Hall in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada and features Fuel performing as well as Nick Koppell and Szilvia Jones playing a couple.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nigeldick.com/films/productions-2000/|title = Productions 2000}} The red car is a 1971 Buick Riviera.

1. "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
2. "Easy"
3. "Stripped Away"
4. "Going to California" (Led Zeppelin cover, written by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant)

• Brett Scallions - Vocals
• Carl Bell - Guitar, Backing vocals
• Jeff Abercrombie - Bass
• Kevin Miller - Drums
• Ben Grosse - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Tom Baker - Mastering

The song was Billboard magazine's number five Rock Song of the Decade, according to their Best of the 2000s Rock Songs chart.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/charts#/charts-decade-end/rock-songs?year=2009&begin=1&order=position |title=Billboard Best of the 2000s Rock Songs chart |magazine=Billboard |access-date=June 5, 2011}} In 2023, for the 35th anniversary of Alternative Airplay,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/alternative-airplay-chart-35th-anniversary-foo-fighters-all-time-low-rule-1235408126/|title=Alternative Airplay Chart's 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, 'Monsters' New Top Song|last=Rutherford|first=Kevin|magazine=Billboard|date=September 7, 2023|access-date=November 1, 2023}} Billboard published a list of the top 100 most successful songs in the history of the chart; "Hemorrhage" was ranked at number 12.{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006001750/https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-alternative-songs/|title=Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs|archive-date=October 6, 2023|access-date=November 1, 2023|url-status=live|magazine=Billboard}}

Chris Daughtry performed this song on American Idol as a fifth season contestant in early 2006, which was during the period after longtime singer and guitarist Brett Scallions had left the group, prompting Fuel bassist Jeff Abercrombie and guitarist and songwriter Carl Bell to publicly ask Daughtry to be their new lead singer on the television show Extra.{{cite news|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/05/12/entertainment/e023446D94.DTL |last=Hartsoe |first=Steve |title=Chris Daughtry Gets Job Offer From Fuel |date=May 12, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118224322/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2006%2F05%2F12%2Fentertainment%2Fe023446D94.DTL |archive-date=January 18, 2008 |access-date=August 12, 2011 |url-status=dead }} On the show, Abercrombie stated: "Chris, if you are watching, we've talked about this before, and if you want to entertain it again we'll take it and go..." Daughtry, although flattered, eventually declined the offer, opting to form his own band, Daughtry, instead.{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Angels & Devils - Fuel {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/angels-devils-mw0000481150|access-date=August 12, 2011|publisher=AllMusic}}

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