“45” is a track off of Shinedown’s 2003 album Leave A Whisper. Many people portray the song to be about suicide, but the song is actually about hope, to fight against the odds. Shinedown’s lead singer Brent Smith told Foundry Music:

I think a lot of people kind of take a literal sense because of the lyrics – but the song is basically about the day that you wake up and you look at yourself in the mirror and you finally decide that you want to try to become comfortable in your own skin and realize that you’re gonna have to make yourself happy before you’re going to make anyone else happy.