Chalk Outline

The lead single album for their fourth album, Transit of Venus. Released August 14, 2012. It reached number 1 on the US Active Rock Chart for 10 weeks and won the "Rock Song of the Year" award. Written by Adam Gontier, Neil Sanderson, Brad Walst, Barry Stock, and Craig Wiseman. This song was released six years after the death of Machiko Soga, three years after the death of Wayne Allwine, and seven years after the death Joe Ranft.

Music video
A lyric video, which shows the lyrics over a clip of a man walking around a city. Also a unofficial video was released on October 5 of Adam Gontier walking through a city, singing to the camera while passing band members on the way, ending with the four of them meeting in a dark room and performing the song. The video directed by Shane Drake.

Lyrics
I've been cursed

I've been crossed

I've been beaten by the ones that get me off

I've been cut

I've been opened up

I've been shattered by the ones I thought I loved

You left me here like a chalk outline

On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away

Wash away

You keep coming back to the scene of the crime

But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway

All you left behind

Is a chalk outline

I've been cold

In the crypt

But not as cold as the words across your lips

You'll be sorry baby

Someday

As you reach across the bed

Where my body used to lay

You left me here like a chalk outline

On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away

Wash away

You keep coming back to the scene of the crime

But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway

All you left behind

Is a chalk outline

All you left behind

Is a chalk outline

All you left behind

You left me here like a chalk outline

On the sidewalk waiting for the rain to wash away

Wash away

You keep coming back to the scene of the crime

But the dead can't speak and there's nothing left to say anyway

All you left behind

Is a chalk outline