It can be found on the deluxe edition, though. Leave a Whisper was supposed to have a song entitled "Leave a Whisper," but it was scrapped.
"Sound of Madness" for The Sound of Madness, more or less. It can create some Mood Whiplash when listening to their albums straight through, going from "The Sound of Madness" right into "Second Chance", or from "My Name (Wearing Me Out)" into "Through the Ghost". Surprisingly Gentle Song: These guys are equally legendary for both their high-energy rock songs and their tender songs about grief or love. A less straightforward example is "Bully" off of Amaryllis which is meant to be an anthem for those who have been victimized by bullying. Probably half of their major hits are breakup songs. Songs of Solace: One of the band's specialties. You can sleep with a gun/but when you gonna wake up and fight/for yourself Sink-or-Swim Mentor: The entire song "Sound of Madness" is sung from the point of view of one. "Bully" is a nontraditional example, urging the bullied to band together and outnumber the bullies of the world and predicting a lonely death for the villains of the piece. "The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Monsters" from Attention Attention is about admitting the difficulties of a personal struggle that's hurt other people. The music video takes this to absurd lengths with the band beating the shit out of each other. Quarreling Song: "Enemies" from Amaryllis is a big intra-band argument about their odds of success now that they have a platinum album. Amaryllis: "Nowhere Kids" and "My Name (Wearing Me Out)". The Sound of Madness: "Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide" and "The Energy". Precision F-Strike: While Shinedown's music is generally devoid of swearing, each album from The Sound of Madness onwards has at least one use of profanity that warrants an explicit label. Playing the Heart Strings: "Crow and the Butterfly" from The Sound of Madness, a heartbreaking piece about a mother trying to move on after the death of her son. 
Painful Rhyme: "Diamond Eyes" gives us this gem:. Amaryllis actually has a couple of love songs on it, and people have actually danced to "I'll Follow You" at their weddings. Compare to their previous platinum-selling album, The Sound of Madness, which contained several grief and breakup songs. New Sound Album: Not a huge departure, exactly, but Amaryllis has a more hopeful and bright sound than the three albums that come before it. Maybe the best examples come from "Fly From the Inside" off of Leave a Whisper or "Enemies" off of Amaryllis. Metal Scream: More common earlier in their career, but Brent Smith can still let out a window-pane-rattling blast when he needs to. It's a particularly sad piece, even for the album it comes from, about a man who has been kicked out of his lover's life and finds himself wondering how it got that way. Lonely Piano Piece: Several examples, most notably "Call Me" off of The Sound of Madness. Laser-Guided Karma: "Bully" proclaims this to follow the song's bully as a result of his actions. Considering it's the soundtrack for a Band of Brothers mercenaries who've been through a lot such as The Expendables, it fits. Knight in Sour Armor: One could take the POV character of the song "Diamond Eyes" as this. She's later rescued by an unrelated person who is implied to routinely track down and rescue kidnapped victims as a hobby/second job. I Have Your Wife: The music video for "Sound of Madness" features a kidnapped little girl, who is being held for ransom. Heterosexual Life-Partners: Lead singer Brent Smith and lead guitarist Zach Myers. The most straightfoward example is probably "Crow and the Butterfly," but there are a ton of examples of the "bad breakup" variety including "If You Only Knew" and "Call Me" just to name a couple. No ones gonna cry / On the very day you die
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