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Scott Alan Stapp (born Anthony Scott Flippen ; August 8, 1973) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and philanthropist best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Creed, of which he is a founding member. His debut solo album, The Great Divide, was released in 2005. A second album, Between Lust and Love, is currently in production. In addition to his career as a musician, Stapp is also an author, currently at work on a memoir that will be published in October 2012.
Despite various controversies and criticisms, Stapp is recognized as one of the most successful artists of the modern rock era and has won numerous awards and accolades including a Grammy Award for Creed's song "With Arms Wide Open" and numerous RIAA certifications. In 2006, Hit Parader ranked Stapp as the 68th greatest heavy metal vocalist of all time.
Stapp was born as Anthony Scott Flippen on August 8, 1973 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, to his mother Lynda, a school teacher and his biological father, about whom little is known. He was adopted by Steven Stapp, a dentist who married Scott's mother, and decided to take his stepfather's last name. However, upon realizing that his initials would spell out the word "ass," he took his middle name as his first and took the name he is now known as, Scott Alan Stapp. Stapp grew up in a very religious household because his stepfather was a Pentecostal minister; when punished, he would be forced to copy passages from the Bible. At one point, he grew so desperate to seek freedom from the strict rules of his religious stepfather that he snuck out of his home in the middle of the night and stayed at a friend's house for a month before finally returning home. In an attempt to impress his stepfather, he attended Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, but he was expelled for smoking marijuana. He subsequently attended Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, Tallahassee Community College, and finally Florida State University.
Hey
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you see when your eyes look at me
Tell me what you dream
Tell me this is all that you dreamed it could be
Do you believe?
Chorus:
Real love
Much deeper than precious blood
It can stain
It can hurt
It's a fire that forever burns
Real love
A little Heaven and a piece of us
And I just can't get enough
Real love
Real love
Hey
Have you ever been betrayed
Do you ever feel that you made a mistake
That's the risk you take
When it's love, all your fears go away
Don't be afraid
Chorus:
Real love
Much deeper than precious blood
It can stain
It can hurt
It's a fire that forever burns
Real love
A little Heaven and a piece of us
And I just can't get enough
Real love
Real love
(Solo)
Hey
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you see when your eyes look at me
Chorus:
Real love
Much deeper than precious blood
It can stain
It can hurt
It's a fire that forever burns
Real love
A little Heaven and a piece of us
And I just can't get enough
Real love
Real love
Real love