We All Bleed is the third and final studio album by American alternative rock band Crossfade. It was released on June 21, 2011 – the band's first album in five years as well as their first album since signing with Eleven Seven Music.
In 2008, after being cut from Columbia Records, lead singer Ed Sloan admitted that he fell into a depression of sorts and began to feel disillusioned with the music industry. He admits "Coming from the success of the first record and losing our way after the second album hit me hard. You get signed, everything is golden and you think it’ll go on forever. After we were dropped, I was consumed with self-doubt. Music had always been my escape, but then music became my enemy. I shut down as a songwriter—and actually, pretty much as a human being."
Lead guitarist and keyboardist Les Hall is credited with rejuvenating Sloan's musical interest and masterminding the recording of We All Bleed. Ed Sloan says that his exile had taken him to a darker place in life and that the songs in We All Bleed would reflect that. Though dealing with harsh realities the band also stated that there is a strong element of positivity in the album that 'gets you ready to face the day'. Sloan and Hall maintain that cutting the ties associated with a major label also helped to charter that new path. "It was a fresh start. We spent two years writing whatever we wanted, with no expectations, no deadline," Sloan says. "Who knew if we would even release another record? It was a blast to have no obligation to copy the past."
Do or die
Can't you feel it in your heart?
Shooting blood under your skin
It's all around you
Do or die
Don't you feel it in your soul?
Blaming me for all that's wrong
Or is it all you?
Do or die
Could have taken them all
Sixteen marks on your skin
Where did I go wrong (Where did I go)
You would choose suicide
I can see it in your eyes
No more pills for you to swallow
And no tomorrow
This hate is bleeding in front of me
Confused and bleeding in front of me
Your life, bleeding in front of me
We all fucking bleed so just let it go
(Let it go)
I was higher inside from the start until the end
So where do I begin? (Where do I begin?)
Another vacant heart dreams of beautiful lies
Filled with emptiness and sorrow
But no tomorrow
This hate is bleeding in front of me
Confused and bleeding in front of me
Your life, bleeding in front of me
We all fucking bleed so let it go
Do or die
Can't you feel it in your heart?
Shooting blood under your skin
It's all around you
Live a lie
So that no one else will know
Don't ever let the blood flow
But it was all for show
Just let it go
Let it go
We're all fucking freaks