3AM is a song by Matchbox Twenty, written by lead singer Rob Thomas. Thomas has stated that the songs lyrics are inspired by his feelings of helplessness and agony while he was caring for his mother who was battling cancer.
She says it's cold outside and hands me her raincoat She's always worried about things like that Well, she says it's all gonna end and it might as well be my fault And she only sleeps while it's raining And she screams and her voice is straining
She says baby It's 3 AM, I must be lonely And she says baby Well, I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes And the rain's gonna wash away, I believe it
She's got a little bit of something, God it's better than nothing And in her color portrait world she believes that she's got it all And she swears that the moon don't hang quite as high as it used to And she only sleeps when it's raining And she screams, and her voice is straining
And she says baby It's 3 AM, I must be lonely Well, heaven she says baby Well, I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes And the rain's gonna wash away, I believe this
She believes that life isn't made up of all that she used to And the clock on the wall has been stuck at three for days and days She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway, yeah But outside it's stopped raining
Yeah, she says baby Well, it's 3 AM, I must be lonely Well, heaven she says baby Well, I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes And the rain's gonna wash away, I believe... thi-is Well, it's 3 AM, I must be lonely Well, heaven she says baby Well, I can't help but be scared of it all sometimes