Covers and Parodies
- Boyce Avenue covered this song and posted on youtube with the video reaching over 6,300,000 views.
- Staind covered this song.
- Norwegian comedian Kristian Valen recorded a parody of the song, entitled "My Mom's Wide Open." It featured a music video with an elderly woman running around the forest naked.
- Christian comedian Tim Hawkins wrote a parody of the song called "My Arms Are Broken."
- Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters recorded a humorous cover of the song in which he imitates Scott Stapp's distinctive voice.
Read more about this topic: With Arms Wide Open
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
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