Hair of the dog-the proper way to remove a song like this is to drown it out with a bunch of similar sounding songs. You need to drown yourself in milquetoast edgy wannabe music. Dig real deep into Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Disturbed and other alternative bands. But don’t stop there-dig deeper into the forgotten bands and the one hit wonders-the Trapts, the Alien Ant Farms, the Hoobastanks and Simple Plans. Obsessively listen to not just the hits, but the forgotten albums and filler tracks that nobody remembers or speaks of. At the end of your musical odyssey, alternative music should be a blur-a hazy mediocre blur of novices believing they are the first to discover the ‘harsh truths of the world,’ of men acting like they are the only people in the world who feel suffering and agony, the bellyaching of a thousand angry white boys blended into a monotonous drone-and you will have forgotten what exactly that Vertical Horizon song sounds like, lost in a sea of ten thousand other forgettable alternative songs.
That should do it.