Broken
Embracing the Pieces: Finding Harmony Amidst Breakage
Lyrics
Once you were a straight shot, a shiny quarter in a new slot,
Metaphorical reference to a person losing their simplicity and becoming more complex or troubled.
Night would keep the dreams that you got for afternoon
Night symbolizes a time for dreams and aspirations, but they are lost or deferred until later in the day.
Then telling the truth got so hard, we were dancing in the backyard,
Difficulty in being truthful leads to a moment of joy or celebration in the past.
Once I knew the end and the start, but now that's through
Reflection on the clarity of knowing the beginning and end of situations, which is now no longer the case.
Now you're broken and you don't understand
Expressing a state of emotional brokenness and confusion.
What is broken falls into place once again
Suggests that understanding and resolution can emerge from brokenness.
So morning comes to clean up like nothing happened when your heart stopped,
Morning is portrayed as a time for renewal, emphasizing the apparent normalcy after a heartbreak.
Like all the lawyers calling all cops to wave days through
Comparing the aftermath of emotional turmoil to a chaotic situation involving lawyers and police.
Just close your eyes for this long, something's mixed up and something's gone,
Encouragement to temporarily escape reality by closing one's eyes, acknowledging the confusion and loss.
Only fingers can you count on, and one leaves two
Highlighting the limited reliability of certain relationships, where only fingers can be trusted, and losing one means losing two.
Now you're broken and you don't understand
Reiteration of emotional brokenness and the inability to comprehend it.
What is broken falls into place once again
Reaffirmation that brokenness can lead to a reorganization and healing of oneself.
And it's these most loved losses, they are just old coin tosses,
Losses that are most cherished are described as random like coin tosses and challenging to bear.
And these most loved losses are the hardest to carry
Emphasizes the difficulty of carrying the weight of deeply cherished losses.
I wish I were a freeway laid out clearer than a bright day
Expressing a desire for a clear and straightforward path in life.
I'd run wide open down this causeway like brand new
Imagining an ideal scenario where love flows freely and openly.
Singing louder than the whole block, all my love would be a straight shot
Desiring a love that is direct and unobstructed.
Night would dream the dreams that I got, and so would you
Extending the wish for dreams to be shared with a partner.
But I'm broken and I don't understand
Personal acknowledgment of being broken and struggling to comprehend the situation.
What is broken falls into place once again
Reiteration that brokenness can lead to a renewed sense of order and healing.
Hand of kindness, come and gather me in like a rainstorm,
Invoking the metaphor of a rainstorm as a comforting and cleansing force.
Again and again and again,
Repeated plea for kindness and support, akin to the recurrence of rainstorms.
I think I will break but I mend
Expressing vulnerability and the expectation of mending despite feeling on the brink of breaking.
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