| UNKLE – Broken (feat. Gavin Clark) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't really agree with what anyone has put on here... When I first saw the lyrics I immediately thought of being in the trap of drug addiction. I could possibly be taking the words "strung out" too literally, but all of the other lyrics make me think of a heroin addict, such as: "Two thread"--perhaps the two good veins he's got left; same with "strand"--kind of literal and symbolic: he's down to two threads, and when they break, that'll be the end of him. Yet he keeps going back for more. Or perhaps: Two thread score tearing up the floor--"score" (he's either 'tearing up the floor' to score again or he's scored a bit that'll do for now. Out in the alley with the trigger draw--I interpret 'trigger draw' as the plunger of the syringe Numb hands I can see the strand--Maybe he has numb hands because he's got the band (see below) tied very tightly around his arm. It could also just refer to how drugs "numb" you to everything going on around you. Hold it together with a severed band--I just imagine him using an old broken band to tie around his arm before he shoots up The chorus is the only thing that makes me think of some sort of relationship. I think it could quite possibly be referring to a relationship with someone in his life that has been adversely affected by his drug addiction. "We're miles adrift we're inches apart"--they could be sitting right next to each other but they are completely distanced from one another because the drugs always come first. I'm hit I can feel the grit--Now he's just shot up/took a "hit" Sat in the asher on the beaten brick--like he's out in an alley somewhere again, not really caring where he is or what he's sitting in. Two thread main running through the vein--the drugs running through his vein; a "main highwway" of sorts? Out in the centre with a mirrored cane--I'm kind of stumped by "mirrored cane"; any ideas? Stood up on the side of the earth--he tries to get back up again and go clean Thrown back to the track to the dirt--but the addiction always gets him Two thread, lose an hour a day--this either means he getting closer and closer to dying or that he spends so much time looking for another score that he's basically losing time to attend to other important things in his life (e.g. relationships with family, girlfriend, friends) And then when he says "I'm over I'm over I'm over I'm broken"--He realizes the huge detrimental effect that his drug use is having on his life and his health; it's broken him, but he can't overcome it. It's like he's decided to give up, or that he's become completely consumed by the drug and has no identity or purpose in life anymore. Hold it together, with a severed band--I think this last line is more symbolic, like he's trying to "hold it together", but the band is severed Can't feel the blood--the drugs make him so numb to everything that he can no longer feel emotions, pain, or even his own blood running through his veins--maybe as if he has replaced his own blood with the drugs. This is a really dark and powerful song, and I always have this image of a junkie out in the alley in the wee hours of the morning ("wings of the dawn")...but I really love this song and could listen to it over and over again. I love UNKLE! |
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