This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Too late, this is not the answer
I need to pack it in
I can't pull your heart together with just my voice alone
A thousand shards of glass I came to meet you in
You cut the peace out of me
And as you ripped it all apart
That's when I turned to watch you
And as the light in you went dark
I saw you turn to shadow
If you would salvage some part of you that once knew love
But I'm losing this
And I'm losing you
Oh I've gotta turn and run
The places that you never see
Oh I've gotta save my blood
From all that you've broken
Pack up these pieces of me
It's too late now to stop the process
This was your choice you let it in
This double life you lead is eating you up from within
A thousand shards of glass you pushed beneath my skin
And left me lying there to bleed
And as you showed my your scars
I only held you closer
But as the light in you went dark I saw you turn over
I wanted always to be there for you and close to you
But I'm losing this
And I'm losing you
Oh I've gotta turn and run
The places that you never see
Oh I've gotta save my blood
From all that you've broken
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces
Maybe without me
You'll return to all the beauty I once knew
But if I stay I know
We will both be drowned by you holding on to me
Oh I've gotta turn and run
From faces that you never see
Oh I've gotta save my blood
From all that you've broken
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces of me
I need to pack it in
I can't pull your heart together with just my voice alone
A thousand shards of glass I came to meet you in
You cut the peace out of me
And as you ripped it all apart
That's when I turned to watch you
And as the light in you went dark
I saw you turn to shadow
If you would salvage some part of you that once knew love
But I'm losing this
And I'm losing you
Oh I've gotta turn and run
The places that you never see
Oh I've gotta save my blood
From all that you've broken
Pack up these pieces of me
It's too late now to stop the process
This was your choice you let it in
This double life you lead is eating you up from within
A thousand shards of glass you pushed beneath my skin
And left me lying there to bleed
And as you showed my your scars
I only held you closer
But as the light in you went dark I saw you turn over
I wanted always to be there for you and close to you
But I'm losing this
And I'm losing you
Oh I've gotta turn and run
The places that you never see
Oh I've gotta save my blood
From all that you've broken
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces
Maybe without me
You'll return to all the beauty I once knew
But if I stay I know
We will both be drowned by you holding on to me
Oh I've gotta turn and run
From faces that you never see
Oh I've gotta save my blood
From all that you've broken
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces
Pack up these pieces of me
Lyrics submitted by EpicNight13, edited by train044, IvyBekket
Broken Pieces Lyrics as written by Fiora Cutler Eicca Toppinen
Lyrics © WARP MUSIC LIMITED, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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To me it seems like a relationship where she is seeing a different side of someone that she fell in love of with. She wants to love him and remember him as she originally saw him, but cant do it. It reminds me of either an abusive relationship or a relatinoship where he was cheating.
You guys are partially correct. This song is about her seeing a darker side of someone she loves, but I don't think it's an abusive relationship or a cheating lover. In fact, I'm not sure it's a lover at all, but perhaps a very close friend. She is trying to cope with a darkness that has overcome this person she loves, a darkness like intense depression or drug abuse. She's realizing that she can't fix this person all by herself, and likewise, the love that she has for this person can fix him/her, and that this person must fix him/herself. She's realizing that she needs to let this person go before his/her darkness consumes her own life.
actually, you're both partially correct, but its actually a little different. <br /> apocalyptica is trying to tell a story through their music videos. there's two versions of the song "not good enough", one feat. brent smith, and one feat. doug robb. they were both cheated on, i think by the same girl. in the music video, there is a girl in a big veil and dramatic dress and she lies there. in the very end of the video, lacey comes and looks over the "cheater" lying there. its the very same clip of the beginning of the video for broken pieces, where lacey comes to look over her and then begins carrying her and dragging her. lacey is representing the cheater, who is her friend, and singing from her point of view about why the she felt the need to cheat: because she felt she was losing him and was seeing a darker side of him. <br /> hope this helped (:
Does anyone else get reminded of the Phantom of the Opera when listening to this song, it fits it almost to a tee. For example: the Phantom fell in love with Christine after hearing her beautiful voice and when Christine first goes into the Phantom's house/cave she is surrounded by mirrors.
Over time, she realizes that he's not as perfect as she had originally thought.
These are the correct lyrics:
Too late, this is not the answer I need to pack it in I can't pull your heart together with just my voice alone A thousand shards of glass I came to meet you in You cut the peace out of me
And as you ripped it all apart That's when I turned to watch you And as the light went in you went dark I saw you turn to shadow If you would salvage some part of you that once knew love But I'm losing this And I'm losing you
Oh I've gotta turn and run From faces that you never see Oh I've gotta save my blood From all that you've broken And pack up these pieces of me
It's too late now to stop the process This was your choice, you let it in This double life you lead is eating you up from within A thousand shards of glass you pushed beneath my skin And left me lying there to bleed
And as you showed my your scars I only held you closer But as the light in you went dark I saw you turn over I wanted always to be there for you, be close to you But I'm losing this And I'm losing you
Oh I've gotta turn and run From faces that you never see Oh I've gotta save my blood From all that you've broken And pack up these pieces of me
Maybe without me You'll return to all the beauty I once knew But If I stay I know we will both be drowned by you holding onto me
Oh I've gotta turn and run From faces that you never see Oh I've gotta save my blood From all that you've broken And pack up these pieces of me
These broken pieces of me These broken pieces of me
secretlyinsane is right. A girl's lover is turning into something else. Like if he has a split personality.One side the girl loves so very much but when he turns over he breaks her into pieces,
"But as the light in you went dark I saw you turn over"
i cant say i love this song because i love every song on my ipod and that would be the only thing that would come out of my mouth.~_~
Yeah those are the lyrics I posted
my thoughts: she's in love with a drug addict and he's changing slowly and completely while the drugs consume him. she's loosing him to the addiction and needs to let go before he pulls her down into his self destruction. his addiction hurts her. they are so toxic together she hopes that if they break up he will get better.