This song is loosely based on a conversation I had with our old bass player Alex. He was living by himself that summer and since he spent a lot of his time in our area of town due to his summer job, we hung out a lot. This particular conversation was one where we talked about people we'd known as we were growing up, who's lives had fallen apart. In many of these cases, they'd started out with so much talent, but for some reason things just hadn't worked out. While I could have speculated why this had happened, I thought I could communicate the weight of the problem if I focused mainly on the sadness I felt for these people. Run (Shattered and Twisted) is another one of those songs that sat around nearly finished for a long time. It was close to being finished in August 2005 and then when we decided to redo the album and add four new songs, I brought it out and added the bridge. To me at least, the bridge completed the song and harmonically, I really thought it added a depth that reflected the lyrics." - Nathan Piché (Article One)
This song is loosely based on a conversation I had with our old bass player Alex. He was living by himself that summer and since he spent a lot of his time in our area of town due to his summer job, we hung out a lot. This particular conversation was one where we talked about people we'd known as we were growing up, who's lives had fallen apart. In many of these cases, they'd started out with so much talent, but for some reason things just hadn't worked out. While I could have speculated why this had happened, I thought I could communicate the weight of the problem if I focused mainly on the sadness I felt for these people. Run (Shattered and Twisted) is another one of those songs that sat around nearly finished for a long time. It was close to being finished in August 2005 and then when we decided to redo the album and add four new songs, I brought it out and added the bridge. To me at least, the bridge completed the song and harmonically, I really thought it added a depth that reflected the lyrics." - Nathan Piché (Article One)