Lyric discussion by iLikeToEat 

Cover art for Broken Jaw lyrics by Foster the People

Still dont know why this only has 5 comments at the time of me writing this, its the best song they have.

This song is about a lot, a broken jaw is from saying something you regret and often you are soft spoken afterwards.(but why is he saying this stuff...read on)

''Ive broken it a lot, all the words come out of my broken jaw, i dont know anything but then I act like I know everything'' Hes said a lot he regrets and still does say it, he doesnt know anything but acts like he does.

''Dont wanna talk about it, what do you see when you dream about it, well I have been broke down from my enemies, Im drifting farther from my memories'' He doesnt want to talk about what hes saying(its just coming out with out his control or he doesnt want to explain his meaning behind his words). Some one else is asking what he sees when he dreams about it(hallucinates about it). Hes been broken down from his enemies, his problems, and now hes drifting farther and farther from the reality he once was in, hes in his new reality.

''Then you take it away...'' These lyrics are hard to understand in the song, the lyrics on here don't really sound like what hes saying but thats interesting in it self. The lyrics here state that ''everyday im talking cause i can ready you'' He might be talking to them, trying to get them to hear his voice and wake up from the hallucinations(not a coma, not a bad habbit) Hes up, hes making progress back to reality but then he comes back down...back farther away from awakening. Watches on his sides because hes laying down and cant wake up.

''you tell me whats my name, im the same ive just been rearranged. Smile through a choke inside, yeah Ive been hiding with nothing to hide'' Some ones asking whats his name, to see if he even realizes hes in the real world or in his hallucinations...He says hes the same, the same name...but he is different. Rearranged. He smiles through it but hes choking on the inside because of situation(both people are doing this possibly) Hes been hiding from this problems, which now are what hes reliving in this, and he didnt need to hide them in the first place, the problems were nothing for him to hide.

''Sometimes you find your self waiting waiting for some one to come around and its hopeless hoping to be found. Then it arrives and says 'youre perfect my love' and i know why'' Hes waiting for some one to come wake him up, maybe his past lover, maybe any one...hes feeling hopeless. Hes stuck in the trip. Then some one, something, some sign says ''youre perfect'' you dont need to worry about the problems, or issues that you are stuck on. He says that he knows why they said ''youre perfect''(maybe he thinks they have different feelings than what they really are) but they tell him that he doesnt know why(its not the same feelings)

''just take it away with your mind and heal my broken jaw, youre still my hero, what you need is dying and youre sad'' Take away the pain hallucinations and problems with your mind because everything is truly mind over matter...foster sounds like he says ''you slay my hero'' but thats interesting in it self. What they need is for him to come back from this hallucination but he isnt, hes dying(regressing further into it) and they're sad.

I'd like to ad to the ''And then you take it away..." section

"Everyday im fighting because I cant leave it" The drug, he can not leave. Its either addiction or hes in a trip and he cant wake up but hes trying.

"Then I feel the weight, then I come back down" He starts to feel the weight of the real world(maybe real world stress? or just the weight of gravity because hes coming out of the trip back into real world physics and bla bla) but he goes back into the trip or maybe addiction(im...