Easy to understand. Basically it's a song about a man who loved a girl who broke his heart; this made him suffer so much at the beginning. We can understand that this girl must have broke many hearts, and the narrator explains that this experience made him cynical. Maybe he renounced to believe in true love or something like that.
The fact that "only the broken hearts make you beautiful" might be a common conception that some girls are pretty famous just because they had a lot of men. It could be even more cynical and negative: a girl who had a lot of men is called "beautiful" by other men because basically she's kind of a whore.
Easy to understand. Basically it's a song about a man who loved a girl who broke his heart; this made him suffer so much at the beginning. We can understand that this girl must have broke many hearts, and the narrator explains that this experience made him cynical. Maybe he renounced to believe in true love or something like that. The fact that "only the broken hearts make you beautiful" might be a common conception that some girls are pretty famous just because they had a lot of men. It could be even more cynical and negative: a girl who had a lot of men is called "beautiful" by other men because basically she's kind of a whore.