Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sooverthisbs 

Cover art for Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart lyrics by Chris Cornell

I only "joined" song meanings to comment on this particular song otherwise I just want all the sadness, weirdness of this whole thing to go away. And by whole thing I mean Chris Cornell's suicide. First, before anyone dare say he was using heroin again- you need to shush your mouth until toxicology report comes back. Shut your trap! Spreading gossip is ugly and immature.

The song lyrics were written solely by Chris in 2015 so it must have been a current relationship he was involved in or witnessing. The relationship sounds tumultuous. And that it had him on an emotional rollercoaster. "Pulled me like an apple red & ripe" , I don't know? Sounds as if he believes someone was getting this better of him and he felt trapped... "it won't help you to see the light" "every little word upon your lips makes a little cut..." He was struggling to see the value in staying in the relationship...

This was a 52 yr old man. A grown man with many experiences under his belt. He travelled the world. Made a great living doing what he loved. But he wasn't happy, deep down. I hate it when people feel forced to wear a mask or "fake it" so I'm just gonna say it- fame & fortune can't buy you love. And even though, it might have looked like he had it all- maybe he didnt' really feel valued or loved and it crushed him?

That's what I get from this song, personally. Only gets worse when you watch the video he agreed to make about this song, too. It's like he was saying in the video, "I escaped a hanging and married a hag." Then he turned around in real life and flipped the script. Toxicology report not in yet but Chris was deeply sad about something...and those magic pills only pushed him to do the unthinkable.

Those poor children.
This song is HAUNTING. The video only makes it worse.

My Interpretation

@sooverthisbs and handfuls of photographs of someone carrying a rainbow collection of $12,000 hermes purses all over the planet doesn't make me feel any better about my theory. not when i recall "the old chris" of the 1990s in seattle.

@sooverthisbs this is exactly what I was going to write...he escaped the hanging and got married and was like wow this isn't any better, then looks at Eric Roberts limp body longingly. It's so clear now. When he posted the video on Sept 11 2015 he captioned it "watch me hang." And the idea for the video was his. I'm chilled. When I met him in Oct 2015 he seemed awfully thin and I felt concerned. I felt myself staring at his legs b/c they were so thin. I couldn't help it. I feel so bad. He was a great...

@sooverthisbs... Whoops..