Seether Songs - Broken Lyrics

Seether - Broken

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Album: The Punisher soundtrack
Released: 2004

Broken Lyrics

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I want to hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph, and I know it serves me well
I want to hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm Broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you've gone away
You've gone away,
You don't feel me here anymore

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I want to hold you high, and steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I want to hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
You've gone away,
You don't feel me here anymore

Writer/s: DALE WILLIAM STEWART, SHAUN MORGAN WELGEMOED
Publisher: RESERVOIR MEDIA MANAGEMENT INC
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Broken

Seether lead singer Shaun Morgan wrote this song, which deals with the pain of leaving someone behind. He explained in 2004: "I wrote it two-and-a-half years ago for my daughter, she was just born and I had to come to the States (from South Africa) and I wrote the lyrics for her, it's about leaving somebody behind, you know that is really painful to do, and ultimately you're looking to the future saying 'we'll see each other again and everything will be fine.'"

Seether originally recorded this on their 2002 CD Disclaimer. The hit version, which was released on the soundtrack to the movie The Punisher in 2004, featured Seether frontman Shaun Morgan's girlfriend at the time, Amy Lee, who was enjoying tremendous success with her band Evanescence. In addition to adding vocals, Lee helped arrange the orchestra on the new version.

In 2013, Morgan told us how he felt about the new version: "It wasn't really my idea to do that. We had done it as a duet live a couple of times, and it was always something that I was willing to try. Originally we were open to try that and end up doing the acoustic version, but having it sort of be a milder, more mellow version of what eventually became the single. And our label, obviously, they smelled dollars. So they sent us into the studio and we did that version.

There are times when I'm quite proud of that version, but other times when I feel like I should have just stuck with my guns and kept the original version of the way I prefer it. But in 2004 we didn't have any say at our record company, so it was mostly a lot of decisions were made for us and we just went with them.

But I wrote the string parts at the end of it, and I think that's great. So it was a little different for us. I don't think I ever imagined it to be quite so soundtrack, epic-y sounding. I would have preferred for it to be what the vulnerability that we wrote it with was. But it's done now." (Here's our full interview with Shaun Morgan .)

This song was a big breakthrough for Seether, but it didn't represent their sound, which is much more hard rock. In an April 2009 interview with Recoil , Morgan explained: "We made the mistake of being a band that has a gold album that collaborates with a band that has a ten-times platinum album. That’s a big mistake. We should have met up with somebody more on our level and seen what would happen. I don’t know. Obviously it’s done huge things for us and it was amazing for us. I think if we collaborate again it will be with someone who is on par with us rather than someone who is a megastar and we get to hear all the crap about how we used them for fame and glory."