Story Behind The Song

Eric says: This is another one I didn?t know what to do with for a long time. I think the train of thought went ?no ideas + effects pod + flanger + phaser = completed song?. I tried a lot of stuff for this song that we didn?t use, including tapping a ball

Song Description

Simon says: I wrote this song just after my solo EP/demo and about the same time as Ice-Blue Eyes. An overly dramatic song in many ways, but there aren't that many songs that are as totally depressing as this one, so I thought, "Why not?" It's the Humpty

Lyrics

Broken Man

My eyes are closed to sleep
I'm drowning in your deep
You plunged me into dark
And walked off with my heart

I'm a broken man
?Cos I've done everything I can
My fate is carved in stone, I'll walk away alone
There?ll be no second chance
You refuse to dance
I'm a broken man
'Cos no-one, no-one gives a damn

I may as well give in
There's no way I can win
I'm sick of my own voice
You took my only choice
My breath will slip away
A zombie walks by day
Disdain your sharpest knife
You took away my life

I'm a broken man
?Cos I've done everything I can
My fate is carved in stone, I'll walk away alone
There?ll be no second chance
You refuse to dance
I'm a broken man
?Cos no-one, no-one gives a damn

And all my friends will be so kind
Telling me some day I will find
Everything bad will lead to good
I wouldn't change it if I could
They'll say these scars will fade away
Along with the price I had to pay
But in the mirror I'll still see
An empty space that once held me

I'm a broken man
?Cos I've done everything I can
My fate is carved in stone, I'll walk away alone
There?ll be no second chance
You refuse to dance
I'm a broken man
?Cos no-one, no-one gives a damn
?Cos no-one gives a damn