Cracked and Torn

Story Behind The Song

Ashei are from Christchurch, New Zealand, which suffered a horrendous natural disaster in the form of a series of earthquakes in 2010/2011 which tore the city apart, destroying over 50% of the buildings, and killing over 100 people. Everyone in the city was affected by this disaster, and it was understandly huge fuel for the creative fire. "Cracked and Torn" draws on the feelings of seeing their world literally collapse around them and turns it in to a metaphor about a finding support in a relationship when you're in a dark place.

Song Description

An ethereal epic lead by a female vocalist with themes of love, struggle, relationships with comparative imagery of a city torn apart by natural disaster. Featuring a full rock band line up accompanied by an orchestra, even as an instrumental this song is highly emotive and dramatic.

Song Length 3:53 Genre Rock - Modern, Pop - Rock
Tempo Slow (71 - 90) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Heartbreaking, Anxious Subject Disasters, Relationship
Similar Artists Paramore, 30 Seconds To Mars Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

A ceiling of blue waits for you / behind locked doors it can be yours / you lay a monument of shattered stone / you've found a home but you can't let go / I wanna feel the sunlight warm my skin / pick my feet up off the ground and run out of this town / forget the future for just one day / let my journey slowly spill on to an empty page / when I'm cracked and torn would you face it too? / when I can't go on would you make it through? / Drive through the flood to make it home to find all that remains is an unfamiliar place / colours fade / pillars break / our palace of dust has blown away / I am built to break so know I'll have to take from you

Lyrics Liam Muir Music Ashei; Liam Muir, Emma Cameron, Daniel Perry, Curtis Booth
Producer Ashei, Matthew Bartlem Performance Ashei
Label Ashei
Clean Clean

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