[Intro]

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.”

Ernest Hemingway (a farewell to arms)

This is the unauthorized autobiography...

[Verse 1]

My entire life spans from a one-night stand

Cuz I wasn’t quite planned and he wasn’t the right man

To be a father, he couldn’t be bothered

Turns out it takes more than pen and ink to be an author

It’s like clockwork, when things get awkward

Seems free drinks and (clear throat) was all he’s got to offer

So he hits the road and she lifts the load

But as the kiddo grows, you know he missed what’s owed

It quickly shows with no male role model

Riding older boys coattails full throttle

Off to Colorado at the age of eight

Days stayed the same way despite the change of state

I’d take the bait to bite hook, line, and sinker

With a look no hands approach, like goodbye to my five fingers

As time lingers on, it’s little better except that

Next to my step dad’s where moms rests her head at

[Hook]

Each time I'm broken it leaves me bleeding wide open

Sliced deep as the ocean, so sneak a peek in live motion

These be my emotions, spoken hopeful in the end

Cuz even the deepest wounds soon tend to mend again

Each time I’m broken it leaves me bleeding wide open

Sliced deep as the ocean, so sneak a peek in live motion

These be my emotions, spoken hopeful in the end

Cuz even the deepest wounds soon tend to mend again

[Verse 2]

Moms chooses to move our single-parent unit

New mister plus two sisters, I soon cling to their influence

Then foolishly group with a crew of truant students

Who just knew that school was stupid and that all the rules were useless

Music and o.e., kicked back to smoke weed

Hit that, homie, jump in to something with both feet

Big splash, roach clips supposed to hold us close-knit

But if that twenty’s finished, then it’s over, the rope slips

Hopeless, lonely, and ridiculed

The picture is pitiful and me only in middle school

Little individual stuck up against the whole world

Plus brother’s husky, so trust me there’s no girls

Adjusted ugly and struggled with this mug-piece

Cuz sticking my neck out and nose in left me stuck deep

Another rough week, moms knew the phrases well

Never got enough sleep, cuz she was raising... me

[Hook]

Each time I'm broken it leaves me bleeding wide open

Sliced deep as the ocean, so sneak a peek in live motion

These be my emotions, spoken hopeful in the end

Cuz even the deepest wounds soon tend to mend again

(hopefully, you’ll grow to see, the broken me, through poetry.)

Each time I'm broken it leaves me bleeding wide open

Sliced deep as the ocean, so sneak a peek in live motion

These be my emotions, spoken hopeful in the end

Cuz even the deepest wounds soon tend to mend again

(hopefully, you’ll grow to see, the broken me, through poetry.)

[Verse 3]

God I thank you for the two men who left

Because they taught me how to be one who stays

And God I thank you for the two men who left

Because they brought me where I speak from today

Got a lot more to say as we fast forward eight

Years, to clear my slate from the past stored away

Forgave the first, because nobody is born to hate

But sort of late making both words and thoughts coordinate

Once our story’s straight, we dropped defenses

Doors that father’d locked were knocked off their hinges

Not to mention, step-pops copped an interest

Then the tendency eventually lost its senses

Caught with vengeance when lust lit the wick

Up to jump ship and hit them skids quick

Dismissed the distance numbed specifics

Strictly business from snippets of its existence

Vicious until this wisdom sank in

Left with regret, didn’t get to thank them

For the man I am to Meghan, the faith, the patience

And the banquet they miss when what they break mends

[Outro]

I’m broken, broken, broken wide open

Broken, broken, broken wide open

Broken, broken, broken wide open

I’m broken, i’m broken

Broken, broken, broken wide open

Broken, broken, broken wide open

Broken, broken, broken wide open

I’m broken, i’m broken