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“Broken Home” is a power ballad about the emotional impact a disintegrating marriage has on a couple’s teen daughter.
It’s the 12th track on the deluxe version of 5 Seconds of Summer’s 2015 album Sounds Good Feels Good.
The song was co-written with Joel and Benji Madden of Good Charlotte.
In an...
[Verse 1: Luke]
They would yell, they would scream, they were fighting it out
She would hope, she would pray, she was waiting it out
Holding onto a dream while she watches these walls fall down
Sharp words like knives, they were cutting her down
Shattered glass like the past, it's a memory now
Holding onto a dream while she watches these walls fall down
[Chorus: Calum]
Hey, mum, hey, dad, when did this end?
Where did you lose your happiness?
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
Who is right? Who's wrong? Who really cares?
The fault, the blame, the pain's still there
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
This broken home
[Verse 2: Calum, All, Calum & Ashton]
Wrote it down on the walls, she was screamin' it out
Made it clear she's still here, are you listenin' now?
Just a ghost in the halls feelin' empty, they're vacant now (Oh)
All the battles, all the wars, all the times that you've fought
She's the scar, she's the bruises, she's the pain that you brought
There was life, there was love like a light and it's fading out
[Chorus: Luke & Calum, Ashton]
Hey, mum, hey, dad, when did this end?
Where did you lose your happiness?
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
Who's right? Who's wrong? Who really cares?
The fault, the blame, the pain's still there
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
This broken home
[Bridge: Michael, Michael & Luke, All]
You've gotta let it go
You're losin' all your hope
Nothin' left to hold
Locked out in the cold
You painted memories
Then washed out all the scenes
I'm stuck in-between
A nightmare and lost dreams
[Breakdown: Michael]
Hey, mum, hey, dad, when did this end?
Where did you lose your happiness?
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
[Chorus: Luke & Calum, Ashton, Calum]
Hey, mum, hey, dad, when did this end?
Where did you lose your happiness?
I'm here alone inside of this broken home (Broken home)
Who's right? Who's wrong? Who really cares?
The fault, the blame, the pain's still there
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
This broken home
Broken Home was written by John Feldmann & Benji Madden & Joel Madden & Luke Hemmings & Michael Clifford & Calum Hood.
Broken Home was produced by John Feldmann.
5 Seconds of Summer released Broken Home on Fri Oct 23 2015.
In a 2015 interview with Fuse producer John Feldmann said:
That was probably the last song we wrote. Benji came in–he’s had a lot of adversity in his life, with his parents splitting up and the alcoholic father and the co-dependent mother. He came up with the idea of writing a song about a broken h...