Broken Home

As most of you know 5 Seconds of Summer is a band that means a lot to me. They have just released a new album and created "The New Broken Scene" that gives their fans a realization that everything will be okay and that it is okay to feel whatever they are feeling about whatever is going on in their lives. 

One of the songs on the album, Sounds Good Feels Good, that stuck out to me is Broken Home. When I first listened to the album I forced myself to listen to it straight through instead of skipping to the songs I knew I wanted to listen to. I had heard there was going to be a song on the album about family issues, depression and different stuff that the fans go through on a daily basis but when I heard Broken Home for the first time I was speechless.

The lyrics completely caught me off guard and were more than anything I could have ever envisioned. I would never imagine that a song could make me feel as many emotions as I felt when I heard Broken Home. As some of you know, I grew up in a broken home and it wasn't easy. I am not going to talk much about it as I feel that my personal life does not need to be on the internet for the whole world to read about, but growing up was definitely a struggle and I was never able to find words to describe exactly how I felt until I heard this song.

Here are the lyrics:

Broken Home by 5 Seconds of Summer

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 downHey mom, hey dad
When did this end?
When 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 homeWrote it down on the walls, she was screaming it out
Made it clear, she’s still here, are you listening now?
Just a ghost in the halls
Feeling empty, they’re vacant now
All the battles, all the wars, all the times that you’ve fought
She’s a scar, she’s the bruising, she’s the pain that you brought
There was life, there was love
Like a light and it’s fading out

Hey mum, hey dad
When did this end?
When 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

You've gotta let it go, you’re losing all your hope
Nothing left to hold, locked out in the cold
Your painted memories that washed out all the seas
I'm stuck in between a nightmare and lost dreams

Hey mum, hey dad
When did this end?
When did you lose your happiness?
I'm here alone inside of this broken home
Hey mum, hey dad
When did this end?
When 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