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->Blackbird singing in the dead of night\\
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "Blackbird"
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly
-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "Blackbird"
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* Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It", which is practically the Broken Bird anthem. Not far from this is Tina Turner herself, who left a violently abusive marriage with Ike Turner in 1978.
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* Tina Turner's Music/TinaTurner's "What's Love Got To Do With It", which is practically the Broken Bird anthem. Not far from this is Tina Turner herself, who left a violently abusive marriage with Ike Turner in 1978.
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* Music/MarinaDiamandiss' "Electra Heart" album is a physical embodiment of this trope. The character Electra Heart herself proudly brags about the fact that she happily breaks the hearts of many "just for fun", but only because she's badly damaged and heartbroken herself. Her rebellious behaviour has earned her a bad reputation, with people labelling her as a "primadonna", a "homewrecker", and a "21st-century whore". Proclaiming herself as the "queen of no identity", Electra covers up her vulnerability with a cold, steely attitude dazzled with glitter, pink dresses and the infamous heart on her cheek, which acts to hide her true feelings.
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* Music/MarinaDiamandiss' Music/MarinaDiamandis's "Electra Heart" album is a physical embodiment of this trope. The character Electra Heart herself proudly brags about the fact that she happily breaks the hearts of many "just for fun", but only because she's badly damaged and heartbroken herself. Her rebellious behaviour has earned her a bad reputation, with people labelling her as a "primadonna", a "homewrecker", and a "21st-century whore". Proclaiming herself as the "queen of no identity", Electra covers up her vulnerability with a cold, steely attitude dazzled with glitter, pink dresses and the infamous heart on her cheek, which acts to hide her true feelings.
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* Savage Garden's "To the Moon and Back" depicts the mindset of a Broken Bird in all details. "Gunning Down Romance" to an even deeper extent, though this time, it's the male singer experiencing it.
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* Savage Garden's Music/SavageGarden's "To the Moon and Back" depicts the mindset of a Broken Bird in all details. "Gunning Down Romance" to an even deeper extent, though this time, it's the male singer experiencing it.it.
--> '''(from To The Moon And Back)'''\\
Mama never loved her much and\\
Dad never keeps in touch\\
That's why she shies away from human affection
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Mama never loved her much and\\
Dad never keeps in touch\\
That's why she shies away from human affection
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* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds' "Electra Heart" album is a physical embodiment of this trope. The character Electra Heart herself proudly brags about the fact that she happily breaks the hearts of many "just for fun", but only because she's badly damaged and heartbroken herself. Her rebellious behaviour has earned her a bad reputation, with people labelling her as a "primadonna", a "homewrecker", and a "21st-century whore". Proclaiming herself as the "queen of no identity", Electra covers up her vulnerability with a cold, steely attitude dazzled with glitter, pink dresses and the infamous heart on her cheek, which acts to hide her true feelings.
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* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds' Music/MarinaDiamandiss' "Electra Heart" album is a physical embodiment of this trope. The character Electra Heart herself proudly brags about the fact that she happily breaks the hearts of many "just for fun", but only because she's badly damaged and heartbroken herself. Her rebellious behaviour has earned her a bad reputation, with people labelling her as a "primadonna", a "homewrecker", and a "21st-century whore". Proclaiming herself as the "queen of no identity", Electra covers up her vulnerability with a cold, steely attitude dazzled with glitter, pink dresses and the infamous heart on her cheek, which acts to hide her true feelings.
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And start all over again''
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And start all over again''again''
* Bridge two of Music/TheBeatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing":
-->''When your bird is broken'',\\
''Will it bring you down?''\\
''You may be awoken, ''\\
''I'll be 'round, I'll be 'round''
* Bridge two of Music/TheBeatles' "And Your Bird Can Sing":
-->''When your bird is broken'',\\
''Will it bring you down?''\\
''You may be awoken, ''\\
''I'll be 'round, I'll be 'round''
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* The Music/LadyGaga album "The Fame Monster" definitely qualifies, particularly tracks like "Monster" (in which the narrator becomes as bad as her "monster"-boyfriend) and "Speechless" ("I'll never talk again [...] I'll never love again"). Plus Gaga's more overt use of her more gothic stylings.
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* The Music/LadyGaga album "The Fame Monster" definitely qualifies, particularly tracks like "Monster" (in which the narrator becomes as bad as her "monster"-boyfriend) and "Speechless" ("I'll never talk again [...] I'll never love again"). Plus Gaga's more overt use of her more gothic stylings. The CentralTheme of the later album, "Chromatica", also deals with this trope in depth, namely Gaga's recovery from past mental illness, trauma, and loneliness.
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** "Fragile Bird" talks about one who keeps having BadDreams, who the singer promises to comfort throughout the night.
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** "Fragile Bird" talks about one who keeps having BadDreams, bad dreams, who the singer promises to comfort throughout the night.
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* "Broken Wings" by Mister Mister seems to be about a girl like this, appropriately enough.
* Take all of the mixtapes and albums of Music/LupeFiasco and listen to them in order. If you notice the gradual change into darker, cynical and politically charged lyrics and stories, then congratulations, you've seen what a combination of social issues, executive meddling, and personal loss can do a person.
* The Music/ToriAmos song "Me and a Gun" from ''Music/LittleEarthquakes''. The fact she throws some really ''bitter'' snark into it just makes it more so.
%%** Many of her songs fit this trope, but "Honey" is practically the Trope Anthem.
%%* Buy a Music/SarahMcLachlan album. Put it in your CD player/boot up your mp3 device and press 'Play'. Has she started singing yet? Good. IT IS THIS TROPE.
%%** ''Afterglow'' really just serves to drive it home, as if Sarah's just finally coming to terms with her brokeness.
* Beth Hart's "Leave the Light On".
--> [[AbusiveParents Daddy ain't that bad, he just plays rough]]\\
[[StepfordSmiler I ain't that scarred when I'm covered up...]]\\
I swore to God that I'd never be\\
What I've become
%%* The song "Broken Wing" by Thousand Foot Krutch is all about this.
* More than one Music/AyumiHamasaki song has shades of this, made even worse by [[LyricalDissonance the poppy, energetic tune.]]
* The Music/LadyGaga album "The Fame Monster" definitely qualifies, particularly tracks like "Monster" (in which the narrator becomes as bad as her "monster"-boyfriend) and "Speechless" ("I'll never talk again [...] I'll never love again"). Plus Gaga's more overt use of her more gothic stylings.
%%* Any song from Music/EmilieAutumn's ''Opheliac'' album.
* Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It", which is practically the Broken Bird anthem. Not far from this is Tina Turner herself, who left a violently abusive marriage with Ike Turner in 1978.
-->''What's love got to do, got to do with it?\\
What's love, but a second-hand emotion?\\
What's love got to do, got to do with it?\\
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?''
%%* The subject of Music/{{Blutengel}}'s song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQnvzMO_ko Broken Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} lyrics are made of this trope. A particularly good example is the (very infamous) "My Immortal", from the perspective of a person who once had a broken bird lover and has become a boken bird themselves after losing them:
-->''These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real.\\
There's just too much that time cannot erase...\\
When you cried I wiped away all of your tears\\
When you screamed I'd fight away all of your fears\\
And I held your hand through all of these years\\
But you still have all of me...''
* Pain of Salvation's albums "The Perfect Element I" and "Remedy Lane" both feature broken birds, the former a male and female and the latter just male. TPE even has the line "A wind-beaten bird/for reasons unheard" when introducing the female broken bird of the concept.
%%* She Wants Revenge - "She Will Always be a Broken Girl" and "Rachael" are about broken birds.
%%* Pick a Diary of Dreams song. There ya go.
%%* Most Music/LacunaCoil songs (in the pre-Karmacode era) had Christina Scabbia come off as a broken bird.
* Pick a Katatonia song, preferably from "Tonight's Decision" or "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (one track in the former is titled "I Break", for example). Broken. There's even a meeting of the broken birds in "Passing Bird" (one is faking it, though.)
%%* The Foreshadowing album "Days of Nothing" is a concept album about a male broken bird.
* Savage Garden's "To the Moon and Back" depicts the mindset of a Broken Bird in all details. "Gunning Down Romance" to an even deeper extent, though this time, it's the male singer experiencing it.
%%* Music/TheCrystallineEffect's songs 'Poetry' and 'Another Rainy Day' are about this trope.
* Music/DemiLovato's album "Unbroken" is about a recovering broken bird.
%%* Zoe's Adventures Under Ground's first album is called The Broken Bird E.P., and every song fits this trope.
%%* Whatsername in Music/AmericanIdiot.
* Music/CityAndColour:
** "Fragile Bird" talks about one who keeps having BadDreams, who the singer promises to comfort throughout the night.
** "O' Sister" is about the singer's sister, who is suffering from depression.
* Marianas Trench has "Porcelain", which describes a recovering Broken Bird, who the singer sympathizes with and wants to help.
* A few of Music/IngridMichaelson's songs have this:
** "Be OK" (which [[LyricalDissonance ironically has a cheerful tune]]) is about wanting to have a good day despite being so broken.
--->''"Open me up and you will see/I'm a gallery of broken hearts/I'm beyond repair, let me be/And give me back my broken parts"''
** "Locked Up" is about being emotionally guarded and cynical about love after [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids growing up]] and being hurt in the past, but trying to get over that and be able to trust again.
--->''"Should I show them all my scars?/Cherry red, bleeding burn ... Like an angry apple tree/I throw my apples if you get too close to me"''
* Music/SuzanneVega's "Luka" is about a battered wife/girlfriend (or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation an abused child]]), and sung in a toneless, unemotional voice indicating how the titular character has totally given up on life.
* Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Oh Father" (from her album ''Music/LikeAPrayer'') is inspired by the loss of the singer's mother and the subsequent falling out she had with her father, with allusions to child abuse in the video.
* Boyce Avenue's "Broken Angel" has shades of this; the subject is a perfectionist young woman who suffers lasting damage from an emotionally neglectful father, and blames herself--her shortcomings are the reason he was distant.
* Music/BillieHoliday had a tragic life where she was the victim of rape at age 11, fell into teenage prostitution, had abusive partners and suffered from severe alcohol, morphine and heroin addiction. All it culminated in her world weary ''Music/LadyInSatin'', where she sings about break-ups, unrequited love and all hardships of relationships in her drug ravaged voice. Only a year after recording this album would she die from cirrhosis of the liver.
* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds' "Electra Heart" album is a physical embodiment of this trope. The character Electra Heart herself proudly brags about the fact that she happily breaks the hearts of many "just for fun", but only because she's badly damaged and heartbroken herself. Her rebellious behaviour has earned her a bad reputation, with people labelling her as a "primadonna", a "homewrecker", and a "21st-century whore". Proclaiming herself as the "queen of no identity", Electra covers up her vulnerability with a cold, steely attitude dazzled with glitter, pink dresses and the infamous heart on her cheek, which acts to hide her true feelings.
--> ''"I'm only happy when I'm on the run, I break a million hearts just for fun, I don't belong to anyone/Instead of love, and trust, and laughter, what you get is "happy never after". But deep down, all you want is love, the pure kind we all dream of..."''
* Music/LanaDelRey uses this trope a fair bit in her albums, but her 2014 album "Ultraviolence" probably does this the most. As ever, Lana adapts herself to sing through various characters throughout the record with recurring motifs, that of being a young woman who finds herself trapped and participating in a chaotic world of drugs, drinking, gun crime, gang violence, abusive relationships and prostitution. It's fair enough to say that she does inhabit this in "Born to Die" (despite the album's tone being very classy, romantic and idealised) and maybe even a bit in "Honeymoon" despite becoming her own independent, much stronger person by then, but Ultraviolence, as suggested by its name, shows the ugly, rough side of Hollywood glamour that Lana has had to toughen up to in order to survive.
--> ''"Are you gonna hurt me now? Or are you gonna hurt me later?/He hit me, and it felt like a kiss/I got your Bible, and your gun, and I'm so happy, so happy now you're gone."''
* A [[GenderInvertedTrope male example]] exists in "Love T.K.O.", [[CoveredUp as made famous by Teddy Pendergrass]]. The song is sung from the perspective of a man who, after two failed relationshops, has all but sworn off of love.
--> ''Looking back\\
Over my years\\
I guess I shedded some tears\\
Told myself time and time again "this time I'm gonna win"\\
But another fight, things ain't right, I'm losing again\\
Takes a fool to lose twice\\
And start all over again''
* Take all of the mixtapes and albums of Music/LupeFiasco and listen to them in order. If you notice the gradual change into darker, cynical and politically charged lyrics and stories, then congratulations, you've seen what a combination of social issues, executive meddling, and personal loss can do a person.
* The Music/ToriAmos song "Me and a Gun" from ''Music/LittleEarthquakes''. The fact she throws some really ''bitter'' snark into it just makes it more so.
%%** Many of her songs fit this trope, but "Honey" is practically the Trope Anthem.
%%* Buy a Music/SarahMcLachlan album. Put it in your CD player/boot up your mp3 device and press 'Play'. Has she started singing yet? Good. IT IS THIS TROPE.
%%** ''Afterglow'' really just serves to drive it home, as if Sarah's just finally coming to terms with her brokeness.
* Beth Hart's "Leave the Light On".
--> [[AbusiveParents Daddy ain't that bad, he just plays rough]]\\
[[StepfordSmiler I ain't that scarred when I'm covered up...]]\\
I swore to God that I'd never be\\
What I've become
%%* The song "Broken Wing" by Thousand Foot Krutch is all about this.
* More than one Music/AyumiHamasaki song has shades of this, made even worse by [[LyricalDissonance the poppy, energetic tune.]]
* The Music/LadyGaga album "The Fame Monster" definitely qualifies, particularly tracks like "Monster" (in which the narrator becomes as bad as her "monster"-boyfriend) and "Speechless" ("I'll never talk again [...] I'll never love again"). Plus Gaga's more overt use of her more gothic stylings.
%%* Any song from Music/EmilieAutumn's ''Opheliac'' album.
* Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It", which is practically the Broken Bird anthem. Not far from this is Tina Turner herself, who left a violently abusive marriage with Ike Turner in 1978.
-->''What's love got to do, got to do with it?\\
What's love, but a second-hand emotion?\\
What's love got to do, got to do with it?\\
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?''
%%* The subject of Music/{{Blutengel}}'s song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQnvzMO_ko Broken Girl]]".
* Music/{{Evanescence}} lyrics are made of this trope. A particularly good example is the (very infamous) "My Immortal", from the perspective of a person who once had a broken bird lover and has become a boken bird themselves after losing them:
-->''These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real.\\
There's just too much that time cannot erase...\\
When you cried I wiped away all of your tears\\
When you screamed I'd fight away all of your fears\\
And I held your hand through all of these years\\
But you still have all of me...''
* Pain of Salvation's albums "The Perfect Element I" and "Remedy Lane" both feature broken birds, the former a male and female and the latter just male. TPE even has the line "A wind-beaten bird/for reasons unheard" when introducing the female broken bird of the concept.
%%* She Wants Revenge - "She Will Always be a Broken Girl" and "Rachael" are about broken birds.
%%* Pick a Diary of Dreams song. There ya go.
%%* Most Music/LacunaCoil songs (in the pre-Karmacode era) had Christina Scabbia come off as a broken bird.
* Pick a Katatonia song, preferably from "Tonight's Decision" or "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (one track in the former is titled "I Break", for example). Broken. There's even a meeting of the broken birds in "Passing Bird" (one is faking it, though.)
%%* The Foreshadowing album "Days of Nothing" is a concept album about a male broken bird.
* Savage Garden's "To the Moon and Back" depicts the mindset of a Broken Bird in all details. "Gunning Down Romance" to an even deeper extent, though this time, it's the male singer experiencing it.
%%* Music/TheCrystallineEffect's songs 'Poetry' and 'Another Rainy Day' are about this trope.
* Music/DemiLovato's album "Unbroken" is about a recovering broken bird.
%%* Zoe's Adventures Under Ground's first album is called The Broken Bird E.P., and every song fits this trope.
%%* Whatsername in Music/AmericanIdiot.
* Music/CityAndColour:
** "Fragile Bird" talks about one who keeps having BadDreams, who the singer promises to comfort throughout the night.
** "O' Sister" is about the singer's sister, who is suffering from depression.
* Marianas Trench has "Porcelain", which describes a recovering Broken Bird, who the singer sympathizes with and wants to help.
* A few of Music/IngridMichaelson's songs have this:
** "Be OK" (which [[LyricalDissonance ironically has a cheerful tune]]) is about wanting to have a good day despite being so broken.
--->''"Open me up and you will see/I'm a gallery of broken hearts/I'm beyond repair, let me be/And give me back my broken parts"''
** "Locked Up" is about being emotionally guarded and cynical about love after [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids growing up]] and being hurt in the past, but trying to get over that and be able to trust again.
--->''"Should I show them all my scars?/Cherry red, bleeding burn ... Like an angry apple tree/I throw my apples if you get too close to me"''
* Music/SuzanneVega's "Luka" is about a battered wife/girlfriend (or [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation an abused child]]), and sung in a toneless, unemotional voice indicating how the titular character has totally given up on life.
* Music/{{Madonna}}'s "Oh Father" (from her album ''Music/LikeAPrayer'') is inspired by the loss of the singer's mother and the subsequent falling out she had with her father, with allusions to child abuse in the video.
* Boyce Avenue's "Broken Angel" has shades of this; the subject is a perfectionist young woman who suffers lasting damage from an emotionally neglectful father, and blames herself--her shortcomings are the reason he was distant.
* Music/BillieHoliday had a tragic life where she was the victim of rape at age 11, fell into teenage prostitution, had abusive partners and suffered from severe alcohol, morphine and heroin addiction. All it culminated in her world weary ''Music/LadyInSatin'', where she sings about break-ups, unrequited love and all hardships of relationships in her drug ravaged voice. Only a year after recording this album would she die from cirrhosis of the liver.
* Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds' "Electra Heart" album is a physical embodiment of this trope. The character Electra Heart herself proudly brags about the fact that she happily breaks the hearts of many "just for fun", but only because she's badly damaged and heartbroken herself. Her rebellious behaviour has earned her a bad reputation, with people labelling her as a "primadonna", a "homewrecker", and a "21st-century whore". Proclaiming herself as the "queen of no identity", Electra covers up her vulnerability with a cold, steely attitude dazzled with glitter, pink dresses and the infamous heart on her cheek, which acts to hide her true feelings.
--> ''"I'm only happy when I'm on the run, I break a million hearts just for fun, I don't belong to anyone/Instead of love, and trust, and laughter, what you get is "happy never after". But deep down, all you want is love, the pure kind we all dream of..."''
* Music/LanaDelRey uses this trope a fair bit in her albums, but her 2014 album "Ultraviolence" probably does this the most. As ever, Lana adapts herself to sing through various characters throughout the record with recurring motifs, that of being a young woman who finds herself trapped and participating in a chaotic world of drugs, drinking, gun crime, gang violence, abusive relationships and prostitution. It's fair enough to say that she does inhabit this in "Born to Die" (despite the album's tone being very classy, romantic and idealised) and maybe even a bit in "Honeymoon" despite becoming her own independent, much stronger person by then, but Ultraviolence, as suggested by its name, shows the ugly, rough side of Hollywood glamour that Lana has had to toughen up to in order to survive.
--> ''"Are you gonna hurt me now? Or are you gonna hurt me later?/He hit me, and it felt like a kiss/I got your Bible, and your gun, and I'm so happy, so happy now you're gone."''
* A [[GenderInvertedTrope male example]] exists in "Love T.K.O.", [[CoveredUp as made famous by Teddy Pendergrass]]. The song is sung from the perspective of a man who, after two failed relationshops, has all but sworn off of love.
--> ''Looking back\\
Over my years\\
I guess I shedded some tears\\
Told myself time and time again "this time I'm gonna win"\\
But another fight, things ain't right, I'm losing again\\
Takes a fool to lose twice\\
And start all over again''
