Album: Mad Season (2000)
Charted: 1
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  • And if I fall along the way
    Pick me up and dust me off
    And if I get too tired to make it
    Be my breath so I can walk

    And if I need some other love, then
    You give me more than I can stand
    And when my smile gets old and faded
    Wait around, I'll smile again

    Shouldn't be so complicated
    Just hold me and then
    Oh, just hold me again

    Can you help me I'm bent?
    I'm so scared that I'll never
    Get put back together
    Keep breaking me in
    And this is how we will end
    With you and me bent

    And if I couldn't sleep could you sleep?
    Could you paint me better off?
    And could you sympathize with my needs?
    I know you think I need a lot

    I started out clean but I'm jaded
    Just phoning it in
    Oh, just breaking the skin

    Can you help me I'm bent?
    I'm so scared that I'll never
    Get put back together
    Keep breaking me in
    And this is how we will end
    With you and me bent

    (How you and me)

    Start bending me
    It's never enough
    'Til I feel all your pieces
    Start bending me
    Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

    Shouldn't be so complicated
    Just touch me and then
    Oh, just touch me again

    Can you help me I'm bent?
    I'm so scared that I'll never
    Get put back together
    Keep breaking me in
    And this is how we will end
    With you and me landing
    Without understanding
    Hell, I'd go there again

    Can you help me, I'm bent?
    I'm so scared that I'll never
    Get put back together

    Yeah, you're breaking me in
    And this is how we will end
    With you and me bent Writer/s: ROB THOMAS, ROBERT THOMAS
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 12

  • Jennifer from VirgniaI think its about mental illness or PTSD
  • Alice Root from Green River WyoYou are a light to otherwise darkened days love you
  • Matt from CaliforniaAs a former Atheist who became a Christian, this song has all the hallmarks of a story of someone who is at the end of their rope, and realizing that they can no longer go it alone they need God. Just my take. That’s what’s great about art. Its so subjective.
  • Rekrude from CalgaryI don’t think this is the relationship everyone thinks it is. Sounds like a heroine addiction. It literally fits every lyric in place of a traditional relationship. And goes further to explain “I was clean once but now I’m jaded. Just phoning it in. Just breaking the skin”.
  • Kristina Stranahan from Denton, Md I agree with most of this. I don't think it's both.. Yet. It's definitely about a relationship where one of them has co-dependancy and if the other continues to enable the co-dependent or even just stay in this toxic cycle / relationship than they both with will end up broken/bent
  • Sara from Union City, TnReally good all around song. I liked it then and still do. Bent.....yah thats me.
  • Ryan from Morrison, IlMatchbox Twenty is still together but they no longer have rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor.
  • Taylor from San Antonio, Txi do agree with you chris i cant wait to get there greatest hits cd
  • Sunshine from Houston, TxI love this band!!! Are they still together?
  • Jessie Ann from Purchase, NyThis is an awesome song, I remember loving it when it first came out.
  • Chris from Edmonton, Canadamatchbox twenty is god!!!!
  • Alex from Madrid, SpainI cannot believe there are no posts for this song: it´s amazing. The guitar riff is great, the arrangements are better and Rob´s voice is as good as it gets. Hello from Spain is my first post!!!
    I love this page!!
    Alex
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