Album: The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999)

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• My fears hunt me down
  Capturing my memories
  The frontier of loss
  They try to escape across the street where
  Jesus stripped bare
  And raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture
  In the name of my
  In the name of my
  
  Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
  Born of a broken man, never a broken man
  Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
  Born of a broken man, never a broken man
  
  Like autumn leaves his sense fell from him
  An empty glass of himself shattered somewhere within
  His thoughts like a hundred moths
  Trapped in a lampshade
  Somewhere within
  Their wings banging and burning
  On through endless night
  Forever awake he lies shaking and starving
  Praying for someone to turn off the light
  
  Born of a broken man, never a broken man
  Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
  Born of a broken man, never a broken man
  Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
  
  My fear is hunting me down
  Capturing my memories
  The frontier of laos
  They try to escape across the street where
  Jesus stripped bare
  And raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture
  In the name of my
  In the name of my
  
  Yeah
  
  Born of a broken man, but not a broken man
  Born of a broken man, never a broken man
  Born of a broken man, never a broken man
  Born of a broken man, but not a broken man Writer/s: BRAD J. WILK, THOMAS B. MORELLO, TIMOTHY COMMERFORD, ZACK M. DE LA ROCHA
  Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Wixen Music Publishing
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Comments: 13

• Esteban from Mendoza@ commenter Cristian, Thanks for that, I was obsessing about where I had heard that riff... that was IT.
• Cristian from Buenos AiresFirst time i hearded this song i thought it was Army Ants by STP! considering that the STP song was release 3 years earlier, it seems to me like Morello's got inspired by that.
  P.S. Thank You by Led Zeppeling had nothing to do i think
  Peace V
• Peter from PortlandI thought the intro was an homage to Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed”
• Cass from AustraliaI think in some parts it sounds like right here right now- jesus jones
• Dan from Syracuse, NyChris, I know Morello is admittedly a big Zeppelin fan, but I think calling the opening riff of this song a redeux of Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" is quite a stretch...
• Chris from New York, NyThe opening guitar riff is a "Thank You" by Led Zeppelin redeux...
• Rafael from San Juan , Puerto RicoThere is one part of the song where the lyrics repeat the first verse, but instead of saying loss like the first time, zach mentions laos. Since this is a personal song to zach, is it possible that his father was involved with the Vietnam war and puts the blame for his fathers actions on the war?
• Craig from Elgin, United KingdomThis song makes refferances to jesus because from what i heard, his father had a mental breakdown and took his religious beliefs to the extreme and destroyed his paintings
• Austin from Smallsville, NeVery good song. I thought it was about the death of Jesus though.
• Stewie from St.john's, CanadaWell, I consider myself lucky to own a copy of The Battle of Mexico City, because it has Born of a Broken Man on it, and I love it!
• Steven from Waldwick, NjI heard that this song has only been performed a couple times live because it was too personal to Zach
• Jake from Scottsdale, Azive also heard that Zach's father used to force Zach to pray kneeling down in a dark room for days at a time without food or water.
  
• James from Australia, Australiawww.zdlr.net the best place to find out anything about zack or ratm it has really good song interpretations and there are people there that know so much about ratm and zack its not funny

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