Meds Tabs:
Broken Promise (feat. Michael Stipe)
Placebo, MEDS 2006
Tabbed by Anna.
Tuning E A D G B E
And you're singing..
I wait my turn... To tear inside you
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Watch you burn..
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Fatty [eats chi Average |
#1 by Fatty [eats children] kid at Sep 28, 2007 at 3:25 PM EST |
| This song is beautiful. I just heard it for the first time and it is so deep and powerful. I don't know specifically what the song is about for Placebo but it sure makes me feel. I can relate it to so much in my life, the lyrics are so beautiful, the piano, everything. I love Placebo. | |
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Diego Wanna Be |
#2 by Diego Rodriguez at Sep 30, 2007 at 2:24 PM EST |
| Ok, I watch too much placebo stuff, but interestingly on 4music presents, Brian was talking about this song and said this is two men talking to each other – so there you go. | |
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health risk Average |
#3 by health risk at Oct 2, 2007 at 6:10 PM EST |
| i'm thinking it's about adultery too. this song is so good... | |
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caleb Wanna Be |
#4 by caleb at Oct 2, 2007 at 11:23 PM EST |
| I read a interview, in a dutch music magazine with Steve Hewitt about the duet broken promise with Michael Stipe (R.E.M.): 'The song he were singing on was finished for over a year. Michael stayed in the same hotel in Paris as us. We had finished the song a second ago. It was wrote as a duet, but I knew that when Brian it will sing with a woman it never will be work. Ik saw Michael - we know each other from the movie Velvet Goldmine - and I get the best idea ever: two gaypeople that sing about adultery, that would be so brilliant! I was even hearing it in my head.' By the way.. I like this song! | |
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Kazza Average |
#5 by Kazza at Oct 5, 2007 at 5:30 AM EST |
| in elizabethan times a metaphor for everyone knowing about your wife being unfaithful except you was that you were wearing cuckold horns that everyone could see except you, so yer i thought it was about being unfaithful too. | |
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Adrian Lead Player |
#6 by Adrian Ortega at Oct 5, 2007 at 11:32 PM EST |
| I agree that this song is about adultery as well mainly because of the "Cuckold eyes" verse. Michael Stipe is stating that he wasn't faithful in the relationship. He broke a promise to remain faithful (whether it be marriage vows, etc) However, he feels that they will be able to over come his unfaithfulness, they can live with the reality of the curiosity to stray away from relationships and now they will know him cheating was a mistake, but it's in the past and just a lesson learned. He also says that he realizes that Molko is incredibly upset about the broken promise and he can't say or do much to convince him of anything else. He can now only experience the same thing happening to him. Molko claims that he is hurt and upset about Michael Stipe's unfaithfulness. He feels that Stipe could possibly could have no idea what Molko is feeling, that his apologies are empty and they're offering him no peace to the fact that Stipe wandered. He doesn't believe that Stipe couldn't have enjoyed cheating in the relationship, sort of saying "If you knew it was wrong, why did you do it?" Molko rests in the fact that he will get Stipe back. He will wait for his turn to wrong him in their own relationship. He will gain peace in watching Stipe suffer as same as Molko has. Their relationship was based on a bunch of "broken promises", but Molko's threat/idea to harm Stipe in the exact same way is a promise Molko will keep. My thoughts. | |
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Lyssa CHAOS Average |
#7 by Lyssa CHAOS at Oct 7, 2007 at 10:26 PM EST |
| I love this song too, one of my favourites on the album. It is about adultery (according to an interview). Perhaps the line is 'cuckold eyes' not 'cuckled eyes' because a cuckold is a man whose wife is unfaithful. | |
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Robyn Average |
#8 by Robyn Paul at Oct 9, 2007 at 4:46 AM EST |
| Yeah definetely about being unfaithful. | |
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Da 1 n onli Mat Average |
#9 by Da 1 n onli Matt! goncalves at Oct 11, 2007 at 5:53 AM EST |
| Ok i agree with the unfaithful theorm but does anyone but me agree that most of this album has a really depressing, broken kind of attitude to it? its lovely though. still. depressing. | |
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by fires light Rhythm Player |
#10 by by fires light she cried at Oct 11, 2007 at 9:36 AM EST |
| yes it is kinda depressing but its also alot more mature than ealier stuff ( but not saying that the early stuff is shit because i love every piece) but this song is definatly about adultery. if you want this confiremed for yourselfs, look at www.myspace.com/placebo its in thier bloogs along with the meanings of all the songs on meds | |
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David Average |
#11 by David Turner at Oct 15, 2007 at 1:35 AM EST |
| I really love this song i think is about someone who promised something to change someone's life | |
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