“I Am Broken Too” by Killswitch Engage

"I Am Broken Too" was the second single from Atonement, Killswitch Engage's 2019 album, and it arrived with a lyric video and a heavy purpose: singer Jesse Leach, who had fought his own mental health battles, wrote it to get people talking about those struggles. On the day it came out he said it meant more to him than almost anything he'd written.

The twist is that he didn't write it about himself. It began as someone else's story, and Leach wrote himself into it as one half of a conversation, arguing that it takes dark times to dig that deep. Adam Dutkiewicz produced, and Leach and Dutkiewicz share the writing credit with Mike D'Antonio, Justin Foley and Joel Stroetzel. In the US it got as high as 19 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.