“Broken Home” by Papa Roach

"Broken Home" was the second single from Infest, Papa Roach's 2000 album on DreamWorks, with Jay Baumgardner producing and mixing. It's nu metal at its most confessional: a clenched, rumbling verse that bursts into a chorus of pure hurt.

Jacoby Shaddix wrote about watching his family fall apart and getting caught between two parents, one of them never around, and he traced his father's absence to what the Vietnam War did to him. Bassist Tobin Esperance said the band chose to frame it as a divorce song because every member had lived through one; his own parents split when he was six. That shared wound is why it hits so hard: the whole band sounds like it's playing from the same kitchen table.

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