Broken Home (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Broken Home


Artist = Papa Roach
from Album = Infest
Released = July 31, 2001
Format = CD
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Nu metal, Rapcore
Length = 3 min 41 sec
Label = Dreamworks
Last single = "Between Angels and Insects"
(2001) |
This single = "Broken Home"
(2001)
Next single = "She Loves Me Not"
(2002)

"Broken Home" is the third and final single from Papa Roach's first album, "Infest" (2000), and second released single in total.

While "Broken Home" was a critical and financial success it did not garner the same attention that their first single "Last Resort" did.

Music Video

The music video is set in Jacoby's childhood home, the bands performance in the house is occasionally interrupted with flashbacks of his childhood, from birth to young teen, primarily focusing on his mother's and father's crumbling relationship.

It is implied that his father is an alcoholic who abuses them verbally and physically (one scene even shows him coming home drunk one night and apparently raping Jacoby's mother), and the images flash between times of relative calm and those of abuse. The father eventually leaves the house, causing the mother to break down. By the end of the song, the band is literally breaking the home, destroying the interior with their instruments.

Track listing

Tracklist
all_writing = Papa Roach
title1 = Broken Home
note1 = Album Version
title2 = Broken Home
note2 = Revised Version
title3 = Last Resort
note3 = Album Version