Testo Tuesday's Broken - Commentary - Sugarland
Testo della canzone Tuesday's Broken - Commentary (Sugarland), tratta dall'album Bigger
I'm so glad you're here listening to Big Machine Radio and checking
Out the Bigger album release special. This is the brand new
Album from Sugarland and we're talking to Jennifer Nettles and
Kristian Bush about all the songs on this album. And we have come
To the song on the album that I think is perhaps the most powerful
The most poignant, and I think that this song is going to be
Interpreted and possibly misinterpreted about what it is you're
Trying to say with "Tuesday's Broken." So I would love for you
To speak as the writers and tell me about "Tuesday's Broken."
"Tuesday's Broken" is a beautiful song and it had an experience, at
Least in the creating of it, that is very unique. I came up to New
York for one of these sessions and I was in the airplane on the way
And I was reading the paper and it was just bad news. It was in the
Northeast, there had been another school shooting and I was like, "
Oh man, I don't really need to be reading this, I'm trying to write
A Sugarland record." And so I stuffed it into the pocket in front of
Me and I, you know, it was a little early in the morning because I
Was trying to take my kids to carpool, then get on a plane, then we
Could write by the time I got there. And I was thinking, "Jeez, what
Would I tell my son about that this keeps happening?" And I wrote
Down whatever was in my mind just to get it out and I wrote it into
My phone. And when I first walked in the room and saw Jennifer I was
Like, she's like, "Well, what's on your mind?" I was like, "You don't
Want to know." And she's like, "No, really, really." And I was like
"You really do? Because you're that person." And I said, "Here," and
I read her what was essentially the first set of lyrics. And she was
Like, "Wow, yeah, and can you send that to me?" And then you were
Like, "Can you give me like 45 minutes tomorrow before we get in?
I just want to sit here by myself with a piano." I was like, "Sure."
And sure enough I walked in that next day and you had the whole thing
Kind of pieced together, this verse and this chorus and this idea
And one of the references I made in my thing that I had written down
I think it was the first line that I had written, we didn't keep it
But it was "Today's Tuesday." Because there was an old song called "
I Don't Like Mondays," which is by the Boomtown Rats. And when I was
Younger I heard the song but I didn't understand what it was until I
Was in my 20s or early 30s and I covered the song at some point
So I had to learn the verse lyric. And it's about school shooting
And it became super popular in America in the early 80s but I
Don't think anybody really heard the verse, they didn't know
They just thought, "Man, I just don't like Mondays." Nobody
Likes a Monday because they've got to go back to work. So we
Had that conversation and then this happened. When I walked in
She had the, she was sitting by the piano, she goes, "What do
You think about this?" Started playing it and I was just on the
Ground. Literally laid on the ground on my back, started weeping
But what it had inspired in me too is I had recently read an article
By the civil rights activist Ruby Sales. And she was a child during
The civil rights era and her life was saved by a white man who jumped
In front of her and of course she then went on to do great things
And to save the world, you know, and to be a fantastic civil rights
Activist. And in it she was addressing all the pain that we have in
Our culture and that in looking at each other if we just asked each
Other the question, "Where does it hurt? Where does it hurt?" And
The civil rights community, the black community, they have a
Wonderful language for this but other cultures don't have the same
Kind of language for this that they do. So she wanted to ask, "
Where does it hurt?" And I thought that question within this context
Phew. Okay, so that became the first verse and chorus was his, it's
About that Tuesday and those incidents with the school shooting and
Then this "Where does it hurt?" and how those things, if we just were
To ask each other these questions, what could we avoid if we had this
Human compassion? Then we went on with the second verse to start
Exploring other places because, you know, young people, we are all
Broken but right now young people are broken in a specific way that
We haven't been privy to before because we're able to see it
Immediately and it's also exacerbated by social media. And so we talk
About all this online bullying and how that has contributed to so
Many suicides and that became the conversation then for the second
Verse. What if we asked these children, what if we asked them where
Does it hurt? Where would we be? And then it became
Wait a minute, this isn't just about these children, this
Is about the world. So then you widen the lens and you go
What if we all asked each other that? What could be avoided?
What other pain, what further pain would we avoid?
I think that the important part of this as people try to interpret
It for their own whatever is to start to realize that it's not
About guns or suicides, it's about kids. It's where the Venn diagram
Crosses over of all these different things and what's in the middle
And what's in the middle is what we have in common is you've got
To be human first. Politically people are already kind of cut in
Half. They've already picked a side. That's not what we're talking
About. That's not even close to the intention. It's the opposite
Of the intention. We're asking where can we meet? And the place
I can meet with anybody is, "Hey man, what do you tell your kids?"
Well you'll find this song on Sugarland's new album Bigger which
Is available now. This is "Tuesday's Broken" on Big Machine Radio
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Writer(s): Jennifer Nettles, Kristian Bush
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