Brokencyde Jealousy A Song Interpretation

What’s in a song?

Well besides the music, there are lyrics of course and the lyrics in Brokencyde song called Jealousy is pretty revealing into the obsessive nature jealousy can sometimes be.

Brokencyde Jealousy can be interpreted in two ways, one from the obsessed jealousy person’s side, and one from the side of a person who is being controlled and manipulated because of a jealous individual.

I’m going to do a short look at the song from both sides.

The lessons that Brokencyde Jealousy can reveal about coping with jealousy and its effects on a relationship are pretty enlighting.

The song opens with a few stanzas on what the songs character is feeling before the relationship, or early into the relationship. Describing the potential they have and the passion he or she has with being an individual striving for what they want out of life.

Here are the first few stanzas of Brokencyde’s song Jealousy:

I’m seconds away from everything
And anything that gets in my way I will break with energy
Syndicating these thoughts are fading so vagrantly
This rage in me wont leave, my existence is my everything!

I can see this is something a little different
It’s the gift that god created and made it into an image
It’s all part of this I am a brain I’m not finished
This is only the beginning of my writing experience

So take everything away from me
Cuz I don’t want a piece of me connected to me and my crew
So take everything away from me
Cuz I don’t want you end up doing what’s wrong!

Now when I first read these I wasn’t at all sure what they meant, and as I mentioned it depends on how you look at the song as to why they do really mean. Is this someone who is as I stated above just beginning to see the potential they have in the world? (Which is how I view them) or is this someone who is angry and struggling?

I thing as we begin to read the rest of the lyrics there is some light as to what these stanzas may mean.

You don’t want a piece of me
I can feel you when you reach for me
You’re just filled with jealousy (x2)
Please don’t take my breath from me
You’ve taken all that’s left of me
You’re just filled with jealousy (x2)

Taken everything away for what you said.
I can feel you everywhere.
I can (not go)
I can (not go)
I can and will not go.
Taken everything away for what you said.
I do not wanna die without you (without you)

In the above two stanzas two emerging thought on jealousy come forward clearly. One is the obsessive nature of jealousy; it’s absolute controlling nature.

And because the chorus says you have – I have to believe the first stanzas are someone who is being controlled by jealousy, not someone who is obsessed with another individual, but there is one line that may throw that thought out the window when the singer sings

I can (not go)
I can (not go)
I can and will not go.
Taken everything away for what you said.
I do not wanna die without you (without you)

Here there is conflicting wording… The singer can, but won’t leave (which often happens to a person who is controlled by jealousy and Brokencyde’s Jealousy Does a great job of capturing this not only with the lyrics, but also with the music (it is angry and has a haunting beat which grabs you and holds your attention)

The line “I do not wanna dies without you” is what really throws me off, is this someone obsessed with another person and so wanting to control them they can’t and won’t let go? Are they possibly suicidal because the relationship is about to end or break apart?

I don’t clearly have the answer to that but I am guessing this is not the case, since the last stanzas show nothing but being controlled by the jealous individual.

You don’t want a piece of me
I can feel you when you reach for me
You’re just filled with jealousy (2x)
Please don’t take my breathe from me
You’ve taken all that’s left of me
You’re just filled with jealousy (2x)

You take my existence, my existence is everything I had (4x)

You don’t want a piece of me
I can feel you when you reach for me
You’re just filled with jealousy (2x)
Please don’t take my breathe from me
You’ve taken all that’s left of me
You’re just filled with jealousy (2x)

(The above repeats)

Clearly here the suffocating effects of jealousy are revealed in the line “You take my existence, my existence is everything I had”

Looking at the song as a whole, and with the music as well, it clearly shows what words sometimes cannot convey. The absolute control, power, obsession, and manipulation jealousy can have.

Brokencyde’s Jealousy is about more than just jealousy; it’s about coping with jealousy, or maybe better put the inability to cope with jealousy. The hurt pain, tearing of oneself from your soul because the jealousy consumes. That is what jealousy is all about. Control and manipulation.

The lyrics alone show this cycle of behavior and control, and the underlying fear and insecurity that jealousy is, but the message is brought home with the beat of the music, the tone of the singer, the haunting nature of the song as a whole.

If you haven’t seen Brokencyde’s Jealousy you can watch it here:

http://www.relationshipjealousy.com/Brokencyde-Jealousy-video/

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