Lyrics for Bent as interpreted by punkmebabygal

Bent Lyrics
If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk

If I need some other love
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just hold me and then
Just hold me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

If I couldn't sleep could you sleep
Could you paint me better off
Could you sympathize with my needs
I know you think I need a lot

I started out clean but I'm jaded
Just phoning it in
Just breaking the skin

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Start bending me
It's never enough
I feel all your pieces

Start bending me
Keep bending me until I'm completely broken in

Shouldn't be so complicated
Just touch me and then
Just touch me again

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

Can you help me I'm bent
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together

You're breaking me in
And this is how we will end
With you and me bent

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funny_2002
05-09-2002

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i personally think this song is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!! love the song "bent" and other songs of matchbox20 !!!!!!!!!!!!! mathchbox20 is tight they rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jadedetc...
05-31-2002

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AGREED.

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zacster
07-01-2002

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I'm inclined to agree. Matchbox 20 rules. The video for Bent brings out the words of the song. It's great. When are they gonna put out another CD?

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*molly*
07-09-2002

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Wow the music rocks in this song. Rob Thomas is so sexy!

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Kait
07-12-2002

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I agree with zacster, the vid for this song is incredible, and Rob Thomas' voice is perfect for all these angsty songs. This one is especially a favourite of mine... =)

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DragonKnight411
09-02-2002

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Matchbox 20 just plain rules. No arguments.

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zacster
09-27-2002

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This is my favorite song in the entire world. It spells out my life and how I feel so perfectly...

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HomeSkillet411
09-29-2002

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I'm sorry, but who can compare to Matchbox Twenty? Thank God I've been born at this time, that I may listen to MB20 24/7 and never get tired of them. They are my favorite band of all time.

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zacster
03-18-2003

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This is my favorite song (like so many other songs that I like). It is exactly how I feel.

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RaineBM1185
06-28-2003

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I think it's interesting how all anyone writes about is how much Matchbox Twenty kicks ass. Don't get me wrong, I completely agree, but isn't this supposed to be a website where we comment on the meaning of the song?

Well, from watching Storytellers with Matchbox Twenty on it, Rob Thomas says how this song is saying that "Hey, I'm messed up over here, and you're messed up over there. Let's get together and this could be something good."

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utasteadrenaline
04-15-2004

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firstly this is one of my favorite songs ever
when i saw them in concert they opened this with Rob saying
'when we toured with this album we discovered that in europe 'bent' means gay. and this was during my 'tight pants and eyeliner stage'.
so all over the place there are these posters of me in tight pants and eyeliner with 'bent' in big letters underneath'

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epp88
06-21-2004

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it's about some fucked up guy looking for love. he finds a girl who understands him, and he hopes she can help to sort out his life

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suzy86
07-02-2004

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If you like matchbox twenty, and also like the heavier kind of music, you'll love prog metal band Evergrey! they're just amazing!

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Desaparecida
09-22-2004

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I like Raine's take on this song... or Raine's take on Rob Thomas's take (Rob Thomas is really hot by the way)

i totally relate to this song... it's about someone who's going through some trouble looking for someone to help... and i like how it is "bent" and not "broken"...sometimes you can fix things that are only bent

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i x luv MatchB0x 2o
10-07-2004

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This song is about him looking for someone who really understands him. Rob Thomas is such an amazing songwriter... I especially love the lyrics

If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
And if I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some other love
Give me more than I can stand
And when my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again

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mb20rox111
11-04-2004

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First off, I ABSOLUTELY ADORE AND LOVE AND AM OBSESSED WITH MATCHBOX TWENTY!!!!!!!! They ROCK!!!! But I heard from my mom that back in her day, bent meant fucked. She said they would say bent instead of the actual word so the teachers wouldn't know what they were talking about. My friend thinks that this song is about sex. "Start bending me...it's never enough...till I feel all your pieces...start bending me...keep bending me...until I'm completely broken in" But I don't think that. I think that he had a messed up life and someone came along who Rob was able to depend on to "pick him up and dust him off" if he fell along the way.

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rebel princess
12-02-2004

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the persona in this song is bent and he's asking someone speical to help him because he might never be the same old person he used to be. just like a paperclip, once you had it bent, though you try to return it to its old shape, there's always a sign of it being bent...

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poetic__tragedy
03-30-2005

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lol i had to laught when i read mb20rox111 's comment, and how bent means fucked. lol "get bent" lol. haha, thats great. anyways ya i LVOE THIS SONG AND THE BAND!! and my opinion is the same as everyone elses so i wont repeat it. but cant someone tell me what this means
"started out clean but im jaded
just phoning it in
just breakin the skin"

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sugarcultfan789
04-07-2005

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I don't understand what that means either.

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sugarcultfan789
04-09-2005

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I love this song. Incred lyrics.

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happily_sullen
04-17-2005

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i think its about a guy who has problems and no one is there for him, but there is a girl who can help him, but if she doesn't help him he'll go "farther down" and then they'd both have problems.

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Gabigs
08-15-2005

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Oh I have to thank this song forever, because it made me fell into MB20 back in 2000; after seeing its video. I was so emotional back then, it would even make me cry without knowing why, maybe because of the "Bent" (in other words "feeling down", being wrong, or hurt) feeling.
It's amazing how Rob at first seems to be angry at the person, but actually he's begging her to help him recover...The music also helps this song to go deeper within you.
Later on I had the chance to hear the performance of Bent in Storytellers and it's exactly like Raine said, about two screwed people getting together trying to make something good out of it.
Bent is one of the very few songs that remain untouchable and that awakes a million feelings within me, and I can see from 2000 to this day how I've changed, how I screwed some things up and how I would give anything to have the chance to be that *innocent, unspoiled* person I used to be being 18.
"When my smile gets old and faded, wait around I'll smile again...", "I'm so scared that I'll never, get put back together..." these lines somehow bring me hope, thinking that I *might* sometime get to heal my wounds, and that it's only a matter of time...but at the same time I'm *so* afraid that it won't ever happen...

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samanthabanana
12-28-2006

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It's about my glasses. They're always bending.
Sorry, that's what I thought the first time I heard it.
Anyway, great song. Phenomonal. Spectacular. I can only think of three syllable words to describe it.
:)

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adlih
04-12-2007

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"if i need some other love, give me more than i can stand"

looove that lyric. i listen to these lyrics and it lets me know i am not alone

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Lala_Sara
07-30-2007

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I adore this song, I'm not alone here I see, but someone could actually explain me what "Could you paint me better off" means? I'm Russian but I know English very well so get me at least some clue. "to paint smb. off" and more - better? For god's sake! (it's not rhetorical, I'm actually trying to translate these lyrics).

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