MATCHBOX TWENTY - BENT

BENT

MATCHBOX TWENTY

SONGWRITERS: Rob Thomas 

WHERE: MTV LIVE AT RED ROCKS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MAD SEASON

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 2000

"Bent" is a song by American alternative rock group Matchbox Twenty. It was released in July 2000 as the lead single from their second album, Mad Season. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on July 22, 2000, before being unseated the following week by 'N Sync's "It's Gonna Be Me". It remains the band's only number one hit on that chart.

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, then

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

Oh, just hold me again

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Keep 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

Oh, just breaking the skin

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Keep breaking me in

And this is how we will end

With you and me bent

Start bending me, it's never enough

As I feel all your pieces

Start bending me, keep bending me

Oh, until I'm completely broken in

Shouldn't be so complicated

Just touch me and then

Oh, just touch me again

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Keep breaking me in

And this is how we will end

With you and me will let them

Without understanding

Here I go there again

Can you help me I'm bent

I'm so scared that I'll never

Get put back together

Yeah, you're breaking me in

And this is how we will end

With you and me bent.