Oh, please... stop the underrated-give-me-likes nonsense. Underrated? Millions of fans and views, famous beyond what many will ever, touring for years, millionaire... please.
Growing up poor and born in a remote village with no TV and all I had was a broken radio that I got it for free, I spent much of time after school listening to western songs which was considered evil in my world. I remember hearing songs from matchbox 20 in the mid 90s I was just entering my teenage years, I had hope, I felt like there's more to life than poverty, pain and hunger, there's a big world out there and I must go. Today I get to sit here in my lofty life and listen to these songs again and it brings tears.
I dunno, love it obviously but there's something about Busted. Maybe the grittiness with the whole "the people we've become, they've never been the people who we are" deeper observation. Hell of a songwriter, every song.
Pretty good song, but I feel the non-chorus vocals are a bit subpar compared to songs like 3AM and Push. I personally would say Push is the best track by them, but this song is not bad of a choice.
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, 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
This may seem strange, given the lyrics and meaning of this song, but when I listen to this, I am instantly transported back to the summer of 2000. The nostalgia of that summer -Swimming at the local pool, slumber parties with my friends, going to camp, and watching cartoons on the TV - hit me like a ton of bricks. This song was played all the time on the radio and as far as my 10 year-old self was concerned, it was a carefree summer anthem. It all seems like a dream now.
Just about that EXACT memory stream with a few tweaks and several additions, was myself summer of 1993 with Aerosmith's classic compilation album Big Ones. I was 14, gorgeous, chilling with my sister every day at my grandma's pool next door to us. Minimum of 6 hours by the pool daily in the blazing, ludicrous South Carolina sun (much akin to a mid day Sahara fever dream yet with a working ozone layer, bless it) wearing not nearly enough SPFs naturally, each of us deep in our personal journey/ relentless bloodthirsty quest to win the annual Tanning Contest 🤦 ( I apologize Dr. Bryan, my dermatologist, for my lack of any scruples regarding sun protection, skin care and SPF maximum of 8.....we were on an undescribably competitive, bloody, fight to the death quest for the ultimate and best tan, future skin to which I now humbly apologize be damned!!). Life was absolutely perfect....... I've experienced that level of happiness only 3 times in my life, ranging in various amounts of time from 4 months to 3 years......just bliss every single day. It was as if time were standing still, a wrinkle in time on which we rode a perfect wave every day filled with genuine joy and indescribable happiness that now seems several lifetimes ago. Would I go back to age 13 and live these 44 years all over again, with their impervious joys and absolute bliss..... tempered and now intertwined with indescribable clinical depression, the sufferings of loving too hard, unspeakable tragedies and periods of incessant and unrelenting loneliness? You bet your sweet a** I would. For only the highest highs can be felt knowing and comprehending the lowest of lows. Perhaps eternal life will be the summer of 1993 on endless repeat..... that's my idea of perfect bliss throughout eternity. How beautiful. To God be the Glory of this life and of course, the summer of '93.
Since Matchbox 20 came out in the middle 90's they still have the same sound and haven't detoured from their original roots. Rob Thomas still carries the vocals along with fellow band members, they still ROCK in THEIR OWN WAY!!!
Tommy Sandal yeah thats bcuz we didnt have social media at our fingertips whenever we wanted so that would explain the bands suffering from views due to all the new crap out smh it sucks. This is what I call real music.
Most people in this lifetime will come to a point in their life where direction is lost. A fork in the road in which you must determine the next path for the future. When this day comes I hope you make the right decision. Hopefully music such as this guides you forward. Life will continue to kick you down, it’s inevitable. Put yourself back together. ✊ Rise again.
These Guys have been my therapist for over two decades. Their music has helped me more than any magic pill or head doc out there. It’s ROB! His lyrics, they touch my soul. This song has always made me think of one person...I have loved him my entire life. I will see him this weekend for the first time in 17 years. ❤️ MB20/Rob’s solo world have helped me sooooo much! I want to thank him one day for his music. “Unwell” saved my life.
@Hannah McCoy aww honey, God BLESS you! I am a female too and old enough to be your mom, lol. You sound like a really sweet girl.... Stay strong and be blessed in The Lord!
Matchbox 20 has the vibe of an entire generation and Rob Thomas sings about all of the "questions" his generation has about life and all it's insecurities.
Love this song. Brings me back to the love of my life when we started dating In June 2000. Miss him more than ever. Thank you for this timeless classic.
This is "our song". I remember this song playing on the radio when we were sitting in the boat we were test driving at Lake Mead. It was a 1988 Four Winns Horizon 180 with a modified V hull. We were young and dating at the time and when it came on we both stared into one another's eyes and a big grin came over each of us. That boat gave us many memories over the years. I also remember this song playing in my Jeep Wrangler, with half doors, eating ice cream from Sonic. We were still dating. Still young. She was looking cute and hot in her yellow sundress!! I was a dork with a tan and a flat top trying to look cool and impress her with my pilot like sunglasses. lol. That ice cream would somehow end up on her neck & our lips would interlock for the next 25 years! I no longer have that boat or that Jeep but I still have her and three living kids. ☺
This song couod be about a break up but it strikes me more about depression and anxiety. The part where he is trying to walk but the wind is only pushing him back is how it can feel. Why is it only me having this hard time to do anything. The part in the ally where he breaks off from everyone (you do that in a sense) you try to withdraw but another problem will come chase you doing that too. I love this song, Rob Thomas has got me through some hard times for sure.
Anyone else just listening to songs and thinking about life just good songs you grow up and the lyrics mean so much I love rob thamas music all of his songs they are amazing rob Thomas is truly is a aretist I can relate to 💙💜💙💜❤️💙💜💙💜I wish more people my age would understand what the words mean
Just saw MB20 for the first time this month (Aug 2023) and it was a trip down Nostalgia Lane!! This band put everything on the stage!! They sounded phenomenal!! One of my top 10 shows - for sure!! Highly recommend seeing them if given the opportunity- you won’t be disappointed!! 🙌
You can't blame me but i still really love this song. It's September 2021, who's still listening and love to mesmerized all the songs of Matchbox Twenty? 😍😍😍
This videoclip is basically depression and paranoia wrapped in a neat package; you see the faces of your friends on your enemies, you think the world's problems are uniquely yours, and when someone offers you help in the darkness, you turn them away because you can't remember how to react.
Music like this from last century is a ghost that gives me chills. I was 19, about to turn 20. Still just as good now, but in a completely different way.
Grew up with this song, as well as most other songs from Matchbox Twenty's pre-hiatus songs. Love this song, was one of my favorites from my early childhood. Also Matchbox Twenty is a pretty underrated band I must say, I'd expect this song to have a lot more than 2,800,000 views.
Rob Thomas es un increíble cantautor. Letras profundas con sonido increíble, marcaron una época en mi vida. Son una banda genial que siempre tengo presente en mi ❤
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 landing Without understanding Can I go there 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
This song stays on top of Billboard 100 .. And it was that rocking i couldn't stop listening. Yup, Rob Thomas voice is just unique. The band completed it...
I remembered this song being number 1 on VH1 Top Twenty. My first and only CD was Matchbox Twenty Mad Season and I love all the songs on their album. Bent touches me differently......
I used to listen to this song when I was only 14 years old back in the school days in mtv. Even when I was 18, I listened to this song in my friend's computer with pain and sadness in my mind that it embedded in heart. Sadly no one understood me not even my parents or friends or relatives. Now I am 33 years old and still listening to it. This song always felt like it was made for me and my struggle throughout the life like an endless loop and the obstacles after obstacles coming after me but I still kept walking and walking.
This is my favorite song out of the Matchbox Twenty Collection, I don't know why-this song just speaks to me. I can feel the pain and the anger of betrayal. And it's not an easy song to play Live on stage. The Bassist is an incredible bass player to keep this song going into a Locomotive 🚂 Train coming at you.
I used to think 'Back to Good' was their best song until I hear song in my neighbor's house when I was going to the work the other day. I have played this song for about 100 times since then.
One of the best music videos ever. By the time you get to that scene at 3:11-3:22, you don't even need words to understand why he doesn't take the help. It's brilliantly done.
I always found the video pretty goofy up until that point, but I agree it basically sums up the entire song. This song along with Mayonnaise by the Smashing Pumpkins are anthems to pretty much all my angst. But I'm just sitting here at 3AM, so I guess I must be lonely. :P
@@isaaclooper9942, He refused the help from that guy because he couldn't feel anything anymore. Once you've been hurt too many times... you end up not feeling anything anymore. You're empty.
@@carlosanaya4149, He refused the help because he couldn't feel anything anymore. He's been hurt so much to the point where he doesn't know how to feel anything anymore.
This has got be my favorite Matchbox 20 jam-love the lyrics and how they flow through the instrumentals. His voice is dynamic in this one. 😌🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶⚡🎶🎶⚡🎶💫💫💫💫💥💫💫💫
I love you guys. All of you. Music binds us all together. Music like yhis. We are separated by oceans and borders but when we are together for music, we stand for each other. Love you all.
@@jdorritie idk, for me first was the April 19, 1995 Murrah Building bombing by Timothy McVeigh. But I live in Oklahoma City so it was personal. 9/11 just seemed like an extension of the terrorism that was brought to light way back then.
I had just turned 18 years old when this song came out. I can still remember sitting in my bedroom with a blank cassette tape waiting for it to be played on the radio so I could record it. I did finally manage to get it and then proceeded to absolutely wear that tape out over the next couple of weeks until the full album went on sale. I swear kids these days don't realize just how difficult life used to be for us elderly folks. I had to walk six miles in the snow uphill both ways in order to buy that blank tape using money I had earned peeling potatoes with shards from a broken beer bottle. Now they just use "The Napster" to get whatever they want whenever they want it. Fucking brats.
I won't part with my story, especially over RUclips. However, even if life were to be experienced more first-hand in the earlier years... there's still certain hardship and unforseen events to tackle even today. Some people just hasn't got the good cards delt to them... To live with chronic depression, thought me a few things... I'll bring up one: having to push through, regardless of how difficult the trial - is enough in itself. "A scraped knee, hurts and for the crying child it is no irrelevance" if we compare hardship between one another, we'll get nowhere further than a frugal quarrel. That said, I'm more than aware that this isn't /wasn't the case. Just my two cents ~ Tom of 1993
Ungreatful kids only wants free things in life. Free music,movies,tv show.they think its coming out of nowhere when there's people putting out their money and time to produce an album/film...
Pardon, Mr. Jones but was that comment aimed towards me or youths/adults in general? As I'm thankful for every tiny scrap I've been working for, as I saw it as earned by honest work. Might as well add, the fact that as an individual I for one don't expect anything... for favours I've done, of people I've met or of society as a whole. Again my two cents.
The good ole days.. crazy how things change and technology is like a poison to childhood of the new generations. I was born in 1990.. Nothing like the 90's and earlier music.. there's only a few bands/artist I listen to on a consistent basis these days.. the rest is garbage or the music is written without any meaning or any kind of story behind it..
This song deserves millions of likes it describes what people are going through in life right now like me this song really helps me through what I'm going through I really appreciate this song ❤️❤️ I love this song ❤️💙💙💞
@@ASMR_Orangely I never saw it as a pride rainbow. I just liked the symbol. I'm straight. And never really thought about it beyond just liking rainbows. Should I do away with it? Does it send the wrong message you think? ✨🕊️
Was looking for fall inspo when I saw this video. As a big Matchbox20 fan, I clicked right away and it instantly brought me back to my early 20's...saw that leather blazer, and I knew this video served it purpose: gotta have that leather blazer for fall and gonna play that old "Mad Season" CD again two decades later.
![Matchbox Twenty - Push (Official Video) [HD Remaster]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HAkHqYlqops/mqdefault.jpg)
Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world.
and to you! :)
Back at ya
I gave you the like settle down.
greetings from Croatia friend!!!!
Thank you!
Rob Thomas is truly one of the most underrated songwriters of all time.
Damn right!!!! I've been listening to matchbox 20 for a quarter century
Rob Thomas and matchbox 20 are famous 😂🎉
I agree 100%
Oh, please... stop the underrated-give-me-likes nonsense.
Underrated? Millions of fans and views, famous beyond what many will ever, touring for years, millionaire... please.
Cierto, Amo a Rob Thomas😍🥰🥰🥰
Anyone else is going through their favorite jams thinking about life back in the days?
Yes
Uh huh 😞
VH1 Top 20 Countdown. This used to be #1
Yes
Yes I never thought Matchbox 20 would be old school.
90s/early 00’s music was the best so much heart passion and soul. So glad I grew up in this time.
Ahh,I remember taking my brother on his senior trip in 1997,and Push was just released! I was hooked!
Glad I was there for the ride too. Beautiful times!
❤❤❤❤❤❤
Growing up poor and born in a remote village with no TV and all I had was a broken radio that I got it for free, I spent much of time after school listening to western songs which was considered evil in my world. I remember hearing songs from matchbox 20 in the mid 90s I was just entering my teenage years, I had hope, I felt like there's more to life than poverty, pain and hunger, there's a big world out there and I must go. Today I get to sit here in my lofty life and listen to these songs again and it brings tears.
I hope you're well brother!
Songs considered evil in your world? What world is that?
Same here bro ❤❤❤❤
Western songs are evil and the West is evil to the entire world
Where? The Himalayas.
For the past 20+ years, the guitar riff at the beginning and the bridge never fail to give me chills.
I love it.
That drum beat that goes with it to me is so iconic
same here. It's awakening.
The riff at the end also
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Heard This At The Gas Station This Morning, And Now Listening To It On Repeat. Came Here To See The Video..What A Time!
This song perfectly describes the inner storm you feel when you’re vulnerable
So true
@@oliviachipman7806 So true
True
This is the sound of the 90s. What a classic. Amazing song.
song was released in 2000
@@psulionz87 Cross genre of music at the turn between 20th Century and 21st Century.
@@kartikkay4729 no one said that fam, just saying, it was dropped in 00
@@psulionz87 yep !😂 I know what he/she means though !😁
I just cannot fathom how someone can write such wonderful songs.
same!
I can't either ,....he was born talented as all hell ❤
I remember when this song came out when I was 11 years old and I'm still listening to Rob Thomas, there's just something about his voice.
Got this album for my 12th birthday. Still have it to this day
Ikr. I feel the same way 💓
My favorite
Same here, funny enough this is the first mb20 that I ever listened to or knew of.. rob is just legendary
His voice has that little southern twang to it it but it’s not to much . Comes out in the higher vocals and sounds really good .
Matchbox 20 music with meaning. Not distorted like what you hear today
2024 and still 400x better than today’s music
true
400x Agree
I checked his math. He's right.
Agree to disagree.
Hell yeah
This is Matchbox Twenty's best track by far. The iconic guitar at the beginning and end gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it.
You too😂
I dunno, love it obviously but there's something about Busted. Maybe the grittiness with the whole "the people we've become, they've never been the people who we are" deeper observation. Hell of a songwriter, every song.
They best song was Push
Pretty good song, but I feel the non-chorus vocals are a bit subpar compared to songs like 3AM and Push. I personally would say Push is the best track by them, but this song is not bad of a choice.
"Bent" is very 2000's rock, it still sounds very fresh and iconic alter all these years 🙂
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, 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
Thx great song lyrics 🤠
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Wait he almost said cheating not jaded? 😳
*With you and me landing
Without understanding
Can I go there again
Can you help me I'm bent
Forever a fav!!! 🎉
I was sleeping the song just popped up on my mind and had to listen to it. What a beautiful masterpiece
Love this man's voice so much.
I love rob thomas ❤️ 💕 💙 😍 💗 💖 his voice is so cool
This whole album is worth listening to! Rob is a great writer and singer. The whole band
I remember going to immediately buy it at an FYE and listened to it on repeat!
Rob Thomas is one of favs of all time ....l love his voice, music and most of his compositions.....the reason being his songs have soul❤
I liked these guys for the sound when I was kid. Now as an adult I love them for the lyrics
Well said. I totally agree 🙂👍
Yup
Timeless classic. Listen up kids and learn about great music.
@@chefgiovanni still exists.
Good music everywhere if you look.
@Michael David Caprarella No, we just like good music and not shit like they record today.
This songs heals a lot of the things
Rob thomas is undoubtedly one of the best lead singers in modern rock history
They seriously had some of the best music didn't they?
Still do!
@@robinmarshall4858 I was just thinking that! 😉
Their new album is amazing
Still one of the greatest rock songs I've ever heard. Incredible.
This may seem strange, given the lyrics and meaning of this song, but when I listen to this, I am instantly transported back to the summer of 2000. The nostalgia of that summer -Swimming at the local pool, slumber parties with my friends, going to camp, and watching cartoons on the TV - hit me like a ton of bricks. This song was played all the time on the radio and as far as my 10 year-old self was concerned, it was a carefree summer anthem. It all seems like a dream now.
No shit, man.....there's just something haunting about this song. Not in a bad way, but I remember listening to it late night
Just about that EXACT memory stream with a few tweaks and several additions, was myself summer of 1993 with Aerosmith's classic compilation album Big Ones. I was 14, gorgeous, chilling with my sister every day at my grandma's pool next door to us. Minimum of 6 hours by the pool daily in the blazing, ludicrous South Carolina sun (much akin to a mid day Sahara fever dream yet with a working ozone layer, bless it) wearing not nearly enough SPFs naturally, each of us deep in our personal journey/ relentless bloodthirsty quest to win the annual Tanning Contest 🤦 ( I apologize Dr. Bryan, my dermatologist, for my lack of any scruples regarding sun protection, skin care and SPF maximum of 8.....we were on an undescribably competitive, bloody, fight to the death quest for the ultimate and best tan, future skin to which I now humbly apologize be damned!!). Life was absolutely perfect....... I've experienced that level of happiness only 3 times in my life, ranging in various amounts of time from 4 months to 3 years......just bliss every single day. It was as if time were standing still, a wrinkle in time on which we rode a perfect wave every day filled with genuine joy and indescribable happiness that now seems several lifetimes ago. Would I go back to age 13 and live these 44 years all over again, with their impervious joys and absolute bliss..... tempered and now intertwined with indescribable clinical depression, the sufferings of loving too hard, unspeakable tragedies and periods of incessant and unrelenting loneliness? You bet your sweet a** I would. For only the highest highs can be felt knowing and comprehending the lowest of lows. Perhaps eternal life will be the summer of 1993 on endless repeat..... that's my idea of perfect bliss throughout eternity. How beautiful. To God be the Glory of this life and of course, the summer of '93.
I was 28.
I feel the same way.
BEST time of my life.
Since Matchbox 20 came out in the middle 90's they still have the same sound and haven't detoured from their original roots. Rob Thomas still carries the vocals along with fellow band members, they still ROCK in THEIR OWN WAY!!!
not even 6 million views??!??!?!?!?!? BS. This song was everywhere when I was younger.
6 mill views now! 👍
Shakey graves
PixieO
Tommy Sandal yeah thats bcuz we didnt have social media at our fingertips whenever we wanted so that would explain the bands suffering from views due to all the new crap out smh it sucks. This is what I call real music.
Everyone does not have the time to watch old music videos on RUclips. Especially the old videos that played all the time on MTV-Music Television.
Most people in this lifetime will come to a point in their life where direction is lost. A fork in the road in which you must determine the next path for the future. When this day comes I hope you make the right decision. Hopefully music such as this guides you forward. Life will continue to kick you down, it’s inevitable. Put yourself back together. ✊ Rise again.
These Guys have been my therapist for over two decades. Their music has helped me more than any magic pill or head doc out there. It’s ROB! His lyrics, they touch my soul.
This song has always made me think of one person...I have loved him my entire life. I will see him this weekend for the first time in 17 years. ❤️ MB20/Rob’s solo world have helped me sooooo much! I want to thank him one day for his music. “Unwell” saved my life.
gay
@@usig00 So
2020 and still in love with this song
Good stuff eh ? ! Check out Rob’s live performance of this .. excellent
Always ❤️
Just phonin it in
So am i! I love this song! Listening right now!
@Hannah McCoy aww honey, God BLESS you! I am a female too and old enough to be your mom, lol. You sound like a really sweet girl.... Stay strong and be blessed in The Lord!
Matchbox 20 has the vibe of an entire generation and Rob Thomas sings about all of the "questions" his generation has about life and all it's insecurities.
This song gives me goosebumps. Chilling, brilliant lyrics that speaks to the heart.
Love this song.
Brings me back to the love of my life when we started dating In June 2000.
Miss him more than ever.
Thank you for this timeless classic.
I'm 38, ..2017 still and always love Matchbox Twenty 😘❤👏👏👏👏🎵🎶🎤🎧🎼🎸🎹
This is "our song". I remember this song playing on the radio when we were sitting in the boat we were test driving at Lake Mead. It was a 1988 Four Winns Horizon 180 with a modified V hull. We were young and dating at the time and when it came on we both stared into one another's eyes and a big grin came over each of us. That boat gave us many memories over the years. I also remember this song playing in my Jeep Wrangler, with half doors, eating ice cream from Sonic. We were still dating. Still young. She was looking cute and hot in her yellow sundress!! I was a dork with a tan and a flat top trying to look cool and impress her with my pilot like sunglasses. lol. That ice cream would somehow end up on her neck & our lips would interlock for the next 25 years! I no longer have that boat or that Jeep but I still have her and three living kids. ☺
Lovely story my friend! Blessings to you, the love of your life and the rest of your family ❤️
This song couod be about a break up but it strikes me more about depression and anxiety. The part where he is trying to walk but the wind is only pushing him back is how it can feel. Why is it only me having this hard time to do anything. The part in the ally where he breaks off from everyone (you do that in a sense) you try to withdraw but another problem will come chase you doing that too. I love this song, Rob Thomas has got me through some hard times for sure.
Anyone else just listening to songs and thinking about life just good songs you grow up and the lyrics mean so much I love rob thamas music all of his songs they are amazing rob Thomas is truly is a aretist I can relate to 💙💜💙💜❤️💙💜💙💜I wish more people my age would understand what the words mean
"I started out clean, but I'm jaded" - 2024
Billboard Hot 100 number 1 hit in 2000
correct!
Just saw MB20 for the first time this month (Aug 2023) and it was a trip down Nostalgia Lane!! This band put everything on the stage!! They sounded phenomenal!! One of my top 10 shows - for sure!! Highly recommend seeing them if given the opportunity- you won’t be disappointed!! 🙌
Can attest to MB20 being great showmen. Also, Rob solo, amazing show, two hours of him performing and leaving nothing behind
You can't blame me but i still really love this song. It's September 2021, who's still listening and love to mesmerized all the songs of Matchbox Twenty? 😍😍😍
This videoclip is basically depression and paranoia wrapped in a neat package; you see the faces of your friends on your enemies, you think the world's problems are uniquely yours, and when someone offers you help in the darkness, you turn them away because you can't remember how to react.
who hurt you?
@@psulionz87 the writers of Heroes Season 2
Shrewd observation
@@songkok7hitam thank you.
maybe that is why I like it so much
This song always touches me deep down into my soul. I feel his hurt, his heart and his soul.
Music like this from last century is a ghost that gives me chills. I was 19, about to turn 20. Still just as good now, but in a completely different way.
Re-watching this video. 20+ years later when I was a kid… still have a crush on him 🤍
Exactly 15 years ago today, this song was #1 on the Billboard 100
Make it 20 now
JOOT X oh my god....that cant be true. no, I refuse
@@adorabasilwinterpock6035 you're old. No way around it.
@@jootpepet "older"
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What a great song! And looking at Rob is always a bonus.
Keep it in your pants lady …
Grew up with this song, as well as most other songs from Matchbox Twenty's pre-hiatus songs. Love this song, was one of my favorites from my early childhood. Also Matchbox Twenty is a pretty underrated band I must say, I'd expect this song to have a lot more than 2,800,000 views.
Rob Thomas es un increíble cantautor. Letras profundas con sonido increíble, marcaron una época en mi vida. Son una banda genial que siempre tengo presente en mi ❤
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 landing
Without understanding
Can I go there 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
Thanks for the lyrics
Rose Muyot
Thanks
Thanks very much!
Thank you.
This song stays on top of Billboard 100 .. And it was that rocking i couldn't stop listening. Yup, Rob Thomas voice is just unique. The band completed it...
THERE'S NOT A SONG HE CANT SING. HE'S THE BOMB.
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I totally agree there's no dong he can't sing the he's definite
ROB THOM THE BOMB
+Kennedy Frisby Thomb
The bomb diggity
I love his music
One of the best bands of all time! Still listening to in 2014!!!!
Kaitlyn Michelle I’m still listening in 2019 😍
I remembered this song being number 1 on VH1 Top Twenty. My first and only CD was Matchbox Twenty Mad Season and I love all the songs on their album. Bent touches me differently......
I used to listen to this song when I was only 14 years old back in the school days in mtv. Even when I was 18, I listened to this song in my friend's computer with pain and sadness in my mind that it embedded in heart. Sadly no one understood me not even my parents or friends or relatives. Now I am 33 years old and still listening to it. This song always felt like it was made for me and my struggle throughout the life like an endless loop and the obstacles after obstacles coming after me but I still kept walking and walking.
Thanks for this commentary. Same here, mate. Hope you will be fine.
I love listening to a mix of Matchbox 20 and Train when I'm having trouble getting myself to face my day. These 2 bands always make me smile.
This song is on repeat daily for me .
I relate from this song so much.
I may be Bent but Jesus can put me back together!!
Amen 💖
✅👍👏👏
LOL. LOL. LOL. GET SOME HELP .SEE A DOCTOR NOT THE IMAGINARY MAN.
Amen
This is my favorite song out of the Matchbox Twenty Collection, I don't know why-this song just speaks to me. I can feel the pain and the anger of betrayal. And it's not an easy song to play Live on stage. The Bassist is an incredible bass player to keep this song going into a Locomotive 🚂 Train coming at you.
These guys pretty much defined alternative rock for me in the 90's. Great song here.
I used to think 'Back to Good' was their best song until I hear song in my neighbor's house when I was going to the work the other day. I have played this song for about 100 times since then.
It still is one of the best.
Back to good, bent and 3 a.m. in that order are my favorite.
Back To Good is their best song imo. It just has so many layers and innuendos and double entredes. It's so complex and yet so simple.
Early 2000s music is my aesthetic...
And it still is in 2019...
One of the best music videos ever. By the time you get to that scene at 3:11-3:22, you don't even need words to understand why he doesn't take the help. It's brilliantly done.
I always found the video pretty goofy up until that point, but I agree it basically sums up the entire song. This song along with Mayonnaise by the Smashing Pumpkins are anthems to pretty much all my angst.
But I'm just sitting here at 3AM, so I guess I must be lonely. :P
Please explain. I would appreciate it
How come he refused help?
@@isaaclooper9942, He refused the help from that guy because he couldn't feel anything anymore. Once you've been hurt too many times... you end up not feeling anything anymore. You're empty.
@@carlosanaya4149, He refused the help because he couldn't feel anything anymore. He's been hurt so much to the point where he doesn't know how to feel anything anymore.
One of those songs as soon as you hear it, an instant time machine and transports me back to a teenager when everything was simpler
Rob is soooooo freakin gorgeous!! LOVE HIM!!
This has got be my favorite Matchbox 20 jam-love the lyrics and how they flow through the instrumentals.
His voice is dynamic in this one.
😌🎤🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶⚡🎶🎶⚡🎶💫💫💫💫💥💫💫💫
Rock 'n' roll, pls come back to life.
I love you guys. All of you. Music binds us all together. Music like yhis. We are separated by oceans and borders but when we are together for music, we stand for each other. Love you all.
It's hard to believe that this song is 20 years old.
Yes and now this is considered oldies at this point.
IKR
21 years
2019... I aged but this never gets old😍
This song is so Badass
Best band ever
This shit hits differently in 2020 than it did in 1999
Man doesn’t it just though?!?
Single was released in * 2000, fam ;)
I think for our generation all you need is pre and post 9/11
@@jdorritie idk, for me first was the April 19, 1995 Murrah Building bombing by Timothy McVeigh. But I live in Oklahoma City so it was personal. 9/11 just seemed like an extension of the terrorism that was brought to light way back then.
Sometimes people need to pray for how it's going to be in the end.
It’s 2019 and I still love this song 😎
I had just turned 18 years old when this song came out. I can still remember sitting in my bedroom with a blank cassette tape waiting for it to be played on the radio so I could record it. I did finally manage to get it and then proceeded to absolutely wear that tape out over the next couple of weeks until the full album went on sale.
I swear kids these days don't realize just how difficult life used to be for us elderly folks. I had to walk six miles in the snow uphill both ways in order to buy that blank tape using money I had earned peeling potatoes with shards from a broken beer bottle. Now they just use "The Napster" to get whatever they want whenever they want it. Fucking brats.
I won't part with my story, especially over RUclips. However, even if life were to be experienced more first-hand in the earlier years... there's still certain hardship and unforseen events to tackle even today. Some people just hasn't got the good cards delt to them... To live with chronic depression, thought me a few things... I'll bring up one: having to push through, regardless of how difficult the trial - is enough in itself. "A scraped knee, hurts and for the crying child it is no irrelevance" if we compare hardship between one another, we'll get nowhere further than a frugal quarrel. That said, I'm more than aware that this isn't /wasn't the case. Just my two cents ~ Tom of 1993
Ungreatful kids only wants free things in life.
Free music,movies,tv show.they think its coming out of nowhere when there's people putting out their money and time to produce an album/film...
Pardon, Mr. Jones but was that comment aimed towards me or youths/adults in general? As I'm thankful for every tiny scrap I've been working for, as I saw it as earned by honest work. Might as well add, the fact that as an individual I for one don't expect anything... for favours I've done, of people I've met or of society as a whole. Again my two cents.
Yeah technology gave us alot and with this amount of it people lose the meaning of music. Its kinda sad.
Tom Dahl not towards you
This song brings me to tear. I think about my best friend who passed in 2001,our senior year of high school. We LOVED Matchbox Twenty. 😢
How you dewin?
Childhood memories. born 1991. Anybody else? When this came out I saw it on MTV I was like 8
GyroLamb I was born in 1990, so yeah, I remember all of this music and when the videos would come on MTV.😊
Ella The best people were born in 1990!
The good ole days.. crazy how things change and technology is like a poison to childhood of the new generations. I was born in 1990.. Nothing like the 90's and earlier music.. there's only a few bands/artist I listen to on a consistent basis these days.. the rest is garbage or the music is written without any meaning or any kind of story behind it..
Like 8, or 8?
when mtv actually still played music
If this is the end of my world, I went out listening to Rob Thomas. Such a legend 😘
One of my top 10s of all time. God bless my generation and the kids that have good taste
This song stays with me all the time🩷 it’s so beyond beautiful. “Wait around and I’ll smile again” 🩷
Quite possibly the MOST underrated songwriter of all time, most definitely of my generation. And he's from my state South Carolina 🤘!
I miss the 90's
Haha It came in 2006 dude lol
No I remember seeing the music video on much music in 1999
Oh you're right, just checked out the release date
+WithLove the song came out in 2000
2000s.
This song says so much about who a person really is on the inside if you can understand.
I can not EVER get tired of listening to this and watching this music video 100% the best music video ever❤ had it on repeat for hours🤭
Best outtro /guitar ending solo of any song ever............. Could listen to it on a never ending loop
time flies but my love for rob thomas & mb20 music never change not even a bit
This song deserves millions of likes it describes what people are going through in life right now like me this song really helps me through what I'm going through I really appreciate this song ❤️❤️ I love this song ❤️💙💙💞
This song is about what it's like to be down on your luck and the helpless feeling that goes along with it;
no, this song is about being "bent" bent means diseased....he also has a song...called "disease"
if you break down the lyrics he talks about getting with the girl and taking on all her problems
Speaks to me. I feel bent. It speaks from my soul. I do wonder what made him bent, and did he ever recover?
This classic definitely hits you harder when you haven't listened to it for a while.
Listening in 2019, this is my second favorite Matchbox Twenty song. First is Real World.
Same
That is pretty Darn Cool!
I can't explain feelings when I hear this song.
This is a miracle! I've been looking for this song for months! And I finally found it! What an incredible sign! Wow! ✨🕊️
Why the pride rainbow?
@@ASMR_Orangely I never saw it as a pride rainbow. I just liked the symbol. I'm straight. And never really thought about it beyond just liking rainbows. Should I do away with it? Does it send the wrong message you think? ✨🕊️
My favourite Matchbox 20 song!
That's goes for me too!
Classic and clean rock music! Love it!
2019? Still love this!
Thank you for telling us and showing us how Rob and band!!! I love you. 🔥
One of the best choruses of all time
Was looking for fall inspo when I saw this video. As a big Matchbox20 fan, I clicked right away and it instantly brought me back to my early 20's...saw that leather blazer, and I knew this video served it purpose: gotta have that leather blazer for fall and gonna play that old "Mad Season" CD again two decades later.
One of my favorite songs by them. Miss the 90's.❤️
It's funny because this album came out in the 2000s, but this song sounds very 80's to me. I love It! 😁💯💯💯
Absolutely awesome tune