Torn To Pieces

Album: Onyx (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song deals with the loss of frontman Leigh Kakaty's father. He said: "There's nothing more haunting and torturous to the human soul than the feeling of losing someone close to you without saying goodbye."
  • Veteran Swedish director Johan Carlén directed the visual, which was Pop Evil's fourth video installment from their Onyx album. "Digging up the past can be very difficult," said Kakaty. "Losing someone close to you has a healing process, and I choose to do it through this video."

    Other music clips on Carlén's resume include the ones for Avatar's "Smells Like a Freakshow and Diamond Dawn's "Take Me Higher."
  • The song is very personal to Leigh Kakaty, so much so that he didn't want to release it. "It was for my dad, and it was tough for me for the first few years to play that song," he said on the Songfacts Podcast. "You hear that term 'celebrate life,' and I'm like, 'That's the dumbest phrase. I lost my dad, this is ridiculous.' But now, I finally get it. I'm not alone. Especially when I see guys getting emotional at shows.

    As a guy, you constantly have to be tough for your family and wear that masculine role, but that guy has pain too, like I do, and I'm so glad this song can help him and know that he's not alone, because he's helping me at the moment. That's like a split second when you see that guy on stage and he may be bawling and he's looking at you, and you give him the horns back and you acknowledge him and you make eye contact and he gives you that look, like, I got you, I'm here for you. That resonates. It's different than a #1 record, it's a real purpose. We're having an impact on people's lives.

    Sometimes with these interviews, you hear that you didn't do something game-changing with the music, but we're having a positive impact on people's lives. You think about that moment in time when loved ones couldn't help you, but who was there: music."

Comments: 7

  • Racheal M Lewis from Dallas TxI just lost my pawpaw to his second around of cancer and I never got to see him or say good bye to him. He was my hero really we where really close. Yalls song helps me heal slowly because that's not going to take just a day of healing it's going to take time a long time. So personally I want to thank u it means alot
  • Futuresupermutant from Murfreesboro TnThis song made me cry, but only when I started singing, and that's when it hit me, the sorrow that I hear, it's so genuine.
  • Dylan from IdkEvery time I hear this song I cry
  • Michael from Clemson, ScThe first time I heard this song, I had to pull off the road...my eyes teared up so badly I couldn't see to drive safely.
  • Rhonda Coleman from Ipava IllinoisKool song. It's an emotional song. Love it!!!
  • Ray Sosebee from TexasNo. It's his Dad!
  • Lilwicked from 64507Is he smooching on a dude at the end of the video??
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