Raw Reflections in ‘Broken’ by Deflecting Ghosts

There’s something about “Broken” by Deflecting Ghosts that feels like standing still in the middle of a storm. It doesn’t try to explain everything all at once. It just lets the feeling take over. This isn’t a song about triumph or healing. It’s about the murky in-between, the raw space where you’re not sure if you’re falling apart or finally facing yourself.

From the first line, “Broken, stolen in the sands of time,” you can feel the weariness. It’s not just sadness. It’s history. The kind of pain that’s been quietly collecting dust inside someone for years. The lyrics drift in and out like memories half-remembered. “Seasons come and go just like another eyes,” and “Sapphire washed the water of another waterfall.” The imagery is surreal, poetic, and intentionally fractured like a reflection in cracked glass. It fits the theme perfectly, a person watching themselves come undone.

The instrumentation mirrors that emotional decay. Thick, heavy guitar riffs move like molasses, sludgy and deliberate, while the drums keep a heartbeat that feels on the edge of breaking. There’s no polish here, and that’s the point. The sound is gritty, haunted, and at times almost hesitant, like it’s carrying too much weight to move quickly. That tension between restraint and release gives the song its depth. You can feel the conflict in every beat.

But it’s the final stretch of lyrics that hit the hardest:

“Now you walk alone, searching it from afar. And all the seas they lay naked before. Now you wait out for a darkened day to come. And all the waiting in this silence yet to come.”

These lines don’t offer hope. They offer truth. The truth of someone stuck between past and future, trying to make peace with the silence that follows chaos.

“Broken” isn’t meant to uplift. It’s meant to witness. Deflecting Ghosts have created something brutally honest here. A song that doesn’t flinch when looking inward. It’s not pretty, and it’s not easy, but it’s real. And sometimes, that’s exactly what you need.

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