Notbroken

"Notbroken" is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls. It is the second single from their ninth studio album, Something for the Rest of Us, which was released on August 31, 2010. It was announced on Goo Goo Dolls' official website that "Notbroken" would be the second single from the new album.^[1]

Meaning

It has been stated at many shows on the Something for the Rest of Us Tour that "Notbroken" is about a wife writing a letter to her husband who is at war. He fears that she will no longer love him because of his physical and emotional changes while in battle. The song indicates that the woman will always love her husband, regardless of the war's effect on him.

Music video

The minimalist music video was directed by Mexican director Carlos López Estrada^[2] and features the band performing while a woman writes to her soldier, an officer in the army. Her letter is carried overseas by a postman and reaches the husband in time before he goes out to fight on the battlefield. The tense war scene goes hand-in-hand as the band performs intensely and many soldiers die. The husband is shot and seems to die, only for the ending of the video to show him returning to his waiting wife, wounded but 'not broken'.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Notbroken"	John Rzeznik	4:10
2.	"As I Am (Live)"	John Rzeznik	4:17

Chart positions

Chart (2010)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles	19
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	26
U.S. Billboard Rock Digital Songs	11

References

↑ "News Bulletin from GooGooDolls.com".
↑ "Booked: Goo Goo Dolls - Carlos Lopez Estrada, dir.". VideoStatic.com. Retrieved January 11, 2013.

Goo Goo Dolls

John Rzeznik Robby Takac George Tutuska Mike Malinin

Studio albums	Goo Goo Dolls Jed Hold Me Up Superstar Car Wash A Boy Named Goo Dizzy Up the Girl Gutterflower Let Love In Something for the Rest of Us Magnetic Boxes

Extended plays	Just the Way You Are EP Bang! Dizzy EP Platinum Play EP Rolling Stone Original Waiting for the Rest of It

Live albums	Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004

Compilations	What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce iTunes Originals Greatest Hits Volume One: The Singles Vol.2

Videography	Music in High Places: Live in Alaska Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004 Live and Intimate

Singles	"There You Are" "I'm Awake Now" "We Are the Normal" "Only One" "Flat Top" "Name" "Naked" "Long Way Down" "Lazy Eye" "Iris" "Slide" "Dizzy" "Black Balloon" "Broadway" "Here Is Gone" "Big Machine" "Sympathy" "Give a Little Bit" "Better Days" "Let Love In" "Stay with You" "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" "Real" "Home" "Notbroken" "All That You Are" "Rebel Beat" "Come to Me" "Caught in the Storm" "So Alive" "Over and Over"

Other songs	"Laughing" "So Far Away"

Tours	Something for the Rest of Us Tour 2013 Summer Tour Canada 2014 The Otis Midnight Sessions 2014 Summer Tour Boxes Tour

Related material	Discography

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