This Broken Heart

Title of song: This Broken Heart

Artist: Funkadelic

Title of album: Cosmic Slop

Year of first release: 1973

Trivia: This is a cover of The Sonics[?] song by the same name.

Like much of Cosmic Slop, "This Broken Heart" is R&B and soul-inflected.

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Songwriter: William Franklin (a jazz trombonist)

Memorable Lyrics:

• "Are you mad, at me, darling?/Are you sorry that we, we, we met?"
• "Yes, and you've been finding more faults /Than Carter got liver pills/And I'm hip to all that Gemini material laying around, heh"
  • Gemini is a constellation and the third sign of the Zodiac (the twins)
  • "Carter" may be a reference to Jimmy Carter??

Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-cslop.html#lyr-s-broken)

The singer proclaims his love for a woman, and asks if she is planning on leaving him. He claims that no one will ever love her as much as he does.

Personnel:

• Strings: Bernie Worrell
• Lead Vocals: Calvin Simon
• Drums: Geezer McGee[?] (disputed)

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