Home (The Broken Place You Left)

Artwork Partially AI Generated

Artist:
Jonathan Hadley

Release Date:
January 20, 2025

Record Label:
Abrasive Monologues

Writing Credits

Musical Composition:
J E Jackson

Lyrics:
J E Jackson

Musical Performance:
Jonathan Hadley – Guitars

Production Credits

Mixing:
Jonathan Hadley

Mastering:
Jonathan Hadley

Jon Hadley

Jonathan Hadley

Bio:

Jonathan Hadley is a musician and producer whose work explores atmosphere, texture, and emotionally direct songwriting. He is the founder of Abrasive Monologues, an independent artist collective and label, and releases music both under his own name and through collaborative projects within the roster.

Jon Hadley writes music like memories… out of order, half-lit, and sharper than it should be. As the founder of Abrasive Monologues, he builds sonic and narrative spaces where friction is never a flaw… it’s the point. His work moves between music, philosophy, and narrative realism, often circling themes of cost, love, and structural truth. When he’s not writing, he’s architecting systems that let other artists do the same… louder, cleaner, and with more control than the industry ever wanted to give them.

About this track

The house I grew up in is a typical, american built home. It aged poorly, and over time, the floors began to sag and settle. It bore the weight of it's age… it's trauma. As I got older I tried to spend less time there, preferring to drive aimlessly to pass the time and wasting a lot of gas going absolutely nowhere. It's taken me until almost 40 to come to the realization that the house is just a building, containing an energy. My real home was the people who cared about, and loved me. Not because they had to, but because they wanted to. I largely abandoned those people right along with the building. I've been a shitty friend, and for that I apologize. Home doesn't have to be the broken place you left.

If you choose to be something today… Be Abrasive.

AI Disclosure

Artificial Intelligence Disclosure
No AI was used in this production

Content Warning

Content may be activating or triggering for some individuals
  • Trauma and Complex Emotional Themes
  • Explicit Language
  • Violence or Self Harm

Lyrics

Broken floor boards
Under my shoes
What’s there to lose
I get in the car and drive
For miles
 
I want to find my way
See the forest for the trees
I want to find my way
 
Home doesn’t have to be
The broken place you left
 
Chosen family
Can be tighter than blood
Itself
 
I get in the car
Going nowhere
 
Are these four walls
What’s keeping me here
 
There’s things that I chase
A happier place
Stability
 
There’s things that I crave
That I don’t deserve
Tranquility
 
Home doesn’t have to be
The broken place you left
 
Chosen family
Can be tighter than blood
Itself

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