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On this track John sings "One day we can swim away"...well I know what day it is..it's a Monday!!

(listen closely to the outro of the track,he clearly repeats Monday,Monday,Monday,Monday!! )

Hey! It's sunday night and I've just finished my weekend shift

I hope you get a lie-in tomorrow then!

Broken Furniture is a fantastic song. I must play it...

You can also hear it as 'Day One' 'Day One'.

Maybe a fresh start, after swimming away.

And here's me thinking this was an advert for a carpentry course...

I always thought it had something to do with a shortage of ice cream.

"I live in an apartment with no Walls"

I don't what it is about the song Broken Furniture but it always reminds me of homeless people.

Peter

I always associate this track with a dark period when I had bought a new house, but still owned the previous one. TWO mortgages. Nightmare.
I kept having to go back to the previous one to fix it up for sale (the tenant had buggered off, and wrecked various things, also left a piano behind, that wouldn't fit through the door.. no idea how it got in.. strange)
It was always cold and empty.

"I thought I left here years ago"..
(Actually, I had..)

I'd go with that.

My interpretation is that the 'broken furniture' is a metaphor for those little fragments of untied loose ends that follow us around. Memories, ghosts of past lovers - they have no respect for walls...
And of course those of other people that previously lived in the apartments

When we leave something/someone behind it is only ever in the physical sense. In terms of imprints, time periods, memories etc they always come with us.
Hence "I never want you to find this place"...

Sounds like those 'Invisible Women' again..

I'd agree with you on that Martin.

I love this track - definately one of John's most haunting and intriguing songs, with a nice, subtle take on "This City" in the music.

In a highbrow moment, I've been reading Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' (and cos it's Christmassy!!). The desciption of where Scrooge lives reminded me of 'Broken Furniture' because it was previously owned by his old business partner, Marley, and conjures up images not too disimilar to the song lyrics
Cheers