r/coheed's Song of the Day #48: One and The Broken

One and The Broken are the beginnings to Year Of The Black Rainbow. One has a very creepy sound to it; definitely the darkest of all the openers in my opinion. The Broken is rock-tastic, but there is something about it that stops it from being top tier Coheed. I think it's the verses: Claudio sings weirdly. But damn, the DRUMS NIGGA. The middle eight is just crazy drums on top of crazy drums. I love it so much. Then you get a fucking reprise of the Keywork theme in form of guitar solo? Yes. I remember when this was released... It was my first Coheed single I'd ever heard and been waiting for, so I played it non stop and had it on a mix CD and everything. Good times.

The Fiction- (From NateHaven9 on songmeanings) This is the first chapter of the book The Year of the Black Rainbow. Coheed and cambria follow the trails to a mine where wilhelm ryans men are mining the power of the keymork. they find a group of guards/minions or "little listeners" and for the most part destroy them. Coheed blows up one of their heads with his cannon and the bits of brain and and blood splatter on another guards face. the surviving guard in terror picks his comrades teeth off of his face, before being murdered himself. Coheed can shoot machetes out of his arm at the meare thought of it, hence the thoughts that hide your rusty scissors, and coheed discovers the truth of the opperation and he swings his cannon like a club into the masses of soldiers he and cambria battle. There are a series of crystaline structures that absorb and harness the power of the keywork. the keywork is a living entity of ghostlike souls, that i attribute the name "the broken" for. coheed destroys the harness holding up the structure and it begins to fall releasing the "broken" spirits. "the world looks better" as the structure falls. As C and C escape the mine, it begins to collapse and fall apart. This part in the book is pretty intense, infact the whole chapter is.)

The Real- I honestly don't know, I'm wondering if this could be about Josh. But honestly, it's probably some random coffee shop douchebag or something.

The Part- Girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's girl you know it's dem drums.