"Torn in Two" is a song by American

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band

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. It was their second single off of their album ''

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''. It topped the ''

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chart in September 2018, outperforming the album's first single, "

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", which peaked at number two on the chart.

Background and themes

The song was released as the second single from the band's sixth studio album ''

'' in April 2018. The song's

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continues the storyline portrayed in the video for "

", the band's prior video, and is the second part of a trilogy of planned videos. While the video for "Red Cold River" chronicled a father finding his daughter had died, and finding the man who killed her, the video for "Torn in Two" chronicles the terrible emotions the father feels grappling with his lost daughter, and what he does afterwards. Visual effects and imagery appear on the screen as well, making allusions to ''

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'' and past Breaking Benjamin music videos, namely " Polyamorous", " So Cold", "

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", and "

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". The song and video's themes were meant to have an anti-

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message, and were released in April to bring awareness to April being

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. In September 2018, the song topped the ''

chart. Upon the release of ''Ember'', the song was the second highest-charting song (second to "Red Cold River") of nine songs that charted on the ''Billboard''

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chart. The song was also released as

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(DLC) for the music-performing video game ''

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''.

Reception

The song was praised by music publication ''

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'' for being "very representative of the darker, heavier tone that the band is portraying on their ''Ember'' disc...accentuated with the perfect balance of soul-baring, primal aggression and hypnotically melodic moments."

Personnel

Breaking Benjamin *

Benjamin Burnley Benjamin Jackson Burnley IV (born March 10, 1978) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the founder and frontman of the American rock band Breaking Benjamin. As the sole constant of the group, Burnley h ...

– lead vocals, rhythm guitar *

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– lead guitar *

Keith Wallen Keith Wallen (born February 24, 1980) is an American musician who is the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Breaking Benjamin, former guitarist and backing vocalist of Adelitas Way, and the co-founder, lead singer and guitar ...

– rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Aaron Bruch – bass, backing vocals * Shaun Foist – drums

Charts

References

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