There are at least two groups titled Unbroken.

1. Unbroken was a met… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least two groups titled Unbroken.

1. Unbroken was a metalcore band from San Diego, California. They were influential in the Southern California hardcore scene during the mid-to-late 1990s. The band chose the name Unbroken because they wanted to emphasize their dedication to the straight edge philosophy of drug abstinence. However, most of the members have since given up this belief.

The band's members were also in the groups Struggle, Swing Kids , Kill Holiday, Julia, Some Girls, Smooth Man Automatic, Johnny Angel, Stabbed By Words, and Over My Dead Body before, during, and after Unbroken's existence.

Guitarist Eric Allen committed suicide 3 years after the break up of the band. The band reformed soon after Eric's death for 1 show as a benefit to Eric's family.

Rob Moran until recently played in the hardcore group Some Girls and now resides in Seattle. He has more recently started a band with John Pettibone (former member of Undertow and Nineironspitfire, currently in Himsa), Ryan Murphy (former member of Undertow, Ten Yard Fight, Ensign) and Aram Arslanian (guitarist of Champion and vocalist for Betrayed). The band, The Vows, is a straight-edge band that is musically influenced by the old-school hardcore band Judge. The Vows released a CD on Indecision Records in 2006.

Rob Moran is in a new band called Narrows with Dave Verellen of Botch and Ryan Frederiksen of These Arms Are Snakes. They have an EP and album coming out on independent label Deathwish Inc.

Dave Claibourne sings for the band Stabbed By Words (who have a full length out on Hawthorne Street Records), and is a drum & bass DJ with Dedication Crew in St. Louis, MO.

Steve Andrew Miller moved away from San Diego and he resides in Orange County. He has a band called Crushed On You. Former Bleeding Through guitarist and long-time O.C. scenester Scott Danough joined the band a couple of months ago.

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2. Unbroken is the name of a free-jazz trio, consisting of Louie Belogenis (saxophones), Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (bass), and Kenny Wollesen (drums). They released their first self-titled album on the Tick Tock label in 2005, to little critical acclaim.

Set Up
UnBroken Lyrics

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Up on top rain falls in a sedative form soaking the masses
Form warm a means of addiction will be your means of power
Grounded with submission so we won't seek the truth
Clear the smoke from my eyes
Clean the toxins from my mind
For today try to escape this disease which we can't flee
Give us your habits medicine our thoughts
Let us play this game in which we already lost

Set up must fold set up kill your control fall.

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to "Setup" by UnBroken paint a bleak picture of modern society's addiction to escapist distractions and the resulting loss of control over our own lives. The rain falling down upon the masses is described as having a sedative effect, numbing people to the reality of their situation. In this mindset, addiction becomes a means of power, with people willingly surrendering their agency in exchange for a temporary escape from the world around them.

The singer laments the fact that we have become so subservient to distraction that we don't even recognize the truth when it is presented to us. The line "grounded with submission so we won't seek the truth" suggests that we have been conditioned to accept what we are told without question, numbing ourselves to our own intuition and critical thinking. The singer then pleads for a moment of clarity, asking that the toxins be cleaned from their mind and the smoke cleared from their eyes. In this way, they hope to temporarily escape the disease of addiction and regain control over their own thoughts.

The final line of the song, "Set up must fold set up kill your control fall," can be interpreted in a few different ways. It could be seen as a call to action, urging the listener to break free of the chains of addiction and take back control of their lives. Alternatively, it could be seen as a statement of resignation, acknowledging that the system is rigged against us and that we will never truly be able to break free. Either way, the message of "Setup" is clear: we are trapped in a cycle of addiction and distraction, and we must find a way to break free if we are to regain control over our own lives.

Line by Line Meaning

Up on top rain falls in a sedative form soaking the masses
The rain falling on the masses has a calming effect, making them submit to their circumstances.

Form warm a means of addiction will be your means of power
The comfort from addiction will make you feel powerful and in control.

Grounded with submission so we won't seek the truth
Being submissive prevents us from questioning the reality of our situation.

Clear the smoke from my eyes
Remove the confusion and deception that clouds my judgment.

Clean the toxins from my mind
Get rid of the harmful thoughts and influences that poison my thinking.

For today try to escape this disease which we can't flee
Make an effort to break free from the destructive cycle of addiction and submission.

Give us your habits medicine our thoughts
We want to adopt your addictive behavior to ease our troubled minds.

Let us play this game in which we already lost
We're aware that we're doomed to fail, yet we continue to participate in this harmful cycle.

Set up must fold set up kill your control fall.
The system of addiction and submission needs to be destroyed so we can regain control over our lives.

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