Album Track — This Long Broken Road
This Long Broken Road
Sadie McCoy — September 3, 2025
The Story Behind the Song
"This Long Broken Road" turns the album's title into its central image: a stretch of highway with no visible end, walked by someone too exhausted to stop but too stubborn to quit. It's not about arriving anywhere -- it's about the act of continuing when continuing is the hardest thing left to do. The road stands in for a whole life's worth of hardship, compressed into one long, unbroken walk toward a horizon that keeps receding.
Also Performed By
This Long Broken Road is released in multiple performer editions, each with its own real performance — durations differ by artist, not just persona.
| Edition | Duration | ISRC |
|---|---|---|
| This Long Broken Road | 03:50 | QT65W2535539 |
| This Long Broken Road: His | 03:49 | — |
| This Long Broken Road: R&B Edition | 03:20 | — |
Listen
Streaming links below are for the full This Long Broken Road: Hers edition — individual song previews aren't split out by the catalog.
Lyrics
Sadie McCoy's own lyric delivery can vary slightly from Brian Kittrell's original — a dedicated transcript for this edition isn't published yet. See the Brian Kittrell performance for his published lyrics.