10 Best Rock Music Album Closers Of The 2000s
8. Broken - Seether (Disclaimer)
It helps to know people in music, especially when those people have the voice of an angel in eyeliner.
Seether, a rock band from South Africa, released their first studio record in 2002. Disclaimer went gold in the US, selling over half a million copies in the country, and set the group up for bigger things down the line.
The single that gave Seether their first (and only) US top 20 finish was Broken, a duet between frontman Shaun Morgan and his then-girlfriend Amy Lee of Evanescence. Nobody's saying they only dated just so Lee could appear on the song, but...
Just kidding. Please don't sue.
Written by Morgan about the breakdown of his first marriage, Broken is as unapologetically emotional as it gets. It talks about wanting to "steal" someone's pain and how the protagonist feels empty without the other person.
It might be a bit too emo for some, but, on the whole, it treads the line between powerful and laughable just right. The band liked the song so much that they also included it on their second album, Disclaimer II. And it was the final track on that one too!
A double whammy.