Album Track — This Long Broken Road
Borrowed Time
Sadie McCoy — September 3, 2025
The Story Behind the Song
About the exhaustion of a life spent working for other people's benefit -- every hour handed over, none of it ever paid back. It's less about one job and more about the general condition of being needed by everyone and heard by no one. The closing image -- "if I was a train, I'd run clear off the track" -- is the sound of someone close to the edge of what they can carry.
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 | 04:37 | QT65W2535583 |
| This Long Broken Road: His | 04:36 | — |
| This Long Broken Road: R&B Edition | 03:25 | — |
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.