anonymous July 23rd, 2006 01:24AM  
That certainly is an interesting interpretation, and it may very well be true, but looking at it from the lay man perspective I get a totally different meaning.

To me the song is a person thanking the lord for all the mistakes and people in his past who, while they may have hurt him, have made him who he is. It is probably because of who he is that he ends up meeting the love of his life.

Just what the song seems to keep repeating meaning wise to me...

anonymous August 13th, 2006 12:17PM  
I see this song as, he has lost many people that he has loved/ thought he loved, which is the broken road. But I see that he has found his true love as a result of all his loses. Saying that althought the broken road is difficult god has blessed it so at the end you will be rewarded/

anonymous March 7th, 2007 10:59AM  
This was the song me and my ex girlfriend had as "our song". The way we saw it, God led him on a path from his past relationships to the love of his life. The "road" is a metaphor for the course your life takes and that when you meet that special person, you've truely been blessed.

anonymous September 19th, 2007 06:23PM  
I think the broken road is the past relationships and finally he was led to the one.

anonymous September 25th, 2007 08:41PM  
I don't think this is about some weird incident, and I have some doubts the first poster is related to anyone in the band. This song is pretty obvious: the guy's had a rough life, but since he found the love of his life, he's good with that. I doubt this song has anything to do with a real road.

Surfer_Coyote October 12th, 2007 01:03AM  
If he was related to that ugly goober from Rascal Flatts, he would know that the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band wrote this song over ten years ago!

anonymous April 8th, 2008 10:52PM  
OK that person above me better have not been serious!! They are an awesome band.
My favorite actually.

OK had to get it out there, but what I think is that the broken road is really his life's journey. He has been through some relationships that didn't work out well, but all they were doing was getting him ready for his true love.
"Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms"
He is also say that basically everything that happened was worth it because know he has his "true love"
So yea, that's my little interpretation=]

anonymous April 10th, 2008 06:00PM  
He has met someone that he felt was very special but he was unsure and broke it off. After time and different experiences she was the one. At that point he comes back to her and she is waiting with open arms.

anonymous October 2nd, 2008 01:03PM  
I think this song has a very deep meaning to it. Then again, any song can be turned around and interpreted different in anyone's eyes.

To me this song is saying the God had one specific plan for him. All of his past relationships and heartache has lead him to that one special someone. He's thankful that he has finally found that someone and is finally happy with who is with and who he is on a personal level.

anonymous June 27th, 2009 07:10PM  
I believe this song is a praise song being sung to Jesus. It only talks about romantic relaionships from the past, not the present. Jesus has loving arms, God blesses us when He finds us worthy to travel a broken road which leads us to His son; the only true source for peace, love, and salvation.

anonymous November 8th, 2009 05:10PM  
The song indeed is deep but only from my perspective: I believe the song is speaking about predestination and being able to manage the struggles that have happened "...along the broken road".I believe this song has something along the lines to do with "religion" (obviously) as the main theme. Lets just think of this song as the singer telling his story;

"I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you"

-I believe this means he went looking for love but ends up getting hurt in the process (broken road). "...I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you."

During this process he was ignorant to the fact that God was showing him where to go "...Every long lost dream led me to where you are. Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars pointing me on my way into your loving arms..."

He realizes this which is why he says "This much I know is true that God blessed the broken road
that led me straight to you"-God has been trying to guide him but he didn't see the signs (for whatever reason).

What I question about this song is up for debate-but what is the reason for the people he describes as,who have hurt him, being like norther stars-pointing him straight to one specific person? If this is how he truly sees his experience-then I wonder could this suggest that all of what we go through premeditated by God? Essentially what I mean is fate. What we see as-unfair or not right-is only God's will. So I feel that this quote,"...Every long lost dream led me to where you are. Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars pointing me on my way into your loving arms..."-suggests this idea of how God influences our lives-and that is through signs. Which then means that at one point, we all will reach what God has planned for us(for better or for worst).