The Tortured Poets Department Track by Track
My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys
“My Boy Only Breaks His Favourite Toys is a song I wrote alone, and it’s a metaphor of you know, from the perspective of a child’s toy being somebody’s favourite toy until they break you and then dont want to play with you anymore which is you know how a lot of us are in relationships where we are so valued by a person at the beginning and then all a sudden they break us or they you know devalue us in their mind we’re still clinging on to that no no “you should’ve seen them the first time they saw me, they’ll come back to that, they’ll get back to that”. So it’s kind of like a song about denial, really, so that you can live in this world where there’s hope for a toxic, broken relationship”












