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BROKEN ROAD

Release date: 29th April 2025

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Ye and Don Toliver reunite for an introspective turn on 'Broken Road', a track built around the question of spiritual recovery. Toliver's chorus frames the song's central tension: the cost of finding yourself, the toll exacted on a path that leads nowhere clear. The production holds space for vulnerability, letting both voices sit in the weight of that uncertainty. Ye's verse moves between states of freedom and exhaustion. He speaks of liberation without ownership, of honesty as isolation, of love as a return to innocence. There's a weariness in the admission "I get tired of splurgin'", a recognition that material accumulation has failed to answer the song's opening question. The references to surgery and serpents, to Tyler Durden, suggest a mind circling around questions of authenticity and control. What emerges is less a resolution than an acknowledgement: that paying the toll on a broken road might be the only honest path available.

"BROKEN ROAD" is a track by Ye, from the album DONDA 2, released 29th April 2025. Full lyrics are available below.

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Ye

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BROKEN ROAD

[Chorus: Don Toliver]

What does it mean to find your soul?

Pay the toll on a broken road

Pay the toll on a broken road

What does it mean to find your soul?

Pay the toll on a broken road

Pay the toll on a broken road

[Verse: Kanye West & Don Toliver]

Baby, I'm free, baby, I'm free like a homeless person

No matter how much you got, you can't own this person

Sometimes, I feel like the only honest person

When somebody snatch your soul

And karate didn't work

When you 'bout to lose all hope

The sun rose and opened roads

What if the surgeon really the serpent?

I paid for BBLs and Birkins

That wasn't me, that was Tyler Durdеn

I ain't gon' lie, I get tired of splurgin'

Lovе isn't perfect

Love is a version of bein' a virgin again

I was told it's how you interpreted it (What does it mean to find your soul?)

Pay the toll, pay the toll (Pay the toll on a broken road)

Pay the toll, pay the toll (Pay the toll on a broken road)

[Chorus: Don Toliver]

What does it mean to find your soul?

Pay the toll on a broken road

Pay the toll on a broken road

What does it mean to find your soul?

Pay the toll on a broken road

Pay the toll on a broken road

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Track details

From DONDA 2

2025
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DONDA 2
DONDA 2
Ye
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2025
  1. —KEEP THE FLOWERS
  2. —SECURITY
  3. —WE DID IT
  4. —SCIFI
  5. —LOUIE BAGS
  6. —GET LOST
  7. —BROKEN ROAD
  8. —TOO EASY
  9. —MAINTENANCE
  10. —SUZY
  11. —CITY OF CHI
  12. —FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME
  13. —HAPPY
  14. —PABLO
  15. —MR MIYAGI
  16. —LORD LIFT ME UP
  17. —JESSE

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