Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)

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"Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)"
Taproot fractured.png
Single by Taproot
from the album Plead the Fifth
ReleasedFebruary 16, 2010
Recorded Saline, Michigan
Genre
Length3:16
Label Victory
Songwriter(s) Mike DeWolf, Stephen Richards, Phil Lipscomb, Nick Fredell
Producer(s) Tim Patalan
Taproot singles chronology
"Path Less Taken"
(2009)
"Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)"
(2010)
"Release Me"
(2010)

"Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)" is the lead single from Taproot's fifth studio album Plead the Fifth . It is the band's first single released through Victory Records.

Contents

This is the band's first song to chart within the top 20 of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart since 2005's "Calling" from Blue-Sky Research . [2]

Music video

The song's music video was directed by Eric Richter. [3]

Charts

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Mainstream Rock [2] 18
US Rock [4] 49

Personnel

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