The Lonely Island - Boombox
Time: 2:11
Transport now to an old folks home
Where the elderly are tossed on their brittle bones
The orderlies are stealing, there's no excuse

fragile; having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
Heard in 61 songs (153M+ combined views) — most famously in "Boombox" by The Lonely Island.
Updated August 3, 2026
Time: 2:11
Transport now to an old folks home
Where the elderly are tossed on their brittle bones
The orderlies are stealing, there's no excuse

Time: 1:47
Truce
So a brittle and frail peace was forged
And to ensure that the peace remained

Time: 1:08
♪
But I'm a fire, and I'll keep your brittle heart warm
If your cascade ocean wave blues come

Time: 1:12
Money talk for me, I'ma do the money walk down Hollywood leave my name on Hollywood nigga
Your pockets looking brittle, you a rat, Stuart Little (get away from me)
Ten thousand dollar outfit, she can tell I'm a rich nigga (bow)

Time: 0:07
Just a parasite killing its host
The emperor wears no clothes, I see those brittle bones
But we're buried by modern misery

Time: 1:00
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Time: 2:44
Her ass soft as pillows
Give her nut like brittle
Louis duffle bag, F&N and bands in it

Time: 1:16
She goes Emily Rose, middle of givin' me dome, she froze
Literally goes mental, screams she's broke, fragile empty and so brittle
Henny and Coke can make women emotional

Time: 1:25
And there's a lot of hungry Hatters in this world set on taking it over
But brittle, thorny stems
They break before they bend,

Time: 0:23
Yesterday you came to lift me up
As light as straw and brittle as a bird
Today I weigh less than a shadow on the wall

Time: 1:21
Goose stepped the freckling impatience
All the brittle tombs
Five hundred little Q's

Time: 1:08
Unsafe a little, oh yes, indeed
It's plain and simple, I'm far from brittle
Unbreakable, you following?

Time: 1:02
So I can fix your hand I'll be your handyman
I'm not brittle I'm just a little
Scared of your temperament

Time: 2:27
As it withers
Brittle it shakes
Can you whisper

Time: 0:49
Sharp sounds swim around
Soak into the brittle ground
♪
![Peter Gabriel - Road to Joy [Bright-Side Mix]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/463mTTVFxlA/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:33
Though my mind is quite flexible
These brittle bones don't bend
I'm growing older but not up

Time: 1:51
All to spread the curse
Bones brittle ready to snap
Mind unstable highly enraged

Time: 0:20
Last year was a misunderstanding, let's get over it
No more brittle conscience
I forgive you for everything

Time: 0:42
God is in the fire, in the afterglow
The brave and the brittle
Yeah, He's right in the middle (mm)

Time: 1:14
If you wanna live a little, give a little, take a little
But don't be so brittle, my friends (Stand up)
Just wiggle and giggle, stay tickled and whistle

Time: 2:45
And share some, are you lookin' down?
Inner child reachin' out, brittle bone, crying now
The past does not define you

Time: 2:02
Hater kick rocks, this rocks
Yo, your bones are brittle,
I'll have you livin' in the hospital

Time: 0:36
Slaved into brittle and worked for days
Only thing that paves your stay

Time: 1:10
They just might close it tight, man and wolf will howl tonight
My bones grown thin and brittle
Every line in my face is a riddle

Time: 1:37
Wanna play me like a fiddle
I'm not so brittle
Come diddle my skittle 'cause there's only one peach

Time: 1:08
You drop your guard, you realise it's hard, it's ugly
Lovin' is brittle plastic, but soft in the middle, the same as Skittles
When vultures purge with a piercing grin, your boss won't fuck off

Time: 1:57
Ice on the sidewalk
Brittle branches in the air
The sun is blinding

Time: 3:43
Tell-tale tongues lick at seven senses
Brittle spittle sparks, you are defenceless
The fabric of dreams is ripped apart

Time: 0:58
Bathing in a glow, simpatico
And all these roots have leaves, brittle in the breeze
Catch one before they blow

Time: 0:40
Lovers in a cold war
Brittle as a brick wall, oh, oh, oh
But I want you

Time: 2:32
String on my ring has left me dancing like wooden dummies in a paper nature
Marry had a case of door nails, Francis little brittle dolls of paper
In assembly, I tremble with a crocodile smile

Time: 0:53
Hating all the faking
And I'm shaking while I'm breaking your brittle heart
Billy stands all alone

Time: 0:39
I don't want a pizza, I don't want a piece of (experimental dog)
Peanut brittle, I don't want a pear.
I don't want a bagel I don't want a bean I wouldn't like (salivating dog)

Time: 0:00
Will I have learned so very little
When these bones are old and brittle?
I wait to talk when I should listen

Time: 3:01
The machine sings.
That's when the calibration brittle as a stick
Gets you the gold ring

Time: 2:17
Now let's get in the middle, girl I'll solve your riddle
'Cause we can be strong and protect against the brittle
If groupies need to see me, go and get the CD

Time: 0:32
Brittle little smile, pretty petrol eyes
We keep our shadows locked up here inside

Time: 0:38
She took me in on a winter's night
The air was brittle and the moon was bright
My heart was heavy but her touch was light

Time: 1:15
Well, she was so distracted by the color of the room
She never thought that she would see this brittle flower bloomin'
And take the cards that he was dealt

Time: 1:02
And I don't paint myself into corners anymore
In a brittle heart of clay
I threw my brushes away

Time: 2:12
I mean a lot, I mean a little.
I'm supple, brittle, pig in the middle.
There's resilience inside my face, but sometimes nothing.

Time: 2:10
I think I know what you mean
Now Hallelujah loves the bottle more brittle than her body
More brittle than the heart that she'd broken, yeah

Time: 0:27
I whisper, 'you don't have to worry we'll survive',
forced smiles underneath the brittle frozen light,
no proof that you're alive.

Time: 1:27
Tomcat curled on a rabbit cage
Brittle fingers in the potter's clay
Sold my soul and I laid her down

Time: 0:25
Snow covers the streetlamps and the windowsills
The buildings and the brittle crooked trees
Dead leaves of December

Time: 0:50
I want old love, the kind that seeps in
It isn't cold, love, it's never brittle or thin
It's the long kiss, it's the curl of a sigh

Time: 0:14
I was a show on ice
dazzling and brittle
but subject to the sun

Time: 1:11
secure confines
brittle collapse
neighbors lay beside

Time: 2:57
You'll hang your sad, aching head
Behind a brittle smile or a shrill of laughter
What if we only get what we deserve?

Time: 1:42
Rope
Brittle rope burning around my hands
Brittle rope burning around my arms

Time: 0:55
♪
Some hearts are brittle
Won't give one little bit

Time: 0:47
I'm trying to tread careful, baby
You're as brittle as a wishbone of a bird
Lie down here and be my girl

Time: 0:02
Cool as ice yet brittle as glass
A nervous wreck with a sweet facade
![Genesis - She's So Beautiful [Bonus Track]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/a6eIdbmgYGg/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:25
When I done seen a judge take of all a nigga dreams (man)
And crush them bitches up like they was some brittle bones (fried)
When I done seen niggas with trial the next day (shh)

Time: 1:33
Hating all the faking shaking
While I'm breaking your brittle heart
♪

Time: 1:41
The moment too soon
Breaking things I didn't know were so brittle
They'd break

Time: 1:10
So go and live a little
Bone turns brittle
And skin withers before your eyes

Time: 1:36
Reached out for me
I must say goodbye to your brittle bones
Crying out for me

Time: 1:19
The cold light makes it get so small
This is really brittle smoke
And that's why the pigs don't want you to touch it

Time: 0:50
Flesh falling like strips of bark from a termite-infested tree
Bones rotting, turning first to brittle ivory, then to resin
That was not enough

Time: 1:27
Everything you say is like iron
It smashes me up but it's brittle inside
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