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Breakdown

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Breakdown

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We could be here all night long

This is a brokedown melody for the wooodshed

I hope this old train breaks down

Then

Then I could take a walk around

And see what there is to see

Time is just a melody

All the people in the streets

Walk as fast as their feet can take 'em

I just roll through town

And though my windows got a view

Well the frame I'm looking through

Seems to have no concern for now

So for now

I need this

Old train to breakdown

Oh, please just

Let me please breakdown

Well this engine screams out loud

Centipede gonna crawl westbound and

So I don't even make a sound 'cause

It's gonna sting me when leave this town

And all the people in the streets

That I'll never get to meet

If these tracks don't bend somehow

And I got no time that I got to get

To where I don't need to be

So I

I need this

Old train to breakdown

Oh, please just

Let me please breakdown

I need this

Old train to breakdown

Oh, please just

Let me please break down

I wanna break on down

But I can't stop now

Let me break on down

But you can't stop nothin'

If you got no control

Of the thoughts in your mind

That you kept in, you know

You don't know nothin

But you don't need to know

The wisdoms in the trees

Not the glass windows

You can't stop wishin'

If you don't let go

The things that you find

And you lose and you know

You keep on rollin'

Put the moment on hold

The frame's too bright

So put the blinds down low

I need this

Old train to breakdown

Oh, please just

Let me please breakdown

Wanna break on down

But I can't stop now

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