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Jack Johnson – Breakdown lyrics
I hope this old train breaks down
Then I could take a walk around
And, see what there is to see
And time is just a melody
All the people in the street
Walk as fast as their feet can take them
I just roam through town
And though my windows got a view
The frame I'm looking through
Seems to have no concern for me now
So for now

I need this here
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown

This engine screams out loud
Sayin the beat gunna crawl westbound
So I don't even make a sound
Cause it's gunna sting me when I leave this town
All the people in the street
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 here
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
I need this here
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
I wanna break on down
But I can't stop now
Let me break on down

But you can't stop nothing
If you got no control
Of the thoughts in your mind
That you kept in, you know
You don't know nothing
But you don't need to know
The wisdoms in the trees
Not the glass windows
You can't stop wishing
If you don't let go
But things that you find
And you lose, and you know
You keep on rolling
Put the moment on hold
The frames too bright
So put the blinds down low

I need this here
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
I need this here
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
I wanna break on down
But I can't stop now
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Songwriters: Daniel M. Nakamura, Jack Johnson, Paul E. Huston
Breakdown lyrics © Bubble Toes Publishing, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.

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    While listening to this song, the lyrics gave me an immediate flashback to a visit I had with my husbands 80 year old grandmother at her nursing home. She took my hand and whispered (just to me), she was tired and wanted me to pray for her to go. She said she was ready. It made me think of her body as the train, ready for her body to stop running, (the lyrics switch from "i need this here old train to breakdown" to "let me please breakdown", throughout the entire song. She's pleading to go but her family of maybe god is fighting her to stay.
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