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Breakdown

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Breakdown Lyrics

[Chorus]
I need this old train to break down
Oh, please, just let me please breakdown
I need this old train to break down
Oh, please, just let me please breakdown

[Post-Chorus]
I wanna break on down
But I can't stop now
Let me break on down

[Bridge]
But you can't stop nothing if you got no control
Of the thoughts in your mind that you kept and you know
You don't know nothing, but you don't need to know
The wisdom's in the trees, not the glass windows

You can't stop wishing if you don't let go
The things that you find and you lose and you know
You keep on rolling, put the moment on hold
The frame's too bright, so put the blinds down low, and


[Chorus]
I need this old train to break down
Oh, please, just let me please breakdown
I need this old train to break down
Oh, please, just let me please breakdown
[Outro]
I wanna break on down
But I can't stop now

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What did Jack Johnson say about "Breakdown"?
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I did a version of it first on a hip-hop album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. They sent me the track … and I just sang the lyrics over it. It had drum loops and different stringed instruments on it. I added some guitar and ukulele. But for this one, we just did our band version of it.

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Recorded At
The Mango Tree, Hawaii
Release Date
March 1, 2005
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