BREAKDOWN
As recorded by The Everly Brothers
(From the 1972 Album STORIES WE COULD TELL)


[Intro]


[Verse 1]
             
The clubs are 

              
all closed and

             
 the ladies ar

  
e leaving
              
There's nobody

             
, nobody knows

        
 on the street
             
A few stranded

              
 souls standin

             
g cold at the 


station
             
And nowhere to

            
 go but to bed

             
 and to sleep

[Chorus]
            
Lord, would yo

           
u look at you

Now that you'r

e here, ain't 

you?
             
Proud of your 


peers
        
And the long w

ay you've come
     
All alone, all

 the way
        
On your own wh

o's to say
            
That you've th

rown it away f

or a song
             
Boy, you've su

              
re come a long

                
 way from home

[Verse 2]
             
So it's so lon

              
g to so many, 

        
so far behind 

you
              
Fair weather f

              
riends that yo

           
u no longer kn

ow
             
You still got 

              
the same lonel

            
y songs to rem

ind you
             
Of someone you

             
 seemed to be 

          
so long ago

[Chorus]
             
Lord, would yo

           
u look at you

Now that you'r

e here, ain't 

you?

Proud of your 

peers
        
And the long w

ay you've come
     
All alone, all

 the way
        
On your own wh

o's to say
             
That you've th

              
rown it away f

     
or a song
              
Boy, you've su

              
re come a long

     
 way from home