Lyrics to
Breakdown

This version of Breakdown was released by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers in 1976.

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It’s all right if you love me
It’s all right if you don’t
I’m not afraid of you running away
Honey, I’ve got the feeling you won’t

There is no sense in pretending
Your eyes give you away
Something inside you is feeling like I do
We said all there is to say

Baby Breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown honey take me through the night
Breakdown now I standin’ here can’t you see
Breakdown, it’s all right
It’s all right
It’s all right

Breakdown
Go ahead and give it to me
Breakdown honey take me through the night
Breakdown now I standin’ here can’t you see
Breakdown, it’s all right
It’s all right
It’s all right

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers has released many songs over the years besides Breakdown. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers released songs from 1976 to 2002 spanning across albums like Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, You're Gonna Get It!, Damn The Torpedoes, Hard Promises, Long After Dark, Southern Accents, Let Me Up (I've Had Enough), Full Moon Fever, Into The Great Wide Open, Wildflowers, She's The One, Echo, and The Last DJ. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers.

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About Lyrics and Breakdown by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

When you decide to study the lyrics to Breakdown, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. Some of the lyrics to Breakdown have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Breakdown if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Breakdown" means the words set to the music of Breakdown, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Breakdown and the lyrics to Breakdown are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Breakdown, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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