Lyrics to
Breaking Away

This version of Breaking Away was released by Status Quo in 1979.

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Me and my friends gonna make a pile of money
Gonna check it out every day
Me and my wife gonna need every penny
‘cos we’re throwing it all away

But I’m changing my tune
And I’m breaking away

Me and my friends we’re rugged little rockers
And we’re lazing away the day
Hot wax jacked-up on the television
And forgetting about the pay

But I’m changing my tune
And I’m breaking away
Breaking away

Four rockers rollin’
With a poet in the wings
Waiting to blow his heart away
Beanos with the road-crew
Postcards to the wife
Stating the menu of the day
Flying through ’til breakfast
Sleeping on the plane
Looking a good deal
Better than we’ll ever feel again

Is it really worth it?
Could it all be real?
Am I just living out a dream?
Sitting in a hotel
Falling of the stage
Tuning in to Wonga Queen
Old men in boys’ clothes
Has gone beyond a joke
Skin me another
And pass along the Wiskey and the Coke

Me and my friends are hating everybody
Who was telling us what to say
Heads down rockin’ on up and down the country only
Living from day to day

And I’m changing my tune
And I’m breaking away
Breaking away

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About Lyrics and Breaking Away by Status Quo

When you decide to study the lyrics to Breaking Away, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Status Quo. Some of the lyrics to Breaking Away have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Status Quo and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Breaking Away 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 Breaking Away" means the words set to the music of Breaking Away, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Status Quo. 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 Breaking Away and the lyrics to Breaking Away are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Status Quo who came here looking just for the lyrics to Breaking Away, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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