Lyrics to
Stop Breaking Down

This version of Stop Breaking Down was released by Lucinda Williams in 1979.

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I can’t keep walkin’ down the street
‘Fore some pretty daddy start breakin’ down with me
Stop breakin’ down
Please, please, stop breakin’ down
I got the stuff that’ll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

These no good men love to ape and clown
They don’t do nothin’ but tear my good reputation down
Stop breakin’ down
Please, please, stop breakin’ down
I got the stuff that’ll bust you brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I can’t walk the streets now, I can’t consolate my mind
‘Fore some no good man starts breakin’ down
Stop breakin’ down
Please, please, stop breakin’ down
I got the stuff that’ll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I give my baby the ninety-ninth degree
Then he rose up and brought a pistol down on me
Stop breakin’ down
Please, please, stop breakin’ down
I got the stuff that’ll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I can’t keep walkin’ down the street
‘Fore some no good man start breakin’ down with me
Stop breakin’ down
Please, please, stop breakin’ down
I got the stuff that’ll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

I got the stuff that’ll bust your brains out, baby
Make you lose your mind

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About Lyrics and Stop Breaking Down by Lucinda Williams

The lyrics for Stop Breaking Down are defined as the words making up the song released by Lucinda Williams in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Stop Breaking Down have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Lucinda Williams and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Stop Breaking Down by Lucinda Williams if you think through it. 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 Stop Breaking Down" means the words set to the music of Stop Breaking Down, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Lucinda Williams. 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 Stop Breaking Down and the lyrics to Stop Breaking Down are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Lucinda Williams who came here looking just for the lyrics to Stop Breaking Down, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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