Breakdown lyrics

BREAKDOWN

Getting near the end, now I knew the time was right for a breakdown.
Megaton surprise but your eyes never made it a shakedown.
Shot you full of rock`n roll, couldn`t make your soul,
didn`t burn you to the bone.
Do what the man says, take the money and run.
But I never saw the splendour in stealing all your gold,
taking all your silver and doing what I`m told.

I never saw the tears but I knew you cried for rhythm`n`blues.
Screaming like a wildcat I knew that I had nothing to lose.
Shot you full of rock`n roll, couldn`t make your soul,
didn`t burn you to the bone.
Do what the man says, take the money and run.
But I never saw the splendour in stealing all your gold,
taking all your silver and doing what I`m told.

It`s just a breakdown,
breakdown,
breakdown,
breakdown.

Shaking like a leaf in the wind see me blowing away.
Never see me fall on the ground till I`ve had my say.
Shot you full of rock`n roll, couldn`t make your soul,
didn`t burn you to the bone.
Do what the man says, take the money and run.
But I never saw the splendour in stealing all your gold,
taking all your silver and doing what I`m told.

It`s just a breakdown,
breakdown,
breakdown,
breakdown.

Getting near the end, now I knew the time was right for a breakdown.
Megaton surprise but your eyes never made it a shakedown.
Shot you full of rock`n`roll, couldn`t make your soul,
didn`t burn you to the bone.
Do what the man says, take the money and run.
But I never saw the splendour in stealing all your gold,
taking all your silver and doing what I`m told.

It`s just a breakdown,
breakdown,
breakdown,
breakdown.

- David Coverdale & Micky Moody