A brokedown Melody
Tab by Gavin Wahl-Stephens
Standard tuning
Intro
C G F
After C, Slide from F to G
Verse
C Em Am G
We could be here all night long...all night
This is a brokedown melody for the wooodshed
C Em
I hope this old train breaks down
Am G
And i could take a walk around
You see there's no time you see
Cause time is just melody
With all the people in the street
Walking fast as their feet can take them
I might just roll through town
And though my window's got a view
The frame i'm lookin through
Seems to have no concern for miles
For now I
I need this
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
Well this engine screams out loud
Sayin the P gonna crawl westbound
And i don't even make a sound cuz
Gonna sting me when i leave this town
All the people in the street
That i never get to meet
These tracks gonna bend somehow
And i got no time
That i got to get
To where i don't need to be, so i
I need this
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
Break on down
Intro C G F
I gotta break on down
(one strum on C and pause, then Am)
C
But you can't stop nothin
If you got no control
Am
Of the thoughts in your mind
That you kept and you know
C
That you don't know nothin
But you don't need to know
Am
The wisdom's in the trees
Not the glass window's
(Then back to normal)
You can't stop wishin
If you dont let go
Of the things that you find
And you lose and you know
You keep on rollin
Put the moment on hold
But the frames still bright
With the blinds down low
And I need this
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me please breakdown
I need this
Old train to breakdown
Oh please just
Let me just breakdown F G
(then back to regular chords)
Oh, let me break on
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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:Social Enemy: Average |
#1 by :Social Enemy: at Sep 27, 2007 at 1:53 AM EST |
| I think its Jack touring alot and seeing things zoom on by without experiencing them and he wants to explore and get off the train. i imagine him beibg rushed from one town to another to play his songs when he just wants to stop and chill out, likesay? | |
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Slapsta Rhythm Player |
#2 by Slapsta Masta at Sep 30, 2007 at 12:57 AM EST |
| i love this song, im in a real beatnik kinda groove recently all i want to do is travel and see the world, stopping in every town i come across, and thiss song fits that perfectly | |
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esuvee ® Lead Player |
#3 by esuvee ® at Sep 30, 2007 at 10:34 AM EST |
| jack wrote this song on a train to france, he talks about it in the limited edition dvd that comes with inbetween dreams. The song quite literally meant he wanted the train to break down, so he could take a walk around. Its a great little song, the lyrics can also be interpreted and maybe also intended to say that you shouldn't let life pass you by, u should get up and experience it for yourself. 1 | |
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Andy Wanna Be |
#4 by Andy at Oct 1, 2007 at 10:57 AM EST |
| and it's on the new handsome boy modeling school cd called "white people" and the song is called "breakdown" on that cd | |
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Maury N Rhythm Player |
#5 by Maury N . at Oct 2, 2007 at 7:06 AM EST |
| Off new album "In Between Dreams" comin march 1st | |
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chris Average |
#6 by chris ovari at Oct 3, 2007 at 8:44 AM EST |
| I think the meaning of this song is based on "Life is short, if you don't stop and look around a while you might miss it." Jack wants the train to "breakdown" so he stop and look around at all the beautiful things in life. I guess it sort of goes along with "Inaudible Melodies" since everyone is just moving through life too fast. The third verse is a bit tricky to understand, but I think it's amazing writing. From what I get out of it, it's that your so consumed with your life and in the end you don't really know anything. "The wisdom's in the trees Not the glass window's" that line sort of reminds me of a classroom and not being able to really understand something, because you can't go out and exprience/see it for yourself. And now i'm just rambling... sorry. | |
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