Album: I Robot (1977)
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  • I break down in the middle and lose my thread
    No one can understand a word that I say
    When I break down just a little and lose my head
    Nothing I try to do can work the same way

    Any time it happens I'd get over it
    With a little help from all my friends
    Anybody else could see what's wrong with me
    But they walk away and just pretend

    When I break down

    I break down in the middle and lose my thread
    No one can understand a word that I say
    When I break down just a little and lose my head
    Nothing I try to do can work the same way

    Where are all the friends who used to talk to me
    All they ever told me was good news
    People that I've never seen are kind to me
    Is it any wonder I'm confused

    When I break down
    When I break down

    Freedom, freedom, we will not obey
    Freedom, freedom, take the wall away
    Freedom, freedom, we will not obey
    Freedom, freedom, take them all away

    Where are all of my friends
    My so called friends
    Take the wall away
    Take them all away
    Will somebody here me? Writer/s: ALAN PARSONS, ERIC WOOLFSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Barney Dangerfield from Davis, CaPilot 2.0.

    3 ex members of Pilot are playing on this song…very cool!
  • Kpop from Brisbane AustraliaTwas 15 when I bought this album, staggeringly beautiful use of choirs, keyboards and synth, 1977 was a good year to be 15.
    KPoP.
  • R.l. from Payson, AzI had to check this vocalist... I would have bet that it was Lindsey Buckingham.
  • Ed from Canton, OhThis song is from a concept album about robots (computers?) struggling with human emotions. Breakdown is a robot struggling with frustration. other songs on the album deal with robots coping with love and friendship
  • Jack from Tulsa, OkThis is not Alan Parson First Album. His first album was "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" which was based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe.
    My favorite is his version of The Cask of Amontilldo. Haunting...
    Alan Parson did have a hit on that album called (The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.
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