Break Me Down

Alter Bridge

It's too late the time has come
I've kept this inside me for way too long
Silence will leave me cold
Lost on a highway that never takes me home

I want to step aside
I want to give it up
Before I lose it all
It's tearing me inside
The way you break me down

Oh there will come a time
When I will come undone
And you will let me fall
I'll leave it all behind
Before you break me down

The weight of a thousand lies
Promises broken haunt me all the time
You say that you're sure to change
But that black heart reveals that
You'll always stay the same

I want to step aside
I want to give it up
Before I lose it all
It's tearing me inside
The way you break me down

I realize
Forgiveness
Is calling
It's calling

I've denied
The reason
I'm falling
I'm falling

So let go

I want to step aside
I want to give it up
Before I lose it all
It's tearing me inside
The way you break me down


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Break Me Down Lyrics as written by Myles Kennedy Mark Tremonti

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    damm that comment should've been much longer^^

    I think this song is one with the common issue >>love

    muse87on March 12, 2008   Link

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