They Broke Him Down

                      C
Did I mention he was dreaming
                       E7
When the devil came to town
                    Am
I was awoken by the screaming
                   G
But nobody heard a sound
                        F
And the lies we tell at breakfast
Won't match the lies we share for 
Am
lunch
                          E
And the lies we serve for dinner
                           F      
They’re the tallest of the bunch, 
G
yeah
                     C
Did I mention he was cold
                     E7
When he finally lost control of the 
ghost
                   Am
And the epilogue I dreaded
                      G
Now seemed likely to console
                  F
And I'm still not understanding
                           Am
The things he did before he left
                            E
And the one thing that will haunt me
                          F      
Is right before his final breath, 
         G
when he said


                  C              
"Oh they broke me down, yeah they 
       G
broke me down
   Dm                            
So I can't be your saint you see, 
        Am               G
cause I won't be hanging around
                   C               
And they broke him down, yeah they 
      G
broke him down
   Dm                         
So I stood there and I held my 
                Am                 
breath cause I knew that it 
      G
wouldn't be long
                   C
Till they broke me down


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C G F (x4)

Am                 G
And no one holds a grudge dear
     F              C       G    
Like I do, I see it through
   Am

                G
And you may not remember
       F
It was nothing much at the time
C                     G
But I kept it bottled inside

E            F
   Oh and we all know how that goes
E            F
   I'd given up on letting go
C            Am                E
  So here we are, with nothing left,
 dear
               F
And now you've left here
          G
And I was last to know

                C
Holy smokes
                           E7
Some say he'd given up the ghost, 
but he wouldn't do that
I think he's hiding in the 
Am
background
                 G
Of his favorite photographs
                     F
And he's living as a beggar
                 Am
Or maybe a millionaire
                           E
But the one thing that I'm sure of
                         F     
Is he found some comfort there, 
           G
that's fair

                       C           
Because they broke him down, oh 
          G
they broke him down
   Dm                              
So he can't be my saint no more, he
 Am               G
 won't be hangin around

Oh no


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C G F (x4)

                   C               
And they broke him down, yeah they 
          G
broke him down
         Dm                      
He said "I can't be your saint no 
                Am            
more because I won't be hangin 
  G
around"
                   C               
And they broke him down, yeah they 
        G
broke him down
   Dm                         
So I stood there and I held my 
                  F
breath because I knew that it 
wouldn't be long
                     C
Before they broke me down


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