Toh Kay - They Broke Him Down lyrics

Did I mention he was dreaming When the devil came to town I was awoken by the screaming But nobody heard a sound And the lies we tell at breakfast Won't match the lies we share for lunch And the lies we said for dinner They're the tallest of the bunch Yeah Did I mention it was cold When he finally lost control of the ghost And the epilogue I dreaded Now seems likely to console And I'm still not understanding The things he did before he left But the one thing that will haunt me Is right before his final breath When he said: “Oh they broke me down Yeah they broke me down So I can't be your saint you see, 'cause I won't be hanging 'round” And they broke him down Yeah they broke him down So I stood there and I held my breath 'cause I knew that it wouldn't be long 'til they broke me down [Solo] And no one holds a grudge dear Like I do, I see it through And you may not remember It was nothing much at the time But I kept it bottled inside Oh and we all know how that goes I'd given up on letting go So here we are, with nothing left here And now you've left, dear And I was last to know Holy smokes Some say he'd given up the ghost but he didn't do that I think he's hiding in the background of his favorite photographs And he's living as a beggar Or maybe a millionaire But the one thing that I'm sure of Is he found some comfort there That's fair because they broke him down Oh they broke him down So he can't be my saint no more He won't be hangin' around Oh no [Solo] And they broke him down Yeah they broke him down He said “I can't be your saint no more, 'cause I won't be hanging around” And they broke him down Yeah they broke him down So I stood there and I held my breath because I knew That it wouldn't be long before they broke me down