Dont break me down lyrics

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I been trying hard but I still fail
Little bit depressed I don't know if you can tell
Tell me I'm on earth but I feel like I'm hell
Cause my heart has been burned by the time in that cell

My mistakes I can't them back but I wish I could
I wasted too much of times on the on thing that were never good
Selling drugs to get the money that I would just never need
Had 10 racks inside my pocket but I knew that it would leave

Was in college but got kicked out
They take away my dreams
I Had plans to be a teacher now they tell me can't be
I'm a 3 time felon but I'm still not free
Now I'm just another loser that will never succeed

Remember that day she ran inside of my room
Crying needing help but I didn't what to do
Wish I woulda killed him but she told me not too
Never said he sorry for what he has done to you

But I guess I'll take the blame
Should've never left you alone on that day
Add one more to the list my mistakes
All I do is fail how do I have faith

In a world filled with suffering
There will never come a time I love again
Anyone I love always losing them
Think I'll be better off when I'm dead

Break me down,
Falling out

But I'm free now, trying not to bleed out
From the wounds that I still hate to talk bout
Quit drugs and I'm really trying to move on
Tell me how to cope with the scars and a broke heart

Sometimes I have hope it'll be okay
Other days I think that the feelings never gonna change
Some days when I wake don't wanna be here
Other days smile on my face I can see clear

But I guess that's life,
Listen to the lies that I hear in mind
Like when I say I'm fine but I know that's a lie
I really wanna die it will never be alright

Sometimes I can't make change when I want
I'm addicted to the pain and I don't think it ever stop
Welcome to my world darkside of my thoughts
When I open up a little I guess now you know a lot

I feel like I could never find the peace
Or see the light that everybody say they see me
Because I'm stuck onto the past and how I used to be
It don't matter where I am I know I'm never free

Break me down,
Falling out

Break me down,
Falling out

"Don't Bring Me Down"
Artwork for UK, Australian, and some other European vinyl releases
Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album Discovery
B-side	"Dreaming of 4000"
Released	24 August 1979 (UK)[1][2]
Genre	Pop rock[3]
Length	4:02
Label	Jet
Songwriter(s)	Jeff Lynne
Producer(s)	Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"The Diary of Horace Wimp" (1979) "Don't Bring Me Down" (1979) "Confusion/Last Train to London" (1979)
Discovery track listing
9 tracks Side one "Shine a Little Love" "Confusion" "Need Her Love" "The Diary of Horace Wimp" Side two "Last Train to London" "Midnight Blue" "On the Run" "Wishing" "Don't Bring Me Down"
Music video
"Don't Bring Me Down" on YouTube

"Don't Bring Me Down" is the ninth and final track on the English rock band the Electric Light Orchestra's 1979 album Discovery. It is their highest-charting hit in the United States to date.

History[edit]

It's a great big galloping ball of distortion. I wrote it at the last minute, 'cause I felt there weren't enough loud ones on the album. This was just what I was after.

— Discovery remaster (2001), Jeff Lynne

"Don't Bring Me Down" is the band's second-highest-charting hit in the UK, where it peaked at number 3,[4] and their biggest hit in the United States, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.[5] It also charted well in Canada (number 1) and Australia (number 6). This was the first single by ELO not to include a string section.[6]

The drum track is in fact a tape loop, coming from "On the Run" looped and slowed down.[6][7]

The song ends with the sound of a door slamming. According to producer Jeff Lynne, this was a metal fire door at Musicland Studios where the song was recorded.[6]

The song was dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the Indian Ocean and Western Australia on 11 July 1979.[6]

On 4 November 2007, Lynne was awarded a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc) Million-Air certificate for "Don't Bring Me Down" for the song having reached two million airplays.

Misheard lyric[edit]

Use of made-up "grooss", often misheard as "Bruce"

A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß," meaning "greeting."[8] Lynne has explained that originally he did not realize the meaning of the syllable, and he just used it as a temporary placekeeper to fill a gap in the lyrics, but upon learning the German meaning he decided to leave it in.[8] After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.[9][10][8]

ELO engineer Reinhold Mack remembers the genesis of the term differently, stating that Lynne was actually singing "Bruce" as a joke in advance of an Australian tour "referring to how many Australian guys are called Bruce."[8]

Critical reception[edit]

AllMusic's Donald Guarisco praised ELO for not including a string section in the song: "Electric Light Orchestra can easily be summed up as 'pop music with strings.' Thus, it is pretty ironic that the group's biggest American hit, "Don't Bring Me Down", features no string section at all", adding that "it proved that Electric Light Orchestra could be just as interesting without the string section and thus paved the way for later string-less [sic] hits like "Hold On Tight" and "Calling America", concluding that it was a song that was "powerful enough for rock fans but dance-friendly enough for the disco set".[3] Billboard found the song to be Beatlesque while praising the multiple "irresistible" instrumental and vocal hooks.[11] Cash Box similarly described it as being influenced by the Beatles, particularly the song "You Can't Do That," and said that the song "brims with overdubbed Lynne harmonies and a pounding rhythm track."[12] Ultimate Classic Rock rated "Don't Bring Me Down" as the 97th greatest classic rock song, saying it "may just be Jeff Lynne's most concise and representative musical statement."[13]

Music video[edit]

A music video was produced, which showed the band performing the song interspersed with various animations relating to the song's subject matter, including big-bottomed majorettes and a pulsating neon frankfurter. The band's three resident string players are depicted playing keyboards in the music video.

Jeff Lynne version[edit]

Jeff Lynne re-recorded the song in his own home studio. It was released on a compilation album with other re-recorded ELO songs called Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra.[14]

Personnel[edit]

• Jeff Lynne – vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer[6]
• Bev Bevan – drums, percussion[6]
• Richard Tandy – grand piano, synthesizer, electric piano, clavinet[6]
• Kelly Groucutt – bass, vocals[6]

Cover versions and remixes[edit]

• In 2012, The Hives released a song called "Go Right Ahead". Though not a direct cover, the main riff in the song is nearly identical to the one in "Don't Bring Me Down",[15] and as a result Jeff Lynne was credited as a co-writer.
• Country stars Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and Midland performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote their The Breakers Tour.[16]
• American rock band Black Stone Cherry covered the song on their 2020 album The Human Condition.

Chart and sales[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of number-one singles of 1979 (Canada)

References[edit]

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2. ^ a b "British single certifications – ELO – Don't Bring Me Down". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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4. ^ a b "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
5. ^ a b "Electric Light Orchestra – Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
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8. ^ a b c d DeRiso, Nick (6 June 2019). "Why Did Jeff Lynne Add 'Bruce' to ELO's 'Don't Bring Me Down'?". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
9. ^ Wild, David. "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band and the Pop Genius Who Dared to Go Baroque". Flashback (Media notes).
10. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (15 October 2014). "ELO's Jeff Lynne: 'All those hipsters with beards are copying me!'". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
11. ^ "Billboard's Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. 4 August 1979. p. 55. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
12. ^ "Singles Reviews > Feature Picks" (PDF). Cash Box. Vol. XLI, no. 12. 4 August 1979. p. 13. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
13. ^ "Top 100 Classic Rock Songs". Ultimate Classic Rock. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
14. ^ "Mr. Blue Sky – The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra". Jefflynneselo.com. Archived from the original on 27 October 2015.
15. ^ Johnston, Maura (27 March 2012). "The Hives: Go Right Ahead". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
16. ^ Moss, Marissa R. (21 September 2017). "See Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves and Midland Cover ELO on 'Fallon'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
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29. ^ "Record World Singles" (PDF). Record World. 15 September 1979. p. 29. ISSN 0034-1622. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
30. ^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1970s". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
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External links[edit]

• In-depth Song Analysis at the Jeff Lynne Song Database (jefflynnesongs.com)
• Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down on YouTube

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