Name: Breaking Down
Duration: P00H04M00S
Description: The first song written specifically for this new album. A bit of a return to my bluegrass roots and my chance to get both the angelic voice of Noah Wall from "The Barefoot Movement" and string-wizard Michael Cleveland on a track together. That was awesome. They killed! My old friend and producer Fred Bogert played his trusty Kent bass and brought in his friend Pete Klarman to play the drums.

Breaking Down

from Evidence Concerning Apparitions by Mike Lawson & Friends

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The first song written specifically for this new album. A bit of a return to my bluegrass roots and my chance to get both the angelic voice of Noah Wall from "The Barefoot Movement" and string-wizard Michael Cleveland on a track together. That was awesome. They killed! My old friend and producer Fred Bogert played his trusty Kent bass and brought in his friend Pete Klarman to play the drums.

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Yesterday she was standing there with her hair of gold blowing through the air
As the sun shone upon her face she was tumbling down falling far from grace
And I…
Couldn’t help but see something on her mind and it wasn’t me
And she…
Looked at me and said “If you can’t find love you’d be better off dead”

Breaking down…
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Breaking down down down
Breaking down

Tomorrow night she’ll be going out looking for the things that she’s done without
And she…
Looking for to fill all the emptiness that’s inside her still
And I…
will be waiting here hoping she’ll understand that I hold her dear
In my heart…
Where she just won’t go and when she walks away I just feel so low

Breaking down…
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Breaking down down down
Breaking down

She’s the one…
Lord I love her so, but a foolish heart with no let her know
I’m the one…
That she really needs, does she really not know it’s my heart that bleed
When she…
Goes out to find true love while I’m praying here to the Lord above
Does He hear…
A single word I pray, why do I always have to feel this way

Breaking down…
Breaking down down down
Breaking down
Breaking down down down
Breaking down

Words and Music by Mike Lawson
© 2020 Psychotronic Music - BMI

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from Evidence Concerning Apparitions, released May 1, 2020
Mike Lawson – Guitars, Vocals, Banjos
Michael Cleveland – Fiddle, Mandlin
Noah Wall – Backing Vocals
Pete Klarman – Drums
Fred Bogert – Bass

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Mike Lawson & Friends Nashville, Tennessee

Mike Lawson has, over 30 years, recorded and/or performed together with Merl Saunders, Vince Welnick, Vassar Clements, Pete Sears, Gary Talley, John McEuen, Bob Welch, Dennis Robbins, Joe Louis Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Keaggy, Jack Casady, Scott Guberman, Dianne Davidson, Noah Wall, Tyra Juliette, Bill Vitt, Rob Wasserman, Michael Cleveland, Phil Madeira, and a host of other amazing friends. ... more

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