"BREAKDOWN"
MARIAH CAREY featuring Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone

[Birds chirping.]
Wish:
Break, breakdown. Steady breakin' me on down.
Break, breakdown. Steady breakin' me on down.
Mariah:
Oooooh.
Wish:
Break, breakdown. Steady breakin' me on down.
Break, breakdown. Steady breakin' me on down.

Mariah:
You called yesterday to basically say that you care for me, but that you're just not in love.  
Immediately, I pretended to be feeling similarly, and led you to believe I was O.K. to just walk away from the one thing that's unyeilding and sacred to me.

Mariah:
Well, I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it, and I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you, but in reality I'm slowly losing my mind underneath the guise of a smile.  Gradually, I'm dying inside.  Friends ask me how I feel, and I lie convincingly, 'cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering, so I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night, and turn down all the lights, and then I break down and cry.

Mariah:
So what do you do when somebody you're devoted to suddenly just stops loving you?  And it seems they haven't got a clue of the pain that rejection is putting you through.  Do you cling to your pride and sing "I will survive?"  
[Krayzie:  Gotta get control and roll, roll, roll on.]
Do you lash out and say, "How dare you leave this way?"  Do you hold on in vain as they just slip away?

Mariah:
Well, I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant
[Wish:  Break, breakdown. Steady breakin' me on down.]
about it, and I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you, but in reality I'm slowly losing my mind underneath the guise of a smile.  Gradually, I'm dying inside.  Friends ask me how I feel, and I lie convincingly, 'cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering, so I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night, and turn down all the lights, and then I break down and cry.

Wish:
Yeah, c'mon, yeah, c'mon c'mon.
Mariah:
Breakdown ,breakdown.
Wish:
Break, breakdown. Steady breakin' me on down.
Krayzie:
Gotta get control and roll, roll, roll on.

Wish:
Gonna break ya down, only if ya let it.  Everyday crazy situations rockin' my mind tryin' to break me down, but I won't let it.  Forget it, forget it.
Krayzie:
I be feelin' like you're breakin' me down, kickin' me 'round, stressin' me out.   I think I better go and get out and let me release some stress.
Wish:
Don't ever wanna feel no pain, pain.  Hopin' for the sun, but it looks like rain, rain, rain, rain. Lord, I just wanna maintain.
Krayzie:
Yeah, I can feel the pressures, y'all, but nevertheless Krayzie won't fall.  It's over.  It's endin' here [here].

Mariah:
Well, I guess I'm trying to be nonchalant about it, and I'm going to extremes to prove I'm fine without you, but in reality I'm slowly losing my mind underneath the guise of a smile.  Gradually, I'm dying inside.  Friends ask me how I feel, and I lie convincingly, 'cause I don't want to reveal the fact that I'm suffering, so I wear my disguise 'til I go home at night, and turn down all the lights, and then I break down and cry.

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