Status Quo – Breaking Away (Guitar)

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BREAKING AWAY As recorded by Status Quo (From the 1979 Album WHATEVER YOU WANT) [Intro] E D A E D A [Verse 1]
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Me and my friends gonna make a pile of money

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Gonna check it out every day

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Me and my wife gonna need every penny

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'Cos we're throwing it all away

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But I'm changing my tune now

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And I'm breaking away
[Verse 2]
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Me and my friends we're rugged little rockers

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And we're lazing away the day

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Hot wax, jacked-up on the televison

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And forgetting about the pay

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But I'm changing my tune now

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And I'm breaking away

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Breaking away
[Interlude] E D E D E [Verse 3]
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Four rockers rollin' with a poet in the wings

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Waiting to blow his heart away

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Beanos with the road crew, postcards to the wife

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Stating the menu of the day

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Flying through to breakfast, sleeping on the plane

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Looking a good deal better than we'll ever feel again
[Verse 4]
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Is it really worth it? Could it all be real?

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Am I just living out a dream?

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Sitting in the hotel, falling off the stage

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Tuning into the Wonga Queen

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Old men in boy's clothes has gone beyond a joke

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Skin me another and pass along the whisky and the coke
[Interlude] D A D A [Verse 5]
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Me and my friends are hating everybody

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Who was telling us what to say

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Heads down, rocking on up and down the country

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Living from day to day

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But I'm changing my tune now

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And I'm breaking away

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I'm breaking away
[Outro] E